Between Swords of Iron and the Al Aqsa Deluge: The Regional Politics of the Israel-Hamas War

Bottom Line

• The Hamas-Israel war has derailed but not destroyed the trend towards regional de-escalation and integration.

• Hamas’ “success” has revived fears in the region of a Muslim Brotherhood resurgence and led aspiring regional powers to compete to steer the Muslim world’s attitudes and responses to the crisis .

• Egypt and Jordan, Israel’s peace partners, face particular domestic challenges that both constrain and incentivize engagement in the crisis. Egypt’s strategic interests have led to a discreet, but more active…