#Yahya Sinwar

[readandwriteclub]

Didn't Sinwar say he had enough Israeli captives to free all Palestinian prisoners? lol. Obviously didn't factor in how many thousands of Palestinians would die, or maybe he did...

Anyone have the tunnel video?

[sayruq]

Some quotes:

[genuinelyshallow]

If Yahya Sinwar's death is confirmed in the next few hours, the first thing you have to understand and know is that this is Israel's biggest lie coming to the light

Hamas isn't hiding in hospitals

Hamas isn't using Palestinian as shields.

Hamas's leader died on the front lines in Rafah, fighting as any other man in the resistance.

A 62-year-old man, wearing a vest and carrying a riffle, with only two soldiers by his side. A leader of resistance against occupation.

May you rest in Paradise, Sinwar.

[guerillas-of-history]

"Our people have been slaughtered continuously for eight months, and the occupation army pours hellfire upon us, using its advanced arsenal against us, its planes, tanks, and all its weapons, while the world remains deaf and mute.

And yet when any action comes from our side, the oppressed, overwhelmed side, which is merely asking for the minimum standard of a free and dignified life, voices from even our nation, even some from our own people, condemning and denouncing.

What revenge other than this did the masses of our nation want? And if the masses of our nation want this, and it is our right to defend ourselves, what harm is there in that?"

-Yahya Sinwar, The Torn And The Carnation, page 389, 2004.

[hussyknee]

Yahya Sinwar died in open combat, wearing a kuffiyeh, calm and straight-backed, fighting to the last for his people. His comrades dead, his arm blown off, out of ammo, he still forced his pursuers to retreat. They had to send one of the drones they use to murder unarmed civilians to kill him, operated by a Zionist sitting in cushioned comfort and safety. And he still nearly took it out with a piece of debris.

The worms released footage of his final moments that contradicted every last bit of propaganda they used to smear him. They spent over a year razing a defenceless city with the most cutting edge death technology funnelled to them by US tax dollars and not only have they failed to defeat men with homemade bombs and makeshift weapons but they have succeeded in creating a legend of their leader. A thousand Sinwars will rise where one has fallen. The occupation will never know a day without terror and loss and death; they will forever continue to be the most reviled people on the face of the earth, alongside the Nazis whose models they adopted as their own. Netanyahu, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Ursula von der Leyen, Keir Starmer, and every single other putrid wastes of human flesh that aided and abetted this, one of the worst atrocities of the 21st century, will die in lonely terror seeing the demons come to drag their souls to hell. They will burn and burn and burn screaming for eternity.

Anyone who thinks this will stop the Zionists' genocide of Gaza is an imbecile who's been paying no attention. But no matter what they do, they will never kill Palestine. The Zionist occupation will never be anything but canon fodder for the most evil empire to ever exist. They will never belong in any part of the Levant. The very earth will revile them, the very rain will burn them, the very sea will swallow them, the very air will poison them. Every last Zionist will be erased from the face of the earth one day and their names from history. And the children of Palestine will play and laugh fearless in the olive groves, under the open sky.

Glory to the resistance. Glory to the martyrs. From river to the sea, Palestine will be free.

[vague-humanoid]

[abu-obe1da]

If the news are true, Hamas leader Yahya al-Sinwar was martyred in combat on the front lines in Gaza along with 2 other Palestinian fighters. Israel turned out to be lying all along: he wasn’t in the tunnels, surrounded by “hostages”, & trying to leave Gaza.

A man will die, but not his ideas.

[probablyasocialecologist]

In his past media interviews, Sinwar has spoken of Hamas as a social movement with a military wing and framed its political goals as part of the historic struggle to reestablish a unified state of Palestine. “I am the Gaza leader of Hamas, of something much more complex than a militia—a national liberation movement. And my main duty is to act in the interest of my people: to defend it and its right to freedom and independence,” he said. “All of those who still view us as an armed group, and nothing more, you don't have any idea of what Hamas really looks like.... You focus on resistance, on the means rather than the goal—which is a state based on democracy, pluralism, cooperation. A state that protects rights and freedom, where differences are faced through words, not through guns. Hamas is much more than its military operations.”

Sinwar, unlike leaders of Al Qaeda or ISIS, has regularly invoked international law and UN resolutions, exhibiting a nuanced understanding of the history of negotiations with Israel mediated by the U.S. and other nations. “Let's be clear: having an armed resistance is our right, under international law. But we don't only have rockets. We have been using a variety of means of resistance,” he said in the 2018 interview. “We make the headlines only with blood. And not only here. No blood, no news. But the problem is not our resistance, it is their occupation. With no occupation, we wouldn't have rockets. We wouldn't have stones, Molotov cocktails, nothing. We would all have a normal life."

Throughout 2018 and 2019, Sinwar endorsed the large-scale nonviolent protests along the walls and fences of Gaza known as the Great March of Return. “We believe that if we have a way to potentially resolve the conflict without destruction, we’re O.K. with that,” Sinwar said at a rare news conference in 2018. “We would prefer to earn our rights by soft and peaceful means. But we understand that if we are not given those rights, we are entitled to earn them by resistance.”

Israel responded to the protests with the regular use of lethal force, killing 223 people and wounding more than 8,000 others. Israeli snipers later boasted about shooting dozens of protesters in the knee during the weekly Friday demonstrations. For many Palestinians these events reinforced the view that Israel’s policies cannot be changed by words.

Jeremy Scahill, On the Record with Hamas

[tomi4i]

Who is Yahya Al-sin'war ?

[spale-vosver]

This the guy you're saying is a hero and a noble son???? The dude who murdered his own people???

[komsomolka]

well said!

[sapper-in-the-wire]

Survived a 120mm HE-frag that left him the only survivor, the bones in his right forearm completely severed apart, missing the trigger finger on his remaining hand (edit: that was removed post-mortem by the IDF for identification purposes), applied a wire tourniquet so he could keep fighting. Threw grenades when infantry tried to clear the building, and then grabbed a stick he would eventually throw at a drone before being finished off by another tank shell. Calmly fought literally to his last breath, his last actions being of resistance, and the IDF was too chickenshit to approach a solitary, mortally wounded 62 year old man (who had already suffered 22 years of torture in a military prison!). A man they said hid in a hijab, fled to Qatar, was a millionaire off of aide money, that handcuffed Israeli prisoners to himself so he couldn’t be assassinated. And instead he’s this clear cut example of the best of human bravery and dedication. The stupid fucking Israelis are parading the footage and saying he died like a dog, which really shows how spineless and debased they are to not recognize how the footage depicts him as a titan of a man and resistance fighter.

[sayruq]

[secular-jew]

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

The legacy of Palestinian resistance leader Yahya Sinwar

PAL-Awda statement on the martyrdom of Sinwar

Yahya Sinwar, Abu Ibrahim, Chair of the Political Bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement, lived a hero and died a legend. PAL-Awda NY/NJ and the Palestinian Assembly for Liberation join with all Palestinians and oppressed people across the region and the world to honor the martyred leader, whose name will go down in history as a symbol of resistance and liberation.

The oppressors of the Palestinian and Arab people call him a “terrorist,” a “fanatic,” an “extremist.” So say the mass murderers in Tel Aviv and their paymasters and armorers in Washington. So say lying US politicians, including both big-party presidential candidates, and the lying corporate media. This is how the oppressors have always described those who resist their tyranny-Nat Turner, John Brown, Sitting Bull, James Connolly, Patrice Lumumba, Malcolm X, Che Guevara, so many more.. This is what the Nazis called the Jewish freedom fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto. So the zionists and their funders have called the many martyred leaders of Palestine.

[a-very-tired-jew]

Every time I see a post praising Sinwar I think about this.

Fig. 1. The Guardian's report about Hitler's death.

Fig. 1. The Associated Press's report about Hitler's death.

Both images contain the announcement by Admiral Doenitz regarding Hitler's death, praising him for "fighting till his last breath", and that he'd "fallen for Germany". This is similar language to how antisemites/anti-Zionists/anti-Israel activists/Hamasniks are talking about Sinwar. They're praising him as some great hero, leader, and fighter who "struck a blow against the colonial oppressor" and other such things.

But in reality they're just following in the footsteps (goosesteps?) of previous violent authoritarian regimes that have targeted Jews in the past. They will try to say that history will remember them as heroes, but we've seen that same mentality before. And where did they end up? In the dustbin of history as a violent authoritarian antisemitic regime. Sinwar and co will end up there as well.