He died an honorable death. A warrior’s death, among his men, one with his people, in defense of his land against a genocidal intruder, occupier, and colonizer. The last episode of Sinwar’s life could not have been better written by the most gifted playwright: not in a tunnel, a secret bunker, or a far-off palace, and not while engaging in some unworthy act. He died resisting.
– If there’s one word I could think of to describe this ending, it is Hemingwayan. This was like a scene from a Hemingway novel about Palestine (I have no doubt who Hemingway would support in this conflict).
Seeing it, I was reminded of the ending of For Whom the Bell Tolls, with the rebels holding positions on a hill with the fascists closing in on them with airplanes and machine guns, knowing they have no chance of surviving.
In his final moments, Sinwar knew that was it for him. But he did not break. A proud Palestinian, Gazan, and Muslim to his last breath.
– He was born in 1962 in Khan Yunis to a family of 1948 refugees from Al-Majdal; he was 5 when Israel occupied Gaza, and never let go to this day (but it will, eventually).
In his last act of defiance, he threw some debris at an IDF drone, and I got to thinking: did he, as a young boy, also throw stones at IDF soldiers in Gaza? – What that refugee who spent 22 years in an Israeli prison started on October 7 is going to change world history for good.
The process is only in its initial phases.
مصر..الحاكم والمحكوم
في ذاكرة وسيرة السنوار
بقلم: حافظ الميرازى
في روايته الوحيدة: “الشوك والقرنفل” التي كتبها يحيى السنوار اعتمادا على سيرته الذاتية، وتم تسريبها من السجن الإسرائيلي ونشرها قبل سبع سنوات من الإفراج عنه عام 2011 ..
توجد لقطتان في روايته عن المصريين وهو طفل ثم شابا نشأ في مخيم بغزة، وكان للصورتين الذهنيتين تأثيرهما البالغ في تكوين وذاكرة السنوار.
-الذكرى الأولى إيجابية عن الشعب المصري وجنوده البسطاء، في تعاملهم مع الطفل يحيى المولود عام 1962 ومن خلال تعامل المصريين مع الناس في غزة قبل احتلال إسرائيل للقطاع في حرب 1967. حيث يروي على لسان بطل القصة:
“كان الجنود المصريون في ذلك المعسكر يحبوننا كثيرًا، أحدهم تعرَّف علينا وعرفنا بالأسماء، فإذا ما أطللنا نادى علينا: محمد .. أحمد … تعالوا هنا .. فنذهب إليه ونقف إلى جواره.. في انتظار ما سيعطينا كالعادة؛ فيمد يده إلى جيب بنطاله العسكري ويخرج لكلِّ واحد منا قطعة من حلوى الفستقية، يلتقط كل واحد منا قطعته ويبدأ بقضمها بنهم شديد، يُربت ذلك الجندي على أكتافنا ويمسح على رؤوسنا ويأمرنا بالرجوع إلى البيت؛ فنبدأ بجرجرة أرجلنا عائدين في طرقات المخيم“..
= الذكرى الثانية سلبية وفيها مرارة وخيبة أمل ليس تجاه الشعب المصري بل تجاه حاكمه الرئيس أنور السادات وهو يزور القدس عام 1977 ويقبل الحل السلمي المنفرد مع إسرائيل:
“كم كانت صدمتنا عظيمة ونحن نسمعه يعلن أنه مستعد لزيارة الكنيست الإسرائيلي، والمصيبة كانت قد ألجمتنا تمامًا ونحن نسمع المذياع وهو يغطي زيارة السادات للقدس، وخطابه في الكنيست أمام الحكومة الإسرائيلية وأعضاء الكنيست في إسرائيل، لم يكن عندنا في الدار جهاز تلفزيون، لذا لم نر تلك الصور ولكن التغطية للحدث في المذياع كانت كافية لصدمنا بصورة أفقدتنا القدرة على إدراك هل كان ذلك حقيقة أم مجرَّد خيال؟! ويبدو أن الصدمة أصابت العالم العربي بأسره أو في معظمه؛ حيث إن مستوى التناقضات والخلافات التي حدثت بين الأنظمة كانت خطيرة وبعيدة الأثر وبصورة طبيعية، فقد كنا كفلسطينيين نميل بكل جوارحنا إلى الصوت المعارض والمضاد والهجومي ضد السادات وضد اتفاقيات كامب ديفيد“.
- تُرى ماذا سيكتب أطفال غزة حين يكبرون عن مواقف الحكام والمحكومين العرب من أحداث حرب الإبادة؟!
By Scott Ritter @RealScottRitter
THE DEATH OF YAHYA SINWAR, IF CONFIRMED, REPRESENTS A SERIOUS BLOW TO HAMAS. But not a fatal one.
By killing a man who had become the face of the resistance of the citizens of Gaza to the ongoing Israeli occupation, Israel will seize the headlines of the moment, and will try to turn Sinwar’s passing into an existential moment for Hamas.
But as was the case with Hassan Nasrallah’s death, all Israel has demonstrated is that it can take human life. But Israel’s continued acts of targeted murder cannot, and will not, change the fact that it is an apartheid state engaged in acts of genocide against a people who oppose the ongoing illegal occupation of Palestine by the proponents of Zionism. A month from now, no one will be talking about Sinwars death.
Everyone will be talking about the continued resistance of the Hamas fighters.
You can’t kill an idea. Especially when the time for that idea has arrived.
Sinwar fought for Palestine. And the time for Palestine is now.
Yahya Sinwar was born into a refugee camp because his parents were ran out of their homes by Jews and spent 22 years in Israeli prisons where he was brutally tortured In 2018-19 he helped lead a peaceful protest on the Israeli border Israel responded by killing 223(including 46 children) and wounding 10k They deliberately shot young men in the dicks to take their manhood away This was widely condemned by the international community but Israel and the United States didn’t care Do you understand why he decided to resist
Small Moment (For Yahya Sinwar, the world knows your name.)
@DravenNoctis – American Combat Veteran
There is a measure in time that comes once in your life. That small, short moment just before you die.
Where the last beats of your heart and the breaths you take.
Are spent on reflection, of the decisions you made. He had this moment as he waited for the end.
His mind took him back to where it began.
He poked around the rubble with an old stick.
And remembered that he was born in this.
From his earliest moments, this is how it began.
He smiled at the irony that this is how it would end.
The world had forgotten his people and left them to die.
So he began to fight, he had to try.
He would devote his life to his people and home.
For he knew there was no one else, they were alone. Imprisoned and tortured, and so he became.
A warrior for his people, molded by pain.
He never thought to flee, to run, or hide.
Instead he would stand with his men or he would die.
As he sat in the chair, wounded from the fight.
He could hear the drone and see the light.
When he opened his eyes in a strange place.
He could see all his people, every face.
He felt a hand and heard his voice.
He worried if he had made the right choice.
“I’m sorry, my God, for the things I have done.
But I could not leave my people, not even one.”
God looked at the warrior who even at this time.
Thought not of himself but his people left behind.
“My son your place is here with me now.
Your brothers now carry the torch you laid down.
I have seen and measured your small moment in time. You’ve served life in Hell, in Palestine.”
-Noctis Draven
Yahya Sinwar provides a new perspective for the west about Hamas. Why are they called terrorists? The newly martyred leader was born into genocide and expelled from his home. He was raised in a refugee camp amidst war. He spent over 20 years in Israeli prison studying his faith and how to liberate his people. How can we be so arrogant as to call his actions anything else than self-defense? Why is our image of a terrorist a man dressed in a keffiyeh with an ak-47 instead of a suit and a nuclear code? Perhaps we have been tricked. Perhaps the people responsible for brainwashing us with media are the same ones currently committing genocide. Perhaps the real terrorists are at home.
