A Shift in the Arab Media?

Maybe it has something to do with Iran threatening them and their countries next, hmm? A shift in the Arab media. Hassan Mneimneh, TWS:

There is a distinct novelty in the current war in Gaza. While much of the Arab broadcast media displays graphic scenes of and outrage about the mounting Palestinian casualties, print media in the Arab world is steering in the direction of a far more nuanced position that recognizes, albeit often implicitly, Israel's right for self-defense in the initiation of its military operation. This recognition is generally framed as a denunciation of Hamas's reckless behavior, from its targeting of Israeli towns with rockets, to its termination of the truce and rejection of Egyptian and Saudi initiatives. Embedded in this formulation, though, is the evident corollary that Israel did not act out of the latent "lust for blood", attributed to it by much of Arab political culture, but as a result of a legitimate rational calculation to defend its own citizens. Arab commentators still express their disagreement with the methods used and/or their efficacy, but their acknowledgement, however shyly articulated, of Israeli rights, is an opportunity that needs to be developed. [snip]

From Hezbollah's sacking of Beirut in May 2008, to Syria and Iran's sabotaging of efforts by Egypt and Saudi Arabia to avoid Palestinian civil war, the Arab public was soberly exposed to the utilitarian and cynical use of resistance rhetoric. Hamas's insistence on sacrificing the Palestinian population in its pursuit of fictional victories, à la Hezbollah, is an opportunity to deepen the widespread realization of the hollowness of the "rejectionist" posture.

Perhaps more countries besides Egypt will now make peace with Israel, if only to foil Persian Iran's dominance.