Israel is just not concerned about peace | Israel-Palestine battle

Simply whenever you thought the scenario within the Center East couldn’t get any extra incendiary, the assassination of Hamas’s political chief Ismail Haniyeh has propelled regional tensions to a complete new degree of dangerous.

Haniyeh was killed in a strike late on Tuesday in Tehran, the capital of Iran, the place he had attended the inauguration ceremony of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. The assassination is no doubt the handiwork of – who else? – the state of Israel, though the Israeli authorities appears to have adopted a “no remark” coverage for the second.

One Israeli official, Minister of Heritage Amichai Eliyahu, apparently couldn’t include his exuberance, and took to X to proclaim: “That is the suitable method to clear the world of this filth … Haniyeh’s demise makes the world somewhat higher.”

In his social media submit, Eliyahu additionally swore that there can be “no extra imaginary peace/give up agreements”, and that “the iron hand that may strike is the one that may carry peace and somewhat consolation and strengthen our capacity to dwell in peace with those that want peace”.

That’s numerous utilization of the phrase “peace” for folk who basically don’t need, nicely, peace. To make sure, killing one of many fundamental negotiators for a ceasefire deal within the Gaza Strip is a fairly good method to thwart any prospect of peace in the meanwhile.

And what have you learnt? As Reuters famous in its obituary for Haniyeh, the person was “seen by many diplomats as a reasonable in contrast with the extra hardline members” of Hamas.

Anyway, it has lengthy been Israel’s modus operandi to squelch any alternatives for so-called “moderation” with the intention to justify its personal perennial maniacal behaviour. In a latest Al Jazeera article titled “Why does Israel step up its assaults when Gaza ceasefire talks advance?”, journalist Justin Salhani mirrored on the intensification of Israel’s present genocidal assault within the Gaza Strip at the same time as ceasefire talks had been progressing.

Salhani recalled a sure related precedent through the second Intifada in 2002, by which the Fatah-allied Tanzim militia was reportedly “set to announce a unilateral ceasefire”. Then Israel dropped a one-tonne bomb on a Hamas chief’s Gaza Metropolis residence, and that was the tip of that.

Now, Israel has formally killed practically 40,000 Palestinians in Gaza in lower than 10 months, although the true demise toll is assumed to be astronomically increased. A lot for the “capacity to dwell in peace”, to borrow Eliyahu’s phrases.

In fact, if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu permits the warfare to finish, he must dwell with numerous issues he doesn’t wish to dwell with – like home opposition, corruption costs, and different stuff that’s no enjoyable. In Might, the chief prosecutor for the Worldwide Legal Courtroom utilized for an arrest warrant for Netanyahu for alleged warfare crimes dedicated in Gaza – an eventuality that’s clearly finest averted by merely persevering with to commit extra warfare crimes.

And simply to be completely certain that there stays no conceivable risk of peace within the close to time period, Israel is doing its finest to impress its enemies into committing bellicose acts that Israel itself can then use as an excuse to maintain waging warfare.

Simply yesterday, Israel struck a residential constructing within the Lebanese capital of Beirut, killing a lady and two youngsters and injuring 74, in line with the Lebanese Ministry of Well being. The goal of the strike was a Hezbollah commander accused by Israel of masterminding the July 27 rocket assault in town of Majdal Shams within the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights that killed no less than 12 youngsters.

Hezbollah, which usually claims accountability for its actions, has vehemently denied perpetrating the Majdal Shams assault – which, it bears underscoring, occurred in a territory that’s illegally occupied by Israel. However, hey, it was a adequate motive to bomb Beirut.

The assassination of Haniyeh in Iranian territory, in the meantime, offers Iran no alternative however to reply to Israel in some type of navy style, which it has already proven it’s greater than able to doing. Following the lethal April Israeli strike on the Iranian consulate within the Syrian capital of Damascus, Iran launched a whole bunch of drones and missiles at Israel.

Granted, this was extra of a present of drive than an try to trigger injury. However by assassinating Haniyeh in Tehran, Israel is actually enjoying with hearth.

With a view to derail ceasefire prospects and sustain the killing in Gaza, then, it appears Israel goes to finish up with a complete lot extra regional blood on its fingers.

The Cambridge English dictionary defines a “rogue state” as a “nation that’s thought-about very harmful to different nations” – and there’s no nation extra rogue lately than the state of Israel.

The views expressed on this article are the creator’s personal and don’t essentially replicate Al Jazeera’s editorial stance.