@jpremylemonde did not become ‘Jerusalem Correspondent’ for Le Monde, without being able to recite the Party Line, in all its various expressions!
Oct 20, 2024
Headline: Yahya Sinwar’s death opens a new phase in the war in Gaza
Sub-headline: The elimination of Hamas’s leader by the Israeli army is unlikely to bring an immediate end to the conflict, but his death has increased the pressure on the two sides to agree to a ceasefire.
Editor: The Melodrama Unfolds , imagine this in exquisitely tailored French!
The hunt lasted a year – an eternity. Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind of the October 7 attack, was eventually killed by the Israeli army, which announced his death on Thursday, October 17. This victory was not achieved due to readings from the Israeli radars that probed Gaza’s subsoil, in the hope of locating the Islamist movement’s leader under the immense network of tunnels he had helped to build. Nor was Israel’s public enemy number one eliminated in one of the Israeli army’s commando operations, which are based on their intelligence and had, at times, missed him by a hair’s breadth. The fugitive, who was thought to be holed up in underground bunkers, where it was believed that he was keeping a group of Israeli hostages around him to use as human shields, was killed in an exchange of fire with an Israeli patrol in Rafah, in the south of the enclave.
The soldiers didn’t know they were shooting at their country’s most wanted man. On Thursday evening, the Israeli authorities released a video supposedly showing Sinwar’s last moments, filmed by a drone. It shows a wounded man, sitting in an armchair in a ruined house. In a last gasp, he throws a stick toward the camera filming him. An Israeli army strike then blows the whole scene up. Three bodies were pulled from the rubble, including his own, which was partly recognizable. Analyses of his DNA and teeth, which the Israeli police had kept since his long stay in Israeli prisons, made it possible to formally identify him. Sinwar’s death means the trio behind the October 7 bloodbath, and the devastating war that followed, have all been killed: Mohammed Deif, the head of Hamas’s military wing, was killed in a strike in July, and Marwan Issa, his second-in-command, was eliminated in March.
Editor: It does not seem to occur to our would-be Hemingway, that as fast as these leaders are ‘eliminated’, the command structure of this Army of Resistance, has not led to an awareness that the continuing acts of Resistance, need to be predicated, underwritten by an utter flexibility in the command structure: in sum no one is indispensable! @jpremylemonde lacks the thought and experience of generations of an Army of Resistance! Reader this 1599 word commentary is blatant political propaganda!
Editor: The only defence against this melodramatic propaganda, is to engage in a critique of a ‘news story’, that is in fact it’s leitmotif !
Will his death, that of a leader and symbolic figure, put an end to the conflict, which has almost entirely destroyed the enclave and resulted in the deaths of over 42,000 Palestinians – according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry, a figure confirmed by international organizations – the majority of them women and children? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu answered this question in the negative. “Yahya Sinwar is dead,” he rejoiced, in a video message broadcast on Thursday evening, but immediately warned: This did not mean the end of the war in Gaza, “but the beginning of the end.” To the hostages’ families, the Israeli leader stressed that he would not change his approach, which favors the use of force over negotiations: “This is a very important moment in the war. We will go full force until all your loved ones, who are our loved ones, return home.”
Editor: The Gaza Genocide has been perpetrated by Netanyahu and his relentless bombing campaigns, in sum a Genocide against a captive people. @jpremylemonde and Le Monde are parties to a criminal lie! Yet The Reader has just begun her reading of this text of near 1600 words, and in the quotation below Netanyahu makes his intent clear:
‘the Israeli leader stressed that he would not change his approach, which favors the use of force over negotiations’
Editor: As an exercise The Reader might select from this ‘essay’ the wordage of the paragraphs that most resemble Zionist Propaganda, and or quote from obvious political allies. But @jpremylemonde resorts to Melodrama :
Before his final moments above ground, Sinwar was thought to have spent a year underground in his maze of tunnels, communicating with the outside world through messengers, notably to pass on his instructions concerning ceasefire negotiations. He had made the end of hostilities conditional on a reciprocal agreement to release Israeli hostages (of the original 250 captives, 101 remain, according to Israel, half of whom would allegedly be dead) and Palestinian prisoners, and on the Israeli army’s complete withdrawal from Gaza. This is how he hoped to emerge victorious from the ruins of the coastal enclave.
The ranks of his messengers, some of whom had been close to him during his two decades in prison, had thinned as they were eliminated by the Israeli army. Sinwar had recently stopped sending out instructions, giving rise to speculation that he may have been killed by the army, unbeknownst to it, during a bombing raid on Gaza.
Editor: There are still 1129 words of this ‘reportage’ remaining, yet is very clear that this ‘News Story’ is in fact a not very carefully laundered propaganda. The Reader confronts the cast of characters, that adds a kind of verisimilitude!
42,000 Palestinians , Hamas-run Health Ministry, Benjamin Netanyahu, “Yahya Sinwar is dead, General Israel Ziv, The West, US President Joe Biden, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, Tal al-Sultan, a district of Rafah, Gershon Baskin, French-Israeli soldier Gilat Shalit, Lebanon, October 8, 2023, Hassan Nasrallah, Daniel Sobelman, a security expert, Amos Yadlin, former head of Israeli military intelligence.
Editor: Note this Editorial from Le Monde of October 20, 2024 . Consider it the companion piece to Jean-Philippe Rémy!
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