The immediate goals of Hamas' brutal assault on Israel over the weekend appear simple: Kill and kidnap as many Israelis as possible, and spark chaos and fear among the 'Zionist' regime that the terror group sees as its mortal enemy.
Fire and smoke rise following an Israeli airstrike, in Gaza City, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. The militant Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip carried out an unprecedented, multi-front attack on Israel at daybreak Saturday, firing thousands of rockets as dozens …The immediate goals of Hamas’ brutal assault on Israel over the weekend appear simple: Kill and kidnap as many Israelis as possible, and spark chaos and fear among the “Zionist” regime that the terror group sees as its mortal enemy.
Beyond celebrating the attack itself, which left hundreds of Israelis dead, top Iranian officials also blasted the “farcical” idea that Israel would mend fences with Riyadh or other predominantly Muslim Middle Eastern nations given the plight of the stateless Palestinians. “It’s no surprise that those opposed to the efforts to normalize relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel, and more broadly to normalize Israel’s relations with countries throughout the region and beyond, who oppose it, Hezbollah, Hamas, and Iran,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday.
For the Biden administration, the Israel-Hamas war puts in peril one of its major foreign policy objectives. Iran has been pursuing its own rapprochement with the Saudis, agreeing in March to move to normalize ties in a negotiation hosted by China. Undercutting the Arab-Israeli diplomatic thaw has been a long-running mission for the Iranian regime. At the United Nations meeting last month in New York, Mr. Raisi cast the Abraham Accords as little more than an American diplomatic con game that did little to change the broader dynamic in the Middle East.
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