Middle East 2026: Conflicts, Surprises, and What Lies Ahead

<![CDATA[Someone audaciously predicting at the start of 2025 that Israel would, in the coming year, carry out a nearly flawless military campaign against Iran, seizing control of its airspace within 48 hours, followed by the U.S. knocking out its key nuclear sites, would probably have been met with eye rolls. Similarly, a prognostication that a former mainstream conservative thought leader would declare that Islam poses no real threat, while at the same time hinting that Jews were responsible for Charlie Kirk's assassination, would likely have been dismissed.]]>