The New Middle East’s New Problems
The Middle East's political epicenter has shifted from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict toward the struggle for regional mastery between Iran on one side and Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Egypt on the other. In the emerging struggle between the region’s Shia and Sunni powers, the old Middle East conflict has become a sideshow.
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BERLIN – When hostilities flared in Gaza last month, it seemed like the same old story was repeating itself. The world again witnessed a bloody and senseless surge of violence between Israel and Hamas, in which the main victims were innocent civilians maimed and killed on both sides.