Saturday 19 October 2024

Gazans must have hated Yahya Sinwar

The people cheering loudest over the death of Yahya Sinwar, leader of the brutal Hamas organisation, must surely be the poor Palestinian people living in what's left of Gaza. What did Sinwar give any of them but repression, fear, starvation, a ruthless regime and war. They have never had a proper governing body to care for them and provide a decent future. The Hamas predecessors were corrupt and useless and when Hamas took over ruling the Strip, they proved to be nightmare governors who terrified the people into obedience. So, yes, the death of Sinwar, the most brutal of all the Hamas hierarchy, will have given the Palestinian people some hope of an end to the war. It won't be an end to their suffering because they have lost everything. Israeli air strikes have destroyed so many of their homes that Gaza is now a landscape of rubble. But if there are no real leaders to take Sinwar's place, perhaps the people themselves will rise up and demand an end to the fighting. I don't know whether anyone will have the courage to strike out against Hamas. But now is the time to do it, while the Hamas leadership is in turmoil. But the chances are slim and since Sinwar's death, the airstrikes have not stopped.So the misery of the Palestinian people will continue. Thanks to Yahya Sinwar, architect of the October 7 atrocity, the reason why the Israeli army invaded Gaza.

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