On the Wrong Kind of Retaliation

That the israelis would attack a senior Hezbollah military figure in Lebanon after the ghastly attack on their civilians was to be expected. Nothing about that upsets me much.

But to kill a purely political Hamas official responsible for the cease-fire negotiations inside Iran? What possible good will that do? Is Bibi actually trying to provoke a wider Middle East war in order to stay in power indefinitely?

I never believed the Israeli cabinet was serious about a cease-fire, but this is ridiculous.