In an op-ed for 5 News in Arkansas on Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu’s Washington visit, author Cal Thomas highlighted the Iran-Hamas relationship and rejected a peace plan’s ability to resolve all issues in the Middle East. “Last week in London I spoke with Liam Fox, a conservative Member of Parliament and ‘shadow defense secretary.’ Fox told me, ‘There is a belief in some quarters that if only you can resolve the problems between Israel and Palestine, all the other problems in the Middle East, in a domino-like fashion, will fall into place. That is absolute nonsense.'"

Continuing, he wrote that “Fox said on a recent visit to Iran that Iranian politicians told him they realize they lack an air force to fight back if they are attacked by Israel, so they would use Hizbullah and Hamas. ‘They are part of our defense policy against Israel. Hamas is not part of the Palestinian problem. Hamas is the foreign-policy wing of Iran in Israel.’"