Iran’s explicit threats to attack Israel are still taken seriously by all, but a real war is too costly, and the ayatollahs of Tehran are smart enough not to go there.
Author
Khinvraj Jangid, Associate Professor and Director, Centre for Israel Studies, Jindal School of International Affairs, OP Jindal Global University, Sonipat.
Summary
The Israel-Hamas war has been going on for more than 10 months now, and there is little hope that it will stop soon. War is often a choice and not a necessity. Hamas is taking the war as a given situation under occupation, so it glorifies the deaths of thousands of Gazans as shahadat (martyrdom) and propagates violence upon the State of Israel as well as Jews for the sake of liberating the whole of Palestine.
On the other side, the Benjamin Netanyahu government has some self-defeating ideas, too, like their claim of ‘total victory’ and aiming to destroy Hamas in Gaza and elsewhere. Therefore, both parties reject ceasefire and compromise and refuse to acknowledge the fact that each has inflicted violence upon the other in mind-boggling manners.
Published in: The Print
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