The Developments in the Middle East: a Reflection of the World’s Bigger Picture

... clash between Israel and Lebanon, and, finally, by an Israeli–Iranian war, which had been looming on the political horizon for ... ... fading from the public eye. The only consistent supporters of Palestine were the stubborn Yemeni Houthis, who have attacked foreign ships in the Red Sea. However, it was Egypt—not Israel—that suffered the most from these attacks,... ... Palestinian radicals and the Muslim Brotherhood movement (banned in Russia) at home, which has been driven deep underground, but was,... ... experience of the Iran–Iraq War of the 1980s, with hundreds of thousands killed and millions wounded, is now a no-go: Middle Eastern ...