The 'Arab spring' wasn't about Israel, except that it was

We kept hearing throughout the 'Arab spring' that it's not about Israel, that Israel has nothing to do with this, and that it's just the Arabs demanding democracy and freedom (and protesting their economic plight. Except that apparently it was at least partly about Israel. In October, Tunisians will elect a new government and choose whether to adopt a presidential or parliamentary system. But a

It's the economy, stupid!

Caroline Glick finishes off a description of the impending collapse of much of the world economy with this: DUE TO the economic policies implemented by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu since his first tenure as prime minister in 1996, in the face of this economic disaster, Israel is likely to find itself in the unlikely position of standing along China and India as among the only stable,