Hamas’ New Political Chief Sinwar Has Cunning, Brutal Past
- Sinwar was a chief enforcer against collaborators in prison
- He’s considered brilliant and a careful student of Israel
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Almost six years ago, Yahya Sinwar, who’s just been named the political leader of Hamas, scrawled a note on a document that he knew Egyptian intermediaries would hand to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Take a “‘calculated risk’ on a cease-fire,” Sinwar wrote in Hebrew, according to former National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat.