Does conflict in the mediate East escalate? The positions of Israel and Iran

The conflict in the mediate East seems to be slow slipping out of control, and the situation is surely the most dangerous in years. Israel has been at war in the Gaza Strip with Hamas for almost a year and armed action in confederate Lebanon against Hezbollah. This is besides the reaction of another countries, as Turkey's increasingly critical attitude towards the situation, as well as Iran, which has already struck Israel for the second time.