07/31/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 07/31/2024 15:22
PHILADELPHIA - July 31, 2024 - Hours after Israel assassinated two leading figures of designated terrorist organizations, Middle East Forum (MEF) experts took to major media outlets to explain what the killings mean for Israel and the region.
Israeli forces killed Hezbollah leader Fouad Shukur in Beirut on Tuesday, while Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh died Wednesday from an Israeli strike in Tehran. Both men caused the deaths of innocent civilians as well as Israeli and American soldiers.
Writing today for the Wall Street Journal, MEF president Daniel Pipes argued that since Hamas's Oct. 7 attacks, Israel has unfortunately followed "two opposite policies" simultaneously: "destroy the organization and make a deal with it." Pipes's main points:
Appearing on Fox News Channel's "Fox and Friends " this morning, MEF chief editor Jim Hanson - channeling his U.S. Army Ranger background - said that Iran has to retaliate. "What kind of terrorist puppet masters are you if, in a twelve-hour period, one of your top Hezbollah guys gets returned to his component molecules, and then you invite the Hamas leader to a party in your own capital city and those pesky Zionists return him to ambient temperature." Hanson added that:
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