Prof. Benny Miller
The current Israel’s wars in the Middle East manifest two processes of the “unification of fronts.” One is global and the other is regional. On the global level, the Ukraine War, the Taiwan crisis and the Gaza War are all part of the escalating great power competition between the US and its allies versus the revisionist axis of Russia-North Korea-Iran-China. This axis aims to undermine US hegemony and the US-led liberal international order. On the regional level, the unification of fronts is expressed by the onset of a number of violent conflicts immediately following the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. These conflicts are part of the Iranian-led “resistance front” strategy to challenge American dominance in the Middle East and to weaken its key partner—Israel. Thus, a major objective of the Hamas attack on October 7 was to disrupt the US-led normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel.
