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Arab spring News of the day : Jan 2, 2012

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No sign of Arab Spring in Syria
The Australian (blog)
The world, though it has cheered on the Arab Spring elsewhere, has been shamefully neglectful of the plight of the Syrian people. Already, far more have died in Syria than in Libya before NATO, at the behest of the UN Security Council,
Witness to the Arab spring: Butte native documents year of change in Middle East
Billings Gazette
Pickett said working as a photojournalist in the Middle East has become more dangerous since the so-called Arab Spring because people from numerous factions are suspicious of journalists and leery to have their pictures taken.
Barak: Arab Spring may not become Islamic Winter
Jerusalem Post
Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Monday said it is too soon to know if the Arab Springwill become an Islamic Winter and that he does not foresee an Islamist parliament in Egypt breaking the peace treaty with Israel. Speaking to the Knesset Foreign
US Delusional about Arab Spring, Iran Insists
American Thinker
By Reza Kahlili The Arab Spring is turning into an American Winter, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, believes. Countries from Tunisia and Egypt to Yemen and Bahrain, he insists, are struggling to overthrow ties to the West and embrace
2011 newsmakers – the Arab Spring to the Great Successor
Monsters and Critics.com
EPA/ULRIKE KOLTERMANN MOHAMED BOUAZIZI, 26, died January 4after he set himself ablaze in December to protest mistreatment by Tunisian authorities, setting the scene for the Arab Spring pro-democracy movement. Some leaders managed to reform enough to

Monsters and Critics.com
Year of the Arabs
Ahram Online
The Arab Spring brought about the fall of regimes in three Arab countries. But how deep is the change at the regional level and beyond? Nothing in the history of the Arabs comes close to matching the quintessential changes that consumed every day of
UN chief to focus on sustaining democracy after rise of Arab Spring
The National
Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, in his second term as chief of the United Nations, has said he wants to help people who rose up in the Arab Springattain and sustain freedom and democracy. As he embarked on a new five-year term that started on new

The National
How The Arab Spring Challenges America’s ‘Millenial’ Generation
Forbes
One year since its inception, the Arab Spring has brought the question of how the US should respond to various forms of political Islam. Although foreign policy leaders of previous generations have uniformly aimed to suppress Islamist forces,
Ethiopia: An “African Spring” in 2012?
Nazret.com (blog)
By Alemayehu G. Mariam In 2011, we witnessed the “Winter of Arab” discontent made glorious by an “Arab Spring” followed by an increasingly hot “Arab Summer” and deeply troubled “Arab Fall”. Bashir al-Assad continues to massacre his people by the dozens

Nazret.com (blog)
It’s time to tip the scales in Syria
New York Daily News
BY James Kirchick Of all the regimes that have experienced turmoil as a result of the Arab Spring, Syria’s is the only one that has been consistently opposed to American interests. It is the only Arab ally of Iran, a major supplier of weapons to Hamas

New York Daily News

 

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