Israel Will Have to Negotiate with Hamas
... the U.S. military build-up in the region be seen as a demonstration of its readiness to use force to protect Israel from possible threats? Of course, that is precisely the purpose for this military build-up. When Israel launched an operation in the Gaza Strip in response to the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, regional forces, including the Houthis and Iran, stepped up their activities. The first thing the United States did was sending an aircraft carrier group to the eastern Mediterranean. They did not mean to use it but demonstrated that if anyone dared to intervene in the conflict, the U.S. would ...