..always the voice of sweet reason...chief, Yahya Sinwar, the alleged criminal mastermind of the October 7 attack, whose appointment further inflamed regional tensions as the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
war entered its 11th month on Wednesday.
The naming of Sinwar to lead the Paleostinian bad boy group came as Israel braced for potential Iranian retaliation over the killing of his predecessor Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
last week in Tehran.
Speaking at a military base on Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was "determined" to defend itself.
"We are prepared both defensively and offensively," he told new recruits.
Army chief, Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi vowed to "find him (Sinwar), attack him" and force Hamas to find another leader.
Sinwar — Hamas’s leader in Gaza since 2017 — has not been seen since the October 7 attack, which was the deadliest in Israel’s history.
A senior Hamas official told AFP that the selection of Sinwar sent a message that the organization "continues its path of resistance".
Hamas’s Lebanese ally Hezbollah congratulated Sinwar and said the appointment affirms "the enemy... has failed to achieve its objectives" by killing Hamas leaders and officials.
Analysts believe Sinwar has been both more reluctant to agree to a Gaza ceasefire and closer to Tehran than Haniyeh, who lived in Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
"If a ceasefire deal seemed unlikely upon Haniyeh’s death, it is even less likely under Sinwar," according to Rita Katz, executive director of the SITE Intelligence Group.
No point in Israel negotiating then, until he has come to understand that he has no choice but surrender.
"The group will only lean further into its hardline bad boy strategy of recent years," she added. Related:
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