Hamas political leader Haniyeh’s assassination deepens fears of an all-out war in the Middle East

AOL ^ | 07/31/2024 | Helen Regan, Kareem El Damanhoury and Abeer Salman

[ChicagoConservative27]

Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh has been killed in the Iranian capital Tehran, according to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps and Hamas on Wednesday, a major escalation that deepens fears of an all-out war in the Middle East.

Haniyeh is the second leader of an Iran-backed militant group reported to have been assassinated in recent days. His death represents a significant blow to Hamas, eliminating its most public figure who headed up the group’s political operations while living overseas.

In a statement, Hamas accused Israel of targeting Haniyeh and his bodyguard in a “strike” on where he was staying in Tehran, following his participation in Tuesday’s inauguration of the new Iranian president.

[ChicagoConservative27]

CNN is upset that Israel is defending itself. You just can't have Israel escalating anything now? But have you noticed CNN and rat politicians telling Hamas or Hezbollah not to escalate anything..🙄

[johniegrad]

The article is quite vague on the matter of how this was carried out. It was called a “strike” with an “airborne guided projectile” but no other description was given unless I missed it. Are we to infer some sort of drone attack? Seems odd to me.

[high info voter]

And the earlier quote from the jerk?

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh claims that he will "extend the fight against Israel to Jerusalem and the West Bank!"

[RFEngineer]

I’m thinking that someone might have considered the war implications of harboring the Hamas leader in Teheran before the guy was killed.

[Gen.Blather]

It’s hard to follow the actors without a program, but if I recall, Iran has publicly stated Hamas are apostates. Given that there are some ten thousand political elites in Iran, might it be that at least one of them might be upset that Iran, the holy of holies was hosting an apostate? These elites, all of whom have some level of power conferred upon them by the fact they have followers, might realize the only fun in having power is to demonstrate it by using it.

[Uncle Miltie]

So ham ass can start a war by breaking a ceasefire, invading its neighbor, murdering and raping thousands, and it’s Israel that courts a wider war by killing ham ass leadership?

That’s messed up analysis.

[yldstrk]

Says who?

[Uncle Miltie]

Pissing off all the right people this morning.

Am Yisrael Chai, mother f’ers!

[Flint]

He wasn’t assassinated, he was a military target.

[The Louiswu]

[piasa]

.... this George Galloway, aka Gorgeous George, (also a pervert):

“...As terrorism expert Patrick Poole writes: According to press accounts, more than $1 million in aid for Hamas, including the cash and supplies raised in Orlando at Musri’s mosque, along with funds raised in Kansas, New York and Illinois, was provided on Galloway’s July 2009. There to greet them and take possession of the cash was Hamas economic minister Ziad al-Zaza and Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh, another designated global terrorist.”

Note Ismail Haniyeh is one of two Hamas leaders who gave orders for the October 7, 2023 terror attacks.

13 posted on 11/8/2023, 9:39:09 AM by piasa

[Uncle Miltie]

Crickets from FR’s allahu akhbar chorus this morning.

[Samurai_Jack]

The escalation happened when the hezbully’s launched missiles into a youth soccer field in golan and killed a bunch of children.

So all this whining, crying, posturing and escalation talk over this guy getting whacked with a claw hammer like a chinese spotted lantern fly goes unheard by me.

[SunkenCiv]

Why, because there hasn't been ongoing piracy and attacks on shipping through the Horn of Africa -- based in Somalia, and now from Yemen -- financed and equipped by Iran?Iran's proxies like Hamas and Hezbollah in a continual state of war with Israel for decades on end? AOL? More like LOL.

[TalBlack]

All the proof anyone needs that Israel didn’t kill enough of them. You have to kill enough so that they ask you to stop…and they say PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!

[high info voter]

So he got his reward for threatening death against God’s chosen people in the land that God gave them?..... too bad!

[nagant]

a major escalation that deepens fears of an all-out war in the Middle East.
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Would the rape and murder of 1,500 innocent Israeli civilians qualify? How about simultaneously firing 350 rockets at Israeli civilians?