JERUSALEM (AP) — When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered this week’s attempted assassination of Hamas leaders in Qatar, he took a major gamble in his campaign to pound the group into submission.
With signs growing that the mission failed, that gamble appears to have backfired.
Netanyahu had hoped to kill Hamas’ senior exiled leaders to get closer toward his vision of “total victory” against the militant group that attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and pressure it into surrendering after nearly two years of war in the Gaza Strip.
Instead, Hamas claims its leaders survived, and Netanyahu’s global standing, already badly damaged by the scenes of destruction and humanitarian disaster in Gaza, took another hit.
The airstrike Tuesday has enraged Qatar, an influential U.S. ally that has been a key mediator throughout the war, and drawn heavy criticism across the Arab world. It also has strained relations with the White House and thrown hopes of reaching a ceasefire into disarray, potentially endangering the 20 hostages still believed to be alive in Gaza.
So, fake locations of Hamas and put them in a bunch of countries. Isreal can’t resist bombing them. Profit?
Global standing? Lol
The world order has never been so clearly run by corrupt psychopaths. It’s all a farce. There are no rules for them. Only for us.
Backfired? Are they facing consequences? Fuck israel
Imagine sending the president of an allied nation a decked out 747 as a nine figure bribe, only for the president to greenlight airstrikes that killed some of your most senior diplomats.
You think Bibi trusts Trump enough to tell him about an op like this beforehand? I think Trump’s relatively friendly relationship with Al Thani is exactly the reason he didn’t find out in time to warn Qatar. The plan was to kill Hamas’ negotiators and then present it as a fait accompli.
I could’ve bought myself into a myth of Israel being encircled by enemies if not for it attacking everyone at will, getting no response. US, Europe raised a bully and only some select countries refuse to enable it. I’m yet to decide if I’m on board with a complete erasure of Israel as a state, but I don’t see any solution possible before it becomes deeply pacified and demilitarized.
BS, thr hypocritical leaders are just saying more empty condemnations. Israel got away again . They will keeep escalating until we start sanctionning them and stop all military cooperations
People still believe that israel want the hostages back? The goal was always exterminating palestine
If that’s really the case send a drone to take his war criminal ass out. He’s clearly out of control and a threat to the entire world
