Battleground: Ten Conflicts that Explain the New Middle East
CHRISTOPHER PHILLIPS
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For months now, the world has been horrified by the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where Israel’s army is pounding the Palestinian enclave into rubble in its war against Hamas. But is this disaster a solitary blip or part of a wider arc of wars and crises stretching like an oil stain across the Middle East?