This is CBSI on the world.

I'm John Batchel.

Malcolm Holine Conference of President's Major American Jewish Organization joins me,

and we're very pleased to welcome Greg Roman, the Executive Director of the Middle East Forum,

immediately to a story about five fronts.

That is, there's a ceasefire now, and the understanding is the war will be solved.

Five fronts. Greg, a very good evening to you. Five fronts, where and how? Good evening.

Good evening, and thank you for having me. What we've seen happen in the last year, starting with the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, then

followed by the 12-day war between Israel and Iran in June.

And now with the ceasefire negotiated largely with the participation of the United States,

but if you notice at the table, there was also the heads of state of Qatar and of Turkey.

These two countries are jockeying for the ability to replace Hamas as the main actor in Gaza,

not as part of a Gaza reconstruction strategy or to look good on the world stage in terms of

getting humanitarian assistance and rebuilding efforts in the Gaza Strip, but is opening up their fifth front

that they have been using for the past year since the fall of Assad to replace the Shia

crescent, which once extended from Beirut to Tehran.

We now find the Turks materially and militarily active in Gaza, in Djibouti, in southern Lebanon,

replacing Saad Hariri and the Sunni influence in Sidon and in Teer and in Tripoli.

And we also see them active in Syria, shadowing every Syrian government minister and increasingly active in Jordan.

The idea there being that the Shia may have left, but the radical Sunni Islamists have replaced them.

The Turks are providing the manpower.

The Qataris are providing the budget.

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