Peloni: This is an important article. Khaled Hasan, Egyptian-British national security and foreign policy researcher, presents the fallout following the recent Doha strike as being a series of alliance systems poised against Israel.
Khaled Hassan | The Grand Strategy | Sep 21, 2025
The Alliances Reshaping the Region: from 1967 to the Doha Strikes
In a private conversation with Jewish leaders, and in public, I compared Israel’s triumph in 1967 over a coalition of Arab states including Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, with support from other Arab countries like Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria, with its recent strikes against Hamas leaders in Doha.
This comparison was deliberate in ways I have and haven’t explained. The pros, which I explained publicly, are clear: deterrence is back on the menu. Like the 1967 triumph, the Doha strikes showed the world and Israel’s adversaries that Israel means business and that its enemies aren’t far from its reach. And, much like in 1967, Israel surprised its adversaries with its capabilities.
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