Mahmoud al-Zahar, center, is a senior Hamas leader.Credit...Wissam Nassar for The New York Times GAZA CITY — The tumult roiling the Arab world had already severed the lifeline between the Palestinian militant group Hamas and two of its most important patrons, Iran and Syria. Now, the dismantling of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood by the new military-backed government that ousted the Islamist president
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