An armed conflict in the Middle East between Israelis and Palestinians has become more vicious and much broader far quicker than anticipated, potentially altering the calculations of regional and global powers eager to ignore the long-simmering crisis. The latest sequence of events began with attempts by Israeli settlers to appropriate Palestinian properties in Jerusalem and Israeli armed forces raids on the al-Aqsa mosque considered the third.
Brett Sudetic
Brett Sudetic is a foreign affairs consultant and advisor to Gulf State Analytics, a Washington DC-based geopolitical risk consulting firm.
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