Ismail Haniyeh may have been the lesser of the two evils

Yahya Sinwar
1. The Architect of the October 7 Massacre
2. The Butcher of Khan Younis
3. The Eyes of a Murderer
4. The face of Evil  

From: AJC Global Voice August 7, 2024
in 2018, he supported weekly violent Palestinian protests along the border fence between Gaza and Israel, where his cold calculus about sacrificing Palestinian life to defeat Israel came into full display.

“We make the headlines only with blood,” Sinwar said in an interview with an Italian journalist at the time. No blood, no news.”
Experts have attributed the planning and execution of the brutal massacre of October 7 to Sinwar.

Amid Israel’s ongoing efforts to eliminate him, Sinwar has thus far refused to agree to a ceasefire and hostage deal that would help end the war. 

According to messages sent by Sinwar to Hamas leaders involved in indirect negotiations with Israel, he has shown a willingness to sacrifice Palestinian civilian lives for his own advantage, calling Palestinian deaths “necessary sacrifices.”

He has also refused to end the fighting and has come out against Palestinian reconciliation and a postwar plan, calling efforts “shameful and outrageous.”

“As long as fighters are still standing and we have not lost the war, such contacts should be immediately terminated,” he said in December of last year. “We have the capabilities to continue fighting for months.”

Sinwar has indicated that he is willing to die in the fighting and has also likened the battle against Israel to the 7th-century battle in Karbala, Iraq, where the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad was slain. 

“We have to move forward on the same path we started,” Sinwar wrote. “Or let it be a new Karbala.”