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| | ==Sacrificing thousands of his people: philosophy== | | ==Sacrificing thousands of his people: philosophy== |
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| | + | [[File:Sinwar would be “willing to sacrifice even 100,000 Palestinians in order to ensure the survival of his rule.”.jpg|thumb| |
| | + | Yahya Sinwar said when asked, “Is it worth 10,000 innocent Gazans dying?” was “Even 100,000 is worth it.”<ref>'Tabletmag'': |
| | + | ([https://www.instagram.com/tabletmag/p/DBY7xqxRQpz/ Oct 24, 2024]): |
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| | + | Days after his death, Yahya Sinwar is being lauded as a fearless champion of the Palestinian people by segments of the left. |
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| | + | Of course, Sinwar was a wicked terrorist whose brutality affected not just Israelis but also countless Palestinians, who he was more than happy to sacrifice for his aims. His nickname, the Butcher of Khan Younis, came not from his killings of Jews but from his enthusiasm for brutally killing and torturing Palestinians he suspected as collaborators. |
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| | + | In the words of Yuval Bitton, the dentist who treated Sinwar during his time in Israeli prison, “Sinwar didn’t care how many Palestinians would die for their cause. There was no flexibility, no room for compromise."</small></blockquote> |
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| | + | -[https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/20/middleeast/israeli-dentist-hamas-yahya-sinwar-intl/index.html He saved the life of Hamas’s leader. Then they murdered his nephew]. |
| | + | By Sophie Tanno and Tal Alroy, ''CNN'', June 20, 2024. |
| | + | <blockquote><small>Sinwar would be “willing to sacrifice even 100,000 Palestinians in order to ensure the survival of his rule.”7</small></blockquote> |
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| | + | -Steve_Leder (June 11, 2024):<blockquote><small> |
| | + | Watch every minute of this clip from @skynewsaustralia reporter James MacPherson. It is spot on in deconstructing the craziness and Jew hatred we are dealing with on a constant basis, even when we save our hostages. |
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| | + | Make no mistake, these people are hate filled, brutal, and savage. They give Israel no good options and treat their own as wholly disposable and inhuman, just as they treat Jews. We must not forget that the leader of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar said when asked, “Is it worth 10,000 innocent Gazans dying?” was “Even 100,000 is worth it.” Every death is a tragedy, just not to Hamas or its supporters. [#endjewhatred].</small></blockquote> |
| | + | [https://www.instagram.com/steve_leder/reel/C8F0XTiylix/ on Instagram] |
| | + | [https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=770851854891437 on FB] |
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| | + | -[https://www.thetimes.com/comment/the-times-view/article/the-times-view-of-the-death-of-yahya-sinwar-most-wanted-ghqdwhzbb The Times view of the death of Yahya Sinwar: Most Wanted]. ''The Times'', October 18 2024. |
| | + | <blockquote><small>The Gaza killing of the Hamas leader who planned October 7 will bring consolation to Israeli citizens. But the fate of hostages taken that day is still in the balance... |
| | + | That appalling incursion last year was carried out in the knowledge that Israeli retaliation against Hamas would bring suffering to ordinary Gazans, particularly given the group’s habit of concealing itself among civilians. But the deaths and displacement of thousands of Palestinians seemed scarcely to matter to him. Only the fate of Hamas prisoners, the key operatives of continuing conflict, aroused his concern. Mr Bitton recalled a conversation in which he asked Sinwar if it was worth 10,000 innocent Gazans dying in order to set free 100 prisoners. He replied: “Even 100,000 is worth it.” Based on Sinwar’s own experience of the Shalit exchange, however, he may have overestimated the bargaining power of Israeli hostages in the sharply altered climate after October 7.</small></blockquote></ref>]] |
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| | An Israeli intelligence officer — who got to know the Hamas leader while Sinwar was imprisoned in 1988, before being released as part of a prisoner exchange in 2011 — recalled a chilling response to a question about Palestinian suffering | | An Israeli intelligence officer — who got to know the Hamas leader while Sinwar was imprisoned in 1988, before being released as part of a prisoner exchange in 2011 — recalled a chilling response to a question about Palestinian suffering |