Hamas’s violence is also a big problem for Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of the Palestinian Authority (pa) in the West Bank. Hamas’s actions highlight the failures of the peace process, and challenge his claim to lead the whole Palestinian movement. At the same time his inability to divorce himself entirely from violence. on September 29th, Hamas’s slaughter of Israelis and others confronts President Joe Biden with an acute Middle Eastern crisis atop the chronic one in Ukraine and a looming one over Taiwan. Experts will disagree on the extent to which Hamas’s latest carnage was deliberately timed to destroy efforts to normalise relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia, and whether it was directed by Iran. Hamas did not require either impulse to mount the operation. The bigger political danger for Mr Biden is the fury against Iran. The American and Israeli governments say there is no evidence of direct Iranian involvement in planning the operation, though Iran is an important supporter of Hamas. Nevertheless, Republicans are drawing a direct connection between the attack on Israel and Mr Biden’s policies towards the clerical regime. Wht do you think Joe Biden need to do different to stabilize the region ?
