Amos Gilad – Director of Policy, Israeli Ministry of Defence
Zeinab Badawi talks to Amos Gilad, Policy Director at the Israeli Ministry of Defence. Is the Arab Spring a blessing or a disaster for Israel?
Upheaval in the Arab world, especially in Syria, means political realities are still evolving in the Middle East.
For years Israel has seen itself as living in a hostile neighbourhood, its borders tense and prone to bouts of violence. Hamas rules in Gaza and the peace process with the Palestinian Authority is going nowhere.
And then there's Iran - neither an Arab nation nor a neighbour, but a powerful backer of Syria's government in the current…
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