The Israeli assassination of Hamas’s political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, in the Iranian capital of Tehran is expected to derail negotiations for a hostage and Gaza ceasefire deal.
Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed Bin Abdul Rahman al-Thani, who has been mediating indirect talks between Israel and Hamas, expressed concern about the impact the assassination will have on the negotiations.
“Political assassinations and continued targeting of civilians in Gaza while talks continue leads us to ask, how can mediation succeed when one party assassinates the negotiator on the other side? Peace needs serious partners and a global stance against the disregard for human life,” al-Thani wrote on X.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was doing everything he could to sabotage the chances of a deal before his big trip to Washington, something that’s been widely acknowledged by Israeli media and officials.
Haniyeh was seen as Hamas’s leading proponent of reaching a ceasefire deal with Hamas. While Hamas’s top leader is Yahya Sinwar, who is believed to be hiding deep inside the tunnel system under Gaza, Haniyeh was the top official for the Palestinian group outside of Gaza and played a key role in the negotiations.
Progress toward a deal is not expected to be made as the region is bracing for Iran’s retaliation for the assassination on its territory and Hezbollah’s response to the Israeli killing of one of its top military commanders in Beirut.
US officials told Axios that they’re concerned the assassination of Haniyeh will derail negotiations and could lead to a major regional war. But the US is strongly backing Israel, as Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin vowed the US would defend Israel from any retaliation.
The circumstances around Haniyeh’s death are unclear. His deputy, Khalil al-Haia, said Haniyeh was killed while sleeping at an official guest residency in Tehran. Al-Haia said Haniyeh was struck by a missile, but it’s unclear if Israeli warplanes were involved. Israel has previously carried out attacks inside Iran using small quadcopter drones that explode on impact.
Haniyeh was in Tehran for the inauguration of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who is considered a moderate and pledged to pursue diplomacy to get Western sanctions lifted. But the Israeli assassination will likely also derail any Iranian plans to attempt to engage with the US on sanctions.
"but it’s unclear if Israeli warplanes were involved" He's kidding, right?
Look forward to the region exploding before the week is out. Iran understands now that Israel only understands force and wants a major war ASAP. How better to get us, the US, to kill for them?
I agree with your sentiment except “looking forward to”….Israel’s scorched earth mentality could lead to the use of a nuke.
Although Israel has become the 51st state thanks to the political-cultural stranglehold which the Zios enjoy in the USA, they would face severe reprimands and isolation from most other nation-states around the world if they were to use a nuclear weapon in an offensive (non-defensive) manner.
Isn't that kind of happening now? So, would they care? And would President Austin tell them no more unwavering/ironclad support?
We already have a meme for that: "Israel has the right to use nuclear weapons." …No? …You've never heard of a meme like that? …Oh, sorry. I forgot it's right here on my shelf, collecting dust for 60 years.
I doubt it. I see it going this way :
1. ASI flattens Tehran with nuclear weapons.
2. UN "severely reprimands" and moves to "isolate".
3. ASI calls those actions "antisemitic".
4. UN says "Our bad. Carry on."
That’s hilarious when you consider IOF claiming that gang rape of a prisoner was “in defense” and the US wouldn’t answer that it was a war crime. The parliament argued that it was just. Israel was welcomed at the Olympics. Trained seals gave multiple standing ovations for blatant lies.
Reprimands from the UN have been essentially useless. The ICC still hasn’t made serious moves to arrest any of the war criminals.
I agree with Alastair Crooke that the only way Israel will stop, is if it is stopped by force, military action. As long as the US empire exists, Israel will not be isolated to the point of actual consequences. It will take more than global attitude to alter the course of history.
I should have posted my reply to you to Mr. Siegfriedson instead. 🙂
It was a good comment, so no problem.
I think the probability has exceeded the "could" level, we've definitely got a foot+ into "likely." Israeli "security" is predicated on their invincible deterrence damaged by 10/7 & this war.
Ismail Haniyeh was quite a coup and they've made Iran look weak as the talking heads are noting. But according to NYT this AM Haniyeh was taken out by a bomb planted months ago in the guest house he stays in when in Tehran, the same manner they took out Iran's nuclear scientists. Still vy bad given that property is run & protected by the IRGC, but not as bad as the zionist lunatics getting a drone through Iran's air defenses & putting a missile thru Ismail's bedroom window.
Hezbollah and Iran have promised revenge and it's not sounding like it's going to be coordinated with the US. Depending on what comes next, looking at Israel's escalatory ladder, tactical nukes don't look far away.
The only part I’m looking forward to in that sense is gas prices skyrocketing, so perhaps we might thread the needle between nuclear and climate apocalypse. Now there’s a bright side between the blazing sun and a mushroom cloud. I’m so positive.
Israel: Cut your own throat and we'll discuss ceasefire.
Israel: Okay. You took too long, so we decided to cut your throat for you. You're welcome.
Me: As I've been telling you. Israel is so nice.
Israel: Hamas is evil and an obstacle to peace. …Yeah. We heard their Chief Negotiator died. …Yeah. We could have killed him in Qatar. …Why did we kill him in Iran instead? …It's because Hamas is evil and an obstacle to peace.
@zei_squirrel
you didn't hear about it because the entire Western media and political class immediately memory-holed it, but Ismail Haniyeh proposed Hamas laying down arms and accepting a two-state solution months ago. Israel assassinated him because they want genocide
Hamas official says group would lay down its arms if an independent Palestinian state is established
BY ABBY SEWELL
Updated 5:44 PM GMT+2, April 25, 2024
https://irp.fas.org/world/para/docs/hamas-2017.pdf
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hamas-2017-document-full
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/01/world/middleeast/how-hamas-leader-haniyeh-killed-iran-bomb.html
https://english.aawsat.com/arab-world/5046756-iran-arrests-dozens-search-haniyeh-killing-suspects
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Ismail_Haniyeh
Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territory, tantamount to ‘settler-colonialism’: UN expert
https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/10/1129942
Israel’s continued occupation of Palestinian territory ‘unlawful’: UN world court
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/07/1152296
Excerpts, not wrong:
Palestine is a land that was seized by a racist, anti-human and colonial Zionist project
Palestine is a land that was seized by a racist, anti-human and colonial Zionist project that was founded on a false promise (the Balfour Declaration), on recognition of a usurping entity and on imposing a fait accompli by force.
Palestine symbolises the resistance that shall continue until liberation is accomplished, until the return is fulfilled and until a fully sovereign state is established with Jerusalem as its capital.
Palestine is the true partnership among Palestinians of all affiliations for the sublime objective of liberation.
Hamas affirms that its conflict is with the Zionist project not with the Jews because of their religion
16. Hamas affirms that its conflict is with the Zionist project not with the Jews because of their religion. Hamas does not wage a struggle against the Jews because they are Jewish but wages a struggle against the Zionists who occupy Palestine. Yet, it is the Zionists who constantly identify Judaism and the Jews with their own colonial project and illegal entity.
17. Hamas rejects the persecution of any human being or the undermining of his or her rights on nationalist, religious or sectarian grounds. Hamas is of the view that the Jewish problem, anti-Semitism and the persecution of the Jews are phenomena fundamentally linked to European history and not to the history of the Arabs and the Muslims or to their heritage. The Zionist movement, which was able with the help of Western powers to occupy Palestine, is the most dangerous form of settlement occupation which has already disappeared from much of the world and must disappear from Palestine.
You really are proZionist.
And??
As a non-religious person, a free thinker, I do not long for a territory on earth where fresh water shortage, desert, aggressive religious communities, etc. prevail during climate change.
All religions are based on invention, vision, narrative to guide the masses, aren't they?
Ceasefire now!
https://www.deezer.com/en/album/274590272 Cheb Hasni
"Hasni's fame and controversial songs led to him receiving death threats from Islamic fundamentalist extremists. He was murdered, outside his parents' home in the Gambetta district of Oran (1994)." By Wikipedia
And Israel is a choir of angels?
I was being sarcastic. I used to include (Sarcasm) at the end of every share, until some folks said they got it and didn't want me to include it any longer. They were sick and tired from my long track record of (Sarcasm). LOL
Delta and United Airlines cancel flights to Israel amid escalating tensions
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/airline-news/2024/07/31/us-airlines-cancel-israel-flights/74622438007/
Good move. Are they going to be sanctioned by Congress for that?
You are quick.
Thanks, you too
Congress : "United is unpatriotic !"
anyone : "Um…United Airlines Flight 93."
Congress : (circuit breaker trips; brains go into Safe Mode)
I am glad Big Brother already set my Mind Control in Safe Mode. Otherwise, I would have to read the Patriot Act before I could laugh. There’s a newer term for Safe Mode. It’s called Limp Mode. You know, like the Macron Limp Mode or the Scholz.
Wrong Reason.
Yes, but it does have impact.
No it doesn't. Both were for "security reasons" only to TelAviv and while UA suspended with no end date continuing to monitor, Delta paused through 8/2 with a waver through 8/14.
Those are capitalist decisions, not moral or ethical ones.
Business flights halted. That has an impact on economy which, without the US bolstering it, it would crater. But this doesn’t help. It also dampens whatever usual tourism and Zionistic indoctrination trips.
Sorry ED, nice try, but you don’t have enough lipstick for that pig, it’s co-ins-Cee-dink, no more. This is 2024, if somehow video doesn’t do the job they’ll fly private, if they can’t afford it, it’d hardly impact Israel’s economy anyway. Beside “U.S. airlines suspended flights to and from Tel Aviv in October amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants. American Airlines hadn’t resumed flights.”
The point, ED, is the ICJ ruling changed everything, or should have given the world’s highest court ruled as the occupying power Israel has no right to “self defense,” meaning all of it’s military actions against the Palestinians should stop. It’s bad enough the people that “represent” are bought and paid for by the Israel Lobby, so much so it applauded Netanyahu’s tirade against this country’s bedrock 1st Adm rights, please don’t make it worse pretending US business decisions about air travel have anything to do with Israel spreading polio in Gaza and murdering-by-sniper brown children.
Where have I claimed it is a moral decision? I said it will have impact. Please don’t strawman my comments.
IT was a thoughtless overwrought post, I sincerely apologize. No way meant as an attack it was an emotional reactive vent to a long standing personal trigger; I can see how it would cause offense, thank you for pointing it out. A wise person disengages for distance when emotions take the lead, alas 🙁
The resistance will continue no matter what…!
Dude. Just checking. Who is "the Good Guys?" I'm especially confused after reading the last few titles from your Youtube Channel:
-US Pledges It Will Defend Israel After Escalations, Iraq Strongly Condemns US Airstrike, and More
-Israel Bombs Beirut, US Bombs Iraq, US Gives the Philippines $500 Million in Military Aid, and More
-US Announces $1.7 Billion in Arms for Ukraine, US Rejects Venezuela's Election, and More
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Duh! "Expected to derail ceasefire talks"… Ya think?
"…said Haniyeh was killed while sleeping at an official guest residency in Tehran."
This poses a bigger problem than people might realise. Islamic culture places a high value on the role of a host to see after the well-being and needs of a guest (also why the Talibani'i wouldn't give over Osama Bin Laden without solid evidence against him, which the USA oddly refused to provide).
That the IRI was responsible for Haniyeh's safety, politically and culturally and morally, suggests their anger and response should be next level. I expect the ASI knows this.
"Israeli Killing of Hamas Political Chief Intended To Derail Ceasefire Talks."
Fixed, no charge.