American, Israeli and Lebanese officials insist that few parties want Israel’s war in Gaza to become a wider conflict that engulfs the Middle East.
But the assassination of a top leader of Hamas in Lebanon on Tuesday, and the deaths of scores of people in mysterious twin explosions in Iran on Wednesday, threatened to bring the Middle East — and the United States — closer to the brink of a regional war, which the Biden administration has tried to stave off since Hamas’s deadly attacks against Israel on Oct. 7.
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Israel clearly wants a regional war. Why else would they be committing all this violence and performing acts of terrorism in neighboring countries?
Well the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the Iran bombing soooo… There’s that.
