For the first time, the state of Israel has launched a unilateral, unprovoked attack on the territory of one of its Gulf neighbors. The decision to strike a meeting of senior Hamas officials in Qatar’s capital of Doha on September 9 was as risky as it was foolish and intentional. Indeed, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, facing increasing criticism at home over his country’s war and ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza, almost certainly hoped to kill diplomatic efforts, providing a rationale to continue pursuing a violent solution in Gaza.
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