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Who is Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas political leader in Gaza? (Hamas leader a ‘cunning, sophisticated psychopath,’ says Israeli journalist who interviewed him in prison)
CBC news ^ | Dec 01, 2023 | Aloysius Wong

Posted on 12/01/2023 2:02:39 AM PST by jerod

WARNING: This story contains graphic details

Decades before Yahya Sinwar became the political leader of Hamas in Gaza, Israeli journalist and author Ehud Yaari sat down with him over hummus in an Israeli prison in the Negev desert. He describes Sinwar, who conversed in fluent Hebrew, as a curious but cunning Islamist, bent upon the destruction of the state of Israel.

"He is not somebody who's thinking about negotiations, a two-state solution — that's not Sinwar," said Yaari, who interviewed Sinwar in prison four times between 1993 and 2001.

"He was very clear that the state of Israel should be destroyed, and the Jews cannot be a part of a Palestinian state.

"He was willing to make an exception of me — jokingly," said Yaari, who is now a fellow of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

A founding member of Hamas Described by Israeli officials as the architect of the Oct. 7 attacks that killed 1,200, Sinwar, 61, was a founding member of Hamas and its military wing, the Qassam Brigades.

Born in 1962 in the Khan Younis refugee camp at the southern end of the Gaza Strip, he joined Hamas when it was created in 1987 and was favoured by its founder, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.

Yassin charged Sinwar with the creation of al-Majd, Hamas's internal security organization, which he used to hunt down and kill those suspected of collaborating with Israel.

Once, Yaari says, Sinwar punished a suspected informer by having the man's brother bury him alive, ordering the brother to finish the job with a spoon.

In another instance, Sinwar confessed to killing a man named Ramsi, whom he suspected of collaborating with Israelis. He told Israeli interrogators he strangled the man with a keffiyeh scarf, saying, "I wrapped him in a white shroud and closed the grave. I was sure that Ramsi knew he deserved to die."...

By the sounds of it... This dude likes killing Palestinian's more than he likes killing Jews... Sick b*stard!


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Gaza; News/Current Events
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Surprising that the CBC news would produce such a story... They're typically pro-HAMAS and antisemitic. Wonders never cease.
1 posted on 12/01/2023 2:02:39 AM PST by jerod
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To: jerod

I would suggest that all serious Muslim “soldiers” are psychopaths. They have no conscience about killing because their Quran not only approves of it but encourages it.


2 posted on 12/01/2023 2:25:37 AM PST by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a strong bias will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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To: jerod
An Israeli woman who was hostage said she saw Sinwar in one of the Gaza tunnels. I thought he might have escaped to Qatar. It's helpful to know where the head of the snake is.

Israeli ex-hostage says she confronted Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar in Gaza tunnel
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-ex-hostage-says-she-confronted-hamas-chief-yahya-sinwar-gaza-tunnel-2023-11-29/

3 posted on 12/01/2023 2:45:13 AM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: jerod

Better question: Why is he still alive?


4 posted on 12/01/2023 3:19:38 AM PST by nonliberal (Z.)
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To: jerod

Does he ride a camel in a race?


5 posted on 12/01/2023 3:44:21 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: jerod

BUMP


6 posted on 12/01/2023 4:13:31 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: jerod

Israel needs the Death Penalty for terror supporters.

They never get better.


7 posted on 12/01/2023 6:49:01 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.)
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To: jerod

Can’t wait till DJT gets back in the WH, he will treat these guys like he did Salami or Soleimani.


8 posted on 12/01/2023 9:23:20 AM PST by Rappini ("No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in it's preservation" MacArthr)
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