by Larry Johnson at SONAR 21
Israel is busy taking a victory lap after they unexpectedly killed Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar, who was caught in an Israeli tank strike. Sinwar was not the most photogenic fellow and his savage visage provided the West with an ideal villain. He looks evil, therefore he must be. While the Zionists love to use the imagery of “cutting-off the head of the snake,” I think they are grossly exaggerating Sinwar’s importance of his death and his significance to the movement. From the Palestinian perspective, he died a hero’s death. He was not cowering in a tunnel. He was on the field of battle, carrying a weapon and fighting.
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. Hamas is not a rigid, hierarchical organization. It is a diffuse and flexible group. I believe Sinwar’s presence on the battlefield is an example of that. If Hamas had a central command center coordinating all operations, Sinwar would have been there instead of recklessly exposing himself out in the open.
Hamas is proving to behave more like mercury when struck — it fragments into smaller, separate globules, but retains the capacity to attack and damage the Zionist forces in Gaza. In this regard, I think Hamas shares an ironic similarity to the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto who rose up against the Nazis in April 1943, only they are better armed and trained than the Jewish youths who battled the Germans. The Zionists, whether they know it or not, are creating a Palestinian version of Masada. While the Jews who fought against the Romans at Masada ultimately died, their sacrifice created a legend that Jews have celebrated through the Centuries. I think we are witnessing something similar taking place with the Palestinians. They are managing to survive against seemingly insurmountable odds.
Unlike Masada, where the Jewish defenders committed suicide,…
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