Israel Supports the Arab Spring

We in Israel welcome the Arab spring

Unlike Hamas and Hezbollah, the young want peace and progress in our region

by Shimon Peres, The Guardian

The Middle East has to make a historic choice: to join the new global age of democratic peace and liberal economy, or to stay clinging to its history of closed societies and autocracy.

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