Reality: Hamas' leader Yahya Sinwar's "from the river to the sea" VS Pres. Biden's 3-part Plan for a peace settlement

A Reporter at Large
Notes from Underground
The life of Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza.
By David Remnick, Editor of the New Yorker

...At 6:43 a.m. on October 7th, ...the raid’s planning and execution were largely in the hands of Yahya Sinwar, along with Mohammed Deif. Haniyeh, the politburo chairman, who was living in Qatar, had little influence on the specifics...Yet no event in the seventy-five-year history of Israel had undermined the nation’s sense of security and military superiority like Sinwar’s attack did. After launching an unprecedented barrage of missiles toward Israel and using a variety of weapons—drones, R.P.G.s—to “blind” its communications and surveillance systems, Sinwar’s men broke through the border fence at sixty different places. Thousands of Hamas-led soldiers poured into southern Israel, with orders to kill and kidnap as many soldiers and civilians as possible. After them came ordinary Gazans—some armed, some not—killing, kidnapping, looting, and, always, filming. It would later be revealed that Israeli intelligence had long been in possession of a Hamas war plan known as Jericho Wall, a near-exact map of the events of October 7th. Sinwar had even sent a clandestine message to the Israelis a few weeks beforehand, warning them to expect a flareup in the prisons. The message, according to Channel 12, circulated in the highest ranks of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the I.D.F.; both Netanyahu and the defense minister, Yoav Gallant, were “updated.” Yet when Israeli military leaders got word, shortly after 3 a.m. on the day of the attack, that Hamas soldiers were undertaking maneuvers, the commanders concluded that they were likely just exercises.

Israel was concentrating on threats from Iran and its proxies in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen. But neglecting to listen carefully to what Sinwar was saying publicly was particularly unforgivable. “He said, in the next war, we will initiate the fighting—and the war will be on Israeli territory, not Palestinian,” Milshtein told me. “This was in open sources! Sinwar and others said it in public!” ...

Barak Hiram, an I.D.F. brigadier general. He told me...“They were armed to their teeth,” Hiram said of the Hamas fighters. “They had rocket launchers, R.P.G.s, a lot of Russian equipment, AK-47s, antihuman mines, claymores. They tried to booby-trap a lot of civilian bodies with hand grenades, taking out the safety pins and putting them under the body. They knew that someone would come and try to evacuate them. While we were fighting, digging into the kibbutz, trying to get to more civilians, we heard more and more shooting all around. It was a bloodbath. It was a massacre. They went from one house to another, murdering everyone.”...

On October 7th, Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the Hamas politburo, addressed the Jews of Israel. “Get out of our land. Get out of our sight,” he said. “You are strangers in this pure and blessed land. There is no place or safety for you.” Not long after that, another senior Hamas official, Ghazi Hamad, declared on Lebanese television that the existence of Israel was “illogical” and that it must be eliminated. “We must teach Israel a lesson,” he said. “The Al-Aqsa Flood is just the first time, and there will be a second, a third, a fourth.”...

Abdul said, “I may not support Hamas, but I support the struggle. We cannot go on losing and losing.” There was no bottom to his quiet fury. And, like the I.D.F. general in Be’eri, he found his frame of reference in the Second World War. The Israelis, he said, were no longer the victims of Hitler: “They now seem to want to be Hitler. ‘The most moral army in the world?’ All a big lie.”
As we got up to leave, I asked Abdul what he thought about Sinwar.
“Sinwar is in every home in Palestine,” he said. “He is the most important Palestinian in the world.”

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