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Volume 13, Issue 78:
"The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive and repeated."
---- John F. Kennedy
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** A Look Back at the Arab Spring, Ten Years On ([link removed])
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** By Sarah Stern / December 31, 2020 / JNS
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It is hard to believe that next week will have been a decade since Mohamed Bouazizi, a Tunisian fruit vender, set himself ablaze on January 4, 2011 setting off what has come to be known as “the Arab Spring,” and unleased several decades of frustration with the Middle East’s entrenched autocratic leaders, throughout the region.
For a brief period during that time, the hopeful eyes of the world were watching, with the aspirations that this might lead to a more open and democratic Middle East, or at least one in which the most entrenched, tyrannical leaders would be overthrown and basic human rights would be established.
It is time to ask: How did it all work out?
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** Israel
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** Two rockets fired from Gaza shot down over southern Israel ([link removed])
- The Times of Israel
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** IDF: Suspects try to infiltrate into Israel from Lebanon, turn back ([link removed]) - The Jerusalem Post
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** Rocket sirens blare in south as projectile fired from Gaza fails to cross border ([link removed]) - The Times of Israel
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** Jonathan Pollard arrives in Israel, 35 years after his arrest for spying ([link removed]) - The Times of Israel
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** Iran
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** Iranian intelligence uses international crime organizations to eliminate opposition activists and for Narco-terrorist activity ([link removed]) - Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
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** Border agency ordered to share memo directing questioning of Iranians, others ([link removed]) - Politico
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** Iran's government delays implementation of law ordering a ramping up of nuclear program ([link removed]) - Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty
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** UK's G4S security company had role in killing of Iran's Soleimani: Tehran Prosecutor ([link removed]) - Al Arabiya
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** Middle East
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** Saudis using Bahrain as conduit for business with Israel ([link removed]) - The Jerusalem Post
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** Lebanon can stretch reserves for subsidies another six months, PM says ([link removed]) - Reuters
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** Fatah to celebrate first attempted terrorist attack in Israel ([link removed]) - The Jerusalem Post
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** UAE emerges as hub for companies helping Venezuela avoid U.S. oil sanctions ([link removed]) - Reuters
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** Egypt to build ties with Libya govt to counter Turkey influence ([link removed]) - Middle East Monitor
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** Blast, gunfire heard at Aden airport as new Yemeni government arrives ([link removed]) - The Jerusalem Post
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** Report: Israeli missiles hit targets in Syria, 6 dead ([link removed]) - Israel Hayom
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** Hezbollah’s Nasrallah claims Saudi-US-Israel plot to assassinate him ([link removed]) - The Jerusalem Post
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** Heard Around the Hill
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** U.S. State Department approves potential sale of 3,000 smart bombs to Saudi Arabia ([link removed]) - Reuters
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** US flies B-52 bombers to the Middle East in show of force ([link removed]) - CNN
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** Trump team working to secure new normalization deal in coming weeks ([link removed]) - i24News
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** CAIR’s program for Biden’s first 100 days ([link removed]) - Clarion Project
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** Anti-Semitism
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** French Court convicts man for threatening Jewish TV presenter who called out rapper’s Antisemitic lyrics ([link removed]) - The Algemeiner
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