Comments on: The Arab Spring that Wasn’t aka Peace in our Time with the Palestinians. http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-arab-spring-that-wasnt-aka-peace-in-our-time-with-the-palestinians/ The Marketplace of Ideas Tue, 21 May 2013 22:30:30 +0300 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: John Cronin http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-arab-spring-that-wasnt-aka-peace-in-our-time-with-the-palestinians/#comment-98446 John Cronin Sun, 24 Feb 2013 21:45:31 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=104720#comment-98446 If Arab middle classes do appear to be somewhat thin on the ground, then their expansion and consequent helming of a more enlightened future is unlikely to happen overnight.

In which case, it might be of great benefit to turn to a worldwide audience, a middle class already in being and one quite capable of sensing and determining outcomes that will improve present prospects for the entire region, that can open up the rapid development of societies and peoples too long saddled with traditionally slow methods of progress.

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The shock of the new has often been the chanticleer call that heralds a turning point in human history, delivering a much better understanding of its purpose and even its destiny. In either capacity, the direction must always be forward. There is no going back.

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