Putting One’s Ear to the Ground: Rumblings of Mounting Discontent
By James M. Dorsey
(Lecture at MEI Conference: The Middle East Peace Process After the Arab Uprisings)
When Jeremy Bowen, the BBC’s Middle East editor, returned to Jerusalem earlier this month, he was asked by colleagues what story he would be covering. The story seemed evident to Jeremy. It was of course the ongoing violence perpetrated by individual Pal…