May his name be erased
For Israel, Sinwar's removal is the latest in a string of stunning advances.
The IDF’s elimination of terror chieftain Yahya Sinwar is a milestone in the 12-months-old Israel-Hamas war. Hamas’s leader was the architect of the savage bloodletting of October 7, 2023, in which thousands of terrorists stormed southern Israel, murdering more than 1200 and abducting some 250 to Gaza – of which 101 are still missing.
On his hands, Sinwar had the blood of innocents – the most Jews murdered in a day since the Nazi death camps. Nobody sheds a tear for him, except Hamas supporters, some noisily in Australia. And Sinwar brought death and misery to tens of thousands of Palestinian Arabs – all for the sake of annihilating Israel rather than building a peaceful society next door.
Drone vision of Sinwar hiding in his Rafah lair evokes images of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein found hunkering in a pit in Iraq in 2003, and Adolf Hitler, although no photographic record exists, sinking into oblivion in his Berlin bunker in 1945. Yimach shemam v’zichra. May their names and all memory of them be erased.
For Israel, Sinwar’s removal is the latest in a string of stunning advances. Gone too are Ismail Haniyeh, chairman of Hamas’s political bureau, targeted while Iran’s guest in Tehran, Hezbollah’s secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah, and Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.
Israel may be geographically small but it has shown it has a long, precise arm to deal with those visiting harm on its citizens. Iran’s proxy Hamas is broken. Its proxy Hezbollah is on its knees. We hope, perhaps in vain, the Iranian regime has taken note, and pragmatism will finally prevail over regional bullying.
We hope too that in Western countries, including our own, governments will now finally find their backbone, stop doling out their morally detached “both-siderism”, and raise their voices for Israel’s right to defend its existence.
There’s a light still burning in every Jewish window for the remaining hostages. But the notion that a ceasefire (which would stop Israel from achieving its vital security goals and resettling its north) and some grand deal with what’s left of Hamas will secure their release remains wishful thinking.
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