Now, Yahya Sinwar has also been killed. After a chance encounter with and killing of a 61-year-old man who they could not trace for more than a year despite world-class technical systems, weapons and all other equipment liberally provided by the world’s superpower. Israel is celebrating even this as a victory. Pastry and liquor were served in the streets of Tel Aviv. Even the President and Vice President of the United States saw the death of one person as a major event. If the Zionist regime and its protectors who is the world’s superpower, who have massacred a land and its helpless people for more than a year without achieving a single goal, sees the death of one man as a big feat, it carries some meaning. The death of leaders will be a big blow to any organization or country. And there is no doubt Sinwar's death is a severe blow to Hamas.
But can it be deemed a victory for Israel? Death is not a defeat for those who proclaim the postulate 'freedom or death' as their goal in life. Moreover, Israel has not achieved any one of the plans that it had declared as its military objectives. The main aims of the Zionist regime are to eliminate Hamas and thus destroy the fighting spirit of Palestine, free the 100 Israeli hostages held by Hamas, contain Hezbollah in Lebanon, and bring back those who fled northern Israel. None of these, at least as declared goals, has happened. Hamas is making a comeback even in the areas occupied by the Israeli army, as vouched for by Israeli troops themselves.
Even the death of Yahya Sinwar is breaking Israel's false propaganda again. They said about Sinwar, who scornfully rejected the Israeli 'offer' that if he stopped fighting and surrendered, he could go to a foreign country and live comfortably, and that he was leaving the ranks to be murdered and sitting with hostages as human shields in a safe place. They even claimed to have found Sinwar's hideout in their close surveillance. Everything was a lie. He was very much with the ranks, right at the forefront. With the certainty of being killed at any moment, he fought for the freedom of his native land till his last breath. With his right arm broken, he threw the stick he had in his left hand at an Israeli drone searching for him among the rubble. He was getting killed in the battle-front. In an interview that the world refused to hear, Sinwar had said that they do not want war and bloodshed, but want freedom and life. He openly stated that what aggravated the problem was the international community turning its back on the peaceful struggle of their people. Today Israel's pretence of 'self-defence' is falling apart as it defies the conscience of the world and the United Nations as an embodiment of destruction.
The world will soon realise that what is being implemented through Israel is a European colonization with the topping of Zionism. Jewish historian Ilan Pappe argues that European colonialism in the name of Israel is ruling the roost by upending the fact that historically the Muslim-Christian-Jewish Palestinians are the true Semitic people. Theodor Herzl, known as the father of Zionism, was a Hungarian. Most of Israel's prime ministers and ministers are immigrants from Europe, not Palestinians or natives of Israel. What we see in Palestine is a different form of occupation, where the Europeans who seized the land of others, expelled and massacred the natives. A week before Yahya Sinwar was killed, the US observed 'Columbus Day'. It was on October 12, 1492 that Columbus, a European settler, landed in America which led to the genocide of millions of indigenous people. Many in the United States celebrate this day as 'Columbus Day' to remember the rights of the indigenous people against the invaders. What Palestine has been saying again and again is that the world should at least be ready to recognize the European occupation that is going on even in the matter of observing a day. Yahya Sinwar, who at the moment of his last breath threw a small stick of resistance at the face of the terror of occupation, is a symbol of the dignity humanity must reclaim. That throw has not only its romantic charm, but also the power of harsh reality - the power to destroy fakes.