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Today, the world is witness to increasing instability in the Middle East that is fueled by crumbling security structures and violent sectarianism. In the absence of an effective and compelling American leadership in the Middle East, regional states use their military influence in the form of brutal proxy wars and push for sectarian policies that shape the geopolitics of the region. An intensifying Sunni-Shia proxy war has been the defining feature of this growing regional instability while in Palestine Israel remains unfazed by worldwide criticism of its invasion of Gaza, confident that the strategic outlook in the Arab world is against Hamas. So what kind of policies …
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