The Developments in the Middle East: a Reflection of the World’s Bigger Picture
Nobody wanted to fight When the Israeli–Palestinian conflict escalated dramatically in early ... ... observers jumped to a grim conclusion that, from then onward, the Middle East was hurtling at an ever-increasing speed toward another ... ... Washington is focused on maintaining the regional status quo. China has even less reason to welcome such a conflict, in the first ... ... experience of the Iran–Iraq War of the 1980s, with hundreds of thousands killed and millions wounded, is now a no-go: Middle Eastern ...