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Speaker 1: All right, Hamas's leader, Ismail Honeyer has been assassinated inside Tidan,

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Speaker 1: inside around themselves. He was in a run to attend

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Speaker 1: the President's where in ceremony on Tuesday. No one has

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Speaker 1: claimed responsibility as of yet, but analysts on Iranian state

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Speaker 1: TV immediately began blaming Israel for the attack and considering

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Speaker 1: the tensions in the area, this is not good. Robert Patman,

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Speaker 1: of course, is our international relations professor at Otago University.

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Speaker 1: I go to Guy. He's with us now.

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Speaker 2: Good evening, Robert, Good evening, Andrew.

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Speaker 1: Is this significant? He was the top man at Hamas.

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Speaker 2: It's very significant, but not perhaps in the way that

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Speaker 2: it first seems on the Facebook. It seems like a

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Speaker 2: great trial from Nen mister Neshna, who has said that

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Speaker 2: he would it made no secret the fact that he

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Speaker 2: wants to eradicate Hamas and taking out the top political

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Speaker 2: leader would seem to be part of that process. The

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Speaker 2: question is, however, does this make Israel more secure? And

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Speaker 2: that remains to be seen, because clearly Israel has taking

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Speaker 2: a considerable risk in doing this. Hanne Here was one

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Speaker 2: of the negotiators involved in the hostage negotiations in Kata

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Speaker 2: and so to take him out sends a signal perhaps

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Speaker 2: that Nestl who puts the fate of the hostages somewhat

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Speaker 2: below his concerns to annihilate or eradicate Hammers.

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Speaker 1: And I mentioned it was in Iran, you know, and

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Speaker 1: Israel already absolutely yeah, Israel already. They've not commented on it.

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Speaker 1: They never comment when an assassination is carried out by

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Speaker 1: the moss Ed intelligence agency. So this looks like pretty deep,

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Speaker 1: deep sort of stuff.

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Speaker 2: Well, it looks like Iran will probably feel like they

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Speaker 2: have to respond to this. It's no secret that Iran

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Speaker 2: has been backing Hammers, and this is you know, there

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Speaker 2: was the attack on the concer that in Damascus, the

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Speaker 2: Iranian concert, which killed six or seven Iranian officials, which

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Speaker 2: is a complete breach of international law. And they've now

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Speaker 2: assassinated the leader. The problem is, I don't think there'll

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Speaker 2: be any shortage of leaders or potential leaders to replace

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Speaker 2: Hanniah within Hamas leadership. There seems to be a presumption

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Speaker 2: that you can engineer your way to peace through assassination.

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Speaker 2: But the fact of the matter is, unless Israel provides

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Speaker 2: a path to political self determination for the Palestinian people,

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Speaker 2: I think such tactics are unlikely to really deliver the

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Speaker 2: security that Israel is seeking.

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Speaker 1: Robert, thank you so much. Robert Patman, the director of

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Speaker 1: International Authairs at the Ottaga University and Yeah, Worrying Times.

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