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A chart by The Big Pharaoh doing the rounds of social media shows just how much of a tangled mess the Middle East is. But if we tease it apart, we see that the region is fairly neatly divided into two camps; it's just that one of those camps is divided amongst itself. Deciding which of these internal divisions are fundamental to the peace and which are distractions in the short term may make the diplomatic options very clear.

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Dwelling on who hates who is just as unproductive in this diagram as it is in real life, so let's look at it another way. Which players may be united by a common enemy?

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