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Is the worst yet to come in the Middle East?

If Iran steps in, the worst is still to come

22 May 2021

9:00 AM

22 May 2021

9:00 AM

 Beirut

We can’t say yet if the latest fighting between Israel and Hamas is the start of ‘the big one’, a new Palestinian intifada, or uprising. That possibility was raised by the grandest of Middle East commentators, Thomas Friedman, in the New York Times. Friedman is sometimes mocked for his prognostications.

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