Hamas Attack: US Must Stand With Israel But Prevent Escalation

As Israel’s strongest ally and the world’s last remaining superpower, such as it is, the US is fated to play a special role in the conflagration incinerating the Gaza Strip and Israel. Most obviously, it must stand by the victim of the terrorist attack, Israel. Less obviously, it must also prevent the inferno from spreading throughout the region and the world.

The risk of that happening is unquantifiable but real. It wouldn’t be the first time that seemingly unconnected conflicts have merged into an even bigger disaster, if only because the same parties have stakes in all the fights. In 1914, such a chain reaction led, in the space of four weeks, from the assassination of a Habsburg archduke by a Serbian nationalist to all-out war between the Great Powers. Nothing of that sort must happen in 2023, and it falls to the US to make sure of it.

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