Gaza fighting is ‚proxy war‘ for the Mideast

„The Israel-Hamas conflict has laid bare the new divides of the Middle East,“ says Danielle Pletka, vice president of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. „It’s no longer the Muslims against the Jews. Now it’s the extremists — the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Hezbollah, and their backers Iran, Qatar and Turkey — against Israel and the more moderate Muslims including Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia.“