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<span style="font-family: 'serif'; font-size: 12pt">The first trend is caused by having more hostile governments toward Israel as a result of these revolutions. &nbsp;The worst case scenario of this trend is if such governments decided to end their peace treaties with Israel. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: 'serif'; font-size: 12pt">The second trend is one that can have a positive impact on Arab-Israeli relations and is based on the following observations:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: 'serif'; font-size: 12pt">1-<span style="font: 7pt 'times new roman'">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><span dir="ltr">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'serif'; font-size: 12pt">Arab countries are now more concerned about their local national problems after the revolutions than with the Palestinian issue. For example, despite the attempt of some religious scholars such as Sheikh Al-Quradawy&nbsp;attempting to resurrect the Palestinian issue with Egyptians, the general theme of the revolution in Egypt has been focused on the domestic situation rather than the Arab-Israeli conflict. &nbsp;This trend was also noticed in other Arab countries such as Tunisia and Bahrain.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: 'serif'; font-size: 12pt">Israel cannot rely solely on the above positive trends as Islamist based anti-Semitism is deeply imbedded in the minds of millions of Muslims. In fact, ensuring Israel military superiority is the best antidote for wars in the area. For example, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) that repeatedly stood against the peace treaty with Israel has recently announced that they will respect the treaty. This was not simply because they changed their views about Israel and the Jews but it was primarily because of the &#39;fear&#39; of the Israel Military retaliation. The MB knows very well that if they came to power and cancelled the peace treaty with Israel, the Israel military retaliation in such a case can paralyze the country and prove beyond doubt to many Muslims that the slogan of the Muslim Brotherhood &quot;Islam is the solution&quot; is hoax. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: 'serif'; font-size: 12pt">It is important in this context to mention that &#39;fear&#39; is an important component of Islamists minds. The fear of &quot;Hell Fire&quot; is for example an essential component of the religious education of millions of Muslims. The fear from retaliation of &quot;Allah&quot; is what makes many follow the religion so strictly as they are afraid of the punishment. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: 'serif'; font-size: 12pt">Israel MUST learn the lesson that all its negotiations with the Palestinians to stop terrorism inside Israel were virtually fruitless. On the contrary, a single powerful attack on Gaza in the winter of 2008-2009 that created &#39;fear&#39; in the mind of the Palestinians from the Israel Military power managed to <i>almost</i> stop Palestinian terror attacks inside Israel until today. The existence of the security barrier has also possibly contributed to such an effect. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: 'serif'; font-size: 12pt">In brief; &quot;fear&#39; is an important and influential component of the Arab Muslim minds. If Israel lost its Military superiority in the area, the new Arab governments will be encouraged to end the peace treaties with Israel which can drag the whole area into wars. The best guarantee to maintain peace treaties in the area is to ensure the Military superiority of Israel in the Middle East. </span></p>