The raging war between Israel and Hamas has brought global attention back to the contentious land conflict between Jews and Arabs in West Asia. Israel has launched a war on Gaza with the stated goal of eradicating Hamas and establishing a new reality in the blockaded enclave. The airstrikes have been unsparing and devastating, even as an Israeli ground offensive seems imminent, and one for which the Israeli Defence Forces are actively preparing. There is also a very palpable fear of the Israel-Palestine conflict leading to a regional flare-up, one in which the United States will be forced to militarily...