Most of the hostages remain in Gaza under the custody of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad. [...] With governments in the West steadfastly supporting Israel, Muslim migrant and diaspora protests will continue, and just like the Palestinian and Lebanese waves of terrorism in the late 1960s and early 1970s, a new wave will emerge. [...] The Ansarullah targeting ships in the Arabian and Red seas is likely to affect supplies to and from Israel and to the rest of the world as a fifth of the world’s oil supply passes through the Straits of Hormuz. [...] As was the case during the Arab Spring, the popular anger of Arabs and Muslims over the failure of their governments to help the Palestinians, will destabilise their regimes. [...] The Hamas attack was intended to disrupt the rapprochement between Israel and the Gulf states and to provoke a war in the Middle East.
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