Objectives of Haniyeh Assassination for Israel.
Wide coverage of the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the political office of the Islamic Movement of Hamas in Tehran, increased speculations about the main intention and goals of Netanyahu regarding the terrorist act in the last days of July. Some analysts said that Washington gave Tel Aviv a green light to remove senior leaders of the resistance, and others wrote about Netanyahu’s will to export the crisis in the region and create a direct conflict between the resistance axis and Centcom. Even though each of the above claims is close to reality, it seems that the four variables are “stopping the ceasefire negotiations in Doha-Cairo”, “getting to sell to the public opinion inside the occupied territories”, “intensification of tension with Iran and gaining key concessions from the West” and “helping Trump on the eve of the 2024 elections” were the main reasons of Netanyahu for issuing the order to assassinate Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.
Suspension of ceasefire negotiations
In the last hours of May, Joe Biden unveiled his three-step plan for peace in Gaza in front of the press in the White House. Before the public announcement of this news, he announced that he had consulted with the leaders of the Zionist regime and the Arab countries before finalizing this plan. Less than a week later, this plan was approved by the Security Council in the form of Resolution 2735 and became the common idea of ​​the international community to stop the war in occupied Palestine. After presenting this plan, William Burns and Brett McCurg went to the Middle East region to facilitate the establishment of contact between the conflicting parties and reach an agreement during the Cairo-Doha negotiations. In such a situation, Netanyahu’s repeated game of presenting unrealistic proposals for the failure of negotiations began.
In the last round of ceasefire negotiations in Rome, which was held in the presence of William Burns, Mohammad bin Abdul Rahman Al-Thani and Abbas Kamel, among the new conditions of Israel, such as “veto right regarding the release of Palestinian prisoners”, “monitoring the return process of Palestinian refugees to northern Gaza”, “Continuing the control of the Rafah crossing and the Philadelphia axis” and “Biden’s written support request for Israel’s renewed attack on Gaza” were unveiled! Based on this, some analysts believe that the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh was a way for Netanyahu to get rid of the ceasefire negotiations in the region. After this terrorist incident, the Prime Minister of Qatar, in response to Anthony Blinken’s request, announced how it is possible to negotiate a ceasefire while one side kills the other negotiator!
Achievements to sell to the public
One of the reasons for the prolongation of the war in Gaza and the controlled tension in the north-south front is Netanyahu’s attempt to achieve significant military successes to sell to public opinion. In other words, the current Prime Minister of Israel is interested in assassinating people like Sardar Ismail Zahedi, Fawad Shekar, and Ismail Haniyeh to become the irreplaceable hero of the war who was able to protect the Zionists from external threats. According to the latest survey conducted on Israel’s Channel 13, the “Internal Unity” party led by Benny Gantz has 23 seats, the Likud led by Benjamin Netanyahu has 21 seats, “Yesh Atid” led by Yair Lapid has 13 seats, “Israel is our home” led by Avigdor Lieberman with 12 seats and “Jewish Power” headed by Itamar Ben Goyer with 11 seats are in the first to fifth places. According to this survey, the opposition forces with 61 seats still have a better chance of winning over the right-wing coalition led by Netanyahu with 53 seats!