Hamas on Tuesday named Yahya Sinwar, its top official in Gaza who masterminded the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, as its new leader in a dramatic sign of the power of the Palestinian militant group’s hardline wing after his predecessor was killed in a presumed Israeli strike in Iran.
The selection of Sinwar, a secretive figure close to Iran who worked for years to build up Hamas’ military strength, was a defiant signal that the group is prepared to keep fighting after 10 months of destruction from Israel’s campaign in Gaza and after the assassination of Sinwar’s predecessor, Ismail Haniyeh.
And Netenyahu gets exactly what he wants. Someone recalcitrant on the other side he can blame stalled ceasefire deals on. I for one won’t let the media manufacture Israel as the good guy who can’t get the other side to come to the table. Israel is the guy that bombs the table.
Wow so much for freedom of speech/discussion on this platform. Did not say anything offensive except disagree with this person’s comment.
Yeah - one is literally defined as a terrorist organization while the other is an established and recognized country. Not liking someone doesn’t make them a terrorist
Hate Israel all you want, question the motivations, actions and policies, but they aren’t a terrorist organization.
Why is that a shit take?
There was a more moderate guy who was in-between the Israelis and the more hardline Hamas people like Sinwar and the Israelis just killed him.
The Israeli government just made the situation worse and made peace even harder to attain.
Every step they took since the 7th of October was only with Sinwar’s approval anyway. Nothing has actually changed in that manner.
The table doesn’t need a “good guy” to function.
It can have a bad guy, and a genocidal monster “bad guy”
If one of the people who’s supposed to be at the table is killing the other person who needs to come to it then there is no table. There’s simply that one man and targets.
Sure.
Let’s be clear here, there’s zero question what’s happening is genocide, and netanyahu is to blame.
But no one at this table is “good” or anywhere near it.
Killing or attempting to harm civilians is not ok (As in the oct 7 raid, and other Hamas activities that target civilians) even if your opponent is doing it A WHILE LOT MORE AND A WHOLE LOT WORSE.