The Arab Spring is not the whole story: power in the Middle East has been shifting away from Israel for two decades

Nearly 20 years after the Oslo Accords, Israel now finds itself in a strategically diminished position. But is this a result of the Arab Spring? As part of EUROPP’s coverage of the European neighbourhood, Amnon Aran argues that the shift in power away from Israel in the Middle East follows two decades which have seen the rise of political Islam in the region, Iran’s nuclear developments, and demographic changes in Israel itself.