10/17/24 BREAKING: Hamas Leader Sinwar Claimed DEAD: Ryan and Jeremy React

We can discuss what we know at this point, and that is that on Wednesday night, apparently there was a routine patrol in the south of Gaza and there was some sort of This is all according to the Israelis. We have to emphasize Hamas as of this moment, has not put out any statement, but there was some sort of a routine patrol happening with Israeli occupation forces in southern Gaza. There's indications that it was either in.

And then these soldiers when they went inside, and you know what they say is that they're always looking for the Israeli captives that are being held in Gaza. They came across the bodies of what we understand now three individuals who we believe are Palestinian resistance fighters, and the soldiers saw one of them and believed that it was

Yahya Sinwar. He's a very distinct looking guy. The last image that Israel claimed to that the world has seen of Sinwar, it was a grainy image that the Israelis released. They said it was captured from a security camera in one of the tunnels in southern Gaza. Was a kind of sigh in rear view of a man walking down a tunnel with other individuals. But since then we haven't seen anything, and Sinhwar has only put out a few statements.

You did release a couple of letters to foreign dignitaries after Ismailhinia, the political leader of Hamas, was assassinated in Tehran, and Sinhwar was then made the head of both the military operations on the ground inside of Gaza, the political leader in Gaza and the head of its political bureau, which is largely based outside of Gaza. You know, the story of Yaha Sinhwar in some ways is the story

of what happened to the Palestinians of Gaza. He was born in a refugee camp in Khanyunis in nineteen sixty two and he himself was part of the original formation of Hamas. Soon after Hamas was formed, Yaha Sinhwar was arrested by Israeli forces and he was accused of of being a hit man, essentially for this new group that was emerging that was responsible for taking out collaborators who

were working with the Israelis. They also tried to pin on him allegations that he was involved with ambushing or

killing Israeli soldiers. But he ends up spending twenty two years in an Israeli prison, and in fact, Sinhwar was released in twenty eleven in a exchange deal for the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, and you had more than a thousand Palestinian prisoners released during that deal, and one of the chief negotiators was Yaja Sinhwaj's brother, Mohammed Sinhwar, who also is a significant figure in the command structure of Hamas and certainly in its ground operations over the past year.

So Sinhwar emerges from that prison and becomes quite quickly a revered political leader of Hamas and ultimately then takes control of the organization. While Sinwar was in prison, Ryan he spent his time studying, and he himself has talked about this and written about this. He spent his time studying the Israeli state. He read the memoirs of shin Bet,

former shin Bet heads, other Israeli intelligence officials. In fact, by hand he translated from Hebrew into Arabic these memoirs and would disseminate them to other political prisoners, Palestinian political prisoners, you know, arguing that you have to study the enemy in order to to defeat the enemy.

that he died in combat wearing combat gear. They said there was no sign of Israeli captives around fund him, and already on social media in the Arabic language, you see a lot of people saying that this this is a holy shaheed, that this is a martyr who died fighting for the Palestinian cause of liberation.

But I think there that what it indicated was not so much that that the US necessarily knew where Sinowar was and was withholding that information from Israel, but rather that I think the Biden administration has felt like if Yahya sin War was killed, it would allow them to argue with net Yahoo, you know, the time is up to say, you know, declare victory and let's wrap this thing up. Now. We have to emphasize that Biden has

not wrapped this thing up throughout the entire duration. I think it's pretty clear he could have ended this a long time ago with a phone call, as he did in twenty twenty one. They certainly could have said no more weapons for you, and Israel would have been in very, very deep trouble, especially as it tried to launch this

multi front war, potentially also with Iran. But I think that a mistake that that you know, Americans, that America made during the so called War on Terror, and that sometimes the you know, the Israeli press and government encourages this narrative is that by killing leaders, whether it's Hassan Nasralla of Hesbalah in Lebanon or Ismaelhania, the Hama's political leader, or in this case, Yakja Sinwar, that by killing the leaders,

you somehow are going to destroy the resistance. And the fact is that and history backs this up completely, that every time the Israelis believe that they have achieved some victory by assassinating a Palestinian leader, more rise up to take their place. What I think it's indicative of, though, Ryan, is that Netnyahu from the beginning never actually wanted a deal here. He sabotaged every possibility of a ceasefire. Excuse me of a prisoner exchange. You have ten thousand Palestinians

that are right now being held in Israeli custody. You have high value political prisoners being held in Israeli custody. If Netanyahu wanted to make a deal to release the Israeli captives from Gaza, they would have had to give over not just Palestinian children which they're holding and who they subject to military tribunals, or people that had posted WhatsApp or Facebook messages that the Israeli state has outlawed, but there would have been political figures chief among them.

And number one on the list of Hamas, even though he's not a HAMAS member, was marwe On Barguti, who actually emerged as a leader of the Second Palestinian in Tafada, was part of FATA and then became a paramilitary leader,

and he's been decades in Israeli prison. Some compare him or say that he's a kin in ways to a Palestinian Nelson Mandela one of the few figures that many people believe would have the ability to unite both Gaza and the West Bank and all of the factions into a unified Palestinian entity that would make a very clear demand for a Palestinian state to be recognized. It seems as though what Netanyahu decided was I'm going to burn Gaza to the ground. I'm going to kill as many

Palestinians as possible. I'm going to destroy the entire infrastructure of Gaza, and if it means that, you know, one hundred plus Israeli captives get killed in the process, it was a price worth paying. That's what I think really needs to be emphasized here. This shows that Netanya who and the Israeli state, the security establishment embraced a scorched earth policy that was aimed at obliterating Gaza as a Palestinian territory, and many of the residents of Gaza with it.

So they can say, oh, this is a great victory, and the watch for the Biden administration also to make an argument, this means that you've won the war seventy six years of oppression of apartheid, of colonialism, of targeted killing, of mass killing, of starvation, of blockades, has shown that you cannot kill the Palestinian resistance by killing the people who happened to be the leaders at any given time in history.

the election. Already, I'm getting reports from AID workers saying that the AID trucks that they're claiming are getting in aren't actually getting in, and in fact, they're pulling out vetted drivers from the trucks and beating and arresting the drivers, doing everything they can to kind of make it look publicly like they're letting AID in while actually thwarting it on the ground. So is this all of this just on hold until the election? You know?

temporarily pause them. Let's remember that just in recent days, the White House authorized the deployment of the THAD missile system to Israel, supposedly to defend against potential Iranian counter strikes. One hundred US military personnel went with it. The weapons flow is continuing. Yes, there's probably a degree to which this has to do with the election. And you know, Kamala Harris has given given many opportunities to indicate that she has any difference of perspective than Biden on this.

She's not only declined to do that, she's doubled down on saying that she's been in the room and she supports the policy entirely. I think there are probably many people in the Biden administration that, for a variety of reasons, are really fed up with this, and it's totally toxic to the election campaign of Kamala Harris. But I wouldn't

look for anything significant to happen out of this. I do think that Biden personally is going to try to use if Sinwar is confirmed to be dead, is to try to use this to make an argument that now is the time for a deal. From Netanyahu's perspective, I think he says, we don't even need to make a deal. We can just keep killing through this. And what I think they're going to hope for is let's try to recover as many living hostages as possible. He's gambled with

the lives of these Israelis for an entire year. Israeli forces have killed numerous hostages on their own. This all could have been done a long long time ago, at least since July second. This could have been ended in a very clear way when Hamas told international mediators that had accepted the terms of the Biden plan. So I don't think you can you can put any hope that the Biden administration is going to back up any of its expressed frustration leaks with real policy, all.

aspect of their lives. It tells the life and death of this young man who was still attached to an IV when Israel struck the courtyard near al Axa Hospital and caused him and his mother, another family member and others to catch on fire and at least four people died in that fire.