The eyes of Ismail Haniyeh were empty, dark as the night and as hollow as his promises. Even when asked how he lived in exile, enjoying a life of luxury between Doha and Istanbul while his people suffered in Gaza, he showed no sign of irritation.
The leader of Hamas, whose fortune is estimated at about $4 billion while many in Gaza struggle on $1 a day, rarely gives interviews. So when I met him in Istanbul for The Times a year ago, he did not pull any punches. “We are ready for war,” he said. “We are always ready for war.”
However the war Hamas has started over the past week now threatens to bring even more misery to the 2.3 million people living
