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'The United States and Israel want Hamas to relinquish control over the Gaza Strip'
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8/1/2024
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Well, I think there's a lot of questions about the way Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
00:06
is leading the ceasefire negotiations.
00:11
But I think there is some kind of misconception, even a little bit of revisionist history when
00:17
people are looking at the life of Ismail Haniyeh.
00:21
They're calling him a moderate.
00:23
They're saying he was, you know, the lead negotiator.
00:25
How could Israel have killed him?
00:28
Let's remember that Ismail Haniyeh has utterly failed in the last six months to work towards
00:37
an agreement that would enable women and children to come out of the Gaza Strip.
00:44
There's no reason that Hamas should be holding, I mean, they shouldn't be holding any hostages,
00:50
but civilians and women and girls the age of 18 or 20.
00:55
You know, he couldn't get Sinwar, Yachtez Sinwar, the military leader of Hamas, to show
01:00
any flexibility.
01:01
For that matter, the United States and Israel want Hamas to essentially relinquish control
01:07
of the Gaza Strip after their attack on October 7th and let somebody else run the Gaza Strip.
01:14
And we saw that Ismail Haniyeh was against that position and never relented.
01:20
So it's clear that Israel, looking at his ineffective leadership of the ceasefire talks
01:26
against all of his long record of terrorism, decided they, apparently they had an opportunity
01:35
and they were going to take out Ismail Haniyeh.
01:38
Of course, Israel has not claimed that strike officially, but it has all the hallmarks of
01:44
an Israeli hit.
01:45
And now it has changed the dynamic within Hamas.
01:49
And remember, this is in line with what Israeli leaders had vowed to do after October 7th.
01:55
They said every leader in Hamas is now a dead man, dead man walking.
01:59
It was only going to be a matter of time until Israel reached them.
02:05
And it appears they reached him in Tehran.
02:08
Assuming once again that Israel was responsible for Jordana, it is rather a coup, isn't it,
02:13
for the Israeli intelligence services after, of course, those failures of October the 7th.
02:18
I mean, absolutely.
02:20
We have to, you know, we have to give, you know, Israel certainly showed its intelligence
02:27
prowess, its capabilities prowess.
02:31
There's no question about it.
02:32
And many people do believe it has restored some level of deterrence that was utterly
02:37
destroyed on October 7th.
02:40
Sending the message to Hamas and, by the way, to Hezbollah, since Israel did claim that
02:47
targeted killing of a top Hezbollah leader just hours before.
02:52
But, of course, the biggest message Israel is sending is really to Iran.
02:56
Israel blames Iran for funding and helping to arm all of these groups.
03:03
They are really the bad actor.
03:07
So this is a message to Iran as well, that Israel can reach anybody that it sees on its
03:16
wanted list and that it has capabilities that can take out a visiting guest of the Iranian
03:24
regime. I mean, it's a terrible embarrassment for the Iranians, which is why we've seen
03:29
them vow to strike back so hard and telling Western media that now the Supreme Leader
03:36
Khamenei has actually authorized a direct strike on Israel.
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