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Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks at the opening plenary of the World Economic Forum June 2012( World Economic Forum CC BY-SA 2.0)

Turkey must fulfill its pledge to Israel

Netanyahu publicly placed his reputation and his country’s pride on the line in order to appease Obama and improve relations with Turkey; by ignoring its already agreed upon terms, Erdogan will make the Israeli people less likely to support another far-reaching agreement. By Aaron Magid At the end of a much-anticipated trip to Israel in…

By +972 Magazine September 4, 2013

Egyptian supporters of Arab Spring (Saad Sarfaz Sheikh CC BY NC ND 2.0)

In Cairo, a demoralizing spectacle

This time ‘people power’ returned Egypt to the Mubarak era, only worse. Since I spend most of my writing time denouncing the Israeli public for its rotten political inclinations, I think I have the right to call it as I see it about the Egyptian public, which has really put on a show these last…

By Larry Derfner July 5, 2013

Egyptian journalist live from Tahrir, July 2, 2013 (Screenshot, Ch.10)

WATCH: Egyptian journalist urges Israelis in Hebrew: Stand up to ‘Bibi and Lapid’

Israel’s Channel 10 news anchor Guy Zohar interviewed Egyptian journalist and political activist Heba Abo Seif live from Tahrir Square on Tuesday. Abu Saif, who spoke excellent Hebrew, assured Zohar that the military stands behind the Egyptian nation, and urged the Israeli people to stand up to their own government. She specifically references “Bibi and…

By Mairav Zonszein July 3, 2013

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Black Bloc and Tahrir youth celebrate atop a commandeered police truck in the center of the square. (photo: Jesse Rosenfeld)

Postcards from Tahrir: ‘No freedom, bread or social justice’

As Egypt’s currency continues to fall and the IMF strings for a bailout package that will end fuel and food subsides, popular anger has turned on the country’s first democratically elected president. Now, out on the streets of Cairo, protesters are being confronted by the same forces they fought in order to overthrow Mubarak in 2011.…

By +972 Magazine January 31, 2013

Cairo democracy activist wrapped in an Egyptian flag (photo: Lisa Goldman)

The new Egypt – not so ‘dark’ after all

Despite the way it has been depicted in popular Israeli newspapers, the election of the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate for president was less a vote for Islamism than a vote against dictatorship. Since the glory of the Tahrir revolt last January and February, things in Egypt have seemed to go downhill. The young secular idealists who started the protests were displaced by…

By Larry Derfner June 26, 2012