Israel was able to take out Oct. 7 mastermind specifically because they ignored Biden, Harris

WASHINGTON, DC- Well, that didn’t age well. 

Back in January, Kamala Harris warned Israel that conducting any major military operation in Rafah would be a "huge mistake,” warning our best ally that there would be “consequences” if it did. 

Fast forward nine months, and now Harris is appearing to take a victory lap after Israel took out Vahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas and apparent mastermind of last October’s terrorist attacks that killed over 1,000 Israelis along with several Americans and others. 

Front Page Magazine reports that by going into Rafah inside Gaza, Israel was able to cut off the Hamas pipeline to Egypt and also enabled Israel to target Sinwar, who was hiding out in Rafah. 

By engaging in the military operation in Rafah, IDF forces were able to get Sinwar while breaking the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist group. Rafah was also where Hamas hid a number of hostages taken in the October 7, 2023 attacks. 

It wasn’t as much Israeli intelligence that enabled the IDF to get Sinwar, nor was it a targeted attack. It was basically dumb luck in some ways. 

YNet reports that last week, IDF forces encountered two terrorists mulling about the house where Sinwar was located, believed to be part of a group that was with Sinwar before he met his 72 virgins. A soldier from the 450th Battalion spotted two suspicious figures moving within the ruins of the neighborhood, YNet said. 

The soldier reported the sighting, and Battalion Commander Lt. Col. Ran Canaan and infantry and armored forces moved in. Three suspicious individuals were spotted, two walking ahead wrapped in blankets, and the third trailing behind wearing a combat vest with a hood covering his head. He was also armed. 

Believing the third individual was a terrorist and thinking the two in front were hostages, Canaan opened fire on the third individual, hitting his hand. It was unknown at that time the injured person was Sinwar. 

After the shooting, the three split up, with two entering a nearby house and the third, later identified as Sinwar, going into another. 

Reinforcements were called in to check the house where Sinwar had fled, with soldiers finding bloodstains on the stairs, which Canaan realized was fresh blood. Sinwar threw two grenades from a window, with one exploding harmlessly and causing no injuries. 

IDF forces then shelled the building with tank fire, missiles, and machine guns, still unaware they had Sinwar trapped inside. After the shelling, a drone was sent inside and captured footage of Sinwar sitting on a couch, wounded. All he could do was throw a stick at the drone. 

A second shell was fired into the building, along with heavy machine-gun fire, which ultimately killed Sinwar. The barrage continued until part of the building collapsed. 

Later that night, a second drone was sent inside the building, where it spotted a body, which later turned out to be Sinwar. After waiting until daylight to enter, another drone was flown inside, and IDF forces believed the body bore a resemblance to Sinwar. Photos were sent to Southern Command headquarters, where the body was eventually identified as Sinwar. 

The IDF said:

“This operation followed several months of fighting during which the IDF, in cooperation with the Shin Bet and led by the 162nd Division, fought against the Rafah Brigade and the Tel al-Sultan Battalion, eliminating hundreds of terrorists. These actions cornered Sinwar, preventing his escape and setting the stage for his elimination.” 

As Front Page Magazine wrote, “without major combat operations, without evacuating the so-called civilian population (much of which supports Hamas and some of which is Hamas) and going house by house, Sinwar would not have been found.” 

The initial criticism by Harris and the Biden administration is another in a long line of foreign policy missteps, going back to the bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan. 

This brings us back to Harris’s victory lap, during which she praised the operation to take out Sinwar, which wouldn’t have happened if Israel had listened to her initial admonishment. Harris claimed “justice has been served” and “the United States, Israel, and the entire world are better off as a result.” 

Joe Biden’s bow was even more egregious, claiming credit for Israel’s operation that his administration had opposed in the first place, the Daily Wire reports. 

“I directed Special Operations personnel and our intelligence professionals to work side-by-side with their Israeli counterparts to help locate and track Sinwar and other Hamas leaders hiding in Gaza.

“With our intelligence help, the IDF relentlessly pursued Hamas’s leaders, flushing them out of their hiding places and forcing them onto the run,” Biden said. 

Harris’s remarks were carefully scripted and she refused to take questions after her statement, fleeing the room.  

Israel’s IDF forces were successful in taking out Sinwar despite numerous roadblocks erected by the Biden-Harris administration, such as initial pressure not to enter Rafah, threatening an arms embargo, slow-walking weapon deliveries to Israel, demanding Israel unilaterally agree to a ceasefire, and much more, the Daily Wire wrote.