(Spiked-UK) Brendan O'Neill - Yahya Sinwar, the architect of the Oct. 7 pogrom, has been eliminated. This is a great day not only for Israel and the Jewish diaspora, but also for all of humanity. Sinwar was killed in Rafah, the city every virtue-signaler in the West told Israel to leave alone. It turns out the man who green-lighted the rape, kidnap and slaughter of more than a thousand Jews was there. If your campaigning entails putting a moral forcefield around a fascist overlord, if it involves the protection of a Jew-killer from the Jews looking for him, then you might not be as virtuous as you think. Sinwar first served as Hamas's punisher of alleged Palestinian collaborators with Israel, earning him the nickname "The Butcher of Khan Yunis." He spent time in jail for the murder of such "collaborators," one of whom he strangled to death with his bare hands, another of whom he suffocated with a keffiyeh. This is a man who deserved to die. His crimes against the Jews were legion. He was horrendously cavalier about Palestinian life, too. He let Hamas's war with Israel drag on because he believed the "spiraling civilian death toll in Gaza" would drum up global hate for Israel and global pity for Hamas. So Gazans also benefit from the demise of this monster. They are a step closer to liberation from the tyrannical rule of the death-mongers of Hamas. Israel's righteous slaying of Yahya Sinwar is more than justice for Oct. 7. It is also a message to the world. It says: you cannot kill Jews with impunity anymore. No, there are consequences now to singling out Jews for special opprobrium and wicked violence. Do that today and you might very well die. Those of us who live in the West needed this reminder. Our young in particular needed to be told that fascist violence is intolerable and killing Jews will be rightfully avenged. In the aftermath of Oct. 7, many of our fellow citizens were seemingly content to see Jews once again loaded into trucks, burnt to a cinder and killed on account of their ethnicity. They found greater common cause with the anti-Jewish, anti-modernity hysterics of Hamas than with the democratic state of Israel. So yes, we needed to hear that the murder of Jews will be met with the severest of consequences. The killing of Sinwar puts flesh on the bones of the cry of "Never Again."
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