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Hamas names Yahya Sinwar, mastermind of the Oct. 7 attacks, as its new leader in show of defiance

apnews.com Hamas names Yahya Sinwar, mastermind of the Oct. 7 attacks, as its new leader in show of defiance

The Palestinian militant group Hamas says it has chosen Yahya Sinwar, its top official in Gaza who masterminded the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, as its new leader.

Hamas on Tuesday named Yahya Sinwar, its top official in Gaza who masterminded the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, as its new leader in a dramatic sign of the power of the Palestinian militant group’s hardline wing after his predecessor was killed in a presumed Israeli strike in Iran.

The selection of Sinwar, a secretive figure close to Iran who worked for years to build up Hamas’ military strength, was a defiant signal that the group is prepared to keep fighting after 10 months of destruction from Israel’s campaign in Gaza and after the assassination of Sinwar’s predecessor, Ismail Haniyeh.

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And Netenyahu gets exactly what he wants. Someone recalcitrant on the other side he can blame stalled ceasefire deals on. I for one won't let the media manufacture Israel as the good guy who can't get the other side to come to the table. Israel is the guy that bombs the table.

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- The table doesn't need a "good guy" to function.
  
  It can have a bad guy, and a genocidal monster "bad guy"
  
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  If one of the people who's supposed to be at the table is killing the other person who needs to come to it then there is no table. There's simply that one man and targets.
  
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- What a shit take, you extreme left will find any reason to hate Israel for defending itself against terrorism.
  
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  Why is that a shit take?
  
  There was a more moderate guy who was in-between the Israelis and the more hardline Hamas people like Sinwar and the Israelis just killed him.
  
  The Israeli government just made the situation worse and made peace even harder to attain.
  
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  Israel is the terrorist
  
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  And you extreme genocide apologists will say anything to take heat off Israel.
  
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  Wow so much for freedom of speech/discussion on this platform. Did not say anything offensive except disagree with this person's comment.
  
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That went really well, killing the moderate guy to make space for the extremist.

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- When you put it like that, it sounds likely that it's EXACTLY what they wanted. Just like when they funded Hamas to drive the much more moderate PLO/Fatah out of Gaza..
  
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- It went well for Netanyahu, who wants to keep waging war until Palestine is extinct.
  
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I like how an orgy of indiscriminate mass murder of men, women, children and dogs requires a "mastermind".

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- I mean it was pretty wild that they used gliders to fly over the border while a coordinated barrage of rockets kept the iron dome busy. That kind of thing does require planning
  
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- "Felon and presidential nominee" was taken
  
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It's pretty much on brand for Hamas, so +1 point for consistency.

Unfortunately this will probably fuel the Israeli far-right pro-genocidal Judeofascist propaganda.

"Look at what Hamas did! If we don't kill ALL THE PALESTINIANS THEY'LL KILL ALL THE JEWS!"

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