The Israeli assassination of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh hours after targeting senior Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut caps a week of unprecedented escalation in the region that can very well bring it to an all-out war that drags in the United States. It is too early to tell whether the escalation is linked to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial visit to the United States and the talks he had there with officials on both sides of the aisle, but the timing is curious. In his speech to Congress on Wednesday, July 24, Netanyahu made several controversial claims, vowin…