Israel airstrikes Ismail Haniyeh in Iran after long-running.
Recall that Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, vows to assassinate all top members of the Hamas political party that carried out the October 7th cruel attack on Israeli soil, which led to so many Israeli deaths.
The Hamas organization believed the October 7 attack was a continuation of the long-standing Palestinian struggle for freedom using violence against the Israeli occupation.
The four high-ranking members of the Hamas political party were Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas prime minister, who is worth $4 billion 29 January 1962; Khaled Meshaal 28 May 1956, the Hamas political leader, who is worth $4 billion; Yahya Sinwar 29 October 1962; Abu Marzuk, a Gazan fundraiser who is worth $3 billion 9 January 1951; and Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri (Deif)12 August 1965, Mohammed Diab, all of whom reside in Qatar.
An account states that the reason why Hamas leaders became so wealthy was that, besides, international aid, which was supposed to go to help ordinary Gazan Palestinians, was looted and shared between themselves. They invested in several banking enterprises and real estate around the world. They charged car merchants a 25% ‘tax’ and $2,000 on every disassembled vehicle coming through to Gaza from a tunnel in Egypt. Also involved in monopolistic importations into Gaza, driving off competition with high taxes. They took over high-value lands and sold them.
Moreover, they forge fictitious recruitment of workers for Hamas for the purpose of obtaining pay slips from people overseas paying for them, and many more.
Jordan, Syria, and Egypt, their close neighbors, and other Arab states except Qatar, refused to host Hamas leaders or its members. In Qatar, the top Hamas leaders cowardly reside in fancy private mansions, and while they call for their living Gazans to become martyrs and gain paradise, they live in their own paradise far from the disaster in Gaza. More like treacherous corrupt lords who, in cooperation, get all benefits (land, donations, taxes, etc.) from their people while they lead their people to confront formidable forces.
On July 31st, the Israeli government launched an air strike that killed Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, Iran.
Following the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei vowed a direct attack on Israel in retaliation for the killing in Tehran of Hamas’s leader, Ismail Haniyeh, directly, saying, “We see avenging his blood as our duty,” because it happened on the territory of the Islamic Republic. He said Israel had set the stage for receiving “a severe punishment.”
In response to the Iranian Supreme Leader’s vow, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened that Israel would exact a heavy price for any aggression and warned they would launch a preemptive strike on Iran.
Since the vow, the Iranian regime hasn’t yet retaliated as vowed, maybe fearing the risk of escalation into war, which could possibly result in the dissolution of the regime as Israel will quickly respond to any aggression from the Iranian regime. Still waiting.
History tells us this wasn’t the first time the State of Israel vowed and fulfilled its retribution against its enemies.
Remember in ancient biblical David holding his sling, bow down to King Saul, who sat on the throne of Israel. David held his sling faced against giant Goliath warrior in a plain battle field the fall of Goliath, a giant army general of Philistin origin, but David even went further by annihilating all the Filistin who’d taken part in the war?
Fast forward to the middle of the 19th century the then female prime minister of Israel, Golda Meir, vows to avenge Palestinian terrorists on 1972 Munich attack on the Israeli Olympic athletes team, killing all members, including the coach of the team. Israel sent Mossad, an Israeli secret agent, one of the most powerful secret agents in the world, who tracked them one after the other wherever they were hidden in the world. And they finally assassinated the last member terrorist twenty years later. The vow was fulfilled.
We don’t condone violations of state sovereignty in the search and killing of hidden terrorists, nor do we condone taking laws into one’s hands in retribution for what others have done to your people, nor do we condone Gazan acts of terrorism.
Rather, Israel should have submitted a complaint with evidence to the ICC with critical records of people involved in the terrorist attack against Israel, so the world would take justifiable action.
Now, the seven decades of Israeli aggression against their enemies have created a world of anarchy. You kill and be killed!
Meanwhile, Ismail Haniyeh is gone; there are three to go.
