The claim that there is no and has never been an Arab Spring has become the bon ton in Israel. Millions of people in the Arab world are taking to the streets to realize their ambitions for freedom, but that…
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Egypt: Between Tragedy and Farce
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce, Marx famously observed. He was speaking about the time of Napoleon III in the mid-19th century, but the observation holds true for the Egyptian revolution. Tahrir Square is the same square,…
The democratic Arab revolutions open new horizons
This document was written for the Central Committee meeting of the ODA-DA’AM Workers Party in April 2011. The Challenge editorial board has updated it, adding a paragraph on the housing protests that broke out in Israel on July 14, 2011, partly under…
Histadrut unaffected by Arab winds of change
Ofer Eini and the Histadrut are deaf to the voices of change calling from Cairo and the Arab world. Unions around the world identify with the new forces, leaving the conservative Histadrut alone in its corner. Hussein Mugawer was recently…