As the Gaza conflict enters its eighth month, Iran stands out as the one country that has succeeded in projecting further as a result. 

Israel is more vulnerable than it’s ever been and the United States must engage more smartly in the Middle East to protect its interests, argues Steven Cook, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of “The End of Ambition: America’s Past, Present, and Future in the Middle East.”

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