The Aftermath of Israel’s Assassination of Political Leaders w/ Sharmine Narwani

Editor and columnist of the Cradle, Sharmine Narwani, joins MintPress director and host of the MintCast podcast Mnar Adley to discuss Israel’s assassinations of Hamas and Hezbollah’s top political leaders and why they are shortsighted. Israel has managed to raise the stakes once more, killing Hamas political leader Ismael Haniyeh while he was in Tehran and assassinating Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut. Hezbollah has vowed to respond and declared that the war had entered a “new phase.“ What does this all mean? Are we heading to a broader regional war? This recent spate of high-profile political killings of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders is nothing new, as Israel has a history of assassinating political leaders. History has shown that this only strengthens the parties and signifies a significant weakening in Israeli military posturing. A big question on many people’s minds is how did this assassination even happen? We have conflicting reports about Haniyeh b