Posted by
Boris Tiraspolsky on Monday, June 29, 2009 3:21:41 PM
"A new ideological division now splits the region, what I call the
Middle Eastern cold war. Its dynamics help explain an increasingly hostile confrontation between two blocs."
The Middle Eastern Cold War
by Daniel Pipes
A cold war is "the key to understanding the Middle East in the 21st century." So argue Yigal Carmon and three of his colleagues at the Middle East Media and Research Institute (MEMRI) in a recent study, "
An Escalating Regional Cold War."
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