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Hamas Invasion Rewrites Rules in Middle East – WSJ

By Thomas A. Smith

DUBAI Saturday s attack on Israel by Hamas militants, who killed more than 1,200 people and kidnapped many others back to the Gaza Strip, has upended fundamental assumptions about the Middle East.

Now, as Israel, its enemies and its main partner, the U.S., respond to these shocking events, the new and untested rules of the game risk turning the bloody confrontation between Israel and Hamas into a much wider war.

Israel s expected land operation against Hamas in Gaza, and the reaction to it by Iran and its group of allied Islamist militias around the region, could determine the new balance of power in the Middle East and the new set of understandings about the region s future.

via www.wsj.com