The Rat is Dead
When Yahya Sinwar was in his late 20’s, in an Israeli prison, he was interrogated for almost 200 hours by a Shin Beit operative.
When asked why he had never married, Sinwar answered that Hamas was his wife, and his child. He was clearly a radical ideologue. His views were so similar to a young Hitler that it’s eerie. Later, Sinwar did marry and have three children, but until Wednesday of this week, he remained an unusually ruthless and single-minded true believer.
Israel killed him this week. The Public Enemy no. 1 died the way many imagined he might: in the rubble of a bombed-out building in Gaza…Rafah, to be exact. He was a mile from the Philadelphia Corridor, and probably freedom in Egypt. He had cash, passports, and weapons on him, but no hostages. That is the clearest indication he was making a break for it.
He had masterminded the infamous October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel. His goal? To overwhelm Israel with a multi-front war. He got the multi-front war, but lost everything else. Upfront, he severely under-estimated Israel’s response. His gravest mistake, however, was his embrace of the demon god Allah, and Islam. He banked everything on Islam, and was as radicalized a believer as there ever was. Though he had studied Israeli society (even learning Hebrew) from his decades in prison (for killing 12 Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers), Sinwar still managed to make lethal mistakes. Again, like Hitler. Remember, the Nazi butcher lost it at Dunkirk and later Normandy, his strategic errors dooming his people.
Sinwar has also doomed his own people. Gaza will take a generation to rebuild. And his reign as official leader of Hamas didn’t last more than a few months, after head Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated right under the mullahs’ noses in Tehran in August.
Born in 1962 in Khan Younis, Sinwar was a Gazan all his life. He did visit Iran in 2012. This is another similarity with Hitler, who traveled very little in his life. Sinwar joined Hamas right after its creation in 1987. He and others felt that Israel would not willingly agree to a Palestinian state, so it must be taken by force.
Because we know there are strong ties between Communists and jihadists, it comes as no surprise that Sinwar shared a prison cell with Nabih Awadah, a Lebanese Marxist, in Ashkelon from 1991-95. Awadah says today that Sinwar viewed the Oslo Accords as folly. In this odd way, he shared the same view with Israel’s Likud Party! Again, Sinwar did not view negotiations as possibly fruitful.
So he ends this life with his head half blown off in a ruined building. He brought much death and destruction to the Middle East.
No one knows what condition the remaining hostages are in. Of 101 still in captivity, Israel believes no more than a few dozen are still alive. Everyone—everyone—dreads knowing just what these people have suffered for over a year.
Right on cue, the malevolent Regime in Washington is now hailing the death of Sinwar, but only to put renewed pressure on Israel for a negotiated ceasefire. That of course would give Hamas time to regroup, with new leaders. No, that cannot happen. Benjamin Netanyahu is living through his Churchill Moment. He will see it through.
Israel goes into the weekend breathing one sigh of relief at the death of this generation’s Haman. Sinwar now knows the tragedy of his errors.
May Israel continue on to victory.
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