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If we have internal strife among ourselves, even physical conflict between Israelis, Israel will still survive. It will survive that and that’s the point. [But] anyone who cares about the future of Israel has to understand that without solving the Palestinian issue, Israel won’t survive,
This is a clear message to all of our enemies — the IDF will reach anyone who attempts to harm the citizens of Israel or our security forces, and we will bring you to justice,
announced Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant Rabin was the closest prime minister to getting a peace settlement in the Middle East. He hated the settlers — really hated them. And he was ready to settle with Abu Mazen [PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas], though he didn’t like him. He understood that’s the only solution for Israel’s future,
Bibi is chained to two ministers in his coalition government who dream of rebuilding the temple of the kings of Judea … It is unbelievable. It is Messianic. And they are menacing every time there’s a chance of a deal to release the hostages, a deal with the Palestinians and the opportunity for compromise,
The mission is far from accomplished
Netanyahu’s interested in war lasting for as long as possible, so it leaves him in his seat,
Hezbollah had everything ready to pull off the same kind of action as Oct. 7. I cannot say that I’m against the Lebanon incursion. It is a necessity,
This is the path of each fighter,
said Ziad Maqdad, 65, a doctor in Gaza who described the manner of his killing “a great honor for this prominent leader.” I am not one of Sinwar’s followers. However, the Palestinian people and Gazans are saddened,
one person in the enclave said, declining to give their name amid the febrile atmosphere of war and Hamas’ fragile but often violent form of governance There is no optimism that there will be a peace process or truce,
said Ahmed Yossef, who described himself as a former deputy director of education in Gaza I know there will be people who grieve his passing, but I won’t be one of them, nor will, I think, most Palestinians in Gaza,
said Omar Dajani, former legal adviser to the Palestinian negotiating team at the 2000 Camp David summit The greatest gift the enemy and occupation can give me is to assassinate me,
he said in a May 2021 news briefing On multiple occasions over the past months, Sinwar rebuffed efforts by the United States and its partners to bring this war to a close through an agreement that would return the hostages to their families and alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian people,
Blinken said in a statement Thursday [He] started the war, scattered us and made us displaced, without water, food or money … He is the one who made Israel do this.”
We mourn the great leader, the martyred brother, Yahya Sinwar, Abu Ibrahim,
Qatar-based Hamas official Khalil Al Hayya said in a recorded video statement broadcast by Al Jazeera We believe, continue to believe, that finding an end to the war is critical, and we also believe that Mr. Sinwar's death ... can provide an inflection point to getting there,
I wish I could tell you today that we're getting the teams back together in Doha, and we're starting afresh,
Those prisoners will not return to you before the end of the aggression on Gaza and the withdrawal from Gaza,
al-Hayya, who also serves as Sinwar's deputy, stated When Muslims look up to martyr Sinwar standing on the battlefield, the spirit of resistance will be strengthened,
His symbolic death as being the last one of the Hamas leaders, but also the mastermind of the October 7 attack gives Israel the ladder to climb down from the total victory tree and say, OK, we have won the war,