Daily Archives: August 1, 2024
Understanding why Iran needs to respond to Haniyeh’s assassination
The elimination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran has enormous implications. Haniyeh was the guest of the Iranian regime. In the Middle East, when someone comes to visit you, you are obliged to...
Just following orders …
“All I did was follow the orders of my superior,” Adolf Eichmann famously said at his eight-month trial in Jerusalem, which began in April 1961. “There can be no guilt when there is no...
Why Netanyahu has now decided to escalate attacks
With the assassinations of Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and Mohammed Deif in Gaza, along with Hezbollah’s Fuad Shukr in Lebanon, coupled with a major strike on the Houthis’ oil refineries in Yemen, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has clearly decided...