Demonstrators in Saida on Aug. 5 hold up portraits of Fouad Shukur, Hezbollah's military chief, and Ismail Haniyeh, former Hamas leader, both killed in late July in attacks blamed on Israel. (Credit: Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)
The Iranian axis has been reiterating for two weeks that it does not believe the talks in Doha and Cairo will lead to a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas (and, by extension, its allies). But despite this open skepticism, both Iran and Hezbollah have most likely put their thirst for revenge on hold for the assassination in July of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and Hezbollah’s military commander Fouad Shukur, near Beirut, in a bid to give diplomatic efforts a chance. Despite this restraint, which undermines their credibility in the eyes of both their popular bases and their enemies, they are the ones, especially Hamas, who are being accused of being the main hurdle to the deal. Read also The Gaza mothers separated from their newborns by war Hamas rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new maximalist demands....
The Iranian axis has been reiterating for two weeks that it does not believe the talks in Doha and Cairo will lead to a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas (and, by extension, its allies). But despite this open skepticism, both Iran and Hezbollah have most likely put their thirst for revenge on hold for the assassination in July of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and Hezbollah’s military commander Fouad Shukur, near Beirut, in a bid to give diplomatic efforts a chance. Despite this restraint, which undermines their credibility in the eyes of both their popular bases and their enemies, they are the ones, especially Hamas, who are being accused of being the main hurdle to the deal. Read also The Gaza mothers separated from their newborns by war Hamas rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new maximalist...
