“…Many authors surveyed in this study are increasingly looking at the region from the perspective of alliances based on shared security interests. These interests centre around the issue of Iran and Shiite revolutionary expansionism (the Iran-Iraq-Syria-Hezbollah-Hamas axis), and the rise of the Islamist movements (driven by Qatar and Turkey, and impacting several states in the Middle East and North Africa).”
-Bader Rock and Rami Dajani authored a Tony Blair Institute for Global Change study of “Trends in Media Opinion on Israel in Saudi and Gulf Media.” [Tony Blair Institute for Global Change]
