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Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/23/hamas-sinwar-palestine-plan/?s=03
Sinwar Envisioned a Palestine as Jew-Free, from the River to the Sea
(Washington Post) Charles Lane - Captured Hamas documents show that the mastermind of the Oct. 7 slaughter, Yahya Sinwar, envisioned the operation as a go-for-broke effort to ignite a wider regional war that would topple Israel. At a "strategic vision" conference in Gaza on Sep. 30, 2021, Sinwar affirmed that "the heart of Hamas's strategic vision" was "full liberation of Palestine from the sea to the river." Sinwar was quite clear that this "vision" meant neither a two-state solution nor coexistence but "the Palestinian refugees' return to their homeland, and the establishment of a Palestinian state with full sovereignty over its lands, with Jerusalem as its capital." As for the 7.2 million Jews (46% of the world's Jewish population) who would remain under Hamas "control," the conference final report proposed that Israelis who fought Hamas "must be killed," although anyone "fleeing" could "be left alone or be prosecuted for his crimes." "Educated Jews and experts in the areas of medicine, engineering, technology, and civilian and military industry" would be "retained...for some time" and "not be allowed to leave and take with them the knowledge and experience that they acquired." The implication is that they would serve the new Hamas regime, voluntarily or otherwise.