Like all marriages of convenience, the individual members of Tehran’s network of terrorist groups have divergent interests and objectives. Apart from their utility to Iran and their enmity towards Israel, the United States and the West, the only trait they seem to share is their narcissistic main character syndrome. 

Hamas thought it was the protagonist in the story. The psychopath Yahyah Sinwar, top planner of October 7 and now Hamas’s political leader, believed that the attack would tank Israel’s historic normalization deal with Saudi Arabia. That it would bring about the death of the Jewish State of Israel and the birth of the Islamic State of Palestine. Though millions of people believed him, he was wrong. All Sinwar did was bring death and destruction to the people whose interests he claimed to represent.