Walid Phares, middle east scholar and author of Future Jihad, on the Hamas grab in Gaza:


http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007...ader_syroi.php

The latest dramatic military and terror events in Gaza and Lebanon can be viewed from a regional geopolitical perspective: A Syro-Iranian axis offensive on its (their) primarily western front stretching along the Mediterranean coast.
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Iran's and Syria's offensives have been well-coordinated on battlefields across the Levant since last January, with a clear escalation since early spring.