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The Sectarian Calamity

Egypt To Iran

Hussein Ibish on the growing, disastrous sectarianism in the Middle East.

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Today's belligerent, bellicose and highly dishonest speech about Syria by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah—which appears to have outraged much of the Sunni Middle East—is only the latest indication that sectarian divisions in the region are reaching a new and incendiary low.Over

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