Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Elder of Ziyon
Ismail Haniyeh, who heads the Political Bureau of Hamas, has written to leaders of countries in the region and beyond to warn against the consequences of any targeted assassination by Israel of the Palestinian resistance movement’s leaders.In the letters, Haniyeh said Israel’s resumption of policies to eliminate Hamas leaders will have “repercussions beyond estimation,” his media adviser, Taher al-Nunu said on Wednesday.Earlier this month The Times published a report, alleging that Israeli authorities had informed Western allies that the occupying regime was preparing hit squads to target Hamas leaders living abroad.Al-Nunu said Haniyeh warned in the messages that targeted assassinations of Hamas leaders will bring the people and the resistance into a full-scale conflict and the “Zionist regime will pay an unknown price.”The Hamas chief, Al-Nunu added, urged the leaders to note Israeli regime’s statements and more aggressive tone while working out plans to assassinate Hamas leaders namely Yahya Sinwar, Zaher Jabarin, Saleh al-Arouri, Mohammed Deif.Haniyeh also called on these countries to convey the message to Israel and warn the regime against the consequences of acting on such criminal threats.
Nah, these letters weren't self-serving at all.
There have been many similar warnings to Israel over the years, saying that if the Jewish state does something the terrorists don't like, it will "open the gates of hell."
Here's the thing about those gates of hell.
Hamas already opened the gates of hell on October 7. It wasn't in response to any of the many Israeli actions they had warned about - it was just a pogrom meant to terrorize and murder the maximum number of Israelis and kidnap hostages to make a prisoner swap.
There are two attributes about those gates of hell that Haniyeh and Hamas altogether did not think through.
One is that the gates of hell, once open, cannot open them any wider.
The other is that once they are opened, they are opened in both directions.
Since Haniyeh's warning, most of Hamas' leaders have been eliminated. France24 wrote an article in November listing the Hamas leaders in Israel's crosshairs, and since then, most of them - Haniyeh, Arouri, Deif, Marwan Issa, Zakaria Abu Maamar, Jawad Abu Shammala, Merad Abu Merad, Ali Qadi, Ayman Nofal and others - have been killed.
Israel isn't "escalating tensions." Israel is responding appropriately and proportionately to Hamas doing everything it can to destroy Israel. Killing leaders is the most efficient way to defeat the enemy.
Haniyeh was one of the few people who knew about October 7 ahead of time and approved it. He apparently helped plan it. He richly deserved to die.
And whenever Hamas threatens repercussions for Israeli actions, that is a pretty good indication that those actions are exactly Israel should be doing.
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