Despite the threat posed by the omicron variant and the latest IHU variant, with its 46 mutations, the world’s governments appear to be done with COVID-19, even if large swaths of the population are not. Worse, mitigation failures, vaccine apartheid and unusual levels of hesitancy across the planet are constantly shifting the finish line, where most countries can verifiably
Tunisia’s arc from igniting the Arab Spring ten years ago into an autocratic winter is tragic. For its 2000-year-old Jewish community, however, Kais Saied's coup is a tragedy with potentially existential consequences
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Tunisia’s new democracy has form but no depth
Hafed Al-Ghwell
December 20, 2020 15:39
Tunisians chant slogans as they gather at Mohamed Bouazizi Square in the town of Sidi Bouzid on December 17, 2020. (AFP)
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No one could have predicted that a single desperate act by an unknown Tunisian street trader would resonate with millions across the Arab world exhausted by decades of illiberalism and buried in the cynical decadence of authoritarians.
Mohamed Bouazizi s self-immolation was not the first time young Tunisians turned to the tragic as a form of protest against woeful circumstances and meager existences, nor will it be the last. However, 10 years later, the same flames that have engulfed these young Tunisian martyrs, rage on, incinerating what little progress was made in the wake of Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali’s removal.
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Before he was tapped as the next police commissioner, Border Police commander Kobi Shabtai paused all training so that all border policemen could watch an investigative report on Channel 13 TV about policemen accused of looting and acting violently against Palestinians. His move was not an obvious one. Perhaps Public Security Minister Amir Ohana has chosen a person worthy of being commissioner. We’ll find out soon enough. However, we should be hearing by now more about the designated commissioner’s views regarding the police force. What does he think about the militarization it has undergone and about its conversion into a Mossad-like institution? What does he think about the police spying on the online activity of civilians?