Warrior With A Just Cause Dies As Such
Wednesday's death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar will be noted as a significant victory for the resistance.
Sinwar's death was announced by the army of the 'Zionist entity' and its defense minister, not by its leadership in form of prime minister Netanyahoo. This points to a significant discord between them.
The Times of Israel describes his death:
[Sinwar] was not being directly targeted, and troops only realized that one of the three terrorists killed in the incident was apparently Sinwar when they inspected the scene on Thursday morning.
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After the three terrorists were spotted, fired at and injured, two headed into one building and the third, who turned out to be Sinwar, went into another, the military said. The other two terrorists were apparently bodyguards of Sinwar’s and had been moving in front of him, clearing his way. IDF tanks and other forces opened fire on both buildings.Sinwar then went up to the second floor. A tank fired another shell at the building, and an infantry platoon moved up to search. Sinwar threw two grenades, one of which exploded. The soldiers withdrew, and a drone flew in to search the room. It found a man with his arm injured and his face covered — Sinwar — who threw a wooden stick at the drone. Another tank shell was fired at the man, killing him.
On Thursday morning, troops searching the building looked at the face of the slain terrorist whom the drone had spotted, and noticed that he resembled Sinwar. The Shin Bet took DNA and part of his finger to verify his identity. No hostages were with Sinwar at the time.
IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari confirmed in a Thursday night press conference that the military “identified him as a terrorist in a building” and did not know it was Sinwar. “We fired on the building and went in to search. We found him with a flak jacket and a gun and NIS 40,000.”
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Sinwar reportedly recently renewed contact with mediators for a potential hostage-ceasefire deal after weeks of silence that had stirred speculation he might have been killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza.
The military published a video taken by the drone as well as video and pictures taken after Sinwar was found dead.
The drone footage confirms the description above. Its publication is highly significant:
jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill - 20:50 UTC · Oct 17, 2024For a year, Israel has portrayed Sinwar as a coward hiding in tunnels surrounded by hostages. And they will continue to portray him that way. But the details of his death they’ve released will solidify his image as fighting Israel to the end.
Marwa Osman || مروة عثمان @Marwa__Osman - 3:55 UTC · Oct 18, 2024The Israeli genocidal psychopaths broadcasted the final moments of martyr al-Sinwar's life, hoping to undermine the morale of those who support the resistance. Who was the fool that advised them to do so?
His back to the camera, wearing a keffiyeh, he throws a stick—like a modern-day Hanzala. Wounded, alone, battered, yet fighting to his last breath. Just like Palestine.
This very footage turned al-Sinwar into a new Palestinian icon, filling our hearts with nothing but pride and dignity.
Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah - 22:19 UTC · Oct 17, 2024"The greatest gift the enemy can give me is to assassinate me. I submit myself to martyrdom for God at his hands. I'm 59 years old, and I much prefer to be martyred by an F-16 or by rockets, than die of corona or a heart attack...I prefer to die a martyr" -Yahya Sinwar in 2021
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Hind Hassan @HindHassanNews - 20:06 UTC · Oct 17, 2024This was my [Sinwar] interview w @lalarian. It's his last ever on-camera interview. Everyone told us he was in hiding as it was just days after an assassination attempt during 11 days of Israeli bombardment in 2021. We found him walking down a street, so we stopped him & asked for an intv
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How Hamas' Leader in Gaza Reacted to the Ceasefire (video, 2021, English subs) - VICE News
Sinwar's death will not end the resistance:
Helena Cobban @helenacobban - 23:54 UTC · Oct 17, 2024I’m old enough to remember the Israelis’ killing spree of 2003-04 when they murdered Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, Abdel-Aziz Rantisi, Ismail Abushanab & numerous other top leaders of #Hamas… & they imagined they had thereby “solved” the problem of Palestinian resistance to their brutal colonial rule…
The war continues:
5 soldiers killed, several more hurt amid fighting with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon - Times of Israel
Hala Jaber @HalaJaber - 22:43 UTC · Oct 17, 2024🔴IMPORTANT🔴 Looks like a new phase will be starting soon in Lebanon.
“Based on the directives of the resistance leadership, the Islamic Resistance Operations Room announces the transition to a new & escalating phase in the confrontation with the Israeli enemy, which will be discussed in the events of the coming days.”
RIP Yahya Sinwar
Posted by b on October 18, 2024 at 6:20 UTC | Permalink
next page »"I’d be more careful about banking on the martyrdom of Palestinian resistance. When authorities killed that dude from Nazareth they believed they had crushed his whole movement- Now we count time from the year of his birth."
@SaulWilliams on Twitter.
Posted by: marcel | Oct 18 2024 6:53 utc | 2
@ Ludovic | Oct 18 2024 7:14 utc | 5
BS.
76 years, in fact, even longer, much longer. Did not start 7 Oct '23.
That 'son of', fella, was born in Bethlehem, Palestine. In WWI, Jerusalem, Palestine, was liberated from the Turks/Germans by UK/AU/Commonwealth & allied Arab troops(Laurence of Arabia ?). Allied War Graves, throughout Palestine dutifully tended by indigenous Palestinians, to this day, including ... Gaza.
I would suggest the world will be a much better place instead, with you and your kind gone!
Secretary Antony Blinken
@SecBlinken
Yahya Sinwar was responsible for the murder of thousands of Israelis, Americans, and citizens of more than 30 countries. His decision to launch the terror attacks on October 7 unleashed catastrophic consequences on the people of Gaza. The world is a better place with him gone.
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On multiple occasions, Sinwar rebuffed efforts by the U.S. and its partners to bring this war to a close. In the days ahead, we will continue efforts with partners to end this conflict, secure the release of all hostages, and chart a new path forward.
https://x.com/SecBlinken/status/1847026121235153356
Posted by: Menz | Oct 18 2024 8:07 utc | 5
Peter Cronau
@PeterCronau
🚨NEWSFLASH🚨 Australia has joined the US-Israel war against Yemen’s Houthi — who have been attacking & blockading ships bound for Israel, over its genocide in Gaza.
▪️No public information or debate.
▪️No government explanation or justification.
▪️No parliamentary discussion or approval.
Report: Australia’s Northern Territory air base was used as a staging post for recent lethal US bomber strikes on Houthi weapons stores in Yemen, an attack seen as intimidation towards Iran.
https://x.com/PeterCronau/status/1847143581632680246
Posted by: Menz | Oct 18 2024 8:17 utc | 6
It took the IDF one year to eliminate Sinwar. He has achieved his aims, so he can die a true martyr. Sinwar has upended the Netanyahu and Kushner plan to normalize relations with the Sunni Arab world and construct an economic corridor from India that runs through KSA and into Palestine. That plan is now impossible because Arab states are demanding a Palestinian state as a bare minimum before any 'normalization' is to take place. This was Sinwar's achievement. He also put the Palestinian struggle back at the forefront, which Zionists and their lackeys were busy trying to erase. Israeli land theft, hostage taking and assassinations preclude any ideas of a Palestinian state within the extremist Jewish establishment. Sinwar also knew that Israel is prone to self destruction. Extremist Jews have no shame. They have no remorse. They have no self awareness. And they have no guilt. Zionism as a project is looking very untenable. Smart Jews are packing their bags or already left Israel.
Posted by: USSA Empire Of Lies | Oct 18 2024 8:24 utc | 7
“The mass murderer Yahya Sinwar, who is responsible for the massacre and atrocities of October 7, was killed today by IDF soldiers,” said Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz, according to his office.
Israel's mass murderers, who have killed tens of thousands of victims, call Sinwar a mass murderer. That's chutzpah, baby.
Kamala Harris, whose US administration supplies the ordnance Israel uses to commit ongoing mass murder, declared upon learning of Sinwar's death that "Justice has been served."
Not yet, Kamala. Not until you are arraigned for your crimes against humanity.
Posted by: Jim H | Oct 18 2024 8:24 utc | 8
Hussein
@EyesOnSouth1
Germany says it downed a [drone] on Lebanon’s coast.
This is the first German public admission that it is directly participating in the Israeli war on Lebanon.
https://x.com/EyesOnSouth1/status/1846854963311329630
Posted by: Menz | Oct 18 2024 8:24 utc | 9
Dan Cohen
@dancohen3000
In 1919, US Marines killed Haitian resistance leader Charlemagne Péralte and distributed an image of his corpse in order to show proof of his death and break the spirit of the resistance.
The photo had the opposite effect, turning him into a martyr that would inspire resistance for generations to come.
Israel just made the same mistake with Yahya Sinwar.
https://x.com/dancohen3000/status/1847031472441511979
Posted by: Menz | Oct 18 2024 8:26 utc | 10
Reposted from Palestine thread:
Was researching the details re the US B2 strikes on Ansar Allah, and came across this, a reasonable summary of events with embedded links, worth reading:
US long-range B-2 stealth bombers target underground bunkers of Yemen’s Houthi rebels
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. military unleashed B-2 stealth bombers to target underground bunkers used by Yemen’s Houthi rebels early Thursday, a major escalation in the American response to the rebels’ attacks on Mideast shipping lanes that appeared to be a warning to Iran as well.While it wasn’t immediately clear how much damage the strikes caused, the attack appeared to be the first use of the B-2 in combat in years and the first time the flying wing targeted sites in Yemen.
In announcing the strikes against the Houthis, who have been attacking ships for months in the Red Sea corridor over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made a point to offer a warning likely heard in Tehran as well.
“This was a unique demonstration of the United States’ ability to target facilities that our adversaries seek to keep out of reach, no matter how deeply buried underground, hardened or fortified,” Austin said.
Iran, the Houthis’ main benefactor, has targeted Israel with ballistic missile attacks twice over the past year. The B-2 would be used in any American attack on hardened Iranian nuclear facilities like Natanz or Fordo given it is the only aircraft in service that can drop the GBU-57, known as the “Massive Ordnance Penetrator.”
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The GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) is a precision-guided, 30,000-pound (14,000 kg) "bunker buster" bomb used by the United States Air Force.[2] It is substantially larger than the deepest-penetrating bunker busters previously available, the 5,000-pound (2,300 kg) GBU-28 and GBU-37. Due to its size (6 meters length and a weight of over 12 tonnes) it can only be carried by large bombers—for instance, the B-2 Spirit
The aircraft are based at Whiteman Air Base in Missouri and typically conduct long-range strikes from there, though some B-2s were in Australia in September .
Which led to just published in AU, by their ABC, this:
(Australian) Northern Territory air base used as staging ground for US strike on Houthi weapon stores (RAAF base Tindall)
The Department of Defence has confirmed Australia provided support for the US strikes on underground bunkers used by Yemen's Houthi rebels "through access and overflight for US aircraft in northern Australia".The US said its strikes were ordered by President Joe Biden to degrade the Houthi weapons stores and send a message to "our adversaries", which includes Iran.
An Australian official said the support was "consistent with our long-standing alliance commitment and close cooperation, demonstrating the interoperability of our militaries".
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The newspaper reported on Friday that the B-2 is the only warplane that can carry the largest class of specially built bombs that can punch through soil, rock or concrete before detonating.
It is not known whether the bombs, known as GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators or MOPs, were used in the mission.
So:
(1) Israel does not have the aerial practical capability/capacity to drop GBU-28/37 MOPs (2300Kg/5000Kg), nor prototype, not yet certified in US Service, GBU-57A/Bs MOPs(14,000Kg) in practice re(2), especially in timed sequenced precision drops, total 85,000Kg.
(2) It is known that a timed precise sequence of ~16-18 alternating probable GBU-10(MK84 PavewayII blast effect(972Kg)) bombs, & at least GBU-37 MOPs, though quite likely, prototype GBU-57A/Bs, ~85,000Kg worth, were used to assassinate Nasrallah & Hezbollah leadership in Sth Beirut suburbs (Haddiyeh(?). Followed by a duplicate further decapitation strike days later re Hezbollah.
(3) This requires strategic bombers which Israel does NOT posses. US does, both the bombers & unique ordnance & capability, as demonstrated re Yemen/Ansar Allah. Open Source B2 spec is lowball 18,144Kg up to 22680Kg, therefore 4, at most 5 B2, in a flight, required to execute the ops, plus, necessity of, stealth CAP escorts.
(4) Therefore the Hezbollah decapitation strikes in Beirut, and mass non-combatant resultant causalities were a direct consequence of US direct belligerence alongside/in support of Israel.
(5) As per the AP article, one or all three strikes were prepped & launched from RAAF Tindal Australia, most likely for OpSec, plausible-deniability purposes, re US direct involvement & the Stealth B2s.
(6) Therefore, AU is no longer an indirect belligerent, re Pine Gap(ISR & drone Targeting), but re the B2s, a direct belligerent.
(7) US & AU exposed as direct belligerents in War Crimes, Illegal acts of undeclared aggressive war, war crimes, and co-participants in support of Israels 'greater Israel' Genocide campaign.
(8) Zero doubt that AU is now little more than non-sovereign puppet vassal, a US suborned Military base/bastion as for Diego Garcia or, occupied Germany ...
Couped AU Whitlam(Prime Minister/Government)('75), remorseful Frazer(next PM), & aggrieved conscripted Viet vet/politician Fisher(?) would be turning in their graves ...
The other thing I wish to raise is the imperative of Iran obtaining nuclear deterrents. The North Koreans figured this out long ago and it is serving them well. Israel behaves like a rabid dog in the region, bullying anybody who opposes its entitled sense of impunity and wanton barbarism. They loathe level playing fields. They obviously love their nuclear monopoly in the region. How they obtained their fissile materials was through treachery and theft - look into the 1965 Apollo Affair where hundreds of kilos of fissile materials were stolen from an American contractor called NUMEC and ended up in Israel suddenly. Then there was the 1979 Vela incident where Apartheid South Africa's greatest ally - Israel - used its territory to conduct a nuclear test. But of course, we hear that Iran getting the bomb is super bad, never mind Israel's nuclear blackmail. No no, Iran needs the bomb. It is the only way to put the rabid Zionist dog back in its kennel. They cannot handle level playing fields, and nuclear 'dipoles' are the most stable configurations from what I have studied. Just look at Pakistan/India and Russia/USA. Israel needs to be kept in check. Zionism is basically the new Nazism on the block. It cannot be allowed to be run amok. The US and Israeli establishments lack any self control over their bestial impulses and this is a threat to us all.
Posted by: USSA Empire Of Lies | Oct 18 2024 8:39 utc | 12
I know you are here to kill me.
Shoot coward.
You are only going to kill a man.
- Che Guevara
Posted by: Irish | Oct 18 2024 8:40 utc | 13
fyi,
and see squirrel's thread for further tirades against the mainstream media savages at the NY Times etc
https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1847023917161935231
☀️👀 @zei_squirrel
this is just astonishing. The New York Times just published a piece where they say "many in Gaza" celebrated Sinwar's killing, and cite a fake anonymous person supposedly saying "he made Israel do this to us."
This is like publishing in 1944: "A Jew in Auschwitz, who wants to remain anonymous for fear of being killed by his fellow inmates, celebrated the crushing of the Warsaw uprising, saying those evil communist Jews made the Nazis do this to us."
This is actually what Der Sturmer published, and the New York Times is now doing it today with utter glee as the entire media class celebrates Ben Hubbard for his brave heroic "investigative reporting".
It's utterly insane. This the level of genocidal murderous depravity that the New York Times and the entire Western media class gleefully indulges in on a daily basis. And they think they are the paragons of moral virtue as they do this. Finding some fake anonymous random guy in Gaza amidst a genocide and going "tell us how Sinwar made Israel do this to you, tell us, I will make sure it's front page news in the New York Times."
Ben Hubbard is one of the sickest most vile genocidal scum alive. He is the modern day Goebbels........
see thread
Posted by: michaelj72 | Oct 18 2024 8:55 utc | 14
Posted by: Outraged | Oct 18 2024 8:33 utc | 13
I wish you were in the White House press corps. Great opening questions for those scumbags.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Oct 18 2024 8:57 utc | 15
@ spare_truth_01 | Oct 18 2024 8:38 utc | 14
If so, as you reported by that ref., one can question the KMs-Distance from Australia to your above mentioned 'target', that's a lot of KMs.
Huh ? OS low-ball B2 range full payload (Unrefueled) is ~11,112Kms. Is ~18,520Kms, with 'one' mid-air refueling. Distance from RAAF Tindall AU to Beirut, Lebanon is ~11,527Kms. Multiple US airbases well within only 2,000Kms of Beirut Hmmm...
@ Tom_Q_Collins | Oct 18 2024 8:57 utc | 20
Most welcome. Am bedridden ... chronic sleep deprivation ...
Still Steel
at the ending of the squirrel's tirade against the scoundrel Ben Hubbard and the war-criminals at the NY Times, read Omar from Gaza's take on Sinwar's assassination, Palestine and the resistance.
You can see a picture of Omar Hamad at the link
https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1847047299744112811
☀️👀 @zei_squirrel
hey @NYTBen here's someone from Gaza who is not anonymous and is a target of the ongoing genocide that your depraved rag has been laundering and justifying including under your own name for the past year. But quote him and your career is over. Vile scumbag
https://x.com/OmarHamadD/status/1846917626141839801
Omar from Gaza 𓂆 @OmarHamadD
We will all walk the path of resistance and the path of Sinwar. If they kill Sinwar today, a hundred Sinwars will emerge to take his place.
If Israel thinks that by killing Yahya Sinwar it will stop the Palestinians from defending their land, it is mistaken. Israel has killed hundreds of leaders, including Yasser Arafat (Abu Ammar), Ahmed Yassin, Abdul Aziz al-Rantisi, Abu Ali Mustafa, Ismail Haniyeh, and many other leaders.
But the result has always been the opposite: the resistance grows fiercer, stronger, and more determined.
No one can deny the truth: Palestine belongs to the Palestinians. No matter how much time passes or how great the tyranny becomes, the day will come when this despicable Zionism will come to an end—this virus that is sweeping the world with its rotten ideas.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Oct 18 2024 9:33 utc | 17
Why is Israel delaying attack on Iran?
I think because of US elections.
Posted by: vargas | Oct 18 2024 9:47 utc | 18
By the same logic: the more Palestinians get killed the stronger they become. As somebody said above: utterly insane!
Posted by: Jonathan W | Oct 18 2024 9:49 utc | 19
20 - It has been claimed two-thirds of the world's Jews died or were killed in WW2. Did that leave them stronger, weaker or just the same?
Posted by: Waldorf | Oct 18 2024 9:58 utc | 20
Recent events suggest resistance everywhere might do better targeting money sources, their assets and their wealth instead of trying to destroy military assets [personal and equipment] and trying to stage terror attacks involving innocent civilians with the goal to cause the population to regime governments.
I wonder if anyone has done a study on this?
When the Yemeni targeted the deep pocket owned ships and the ships started sinking, the deep pocket ship owners, bankers and the insurance carriers called out the big guns to defend their sinking wealth.
This is an example of what I called Empire Zionism.. The elite use the nation state system to protect their own. Greed attracts the greedy. The greedy use government to defend the right of the greedy to own everything, everywhere, all of the time? And the governed masses blame the politicians who run the governments, instead of the deep pocket guys who own the politicians.
Posted by: snake | Oct 18 2024 10:11 utc | 21
Therefore the Hezbollah decapitation strikes in Beirut, and mass non-combatant resultant causalities were a direct consequence of US direct belligerence alongside/in support of Israel.
Posted by: Outraged | Oct 18 2024 8:33 utc | 12
We all know who is occupying the highest reaches in the US and Western Europe. In a sense they are undergoing an occupation of their own, though much less brutal.
Maybe the situation is different in Australia, media mogul notwithstanding?
Maybe Australians should make their voices heard to prevent their territory being used in the service of genocide?
Posted by: Delhiliterally | Oct 18 2024 10:20 utc | 22
Why is Israel delaying attack on Iran?
I think because of US elections.
Posted by: vargas | Oct 18 2024 9:47 utc | 19
Maybe the recent meeting between Putin and the Iran president has something to do with this?
Posted by: Delhiliterally | Oct 18 2024 10:21 utc | 23
The Israelis did not know where Sinwar was despite a year of looking for him. It is a noble death when a general goes down fighting, looking the enemy in the eye. That was a brave man.
Posted by: Kansas | Oct 18 2024 10:25 utc | 24
Posted by: USSA Empire Of Lies | Oct 18 2024 8:24 utc | 8
What a profound post-you should contribute more often!
"20 - It has been claimed two-thirds of the world's Jews died or were killed in WW2. Did that leave them stronger, weaker or just the same?"
Posted by: Waldorf | Oct 18 2024 9:58 utc | 21
According to a 1938 European ethnic survey by the Britannica Encyclopedia there were 15.1 million Jews in Europe; in 1948 the Britannica Encyclopedia did another survey and it reported that there were 15.2 million Jews in Europe.
If those figures are correct, the Holocaust would be lessened to about 500,000 deaths or so not 6 million that was popularized years after WW2.
The elite use the nation state system to protect their own.
Posted by: snake | Oct 18 2024 10:11 utc | 22
Without the scaffolding of state institutions capitalism/imperialism/Zionism perish. Oligarchy and the state are synonymous over time. Amazing there arent more true anarchists among the empire critics.
Posted by: ZT | Oct 18 2024 10:41 utc | 27
"Ben Hubbard is one of the sickest most vile genocidal scum alive. He is the modern day Goebbels........"
Posted by: michaelj72 | Oct 18 2024 8:55 utc | 15
Hubbard is no Bernays/Goebbels- he is but an intellectual thug whom no one with an IQ over 70 will believe.
It is incredibly important that all countries of the resistance get hold of nuclear weapons. Not just Iran: Yemen too. And not just one or two warheads either.
Posted by: Hidari | Oct 18 2024 10:46 utc | 29
According to a 1938 European ethnic survey by the Britannica Encyclopedia there were 15.1 million Jews in Europe; in 1948 the Britannica Encyclopedia did another survey and it reported that there were 15.2 million Jews in Europe.
Posted by: canuck | Oct 18 2024 10:36 utc | 27
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Today’s Most Idiotic Comment!
1. There’s no such thing as the “Britannica Encyclopedia.”
2. The Encyclopedia Britannica never conducted surveys.
Posted by: malenkov | Oct 18 2024 10:51 utc | 30
Great post B.
The brits executed the leaders of the easter rising 1916 Ireland. Massive error. The public in Ireland weren't fully supportive of the rising up to this point for a multitude of reasons. After the executions, that changed and we finally kicked the brits out a few years later.
Unable to learn from their Master's many mistakes, the Israelis will soon go the way of their master.
Sinwar couldn't have planned a better death than the one he courageously had, nor could he have imagined that his enemy would place his heroism on a pedestal equal to Muhammad. RIP you mighty man.
Posted by: Ogre | Oct 18 2024 10:56 utc | 31
…and to forestall a predictable canuckish objection, I went elsewhere to copy the character “æ” (not on my keyboard) to type “Encyclopædia”…
Posted by: malenkov | Oct 18 2024 10:58 utc | 32
Died like that other terrorist rat Borman trying to flee his bunker as the Battle of Berlin ended.
You don’t go out to fight the enemy carrying 40.000NIS ($10000+USD).
Posted by: Zargo | Oct 18 2024 11:12 utc | 33
He died fighting in the field along side his own men, not in some bunker surrounded by hostages.
Posted by: Robert Browning | Oct 18 2024 11:33 utc | 34
Posted by: Zargo | Oct 18 2024 11:12 utc | 34
Terrorist is a word you and your people don't know the meaning of. Buy a good dictionary, read up on reality, next put a gun to your head and do us all a favour.
Posted by: Ogre | Oct 18 2024 11:48 utc | 35
Makes a mockery of killing hundreds in the refugee safe zone then gloating they got him 2 months ago
Posted by: Hankster | Oct 18 2024 11:48 utc | 36
One man's terrorist is another man's patriot..........the IDF and the Bibi War Cabinet are creating a whole new pantheon of patriotic martyrs for the Palestinian cause, just like in Ireland with 1916 executed 16, these folks will be talked about and honored in Palestine for 100 years!
Peace is the only solution...........
Posted by: Tobias Cole | Oct 18 2024 12:10 utc | 37
Sinwar was killed by IDF tank fire......just like many Israeli citizens killed in their own kibbutz homes by IDF tank fire on October 7th...........
How completely ironic is that!
Posted by: Tobias Cole | Oct 18 2024 12:14 utc | 38
Meanwhile, back in the Uk, Starmer's government continues to target journalist who dont follow the Official Narrative on Palestine.
British counterterrorism police on Thursday raided the home and seized several electronic devices belonging to The Electronic Intifada’s associate editor Asa Winstanley.
Approximately 10 officers arrived at Winstanley’s North London home before 6 am and served the journalist with warrants and other papers authorizing them to search his house and vehicle for devices and documents.
A letter addressed to Winstanley from the “Counter Terrorism Command” of the Metropolitan Police Service indicates that the authorities are “aware of your profession” as a journalist but that “notwithstanding, police are investigating possible offenses” under sections 1 and 2 of the Terrorism Act (2006). These provisions set out the purported offense of “encouragement of terrorism.”
An officer conducting Thursday’s raid informed Winstanley that the investigation was connected with the journalist’s social media posts. Attempts to reach the Metropolitan Police Service for comment for this story have been unsuccessful.
Although his devices were seized, Winstanley was not arrested and has not been charged with any offense.
Winstanley is active on several social media platforms, and has more than 100,000 followers on Twitter/X, where he frequently shares articles, other peoples’ opinions and his own comments on Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people, British government support for these crimes, and the Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide.
The vaguely worded provisions relating to “encouragement of terrorism” would clearly violate the First Amendment of the United States Constitution guaranteeing freedom of speech, however the United Kingdom lacks similar constitutional protections for freedom of expression.
The draconian legislation “curtails a range of freedoms,” according to University of Edinburgh law professor Andrew Cornford, including “the freedoms to discuss controversial topics openly, and to share moral, political and religious opinions.”
Human Rights Watch has called on the British government to repeal the repressive provisions of the Terrorism Act (2006), noting that “the definition of the encouragement of terrorism offense is overly broad, raising serious concerns about undue infringement on free speech.”
In August, Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service issued a warning to the British public to “think before you post” and threatening that it would prosecute anyone it deemed guilty of what it calls “online violence.”
Whole article : https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/uk-police-raid-home-seize-devices-eis-asa-winstanley
Posted by: Red Star | Oct 18 2024 12:25 utc | 39
So good to see this column. An honourable death of an honourable soldier fighting a righteous cause against an evil enemy force we must all fight sooner or later.
I hope, as was the case with Fascist Spain and is now the case with fascist proxy Ukraine, there are warriors from here that will fight to free Palestine and destroy the Genocide regime.
Silence is complicity. Resist don't collaborate. Don't vote for genocide, empire and oligarchy.
Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 18 2024 12:28 utc | 40
R.I.P. Yahya Sinwar.
@Outraged 12. Thanks for the report.
I hope the B2's can be tracked with image processing of high-res satellite multi-spectral imagery against the backdrop of the ocean and the clouds. This is a long flight going from Australia to Yemen. Maybe the Yemeni can't down a B2 but I wonder how Russia or China would do it.
Posted by: Richard L | Oct 18 2024 12:43 utc | 41
I was hoping until the last moment that Yahya Sinwar would appear, with a smile, as he has three times before when he was "killed".
Now that Hamas has confirmed his death, like the Palestinians and all good people with a conscience I deeply, deeply mourn this great man. Everyone should know about him, his life and his deeds.
A true hero.
I do not doubt for a single moment that the Resistance will win this battle with pure Evil that is out to devour everything.
I hope that all Gods will protect every member of the Resistance and everyone joining the resistance.
Posted by: JB | Oct 18 2024 12:58 utc | 42
For those interested in preserving the video of Sinwar's final act of defiance- before it mysteriously disappears into the Memory Hole- the video address is:
https://x.com/i/status/1847031497662017724
If you need a download point, this one works as of five minutes ago:
It wouldn't surprise me if Israel tries to have this pulled from the internet and then claim some BS story about killing him.
Posted by: John S | Oct 18 2024 13:00 utc | 43
Via Journalist Youssef Fares, and only those current at time of writing:
- The Mujahid Leader Khalil Al-Hayya: The blood of the martyrs will continue to light our way and constitute an incentive for steadfastness and perseverance
Hamas will continue until the establishment of the Palestini an state on all Palestinian soil with Jerusalem as its capital
The martyrdom of the leader Sinwar and the leaders who preceded him will only increase the strength and resilience of our movement
The occupation prisoners will not return unless the aggression on Gaza stops, the complete withdrawal from it, and our prisoners are released from the prisons
Al-Sinwar ascended advancing, not retreating, engaging in the front lines and moving between combat positions
- In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
“And never think of those who are killed in the cause of Allah as dead. Rather, they are alive with their Lord, receiving provision.”
Military statement issued by:
..::: Al-Qassam Brigades :::..
O sons of our struggling Palestinian people.. O masses of our Arab and Islamic nation:
Al-Qassam Brigades announces the martyrdom of the great leader/ Yahya Sinwar “Abu Ibrahim”, leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, who ascended, facing and not retreating, in the most honorable battles in defense of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and of our people and their legitimate rights. It is a source of pride for our movement to put leaders before soldiers, and for its leaders to lead the caravan of martyrs of our people who gave their lives and blood for the sake of Allah and on the path to liberating Palestine, and for its leader to be mar tyred among his struggling brothers, a hero engaged in combat with the invaders who thought that Gaza could be an easy prey for their cowardly army.
The journey of our leader, Abu Ibrahim, was an honorable jihadist journey, during which he was from the founding generation of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, and its military and security apparatuses. Then he sacrificed the flower of his youth as a prisoner in the occupation’s prisons for more than twenty years before he was released with his head held high in the “Wafa al-Ahrar” deal. Once he was released from prison, he insisted on continuing the journey of jihad and did not taste rest. He supervised the movement’s military work in the three regions and had an important role in the path of unifying the resistance fronts on the road to Jerusalem. Then he headed the movement in Gaza, so that his leadership period constituted a qualitative shift in its advocacy, political and military journey that culminat ed in “Al-Aqsa Flood,” and in the path of national relations and joint resistance work, before heading the movement at home and abroad following the martyrdom of the great leader Ismail Haniyeh.
When the resistance factions, with Hamas at their core, decided to enter this great and decisive battle in the history of the Palestinian people’s struggle and in the course of our nation, they knew that the price of liberation was very high and had been paid by all peoples before they were liberated from their occupiers. They were prepared to lead the ranks of the sacrificing people at the heart of their people, so they presented leaders and soldiers, refusing to submit to the enemy or remain silent about its injustice and plundering of our people’s legitimate rights. Our jihad will not stop until Palestine is liberated, the last Zionist is expelled from it, and all our legitimate rights are restored. The best evidence of this is that our people did not break or surrender a year after the “Al-Aqsa Flood” battle, despite the enormous price they paid and despite the brutal Zionist crimes of genocide.
This criminal enemy is delusional if he thinks that by assassinating the great leaders of the resistance such as Sinwar, Haniyeh, Nasrallah, Al-Arouri and others, he can extinguish the flame of the resistance or force it to retreat. Rather, it will continue and escalate until the legitimate goals of our people are achieved. Martyrdom is the highest desire of our leaders, and their blood will be a beacon that lights the path to liberation and a fire that burns the aggressors. Our leaders have left behind hundreds of thousands of mujahideen from our people and our nation who are determined to confront the Zionist occupation until Palestine and Al-Aqsa Mosque are cleansed of its filth and swept from our land, God willing.
It is a jihad of victory or martyrdom...
The Martyr Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades Palestine
- Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades: With great pride and honor, we mourn the great national leader, the engaged head of the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement "Hamas", the engineer of the epic of the Flood of Al-Aqsa, and the most prominent symbols of the Palestinian struggle, the martyr hero "Yahya Ibrahim Hassan Al-Sinwar"
- Secretary-General of the Islamic Jihad Movement, Ziyad al-Nakhalah: Today we mourn a great and distinguished leader of our Palestinian people, who spent his life struggling, advancing the ranks and fighting for the sake of God, he did not hesitate or weaken, and he did not abandon his weapon, the great leader Yahya Sinwar, with whose name is associated the greatest battle that the Palestinian people have fought throughout their long struggle, it is the Battle of the Flood of Al-Aqsa with all the meanings of heroism, sacrifice and redemption that it carries.
Today we bid farewell to Abu Ibrahim, a leader and a martyr. The martyrs are alive with their Lord, receiving sustenance, and alive in our jihad march towards Jerusalem, and our banners are high and do not bow.
-The Palestinian people and the resistance will remain faithful to the line of resistance, and loyal to the spirit of the great leader Yahya Sinwar, the icon of jihad and resistance, and they will carry his banner and his spirit.
- In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
{Among the believers are men true to what they promised God. Among them is he who has fulfilled his vow [to the death], and among them is he who awaits [his chance], and they have not changed [their commitment] in the least.} - God Almighty has spoken the truth.
Statement issued by the leadership of the Resistance Committees in Palestine and its military arm, the Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades:
With the highest expressions of pride, honor, determination, resolve, and steadfastness on the path of jihad and resistance, the Resistance Committees in Palestine and its military arm, the Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades, represented by its Secretary-General, the Mujahid brother Abu Yasser al-Shishniyeh, its central leadership, and all its organizational frameworks, mourn to the masses of our people, our Arab and Islamic nation, and the free people of the world, the inspiring martyr, the great Islamic jihadist leader:
Hajj Yahya al-Sinwar "Abu Ibrahim", Head of the Political Bureau To the Islamic Resistance Movement "Hamas" and the leader of the Battle of the Flood of Al-Aqsa,
who ascended facing and not turning his back after a life full of jihad, resistance, humiliation and insulting the face of the Zionist entity, its settlers, their cowardly leaders and their agents, as he was in the first lines of confrontation and engagement with the enemy and its soldiers.
The martyrdom of the inspiring leader Hajj Abu Ibrahim Sinwar facing and not turning his back, pulling the trigger, wearing his keffiyeh and quiver, and in the first lines of confrontation and the lines of fire and engagement with the Zionist enemy, is a great message sealed with pure blood that victory, pride and dignity are only written with blood, fire and gunpowder.
The inspiring leader Hajj Abu Ibrahim Sinwar will remain the living heart of the nation, pulsating with revolution, resistance and determination, and his name will remain associated with and associated with the image of humiliation and defeat that has covered the entire Zionist enemy entity and its allies, foremost among them the head of terrorism, the United States of America and the unjust West.
We offer our condolences to our people and all the heroes of the resistance and the Mujahideen in the battlefields and confrontation with the Zionist enemy in Gaza, the West Bank, Jerusalem, the occupied territories in 1948, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq and Iran for the martyrdom of the great Islamic leader Hajj Abu Ibrahim Sinwar, and we affirm that his pure blood will ignite the revolution with flames, fire and a volcano of rage until victory and liberation.
We offer our condolences to our brothers in the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, its political bureau and all its Mujahideen and fighters in the Martyr Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, who are pressing the trigger of pride, defiance and confrontation, holding the banner of resistance and revolution whose blazing fire will never and will never die down.
We pledge to the great Islamic martyr leader Ibrahim Sinwar that we will remain faithful to your legacy of resistance until the annihilation of the evil Zionist entity from our blessed land from its sea to its river.
"And Allah is predominant over His affair, but most people do not know."
The Resistance Committees in Palestine and its military arm, the Nasser Salah ad-Din Brigades.
- The Supreme Political Council of Yemen: With great pride and honor, we received the news of the martyrdom of the great Mujahid and great leader Yahya Sinwar after a long journey full of jihad and giving.
The martyr Sinwar raised the banner of jihad and stood effectively and steadfastly at the forefront of the oppressed Palestinian people and the Mujahideen in the resistance movements.
The martyr Sinwar formed a solid and strong front in the face of the criminal Zionist aggression until his actions and jihad were crowned with martyrdom in the way of Allah.
We congratulate the Islamic and Arab nation in general and the Hamas movement in particular on this great martyrdom and extend our deepest condolences to his honorable family.
The martyrdom of this great leader and his pure, noble blood will be the fuel that the Zionists will burn in its fire and will increase the determination and resolve of the Mujahideen in Palestine.
- The Popular Front: We mourn the national leader Yahya Sinwar, the architect of the Al-Aqsa Flood epic and one of the most prominent symbols of the Palestinian struggle
- Palestinian National Initiative: Assassination of struggling leaders has never broken and will never break the will of the Palestinian people.
https://t.me/Sohaibpress/77795
Posted by: Ornot | Oct 18 2024 13:03 utc | 44
Richard [email protected] Russia and China are not tracking those planes now, like the resistance, they are in for a suprise. That said Russia and China tracking those planes is of no use to the Resistance. And the 'resistance' having no CAPs and no means to shoot down said planes.... well, ducks in a barrel.
The Apartheid State should have been burned to the ground the day after Nasrallah was martyred. A tank here or there a few thousand dead and injured Baby Killers, meh!
Good old Col Lang, he wanted B52s to bombed Hamas Hezbollah back to the stone age..... prophetic, or he knows his kind.
Cheers M
Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Oct 18 2024 13:06 utc | 45
'Genocide Justin' Smears Yahya Sinwar
https://x.com/JustinTrudeau/status/1846982392546001045
Posted by: John Gilberts | Oct 18 2024 13:15 utc | 46
The US has bombed Yemen (2023 GDP: $23 billion) with B2 bombers (Year 2000 cost: $2 billion apiece).
One flight hour of the B2 bomber costs about $130,000, sufficient to pay 170 families $750 hurricane disaster damage.
Posted by: Passerby | Oct 18 2024 13:22 utc | 47
Posted by: Ludovic | Oct 18 2024 7:14 utc | 3
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Stick to the Ukraine discussion. The details and nuances of the occupation elude you.
Sinwar was of Gaza, which is an open-air concentration camp, and most of their natural "allies" in the Arab world were formalizing enduring economic relations with the Occupier.
Can you imagine growing up in Gaza where every few years the Occupiers bring their flying American death machines to indiscriminately "mow the grass"?
Educate yourself before speaking about a martyr who gave his life to implement a plan to save his people. Are you ready to die for anything bigger than yourself?
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Oct 18 2024 13:24 utc | 48
The leaders of the West are so delusion. A people that had hundreds of thousands of theirs brutally murdered are just going to give up? I imagine they have only created more intense resentment, resolve, and determination of those with nothing left to lose to take up arms against their occupier. They know for a fact ALL those hostages could have been released last year, but Israel's nutter leadership refused multiple times. This proves to me that Israel's only goal is ethnic cleansing.
Posted by: anon | Oct 18 2024 13:31 utc | 49
The US says the death of Sinwar will lead to a ceasefire. Netanyahu, on the other hand, is going in harder on Gaza. He wants complete ethnic cleansing.
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These are all from Gaza Platform:
The occupation commits a new massacre in Tal al-Zaatar, north of the Gaza Strip.
An entire square was blown up on top of the citizens.
A large number of martyrs and wounded.
Israel is considering; private American companies will distribute food supplies in the Gaza Strip.
Ministry of Health in Gaza:
The occupation committed 4 massacres in the Strip, resulting in 62 martyrs and 300 wounded arriving at hospitals in 24 hours.
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/Gazaplatform?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
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From MME:
The Israeli military said on Friday it sent another army unit to support its forces operating in Jabalia, the largest of Gaza's eight historic refugee camps, where residents said tanks blew up roads and houses as they thrust further into the territory.
Residents of Jabalia in northern Gaza said Israeli tanks had reached the heart of the camp, using heavy air and ground fire, after pushing through suburbs and residential districts.
They added that the Israeli army was destroying dozens of houses on a daily basis, sometimes from the air and the ground and by placing bombs in buildings then detonating them remotely.
Posted by: teri | Oct 18 2024 13:33 utc | 50
So, did I see that Sinwar was negotiating with Israel when this attack occurred? I think this is Bibi's plan, to make negotiations deadly. The intended result is that the Palestinians will quit negotiations and Israel will be emboldened/justified to fight and eliminate all Gazand/Palestinians as they refuse to even negotiate.
Many of you need to know about Islamic just war theory, it's unIslamic to harm a tree in battle, destruction of infrastructure is forbidden if it can be avoided. Also, a good Muslim fighter must always be willing to negotiate peace in good faith. Israel knows this but is trying to get them to over-react. Islamic just war theory forbids attacking those not fighting you. So, those of you who call for Muslim nations/armies to fight like Zionists or Christians, you have no clue. I'm not saying those calling the shots are good people, or good Muslims, but we need to understand their ethos. As long as they're keeping within those restraints that speaks well of their resolve and morale
Posted by: Scottindallas | Oct 18 2024 13:34 utc | 51
“ B-2's have been stationed at Diego Garcia in the past”
Only about 2000 nautical miles from Chah Bahar…hmmm
Posted by: necromancer | Oct 18 2024 13:37 utc | 52
Ludovic 3
I can't understand why you say that Hamas destroyed Ravers in their cars.
The cars were mangled by missiles from Satanistan tanks and chelicopters using the Channibal doctrine. Where are you getting your Chasbara , one year out of date information?
Sinwar may have clocked that the money trail from Qatar was the weak link in the security chain and broken the chain for self-preservation. Which might explain why he was where he was, maybe looking for money in empty buildings.
I have no doubt in my mind that Satanistan and Muslim Brotherhood run by MI6 were colluding in planning Oct 7, behind the back of Yahya Sinwar and Hamas. Allah SWT does not like the Betrayers.
Posted by: Giyane | Oct 18 2024 13:38 utc | 53
Too clever by half.
1. Set up Hamas to divide the Palestinians
2. Set up Gaza in the image of the Warsaw Ghetto
3. Shoot humans in the Ghetto/Concentration Camp for thrills
4. After precipitating resistance, kill your own people.
Not seeing a plan to get Israel back to "normal". An armed, isolated camp surrounded by peoples who despise you more than ever before. Black Jack with a 7 and 8 face up.
Posted by: kupkee | Oct 18 2024 13:39 utc | 54
The Satanic Verses, where Joshua's genocide is celebrated on the Bible is the most vile act celebrated by any faith. Joshua boasted of leaving, not a stone atop another, and is it any surprise, the nation with Jericho rockets is trying to repeat the most vile celebrated ethnic cleansing?
Posted by: Scottindallas | Oct 18 2024 13:45 utc | 55
Israel wins again!!!
Hamas is eliminated and Gaza is cleansed…you idiots in the West who love the paleshitians can have them…heheheh…
Posted by: Adam Goldman | Oct 18 2024 13:51 utc | 56
Dancing on a grave for living upon this grave is digging thy own grave. That's all what their holly book is all about but they'll never understood.
Posted by: Savonarole | Oct 18 2024 13:58 utc | 57
Adam Goldman,
You confuse blind rage atrocities with victory on the battlefield. To the contrary, blind rage atrocities are the hallmark of defeated militaries.
30%+ of Israelis polled believe the IDF has lost. They are correct.
Time for the Likud to sue for peace. The deal the Likud gets today will be better than any later deal.
Posted by: Exile | Oct 18 2024 13:59 utc | 58
The words terrorist and terrorism get thrown around a lot by those in power in the West, but no nations in history have been more prolific terrorists than the United States and Israel....They've been overthrowing governments and assassinating people all over the globe on a scale previously unknown....
Posted by: Pyrrhus | Oct 18 2024 14:13 utc | 59
"Every day is Ashura and every day is Karbala"
-- ZenShi'a Mentat
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 18 2024 14:15 utc | 60
"Every day is Ashura and every day is Karbala"
-- ZenShi'a Mentat
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 18 2024 14:15 utc | 63
Idiot.
"Every day is Ashura and every place is Karbala"
-- ZenShi'a Mentat
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Oct 18 2024 14:18 utc | 61
For a Muslim, there is no greater life achievement possible than to die in the service of Allah SWT.
All of those Palestinians who have died, died as martyrs.
Sinwar (and Nasrallah) had that almost extinct quality of moral courage.
Men willing to die for their convictions.
Sinwar is gone and the effect of his life will last generations.
Think about what you do with your life. Will anyone remember or care 20 years after your death? Will your death be in service to something which improves the future?
We can't all be Sinwar but we can make our fleeting lives count.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Oct 18 2024 14:32 utc | 62
“55 percent of the population is under 15. We are not speaking of terrorists, we are speaking of kids. They have no political affiliation. They have just fear.I want them free.”
-Sinwar
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Oct 18 2024 14:35 utc | 63
ScottinDallas 53
Thank you so much for this resume on Jihad. I have been to Jericho, taken there by Israelis on an unplanned visit to Israel in the 70s. They were appallingly racist against Palestinians, but nothing like what is happening now.
What I think has changed is US failure to take over Syria by Al Qaida, who were obviously not using Any rules of Islamic Jihad and were entirely controlled by USUKIS because of Putin's destruction of USUKIS bunkers housing them. Saudi was funding that war for access to Damascus in anticipation of Jesus's AS return.
So , in the eyes of the Zionist Neocons, they tried making Greater Israel by deception, and it failed, so they are now resorting to MOABs on Resistance bunkers and bombing civilians.
The Saudis therefore are responsible , because they thought they could buy Islamic influence by cash and unIslamic methods of jihad, for the Neocons present backing of Netanyahu who is a Revisionist Zionist Nazi using Nazi methods of warfare.
The Saudis set the precedent that money can buy anything without any Muslim rules. Empire is only copying the Saudis, by funding and arming Israel, with West Asia as their ultimate goal.
The question of whether Russia and China could protect Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Turkey Egypt etc is answered by the same snag as USUKIS found in Syria.
King Salman wanted USUKIS to nuke Russia, but USUKIS wasn't prepared to sacrifice itself for an extremely rich and ignorant fool.
Russia is also now unable to sacrifice itself by using their hypersonic missiles or nukes against Israel.
The only thing Russia and China can do is indirectly to arm real , Muslim, Mujahideen to fight Israel. But Saudi Arabia has set the precedent for Quick Fix nuclear war. West Asia knows nothing about Nuclear. Western countries have faced the reality of nuclear war for 80 years, 3 generations.
You cannot persuade an Afghan or a Pakistani or an Iraqi or an Iranian Muslim to fight USUKIS by hand with machine guns, because nobody in the West can their thousands of Nukes to settle their scores .
Asians cannot begin to understand the inability and unacceptability of Nuclear War. However, in the end, the only people who can and will save Palestine are Russian or China backed Muslim Jihadists.
As to the Gulfies, they are eunuchs with football stadia as illustrated by their trying to use Normilisation with Israel as a bargaining chip, which is the moral equivalent of prostituting your wife and daughters for a miserable financial gain.
Posted by: Giyane | Oct 18 2024 14:36 utc | 64
Posted by: jure | Oct 18 2024 14:36 utc | 69
Lol then it would be a strictly Merkin campaign.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Oct 18 2024 14:40 utc | 65
Yahya Sinwar died fighting as a leader should. You will neve see a western military leader die in battle. They may fall off a barstool, but never die fighting. Two tank rounds to take out one 59-year-old man. The IDF proves once again how tough they are.
Posted by: Matt | Oct 18 2024 15:15 utc | 66
ISRAEL IS #! in the WORLD...at assassinations, the cowardly way to claim victory.
Posted by: aristodemos | Oct 18 2024 15:24 utc | 67
The Arab world is delighted with the attitude of Grzegorz Braun
@GrzegorzBraun_ , who stands up for the murdered Palestinians in the European Parliament and directly calls Israel a terrorist state.
Braun's speeches are translated into Arabic and are taking over local social media. The comments clearly show admiration for the Polish parliamentarian, who has become a hero for them.
Here are some selected comments:
"In the whole world, in America, in Europe, and even in the Arab and Islamic world, there is not a single person who would have the courage to say what this man said."
"This guy is a hero."
"May he live better than the infidel rulers."
"This is a truly free and honorable parliamentarian from Poland."
"Praise be to God that some rational people in the West recognize that Israel is - and has been from the beginning - a terrorist state. Praise God for the one who publicly exposed it."
“May God protect you, wherever you are, for speaking the truth about the people of Palestine and around the world.”
“There are people who do not like injustice. This is one of them. May the word of truth be supreme.”
“A respected man who feels the pain of the people of Gaza.”
“Have mercy on the Mother who gave birth to you. May God grant you health and well-being. Here is a man in a time when [other] men have become mere commodities in the hands of lobbyists.”
#FreePalestine #FreePalestine #GazaGenocide #Gaza #FreePalestineFromZionists #WeAreAllGaza
Recent events suggest resistance everywhere might do better targeting money sources, their assets and their wealth instead of trying to destroy military assets [personal and equipment] and trying to stage terror attacks involving innocent civilians with the goal to cause the population to regime governments.I wonder if anyone has done a study on this?
...Posted by: snake | Oct 18 2024 10:11 utc | 22
Not a study, but an observation: having lived through almost the whole ot the 'troubles' with the IRA, I remember that in the 70s and 80s they tended to bomb civilian targets on the mainland UK and militray nones in NI. During the 90s, they switched targets to economic ones lie major motorway junctions and the City of London, a well as the famous mortar attack on No 10 Downing Street. Not long after HM Govt started secret negotiations on a long lasting peace deal which ended up with the Northern Ireland Agreement.
So that would seem to be the way to go - hit them in the pocket book and leave the politicians no safe place to hide.
Posted by: ChatNPC | Oct 18 2024 15:28 utc | 69
A worthy post, b.
Sinwar will certainly be a symbol for the Palestinians and their just liberation struggle. But I would say Sinwar becomes a symbol for all oppressed people.
This event also highlights the barbarity and lawlessness of the 'State of Israel' and all who support their crimes.
The fate of 'Israel' has been sealed. It is a question of time only.
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 18 2024 15:30 utc | 70
Menz@807
From all appearances, Blinken, Winkin and Stinkin is the Gauleiter over the puppet regime in the Di$trict of Corruption for the Rottenchild Crime Clan, on behalf of the ruling Babylonian Sanhedrin. For some 2,500 years, the goal of that rabbinical assembly is total world domination for those who believe they are chosen by their tribal WarGod.
Anyone who actually believes that the Clown Show actually has agency in this ruptured republic is in dire need of a brain transplant.
The U$$A is ruled, lock, stock and poppycock by the Moneymongers.
Posted by: aristodemos | Oct 18 2024 15:32 utc | 71
My respect to the host of this bar for acknowledging the death of this heroic freedom fighter and providing an opportunity for us to comment.
PALESTINE, SOUL OF HUMANITY!
i am inspired...
Posted by: simon crow | Oct 18 2024 15:34 utc | 72
Richard L | Oct 18 2024 12:43 utc | 42
"This is a long flight going from Australia to Yemen."
Isn't Diego Garcia conveniently situated halfway?
Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Oct 18 2024 15:38 utc | 73
It’s too bad for the Empire and the Hollywwod Zionist guild that the plot to every movie that the world has been saturated with over the past 40 years just played out in front of 7 billion people turned in reverse.
Posted by: Turk 152 | Oct 18 2024 15:40 utc | 75
outraged@905
That B2 could have been air to air refueled at some point along that long, long flight. There is also the possibility that the refueling craft was flown outta the unlawful base on the island of Diego Garcia...OR the B2 may have stopped in that the huge U$$A complex on that Indian Ocean outpost.
Posted by: aristodemos | Oct 18 2024 15:42 utc | 76
It's a shame canuck can't be banned from the thread. I'm all for free speech and open spaces but literally every single comment this clown makes is the most toxic, hateful shit imaginable and hopefully we can all just ignore it instead of responding to the piece of absolute sh** troll.
Posted by: fk_canuck | Oct 18 2024 15:45 utc | 77
Waldorf@958
The supposed death of TWO-THIRDS of the World's Jews in WWII is naught but an outrageous lie...by the usual suspects. Both the Jewish World Encyclopedia in 1946 and the International Red Cross indicated that the actual losses of Jewish lives were not even in the millions.
So who is to believe what?
Posted by: aristodemos | Oct 18 2024 15:47 utc | 78
LoveDonbass 67
Yes, it's the kids the Occupiers are scared of. They came from Ukraine and
Poland where there was plenty of room for everyone, and are now living in a small country without much water and land.
The Ukrainian Nazi neocons have trashed Ukraine for Israel to colonise and supply Palestine. The only fly in the ointment the Zionists see is the reproductive fertility of Palestinians in the religious enclave they want to inhabit.
Greater Israel isn't any more than a military buffer zone from Muslim interference. Israel wants Normalisation with their Southern Muslim neighbours and total control over Yemen , Jordan and Lebanon.
If you asked AI to plan a strategy for making a Wasp's nest in Jerusalem, this genocide and normalisation is what AI would tell you to do:
Kill the kids. Screw the Gulfies. Infiltrate the opposition into little Arab kingdoms. Pump the oil from the Gazan sea.
I do believe that Western planners are totally reliant on AI which is Conscience-free.
Muslim AI would be God-free SWT and prophet-free SAW. Is, not would be.
Posted by: Giyane | Oct 18 2024 15:49 utc | 79
The US/UK/IS celebrates Sinyar's death, as supporting their delusional aspirations to genocide Palestine, while expanding the footprint of greater Israel. The rest of the world - sees the man and the people, as they do Nasrallah, as indidividuals of exceptional merit and extraordinary courage who have stood up to the bloodthirsty hegemon and its spawn, who have spoken truth to power and who have been steadfast in the strictures of their faith in combat although their far, far more powerful opponents have violated any and all of the tacit rules of humanity, let alone respecting Geneva conventions. However, this is a war of attrition - all chapters will be long, bloody and filled with pain and suffering for Palestine - but someday, some time will come when Palestine is free. To understand the foresight and strategic vision of Nasrallah and Sinyar, one has only to compare the situation in Israel, US, UK on the days prior to October 7 to today: The Axis of Genocide has hemorraged economic, geopolitical, military, reputational and human assets and continues to do so - rapidly hollowing out these countries, shriving them of money, armaments and, most important, geopolitical affiliations in West Asia and throughout the world.
Posted by: abierno | Oct 18 2024 15:49 utc | 80
Malenkov@1051
At it again. You disgust me. It appears that you have swallowed more than one blue pill.
Posted by: aristodemos | Oct 18 2024 15:50 utc | 81
RedStar@1225
The massive invasion by British "Authorities" of Winstanley's home is proof positive that the Sceptred Isle does not possess anything even vaguely similar to the First Amendment to the American Constitution. Those who rule Britain need to all be taken captive and horsewhipped stark naked in a public square.
For centuries, the British ruling class has been to most evil political entity in the Western World. It all became metastasizing with the Enclosure Acts, where commons lands were seized by the aristocraps.
Posted by: aristodemos | Oct 18 2024 15:57 utc | 82
abierno 81
A hollow tree is stronger than a hollow tree. As Israel becomes spiritually , morally and socially more hollow, it also becomes stronger. This is what happens when the West abandons Religion.
The totem pole of Palestine becomes an idol for the West to worship like Stones or Statues of Paganism.
Zionists are the blood-sacrificing
Druids of our century.
Posted by: Giyane | Oct 18 2024 15:59 utc | 83
Can we stop with peal clutching over, the Jews may have lied about the Holocaust? You have been saturated with nonstop bullshit every single day of your life. What makes you think that in an era in which it was extremely difficult to know anything other than officialdom and nobody here was even alive, that in this particular instance of the Holocaust, we were given the absolute truth in its entirety.
Posted by: Turk 152 | Oct 18 2024 16:00 utc | 85
thanks b... good point and as @ marcel | Oct 18 2024 6:53 utc | 2 quotes -
"When authorities killed that dude from Nazareth they believed they had crushed his whole movement- Now we count time from the year of his birth."
@SaulWilliams on Twitter.
Posted by: james | Oct 18 2024 16:01 utc | 86
UNIFIL: ‘Israel’ Deliberately Attacked our Forces, White Phosphorus Used
https://english.almanar.com.lb/2236148
Posted by: Exile | Oct 18 2024 16:01 utc | 87
🇷🇺🇵🇸President Putin:https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/127022" The conflict cannot be resolved by giving economic incentives to the Palestinians. We must understand that they will not walk away, this is their land"
🇷🇺🇵🇸 "The main method of resolving the Palestinian issue is the creation of a fully-fledged Palestinian state." - Putinhttps://t.me/DDGeopolitics/127023
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 18 2024 16:04 utc | 88
Thanks for the post b.
As I wrote recently, Hollywood has had a profound effect on the entity; where in the movies when a leader of fighting group is killed, all his men lay their arms down, and surrender.
Well, this ain't that kind of movie.
Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | Oct 18 2024 16:04 utc | 89
Secretary Antony Blinken
@SecBlinken
Yahya Sinwar was responsible for the murder of thousands of Israelis, Americans, and citizens of more than 30 countries. His decision to launch the terror attacks on October 7 unleashed catastrophic consequences on the people of Gaza. The world is a better place with him gone.
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Drone to Zionist mass murderer state terrorist Blinken:
Watch out, boy! Ah'm comin' fer ya!
Posted by: Jane | Oct 18 2024 16:16 utc | 90
All the Palestinians, Lebanese, and Yemenis killed fighting Israel have died righteously. They inspire many of us with their courage and choice to fight rather submit to the rule of colonialists.
Posted by: Keme | Oct 18 2024 16:23 utc | 91
Posted by: Ludovic | Oct 18 2024 7:14 utc | 3
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your argument is very incoherent and hardly factual...
but you what happens when you mow the lawn, right?....it grows greener and stronger.
Posted by: AI | Oct 18 2024 16:27 utc | 92
Larry Johnson
Killing Sinwar Will Not End the War in Gaza
Images like this, while sating the blood lust of some in the West, is likely to cement Sinwar’s status as a heroic martyr and rally beleaguered Palestinian youths to join Hamas and continue the fight.
Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 18 2024 16:34 utc | 94
"Can we stop with peal clutching over, the Jews may have lied about the Holocaust? You have been saturated with nonstop bullshit every single day of your life. What makes you think that in an era in which it was extremely difficult to know anything other than officialdom and nobody here was even alive, that in this particular instance of the Holocaust, we were given the absolute truth in its entirety."
Posted by: Turk 152 | Oct 18 2024 16:00 utc | 86
Amen
@ Exile:
This is new since this morning when last I posted. -
Al-Qassam Brigades:
We destroyed a Zionist Merkava tank with a highly explosive device east of Jabalia camp, north of the Gaza Strip.
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/Gazaplatform?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
Posted by: teri | Oct 18 2024 16:48 utc | 96
RE: Watch out, boy! Ah'm comin' fer ya!
Posted by: Jane | Oct 18 2024 16:16 utc | 92
In response, Biden, while in Germany, added Germans to the same statement. Can’t leave out the Sinwar mass murder of Germans as well!
So, perhaps they’ll find more than one drone up to the task?
Wouldn’t want Blinken to feel singled out. Twould be so unfair in a just and democratic society such as the West.
Posted by: Trubind1 | Oct 18 2024 16:48 utc | 97
Posted by: Ogre | Oct 18 2024 10:56 utc | 32
I have met them at close of day
Coming with vivid faces
From counter or desk among grey
Eighteenth-century houses.
I have passed with a nod of the head
Or polite meaningless words,
Or have lingered awhile and said
Polite meaningless words,
And thought before I had done
Of a mocking tale or a gibe
To please a companion
Around the fire at the club,
Being certain that they and I
But lived where motley is worn:
All changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
That woman's days were spent
In ignorant good-will,
Her nights in argument
Until her voice grew shrill.
What voice more sweet than hers
When, young and beautiful,
She rode to harriers?
This man had kept a school
And rode our wingèd horse;
This other his helper and friend
Was coming into his force;
He might have won fame in the end,
So sensitive his nature seemed,
So daring and sweet his thought.
This other man I had dreamed
A drunken, vainglorious lout.
He had done most bitter wrong
To some who are near my heart,
Yet I number him in the song;
He, too, has resigned his part
In the casual comedy;
He, too, has been changed in his turn,
Transformed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
Hearts with one purpose alone
Through summer and winter seem
Enchanted to a stone
To trouble the living stream.
The horse that comes from the road,
The rider, the birds that range
From cloud to tumbling cloud,
Minute by minute they change;
A shadow of cloud on the stream
Changes minute by minute;
A horse-hoof slides on the brim,
And a horse plashes within it;
The long-legged moor-hens dive,
And hens to moor-cocks call;
Minute by minute they live:
The stone's in the midst of all.
Too long a sacrifice
Can make a stone of the heart.
O when may it suffice?
That is Heaven's part, our part
To murmur name upon name,
As a mother names her child
When sleep at last has come
On limbs that had run wild.
What is it but nightfall?
No, no, not night but death;
Was it needless death after all?
For England may keep faith
For all that is done and said.
We know their dream; enough
To know they dreamed and are dead;
And what if excess of love
Bewildered them till they died?
I write it out in a verse—
MacDonagh and MacBride
And Connolly and Pearse
Now and in time to be,
Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
Posted by: JAB | Oct 18 2024 16:58 utc | 98
Latest news I found. The first item is obvious: Israel does not want anyone to be able to call out or send cellphone video out of northern Gaza while they continue the siege. There is a photo in the article showing the tanks surrounding the Jabalia camp. The last item, about Sinwar, was taken from a statement in Israeli media per the source I link to. The Israelis are making Sinwar more heroic by the minute.
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Israeli forces have cut off communication and internet networks in northern Gaza, according to Al Jazeera.
Israeli media has reported evidence that a plan to ethnically cleanse northern Gaza and kill any Palestinians who remain is underway.
Over the past 10 days, as Israeli forces ordered hundreds of thousands of people to flee northern Gaza before launching a new offensive, Israeli media and analysts have suggested that the military is implementing the controversial "Generals' Plan".
According to the health ministry in Gaza, since dawn at least 20 Palestinians have been killed - including 11 in Jabalia refugee camp in the north.
The health ministry in Gaza has said that at least 62 people have been killed and 300 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza in the last 24 hours.
- MEE live-blog
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15 families with their children and women are surrounded by Zionist military vehicles inside Qalibo School, north of Jabalia camp, north of the Gaza Strip.
A residential block was blown up in the middle of Rafah city
The northern Gaza Strip is entering a very dangerous phase with the intensification of massacres and "Israeli" shelling, the bombing of homes over the heads of their residents, and the cutting off of communications and the Internet in large areas
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/NewsPs0?after=136191&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
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Israeli media now confirms that it was Yahya Sinwar and his 4 companions that INITIATED the attack against an IDF patrol in the area; in other words, the Israelis did not find him, it was Sinwar who found and ambushed the IDF
Yahya Sinwar and 4 other fighters suddenly emerged from a building, running from cover to cover while throwing grenades and firing at the IDF force. Even after getting heavily wounded, and all of his bodyguards dying, he managed to throw grenades from inside the building, forcing the IDF to retreat, before he was eventually killed.
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/NewsPs0?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
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Posted by: teri | Oct 18 2024 17:01 utc | 99
I went elsewhere to copy the character “æ” (not on my keyboard) to type “Encyclopædia”…
Posted by: malenkov | Oct 18 2024 10:58 utc | 33
malenkov, thanks for the find. I've heard that at least a quarter of the men writing the said “ Encyclopædia” suffered from “ Pædophilia.”
Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | Oct 18 2024 17:05 utc | 100
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Brave, honorable & selfless. A good death.
RIP Yahya Sinwar
Salaam
Posted by: Outraged | Oct 18 2024 6:30 utc | 1