The ‘Arab street’ shrugs at normalization with Israel
The ‘Arab street’ shrugs at normalization with Israel
10/08/2022
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Professor Hillel Frisch
Total of 59 articles in English
Hillel Frisch is professor emeritus at Bar-Ilan University, Israel and former Senior Researcher in the Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies. Amongst his latest studies are “Rethinking the “Arab Spring”: Winners and Losers,” Middle East Quarterly (2021) “The Palestinian Military, Two Not One,” Oxford Handbook on Military and Security Studies (2021), “Jordan and Hamas,” Handbook on Jordan, 2019, and “Assessing Iranian Soft Power in the Arab World from Google Trends,” The Journal for Interdisciplinary Middle Eastern Studies 2019.
The ‘Arab street’ shrugs at normalization with Israel
Arab publics are engrossed by the challenges that they face in their states.
Israeli forces, again, consistently entered these towns and their environs almost daily to make arrests, which led to a 90% decrease in terrorism.
The Dangers of Exaggerating the Impact of the Death of an ‘Al Jazeera’ Propagandist
The dangers of exaggerating the impact of the death of an ‘Al Jazeera’ propagandist
An analysis of Google Trends demonstrates the dangers of exaggerating events easily and effectively manipulated by Palestinian propaganda.
What is different about the latest wave of Palestinian violence?
A static “dumb” security fence can hardly be effective against young and resourceful workers, many of whom work in construction and are experts in dismantling barriers and desperately want to work within the green line.
Historic Negev Summit unites Israel and four Arab states against Iran, ‘irritating’ US policies
Abbas’s attack on Israeli Arab politician showed his true colors
It took Mansour Abbas, the head of the southern branch of the Islamic Movement’s United Arab List party(Ra’am), to show that Mahmoud Abbas has no ideological resolve or intentions to recognize the Jewish state and make genuine peace with it.
The Hamas takeover of Gaza killed the two-state solution
Total of 59 articles in English
29 articles
Google search patterns point to sustained erosion of both the Supreme Leader's legitimacy and the regime’s clerical ideology and suggest that its…
The more a violent actor is forced onto the defensive, the fewer resources it has to attack and endanger its enemy—Israeli soldiers.…
Israel must make rehabilitation and local governance conditional on Hamas’s military dismantling—or reserve the right to continue operations until the task is…
Despite international rhetoric, neither the Palestinian Authority nor moderate Arab states are prepared to assume Gaza’s internal security—leaving Hamas poised to exploit…
Moving on to the final stage of the hostage agreement will validate the path of jihad among Palestinians and the wider Muslim…
Hamas is exploiting the deal to cement its rule over Gaza and derail the Trump plan
Analysis of Google searches shows Israel has greater freedom of action than it may imagine in view of the focus on the…
An analysis of Hezbollah casualties indicates that it relies on recruitment from the Shiite periphery and faces difficulty recruiting fighters from Dahiya…
U.S. officials and former IDF commanders argue that technological measures could replace the need for an IDF presence along the Gaza-Egyptian border…
Since 2002, we have seen repeatedly in Judea and Samaria, and again in 2005 with the disengagement from Gaza how going on…
President Biden's veto on an Israeli victory over Hamas severely undermines his two-state strategy based on the creation of an Israeli-Arab state…
Paradoxically, the more Israel pummeled Gaza, the vaster and deeper Hamas' tunneling network became, thanks to cement, the paste that makes concrete…
The United States should desist from insisting that the end game of Israel’s war against Hamas focus on Gaza's future. Failure to…
Given the very small dimensions of the al-Ahli Arab Hospital, Hamas’ claims of around 500 deaths and a similar number of wounded…
Security fears of the last 10 days of Ramadan are hardly justified. Ramadan has hardly been the most violent month in the…
Netanyahu has developed an explicit doctrine of war avoidance in preparation for total war should Iran achieve nuclear breakout. That explains his…
Israeli officials and the media continuously warn about the dangers of the upcoming Ramadan, on the assumption that Palestinians are more violent…
The Kingdom of Qatar, a repressive, discriminatory regime at home, promotes a cynical media policy abroad that lavishes support on a conservative,…
Qatar seems hell-bent on promoting hatred against Israel. So why does Jerusalem allow Al Jazeera complete freedom of operation?
The photo of the two terrorists in the shootout with the IDF looked more like models than killers – well-groomed and affluent…
Arab publics are engrossed by the challenges that they face in their states.
Israeli forces, again, consistently entered these towns and their environs almost daily to make arrests, which led to a 90% decrease in…
An analysis of Google Trends demonstrates the dangers of exaggerating events easily and effectively manipulated by Palestinian propaganda.
A static “dumb” security fence can hardly be effective against young and resourceful workers, many of whom work in construction and are…
It took Mansour Abbas, the head of the southern branch of the Islamic Movement's United Arab List party(Ra'am), to show that Mahmoud…
The American pressure against the Atarot housing project north of Jerusalem was likely meant to maintain the possibility of a two-state solution.
In conjunction with radical Arab MKs, Leftist Israeli politicians focus on settler violence when the real issue is Palestinian violence organized from…
Israeli settlement in Judea and Samaria must be renewed as a means of imposing costs on the Palestinian Authority for trying to…
Only a showdown can decide between Hamas and Fatah rule, with one side totally victorious and the other totally defeated, and it…
6 articles
Watch the recording of the webinar that took place February 5, 2026.
Watch the recording of the webinar that took place September 14, 2025
TIF-JISS Panel Discussion (online), wish Prof, Efraim Inbar and Prof. Hillel Frisch
Conversation with B'nai B'rith, 13 December 2023
Watch the recording of the Menachem Begin Heritage Center zoom event that took place October 30, 2023.
Watch the recording of The Indian Futures-JISS Symposium that took place October 23, 2023
24 articles
The Jerusalem Post, 20.07.2026 Click here to read the article
Prof. Hillel Frisch is quoted in the article
The Jerusalem Post, 03.02.2026 Click here to read the article
The Jerusalem Post, 20.01.2026 Click here to read the article
An article by Prof. Hillel Frisch published on the Jerusalem Post
An article by Prof. Hillel Frisch published on the Jerusalem Post
An article by Yaakov Lappin published on JNS. JISS Experts are quoted in the article (Brig. Gen. (res.) Kuperwasser, Prof. Inbar, Prof.…
An article by Prof. Hillel Frisch published on the Jerusalem Post
Prof. Hillel Frisch is quoted in the article
Biden’s veto is a threat to Western security and the Arab states
The Netanyahu Doctrine: Total War Only Against an Iranian Nuclear Breakout
Why do we in the West treat Qatar, the icon of evil, with kid gloves?
The ‘Arab street’ shrugs at normalization with Israel
The Dangers of Exaggerating the Impact of the Death of an ‘Al Jazeera’ Propagandist
The dangers of exaggerating the impact of the death of an ‘Al Jazeera’ propagandist
What is different about the latest wave of Palestinian violence?
Historic Negev Summit unites Israel and four Arab states against Iran, ‘irritating’ US policies
Abbas’s attack on Israeli Arab politician showed his true colors
The Hamas takeover of Gaza killed the two-state solution
The Hamas takeover of Gaza killed the two-state solution
Palestinian violence, not settler violence, is the problemJISS article republished
