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David D Kirkpatrick, 埃及等阿拉伯国家默许以色列打击哈马斯. 纽约时报中文网, July 31, 2014
cn.nytimes.com/world/20140731/c31egypt/


, which is translated from

David D Kirkpatrick, Arab Leaders, Viewing Hamas as Worse Than Israel, Stay Silent. New York Times, July 31, 2014 (front-page top article).

the first four paragraphs:

"Battling Palestinian militants in Gaza two years ago, Israel found itself pressed from all sides by unfriendly Arab neighbors to end the fighting.

"Not this time.

"After the military ouster of the Islamist government in Cairo last year, Egypt has led a new coalition of Arab states — including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan — that has effectively lined up with Israel in its fight against Hamas, the Islamist movement that controls the Gaza Strip. That, in turn, may have contributed to the failure of the antagonists to reach a negotiated cease-fire even after more than three weeks of bloodshed.

“'The Arab states’ loathing and fear of political Islam is so strong that it outweighs their allergy to Benjamin Netanyahu,' the prime minister of Israel, said Aaron David Miller, a scholar at the Wilson Center in Washington and a former Middle East negotiator under several presidents. 'I have never seen a situation like it, where you have so many Arab states acquiescing in the death and destruction in Gaza and the pummeling of Hamas. The silence is deafening.'

My comment: There is no need to read the rest.