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Doron Matza

The region is thus facing a complex reality, in which the “New Middle East”—utilitarian, economic, pragmatic—is severely challenged by the “Old”—ideological, political, totalitarian.
Israel is repeating the same mistakes with the Gaza-based terror group that it made with Fatah and the PLO under Yasser Arafat—with similar results.
Even if Hezbollah is behind the latest rocket attack on the Galilee, Hamas is culpable for the security deterioration in southern Lebanon. Israel must establish a new equation in which lack of peace in the north is met in kind in the Gaza Strip.
Israel’s leadership needs to understand the paradox: Ensuring stability and bolstering the chances for an arrangement with Hamas actually depend on undermining the existing dynamic by striking a major blow.