Monday 11 December 2023

It's Bibi Netanyahu versus Yahya Sinwar

The war in Gaza is not going to stop until Binyamin Netanyahu, leader of Israel, finds and kills his Number 1 enemy, Yahya Sinwar, leader of Hamas. It has become a totemic battle for Netanyahu. Israeli troops are hunting for the Hamas leader but have yet to pinpoint him. It seems they thought he was in a bunker below the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, but so far they have failed to find him. They surrounded the Hamas headquaters in northern Gaza, but he wasn't there either. Netanyahu mentions him all the time, so it's clear the Israeli prime minister will never consider calling off the war until his troops have either captured or killed Sinwar. The trouble with this obsession with getting the man who planned the horrific massacres and rapes in Israel on Octber 7 is that the remaining 137 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza might never be released. Hamas has already said that the hostages could all die unless Israel returns to negotiating a ceasefire. While one can understand Israel's determination to eliminate Sinwar and his cohorts, the rescue of these hostages should be the priority.

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