Timeless Justice

"The charges unsealed today are just one part of our effort to target every aspect of Hamas' operations. These actions will not be our last."

"We are investigating Hersh’s [Goldberg-Polin] murder, and each and every one of the brutal murders of Americans, as acts of terrorism."

"We will continue to support the whole of government effort to bring the Americans still being held hostage home."

"[The defendants were responsible for] financing and directing a decades-long campaign to murder American citizens and endanger the security of the United States."

"[They] led Hamas's efforts to destroy the state of Israel and murder civilians in support of that aim. [The group] murdered entire families [in] the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust."

"They murdered the elderly and they murdered young children. They weaponized sexual violence against women, including rape and genital mutilation."

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland

An Israeli soldiers take cover close to the border with Gaza on October 7 | Oren Ziv/AFP via Getty Images

 

The American Justice Department issued an announcement of criminal charges they have posted against Yahya Sinwar, the recently anointed Hamas leader, taking the place of the assassinated Ismail Haniyeh. Sinwar was formerly head of the Gaza-based Hamas leadership, entirely responsible for the reprehensible atrocities that took place in southern Israel on October 7 of 2023, earning him a thoroughly detestable place in the annals of Jewish existential historical accounts alongside the likes of Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin.

Other senior terrorists responsible for the carnage that took place in Israel have also been named in a government decision to finally take a firm position on accountability and consequences due Palestinian terrorists for their dedication to the goal of destroying the State of Israel and their linked aspiration to slaughter Jews in Israel and abroad. A long-overdue initiative to take on the mantle of justice claiming its due punishment for activities beyond the pale of civilization.

Filed in Federal Court in New York City, the seven-count criminal charges include: conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization resulting in death, conspiracy to murder American nationals and conspiracy to finance terrorism. And nor do Iran and Hezbollah go  unrecognized for their unique roles in the provision of financial support, weapons and military supplies for use in attacks by Hamas.

One imagines that the U.S. failed to address the critical role that Qatar too played in this scenario at risk of embarrassing themselves given the comfortable, trusting relationship between Qatar and the United States, despite the oil-rich Sultanate making no secret of its economic support of Hamas, nor its close relationship with the Islamic Republic of Iran and its international outreach in contributing to the spread of viral antisemitism where Qatar funds organized pro-Hamas 'protests' in Europe and North America.

Since the charges have only symbolic effect, one can only wonder that it took so long for such action to take place; effectively signalling that the United States of America recognizes the barbarism of the Palestinian terrorists in carrying out a wholesale atrocity of rape, mutilation, slaughter and hostage-taking that impacted not only Israeli citizens, but those with American citizenship as well. Reaction of this type was needed and has been long in arriving.

 

Journalists take cover behind cars as Israeli soldiers during clashes with Palestinian fighters on October 7 | Oren Ziv/AFP via Getty Images

So long in fact, that three of the six 'defendants' are now entirely out of the reach of criminal justice, since the natural justice of the targeted nation responding to that declaration of implied genocidal intention took its own avenue of swifter justice in retaliatory strikes that killed the killers of vast numbers of Israeli civilians, both during October 7 and long pre-dating that mass atrocity. 

"Israel will hunt them all down, all of them, wherever they are, wherever, and they know this."

"They know they can’t hide in Beirut, in Qatar, in Turkey, in Europe."

"They will have to hide for many years because anyone who was behind the massacre, financed it and trained the killers is responsible."

Danny Danon, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations

Through the auspices of the U.S. Justice Department, a more expansive effort is being contemplated against an organization that has been designated a foreign terrorist organization since 1997 -- linked to a long series of lethal attacks on Israel and its Jewish population. The American intention was originally an attempted plan to take Ismail Haniyeh into custody along with other defendants, until his untimely and much-deserved end put an end to that unlikely scenario. 

Marwan Issa, deputy leader of the armed wing of Hamas in Gaza, one of the planners of the October 7 massacre, died when Israeli fighter jets struck an underground compound in central Gaza; former leader of Hamas Khaled Mashaal, based in Qatar also met his maker, as did the Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif, in an Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza, as also did Lebanon-based Ali Baraka, head of external relations for Hamas.

They have have collectively inspired and directed a mass murder of grotesque proportions and delivery, in fulfilling the desired direction of Palestinian terrorism against Israel and Israelis, but their brief victory has taken its toll in numbers of mass casualties for the humdrum troops that make up the human stock of Hamas operatives, while one by one the leadership, despite all protective measures against detection of their safe spaces, fall in consequence of their inhumanity.

"It took us more than 10 years to get rid of all those who planned the Munich massacre, but we got them, and we must do the same with those behind Oct. 7." 

"We will reach them, and they know it."

Yaakov Peri, former head of Shin Bet

A ceremony in Germany to mark the 50th anniversary of an attack on the 1972 Munich Olympics | Thomas Kienzle/AFP via Getty Images