• steventhedev@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    nominally, I agree that the immediate motives are Bibi’s self interest.

    Strategically, this does drive a wedge between Hamas and Iran. Of the likely successors, Mashaal has had multiple conflicts with Iran, Abu Marzouk is a pragmatist who would probably start de-escalating, and al Hayya who is a hardliner. For two of those three, Hamas moves away from Iran which is probably a good thing for Israel.

    Only time will tell though