After nine months of quiet preparation, 25 Moroccan educators stepped off a plane in Berlin on Thursday and into history. They have embarked on a journey through Auschwitz, the Warsaw Ghetto, and other Holocaust sites, which the trip organizers described as the first Arab-world teachers trained to bring this history home.
In our Middle Eastern neighborhood — one that constantly swings between hope and threat — it’s hard not to raise an eyebrow at reports that the Trump administration is considering a security agreement with Saudi Arabia even without requiring full normalization with Israel. The public is ready; the question is whether the leadership will rise to the challenge.