“Our region is in the grip of an era-defining series of popular uprisings. There’s no telling which regimes might fall next and what might replace them. And here, in tiny Israel, we’re understandably worried.

We’ve witnessed the spectacular ouster of our problematic but key regional ally, president Hosni Mubarak. We’re well aware that our other neighboring peace partner, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is also threatened by a popular discontent born of absent freedoms and, especially, economic hardship. While anti-Israel sentiment has been emphatically marginal to the protests in those countries and others, we know full well that in both Egypt and Jordan, peace with Israel hardly enjoys profound public support.”

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