A year on from Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israel that killed about 1,200 people, the Middle East continues to remain mired in an ever-widening conflict with no de-escalation in sight. Since that horrendous assault on Israel, nearly 42,000 people have been killed during Israel’s campaign in Gaza as per various estimates. Even as the president of the United States of America, Joe Biden, lamented that “Far too many civilians have suffered far too much during this year of conflict”, Israel, Hamas, and Hezbollah were busy launching fresh attacks to commemorate the anniversary of last October’s assault. This was a reminder, if at all it was needed, that in the dreary world of the Middle East, battlefield realities would continue to shape political realities. After the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, the neo-conservatives emerged as the most significant voice in the strategic world. They argued that in order to drain the region of Islamist extremism, a new political order needed to be created in the Middle East through the use of US military power. That idea, discredited after the 2003 war in Iraq, is now making a comeback and is being pushed to the centre stage by Israeli leaders who view their recent tactical gains as reasons for restructuring the regional order.
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