ABSTRACT
Like all other nations and cultures, and even slightly more so due to its proximity to the arena of events and the momentous effects that these developments may have on its future, Israel too is extremely interested in how these events evolve day by day, weighing their consequences and implications. One thing is certain: following the present Islamic Spring, the stature of Islam will be higher in regional and international politics than it ever was in the modern era, and this signifies for Israel harsher, possibly more hostile, and probably more aggressive and belligerent attitudes and policies toward the Jewish state, which the Islamic world has never really accepted, at least in its political manifestations. Even those who have accepted Israel and signed peace with it, like Egypt and Jordan and in part the Palestinians, will see their policies revised by the new rulers who emerge from the Islamic Spring. The countries of the Gulf and Morocco, who have not yet undergone the upheaval of the Spring, were and probably remain the most open and accessible to Israel, insofar as they maintained unofficial relations with Israel throughout the Oslo process and continue to allow unofficial Israeli delegations and individual scholars and sportsmen to participate in international events that they host.
