Thursday, October 17, 2024 was a great day. Yahya Sinwar, leader of Hamas and architect of the October 7 terrorist attacks in Israel, is dead. Sinwar's death leaves Hamas in shambles and disarray, just as much as Hezbollah is in a similar situation. With Sinwar's death, Israel delivered perhaps its strongest blow yet against the forces of Islamic terrorism in the region and the leader of Iran's primary proxy against Israel.

What's remarkable about Sinwar's death is that it wasn't planned. Israel hunted the man for years but never could find him because he hid in tunnels and stayed just out of reach. Israeli soldiers were operating in Rafah, a city that Kamala Harris warned Israel never to invade, and happened to see militants in a building they believed was empty.

The tank unit on the scene, filled with junior soldiers in a commanders course, fired on the building, causing it to collapse and kill Sinwar, who was inside. Israeli soldiers had engaged with the militants first, causing them to scatter into the building. They sent a drone into one and found Sinwar sitting alone in a chair. He feebly threw a stick at the drone and missed. The tank unit leveled the building and Sinwar soon after.

While the rest of the world looked up at the magnificent hunter super-moon, Sinwar the hunter became Sinwar the hunted and didn't last very long. He came out of the shadows and had a building dropped on his head.

In the end, Sinwar was killed not by an elite group of special forces but by new foot soldiers still in training. These members likely called up as part of the war Sinwar kicked off by launching the October 7 attacks just over a year ago. You'll find his brain-rotten supporters in the West claiming he died in battle like a man, but Israel released the drone footage. Sinwar died, to borrow a Trumpism, like a dog. He was cowering in a building, alone, with no answers and no hope.

His death brings real hope to the region because he was an outright monster. The New York Times talked to a young 22-year-old Gaza man who told them, "[Sinwar] humiliated us, started the war, scattered us and made us displaced, without water, food or money ... He is the one who made Israel do this." He continued by saying the news of Mr. Sinwar's death is "the best day of my life."

Sinwar's death represented yet another black eye for the Biden-Harris administration, who opposed any Israeli military operations in Rafah, predicted they'd fail, and the day previous, was threatening to cut off arms support to Israel unless it sent in more humanitarian aid. Earlier in the summer, Biden threatened to cut off arms support to Israel if it "invaded"Rafah.

In short, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were the single best defense Yahya Sinwar had in preventing Israel from getting their hands on the architects of the October 7 terrorist attacks. He was hiding in tunnels under civilian buildings and depending on the United States to prevent Israel from killing him. That strategy worked for over a year until chance happened, and Israel got lucky.

Biden tried to rush in and claim part of the victory in Sinwar's death, praising "U.S. special operations forces and intelligence operatives who helped advise Israeli allies on tracking and locating Sinwar and other Hamas leaders over the past year." Biden had no part in Sinwar's death, and the United States had no intel that helped locate and eliminate Sinwar. It was an Israeli operation in Rafah that Biden opposed.

Biden also rushed in to urge that Israel and Hamas use this opportunity to reach a ceasefire deal. Sinwar and Hamas have been the primary opponents to any ceasefire, even as Biden has blamed Benjamin Netanyahu for such impasses.

But at this stage, one has to ask: what's the point of pushing a ceasefire? Israel should get the chance to wipe out Hamas and eliminate the threat. Why would the United States support calling off the fight now, right when Hamas had its head chopped off? We're not here to save an Iranian terrorist proxy. We should burn down the rest of the snake's body.

Israel is more than capable of doing this without United States military boots on the ground; we have to supply them and help out on the intelligence front. As I've written several times, Israel and Ukraine are using the lame-duck period of Biden's presidency to ignore him entirely and push for victories on the battlefield. With Biden out of the way, Israel and Ukraine are suddenly finding massive success.

The Biden-Harris administration opposed Israeli military operations in Rafah, and continually threatens to remove arms support. Biden's been wrong in every question about foreign policy in the last century, and he's not getting better now. Meanwhile, Israel is chopping the heads off of the global leaders in terrorism. Americans owe Israel a great debt, and congratulations on eliminating the mastermind of the October 7 attacks.

Hopefully, after November, we have new leadership that will allow Israel the opportunity to finish off this threat to the world.