Sinwar’s death shows the horror of October 7 was a terrible tactical mistake by Hamas
The IndependentAfter Napoleon ordered the judicial murder of an opponent, his cynical foreign minister Talleyrand famously commented that the execution “was worse than a crime – a mistake”. Imagine, if a strategically more astute Hamas and a more humane Sinwar had launched the 7 October attack but played it out very differently, how things for Gaza’s people might have gone. Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas in Gaza, died on an armchair after running from Israeli forces in Rafah It would also have destroyed Benjamin Netanyahu’s premiership. Palestinian – more precisely pro-Hamas – voices do not blame the “martyr” Sinwar for triggering their people’s apocalypse. Iran’s leaders have observed the grim fate of their former proxies, Sinwar and Hassan Nasrallah – the head of Hezbollah who was killed last month in an Israeli bomb attack in Beirut – and could decide to drop their costly support for terrorist groups who put Tehran in the firing line.