To be honest, it doesn't. The big events of this spring are the upheavals in the Arab world. And what was, to me noticeable about these upheavals is what they were not about. People were not burning Israeli flags; they were not burning American flags.
Haass critiques Obama's speech regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, noting that the Arab uprisings were not focused on anti-Israel sentiments.
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