Yahya Sinwar
Multiple reports are going around that Hamas' leader in Gaza fled to the southern part of the Gaza Strip disguised as a civilian fleeing the fighting in a humanitarian convoy. He is currently believed to be hiding like a rat in an underground tunnel in the town of Khan Younis. If this is true, I wonder what the Gazans are thinking right now. Of course, this will not make one iota of difference to the brain-dead Westerners marching in support of Hamas in our cities and on our college campuses.
They might want to consider this, however:
As Nazi Germany was collapsing in 1945 in the final days of the Second World War, many of Germany's top civilian leaders and war criminals were scurrying like rats to escape the Allied forces. The most notable example was SS chief, Heinrich Himmler, one of the key figures in the Holocaust. After escaping Berlin, he made his way to Flensburg on the Danish border where he offered his services to Admiral Karl Doenitz, who had been named as Hitler's successor. His offer refused, he tried to make his way south disguised as a lowly soldier who had laid down his arms. He wore an eyepatch over one eye and shaved off his mustache. At a British checkpoint, he was rounded up with several other German soldiers and taken to a POW camp by British soldiers. After a couple of days, he identified himself to his captors and was taken to Luneburg for interrogation. While undergoing a body search, he bit down on a cyanide capsule and died within minutes. He was buried in an unmarked grave in the nearby countryside.
Rather an ignoble end, wouldn't you say?
Himmler in death
In addition, other major war criminals tried to escape and went into hiding. Rudolph Hoess, the commandant of Auschwitz, hid out on a farm disguised as a gardener for several months in northern Germany until he was captured and eventually hanged in Poland.
Dr. Joseph Mengele, the "Angel of Auschwitz", managed to escape to South America using the infamous and appropriately named "ratline" through Italy and evaded capture for decades until he drowned swimming on a Brazilian beach in 1979.
Of course, Adolf Eichmann also escaped to Argentina in a similar manner until captured by Israeli agents in 1960 and returned to Israel for trial and eventual execution.
Then there was "Il Duce", Benito Mussolini, who tried to sneak into Switzerland disguised as a German soldier. He was captured and executed by Italian partisans near Como. Last seen, he was hanging upside down by his feet in a Milan gas station.
He's in there somewhere
Hitler, in comparison, refused to flee Berlin and committed suicide in his bunker along with his paramour, Eva Braun, who had actually traveled to Berlin to share Hitler's fate, quite in contrast to Mr Sinwar, who has reportedly resorted to the "Heinrich Himmler maneuver". Josef Goebbels and his Frau, Magda, also refused to leave Berlin and committed suicide, taking their 6 small children with them.
Somewhere among this motley crew, we can add Sinwar, the butcher of October 7. I suppose we could also add Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas political leader, and others who are sitting comfortably in Qatar shielded by that despicable nation. I remember in 2009, when Mr Haniyeh's friend and collaborator, British politician, George Galloway, came to speak at UC Irvine, and the hat was passed around the room for contributions to Gaza under the moniker, Viva Palestina. That was the night Galloway called Yours Truly a "liar" for mentioning anti-Jewish screeds voiced by Palestinian supporters in places like Los Angeles and Ft Lauderdale, which were documented facts, by the way.
l-r, Galloway-Haniyeh
But I digress.
On a final note, it is my hope that justice will be brought to Sinwar, not to mention Haniyeh. I really wonder, however, about all those thousands of kids marching around campuses in support of Hamas. Do they really know anything about any of the names I listed above? Given the state of our higher education these days, it wouldn't shock me if they never heard of any of them.
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