(Ynet News) Guy Bechor - The grim truth exposed by the "Arab Spring" is that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is marginal compared to the region's real conflicts. With the Arab Spring, the Arab public was given a way to express itself for the first time, and suddenly it turned out that Israel is far away and not too relevant. When the entire Mideast is burning, the Palestinian issue comes off the agenda. International news networks are leaving Israel since the conflict there is no longer a story, with the focus shifting to Damascus and Cairo. Even if the Israeli-Palestinian conflict resumes in the future, it will merely constitute one conflict among many in the Middle East, rather than the "father of all conflicts" as it was perceived in the past.
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