Like 9/11, will Hamas attack mean wider Mideast conflict?
by Ned Temko
Oct 11, 2023
3 minutes
It is being called Israel’s 9/11.
That may understate the impact of the Hamas ground invasion that last weekend swept, unimpeded, across the country’s southern border with Gaza, sowing terror. But one parallel with America’s ordeal is already clear.
The political aftershocks of the attack will reverberate far beyond the sliver of Mediterranean land where it began.
Already, Mideast heavyweights Iran and Saudi Arabia are limbering up for a new round of their strategic tug of war. Suddenly, the United States finds itself more directly
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