#ismael haniyeh

[demolition-queen]

Just one of tens of thousands of children who died. Look at his broken body. Do you see what they did to a little child? Israrl and its supporters have been continuing this genocide for years. Humanity must stop this genocide!

STOP PALESTINIAN GENOCIDE!

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This tells us a lot about Israel and how fragile they are.

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El Ascenso y Caída de Yahya Sinwar en Hamás

El Ascenso y Caída de Yahya Sinwar Yahya Sinwar estuvo presente desde los primeros días de la organización Hamás, ascendiendo a través de sus filas hasta llegar a la dirección de la misma. Bajo su liderazgo, Hamás se preparó para llevar a cabo el asalto más mortífero contra Israel en su historia reciente. Sin embargo, su muerte ha dejado al grupo militante sin un líder astuto e implacable,…

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Alhamdulillah, pagi tadi dapat saya menyampaikan kenyataan mewakili Kerajaan Malaysia tentang “Pendirian Malaysia terhadap pembunuhan Ismail Haniyeh, Ketua Biro Politik Hamas dan bekas Perdana Menteri Palestin , di Dewan Negara pada Rabu, 31 Julai 2024”.

Almarhum Ismail Haniyeh merupakan tokoh pejuang pembebasan. Almarhum sebelum ini juga telah kehilangan ahli keluarga yang juga syahid akibat kekejaman rejim Zionis Israel.

Kekejaman rejim Zionis Israel dan pembunuhan rakyat Palestin mesti dihentikan. Seperti yang telah tegaskan sebelum ini dan saya ulangi sekarang, “the killings must stop now!”.

Dato' Seri Utama Haji Mohamad bin Haji Hasan | Menteri Luar Negeri

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Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh killed in Iran, drawing threats of retaliation against Israel

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated early on Wednesday morning in Iran, the Palestinian militant group and Tehran said. Iran’s president vows to make Israel ‘regret cowardly action’, as Supreme Leader Khamenei says avenging Haniyeh’s killing is Tehran’s duty. Haniyeh’s death is, both strategically and symbolically, a dramatic blow to Hamas, eliminating its most public figure who headed…

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[uboat53]

You know, for all the chatter back and forth in the discussion (argument?) about Israel/Palestine right now, people seem to be missing that what Israel is doing is actually not very good for Israel, just what's good for Netanyahu. Let me explain (SHORT RANT (TM) ahead).

WHAT IS ISRAEL DOING?

At this point, Israel has been carrying out a massive campaign of artillery and air strikes against one of the most densely populated areas on Earth. This seems to be in preparation for a massive ground invasion in which they intend to physically take, hold, and administer territory.

AND THAT'S NOT IN ISRAEL'S INTEREST?

Not remotely. There are still a few hundred hostages held by Hamas. Air and artillery strikes aren't exactly precision, and the sheer amount of them (more bombs have been dropped on Gaza in a month than were ever dropped on Afghanistan in a year) means there's a high risk of killing those hostages if the targeting of Hamas strongholds and infrastructure is at all accurate. More importantly, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who have nothing to do with Hamas have had their homes destroyed and their friends and relatives killed in strikes that have likely killed orders of magnitude more innocent civilians than actual Hamas fighters; even if one percent of those people decide to take up arms against Israel they've more than doubled Hamas' membership and it's now extremely unlikely that any Palestinian is going to provide Israel with good intelligence in the next several years, meaning that their ability to predict and prevent any future attacks has substantially diminished.

SO WHAT IS IN ISRAEL'S INTEREST?

It would be in Israel's interest to make precision strikes based on clear intelligence, not what appear to be widespread strikes on just about anything and everything. Weakening Hamas is a key interest as would be gathering intel that allows them to locate and rescue any hostages they can, all while continuing negotiations to see if they can get the hostages returned peacefully. Oh, and doing all of this without inspiring a large population who were otherwise uninvolved to take up arms against them and not cutting off any human intelligence sources.

YOU THINK IT'S IN NETANYAHU'S INTEREST THEN?

Yes, Netanyahu is the Prime Minister of Israel, but is horrifically unpopular. As in nearly 80% of Israelis think that this catastrophe is his fault and he should resign unpopular. Literally the only thing that is keeping a widespread call for his resignation at bay is that Israeli's are wary of changing leadership in the middle of active combat operations.

OKAY, LET'S TALK ABOUT NETANYAHU'S INTEREST THEN

Netanyahu's interest in the short term is for this conflict not to end. Once it ends, after all, he'll likely be forced out of office and into a courtroom to face one of the many criminal charges that have been brought against him. A sustained bombing campaign followed by a long and bloody ground campaign and occupation certainly serves that interest.

In the longer term, however, it's also serving the political interests of Netanyahu and the settler and Jewish supremacist parties that make up his governing coalition. They have spent decades working to prevent any viable peace process with the Palestinians and creating a large movement of Palestinians committed to violent resistance against Israel servies their interests as well.

COUNTRIES VS. THEIR LEADERS

So this is your reminder, countries do best when the interests of their leaders are aligned with the interests of the country as a whole, but the fact that we have to say that should be a solid reminder that those interests do not necessarily align. Caesar's famous quote, "I would rather be first in a stinking village in Gaul than second in Rome", is a stark example of a person who would ruin their nation or even turn against it, so long as they get to rule it.

Today, we see this tragedy unfolding on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Both sides would be well served by an equitable peace, but those who have control over the armed conflict, Ismael Haniyeh and Mohammed Deif of Hamas, who have called for the extermination of Israel among many, many other statements, on the Palestinian side and Benjamin Netanyahu, Itamar Ben-Gvir, who has called for the extermination of Arabs, even Arab citizens of Israel, and was convicted of supporting anti-Arab terrorism, and Bezalel Smotrich, who has referred to Hamas as an asset in preventing the formation of a Palestinian state and has declared even the existence of Arab citizens in Israel a "mistake", on the Israeli side are calling the shots.

Neither sides' leaders have the broader good of their people in mind and both are sure to cause far more violence, bloodshed, and damage to their own compatriots in the name of their extremist views before all is said and done.

SO WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND THEN?

I recommend you think about what you want to have happen rather than just blindly supporting a side. For me, I believe that Israel as a state has a right to exist and that all people involved have a right to dignity, security, and self-determination. Because of this, I refuse to support either the actions of the current Israeli government or the actions of Hamas; both have committed and are committing horrific atrocities undertaken by violent extremists in the name of unending war.

Support what you think will be best for the people you care about, but be careful about just blindly following the political leadership of a side that may not have the actual best interests of those people in mind.

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Do you think iran and its proxies would avenge Ismael Haniyeh? And if they do,what kind of response would it be?

Iran wouldn't avenge Qassem Soleimani, so I'm not sure what Iran will do at this point. Khamenei keeps throwing hard words about revenge, but it usually doesn't end up with anything substantial. Perhaps they can prove themselves this time, who knows? For now, I think Iran should try to improve their opsec and internal security for their foreign dignitaries.

[cavalierzee]

Ismael Haniyeh

A Hero!

A Martyr!

A Freedom Fighter!

The Zionist state was birthed through terrorism & war.

The Zionist state survives through terrorism & war.

The Zionist state will meet its demise through the wars it starts.

[mariacallous]

The trajectory of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Sri Lanka—widely known as the Tamil Tigers—is often cited by proponents of Israel’s stated war aim of entirely eliminating Hamas from Gaza. The Tamil Tigers were one of the most effective and brutal terrorist formations in the world, responsible for the murder of a sitting Sri Lankan president, a former Indian prime minister on Indian soil, and an unending array of prominent Sri Lankans. Eventually, a decimating war waged by the Sri Lankan state between 2006 and 2009—known as the Eelam IV war—resulted in the LTTE’s comprehensive defeat.

But the Tamil precedent is much more ambivalent than the most common references suggest. The precedent indicates that the survival of Hamas will largely be determined by two factors that are themselves still undetermined, and which may operate in tension with one another.

The first factor is whether Hamas, as an organization, has been designed to survive a widespread loss of leadership. In the wake of the killing of Yahya Sinwar as well as the earlier assassination of a string of other Hamas leaders, including Ismael Haniyeh (as well as several prominent leaders of the Iran-backed Hezbollah, including its chief, Hassan Nasrallah), many commentators have argued that so-called decapitation is not sufficient to result in the collapse of an insurgent group. The Tamil precedent suggests this analysis is too simplistic.

In the Sri Lankan case, the LTTE leadership was almost completely wiped out. The fatalities included Velupillai Prabhakaran—the group’s founding leader—and any imagined successor. The only exceptions were those in the diaspora, including designated successor Kumaran Pathmanathan, who coordinated fundraising, weapon acquisitions, and smuggling operations from Malaysia and Thailand.

There were also a handful of others, such as a militant known as Colonel Karuna Amman, who switched sides and turned against the LTTE in 2004, and Daya Master, the group’s most prominent spokesman, who surrendered just days before its comprehensive defeat. But all these individuals lacked the support and commitment to revive the movement.

Accordingly, since 2010, Sri Lanka has recorded just two LTTE-linked incidents of killing: a shootout in April 2014, in which three members of an LTTE cadre and one security force trooper were killed, and the death in July 2020 of an LTTE “intelligence agent” as the result of burns sustained in an accidental explosion during a botched attempt to assemble a bomb.

The decapitation of a terrorist group is effective when the pace of the leadership’s elimination outstrips its natural replacement rate. Top leaders of any militant movement are not easily replaced; ideological coherence, strategic and tactical competence, and an element of charisma take years, if not decades, to develop. If leaders are replaced at a rate that outstrips the development of these attributes, command passes into the hands of inexperienced, inept, or ineffectual leaders who steer the group into error and failure.

The two most significant attributes of a militant group’s leadership that need to be preserved—or, from the state’s perspective, targeted—are the top ideological and military leaderships of the group, with military leaders in the theater of conflict the most critical. Ideologues and strategists may survive in the diaspora, but if the field leadership collapses, then so does the movement.

The received wisdom, of course, is that an idea can never be defeated by violence; that unless root causes are addressed, no conflict can be resolved. These have become, for some thinkers, articles of faith. But history shows that protracted wars are not sustained by any set of “root causes,” but rather by a leadership that effectively weaves specific grievances—real and imagined—into a violent ideology.

Far from being the case that an ideology cannot be defeated without addressing root causes, the reality is that an armed ideology grows with violent successes and is delegitimized by defeat. The outcome in the Gaza Strip will depend on the thoroughness with which the Hamas leadership is decimated and the completeness of the military defeat inflicted on the group.

The second factor that will determine the survival of Hamas is whether the widespread civilian casualties committed by Israel in Gaza end up undermining its legitimacy, thus strengthening the legitimacy of Hamas in turn.

This seems likely to have been the exact strategy that Hamas was pursuing with its Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel. The purpose of the carnage was not simply to kill Israelis; the essence of such extremism is that the victim is not the target. The target was the state of Israel, and the objective was to provoke precisely the overreaction that has, in fact, followed. The use of human shields, compounded by aggressive propaganda and information campaigns, has been deployed to counter the military and technological advantages of the dominant power.

In the Tamil case, widespread civilian casualties inflicted by the Sri Lankan government undoubtedly served to strengthen LTTE’s hand. Through the final stages of Eelam IV, civilian casualties became a major issue, with Scandinavian interlocutors—led by Norway, which had brokered the lopsided cease-fire agreement of 2002-08—mounting a strident international campaign against Sri Lanka Armed Forces (SLF) and their alleged human rights violations, even as the LTTE’s excesses were substantially underplayed or ignored.

Those excesses included the herding of roughly 300,000 civilians into shrinking areas of the LTTE’s territorial control as well as the placement of the group’s military assets, including artillery, in these civilian concentrations. Shifting and diminishing “no-fire zones” declared by the SLF were similarly infiltrated by LTTE fighters and firepower, leaving the former the choice to sue for peace or to continue to target the rebels—with the moral burden of collateral civilian casualties.

Thousands escaped the LTTE’s enclosures, but hundreds were demonstratively tortured and executed after failed attempts to escape, even as the international campaign by the so-called peacemakers to halt the advances of the SLF escalated.

Some humanitarian groups accused Sri Lankan political and military leadership during the war of genocide and warned that they would be hauled up before the war crimes tribunal at the International Criminal Court—a threat that is reiterated periodically by Western leaders even now. These threats, as well as a strong domestic argument based on the costs of the war and Sri Lanka’s weakening economy, exerted potentially crippling pressure on the country’s leadership.

The eventual response, however, also demonstrated the central role of political will in the outcome of war, as Sri Lanka’s leadership refused doggedly to succumb to these pressures or restore a negotiation process with the LTTE unless it laid down arms.

In the current case of Hamas, the international media has spent months projecting harrowing images of the estimated 42,000 fatalities in Gaza, particularly those of women and children. The reporting rarely acknowledges that in most Israeli attacks, though not all, Hamas fighters and weapons caches are also successfully targeted. With few exceptions, the civilian casualties predominate in media attention over Israeli successes.

None of this is intended to assert that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have been innocent of all excess. But civilian fatalities were largely unavoidable given the subterranean networks constructed by Hamas that lie beneath Gaza’s civilian population. Hamas continues to locate its operational networks and hideouts—such as locations where hostages are held—in dense civilian population centers, including schools and hospitals. Hamas forces and leadership have also moved with the civilian populations into the changing so-called “safe zones” announced by the IDF.

And yet, much of the popular imagery seeks to shift the entire moral burden to the IDF, while the burden of culpability on Hamas is underplayed, even as Israel is pressured to practice restraint. Indeed, the higher the civilian toll, the more that the Hamas strategy would be seen as succeeding in underlining what the group argues is the illegitimacy of Israel’s very existence.

History is the construction of narratives, and it remains to be seen which narrative will prevail at the end of the present conflict, whatever its outcome. Even in the event of a thorough Hamas defeat, there may be attempts to yoke the group’s so-called sacrifices and martyrdom to efforts for revival by survivors within Hamas, or by successor groups—and this is the outcome that the Hamas leadership would hope for.

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*Un giorno, mentre faceva un servizio per suo padre al Centro Commerciale Central Square, Heather si addormenta in una catena di fast food conosciuta come Happy Burger, e sogna di essere nel parco giochi di Silent Hill. Dopo aver combattuto contro diversi mostri, Heather comincia a camminare sulle montagne russe fino a quando non viene investita dalla giostra.

Heather si sveglia. Esce dal negozio e chiama suo padre per fargli sapere che lei sta tornando a casa. Appena si avvia, incontra un detective di nome Vincent Carter, assunto da una setta chiamata "L'Ordine" per trovare Heather. La ragazza, pensando che sia uno stalker, entra nel bagno delle ragazze, esce dalla finestra ma trova le vie di fuga bloccate ad entrambi i lati, costringendola a trovare un'altra strada nel centro commerciale. Dentro l'edificio, si accorge che attorno a lei ci sono solo mostri. Heather trova una pistola per difendersi da un Closer in un negozio d'abbigliamento.

Mentre Heather vaga per il centro commerciale, incontra una donna scalza, con lunghi capelli biondi. E' un'alta sacerdotessa dell'Ordine, Claudia Wolf, che sta cercando Heather, o meglio Alessa Judas, da tanto tempo.

Claudia dice di aver bisogno di lei e pronuncia queste parole, "Ricordati di me, e del tuo vero io", e che lei avrebbe condotto tutti in Paradiso "con le mani macchiate di sangue". Dopo le parole di Claudia, Heather viene colta da una forte emicrania, mentre la sacerdotessa va via. Heather entra in un ascensore dove, a causa della discesa, cade una radio che emette staticità appena si avvicinano i mostri. Le porte dell'ascensore si aprono mostrando un ascensore ben più sinistro, che segna l'incrocio con un'altra realtà. Dopo esser scesa giù con l'altro ascensore, Heather si ritrova in una versione distorta del centro commerciale. Anche se ha paura, riesce a ritornare nel mondo reale dopo la battaglia con un enorme verme negli abissi del centro commerciale.

Una volta tornato tutto alla normalità, Heather si dirige alla metropolitana in modo da tornare a casa. Vincent la ferma e dopo poco Heather scopre che Vincent è dalla parte di Claudia, ma le dice che è stato assunto solo per cercarla. Heather lascia da solo l'uomo estremamente disorientato, e una volta scesa nella metro, scopre.

Dopo ciò Heather trova un articolo scritto in precedenza da Amir che aveva aiutato il suo trisnonno biologico Ismael Haniyeh a trovare Salem Haniyeh Gray avendo gli indizi che dietro i mostri, Lucyfer Morningstar è tornato ad attaccare ancora una volta e trova un diario di Leonard Wolf ovvero il padre di Claudia Wolf che abusava della figlia*

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The Impact of Yahya Sinwar's Death on Hamas Leadership

The Rise and Fall of Yahya Sinwar: A Key Figure in Hamas Yahya Sinwar was a pivotal figure in the early establishment of Hamas, ascending through the ranks to ultimately lead the organization. Under his leadership, Hamas executed its most lethal assault on Israel in its history. However, with his recent death, the militant group faces a significant loss, as it now has to navigate the aftermath…

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The Iranian and Saudi navies are planning to hold a joint exercise in the Red Sea region, Iranian Navy Rear Admiral Shahram Irani announced on 22 October.

ISNA news agency quoted Irani as saying that the Iranian naval forces are present in the Red Sea and that Saudi Arabia has expressed interest in organizing joint maneuvers in the region.

The admiral stressed that the delegations from both countries would hold consultations on organizing the maneuver, adding that they had extended mutual invitations to visit each other's ports.

Iran and Saudi Arabia normalized relations in March 2023 following a six-year rupture through talks brokered by China.

The joint naval exercise proposal comes amid escalating tension between Tel Aviv and Tehran.

Israeli leaders are threatening to attack Iran in retaliation for Iran's firing of a large barrage of ballistic missiles at Israel on 1 October.

The Iranian attack, which targeted three Israeli airbases, came in response to multiple Israeli aggressions, including the assassination of Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh in Tehran and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut.

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stated on Tuesday that the Islamic Republic does not seek war in the region but is fully prepared for any conflict.

“We have done our best to reduce the tension, but we are prepared to deal with any scenario,” he noted during a press conference in Kuwait.

“Our message is very clear: the Zionist regime is seeking to expand the war in the region, and we must stop this disaster,” Araghchi said.

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People began gathering to attend a ceremony to pay tribute to two Shuhadas, Commander Ismail Haniyeh and his personal guard, Wassim Abu Shaaban in the Iranian capital, Tehran.

[ticktockaura]

Man killed in Gaza operation believed to be Hamas leader, sources say.

US intel is working to assess who may succeed Sinwar

From CNN's Katie Bo Lillis

US intelligence agencies were scrambling on Thursday morning to update their assessments of who is likely to succeed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, who may have been killed in an Israeli operation overnight.

US officials have long hoped that killing Sinwar would give Israel the political opening that it needed to agree to a ceasefire. But who succeeds him, sources said, could have a profound impact on whether Hamas will be willing to restart meaningful negotiations with Israel for a halt to the fighting and the release of hostages.

Current and former US officials said there are several possible successors to the shadowy Sinwar, who for more than a year has been the sole voice of authority in the organization.

If Mohammed Sinwar — Yahya’s brother — assumes command, “negotiations are totally screwed,” one US official said. Mohammed Sinwar, according to a former official, is cut from the same hardline cloth as his brother, who the US long believed was willing to sacrifice Palestinian civilians to achieve his vision. His brother, Mohammed, has overseen Hamas’s tunnel building network, according to a former US official.

“But with much of the group exhausted, [its] preference might be for an outsider who might be more likely to deal,” this person said. In July, CNN reported, Sinwar was under pressure from his own over-stretched commanders to put a stop to the bloodshed.

Another possibility is Khalil Al Hayya, who has been one of the lead negotiators for Hamas during ceasefire talks held in Doha. Because of that, he is “probably who the US would want,” the former official said. Al Hayya took over as the principal negotiator after the July assassination of Ismael Haniyeh in Tehran, which is widely believed to have been carried out by Israel.

A third option would be Khaled Meshaal — an obvious choice for Hamas, but an unlikely one because of his past support for a Sunni uprising against Syrian President Bashar al Assad. The episode caused a rift between Hamas and its patron, Shia-dominated Iran. It also damaged Meshaal’s leadership ambitions.