In 2011, and after serving 22-years behind bars in Israel, Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was released as part of a prisoner swap. The deal securing his freedom was uneven, reinforcing Israel's dedication to its people despite the risk — thousands of terrorists were released in exchange for one Israeli soldier.
During his time in captivity, Sinwar had a brain tumor. Instead of letting him die, Israeli doctors mercifully conducted surgery and successfully removed it. With his new found freedom and second chance on life, Sinwar thanked the Jewish State by returning to terrorism in the Gaza Strip promptly upon his release.
On October 7, 2023, Sinwar gave the green light for the unthinkable. A plan he masterminded. Countless Hamas terrorists invaded the neighborhoods of southern Israel, dotted by the homes of peace activists who employed Palestinians, and slaughtered thousands of men, women and children. Families were burned alive as they tried to hide in their safe rooms — concrete spaces designed only to protect from rockets, not bloodthirsty arsonists.
We don’t have to rely on the gutting stories of the survivors to know what happened — Hamas terrorists wore cameras and recorded everything for the world to see.
Down the road, young people dancing at a music festival were also slaughtered and women were raped. Hundreds, including Americans, were taken hostage in the Gaza Strip. As terrorists entered Gaza City with their new captives, thousands of “civilians” lined the streets to cheer.
The brutal attack came just three years after the Biden Administration turned the cash flow to Iran, the world's leading state sponsor of terror, back on through a lack of sanctions enforcement and foreign aid to groups like UNWRA — the UN group defunded under the Trump administration for its rampant employment of terrorists.
Initially, and in the first days following the 10/7 attacks, the Biden Administration issued proper support and vowed to bring Hamas to justice. That sentiment quickly started to fade as Hamas backers in America, specifically the swing state of Michigan and loud voices on Capitol Hill, started pressuring President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in an election year to call for a ceasefire.
Five months into the conflict, Israel made significant progress to eliminate Hamas and release some of the hostages through military pressure. Intelligence showed a remaining Hamas brigade in the southern Gaza city of Rafah and that hostages were being held there. Instead of getting behind Israel and pushing to victory, Biden and Harris tied their hands and delayed the invasion.
“Any major military operation in Rafah would be a huge mistake,” Harris said during an interview with ABC News in March. “I have studied the maps – there’s nowhere for those folks to go. And we’re looking at about a million and a half people in Rafah who are there because they were told to go there.”
Her words, with Biden’s backing, prompted the same response from the international community and sparked an “all eyes on Rafah” social media campaign to pressure Israel to stay out. Democrats on Capitol Hill piled on, along with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, threatening consequences if Israel didn’t abandon its plans for a final push into the city.
On September 2, 2024, six hostages were murdered in a Rafah tunnel. Their bodies were recovered in the very place Biden-Harris told the IDF not to go.
Then this week, the IDF made good on its promise by eliminating the man behind their captivity and suffering — Yahya Sinwar.
"Citizens of Israel: A year ago we celebrated Sukkot. At that exact time, Yahya Sinwar was engaged in final preparations for the Shevah massacre in October. I stand before you today to inform you that Yahya Sinwar — has been eliminated," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday. "The person who committed the most terrible massacre in the history of our nation since the Holocaust, the mass murderer who murdered thousands of Israelis and kidnapped hundreds of our citizens, was eliminated today by our heroic soldiers. And today, as we promised to do, we came to account with him."
During the Obama Administration, then Vice President Joe Biden was against the raid that brought Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind 9/11, to justice. Like her boss Joe Biden, current Vice President Kamala Harris was against the IDF going into Rafah and the pursuit of Sinwar, making her dangerously wrong about foreign policy, national security and combatting terrorism.
Israel will go to the ends of the Earth seeking justice for its people, and Americans, murdered by Islamic terrorists. Over the past year and devoid of moral clarity, Harris has gone to Michigan to appease the terrorists who did the butchering — a completely disqualifying move for a woman who wants to serve as Commander-in-Chief and leader of what's left of the West.