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Decades before Yahya Sinwar became the political leader of Hamas in Gaza, Israeli journalist and author Ehud Yaari sat down with him over hummus in an Israeli prison in the Negev desert. He describes Sinwar, who conversed in fluent Hebrew, as a curious but cunning Islamist, bent upon the destruction of the state of Israel.
“He is not somebody who’s thinking about negotiations, a two-state solution — that’s not Sinwar,” said Yaari, who interviewed Sinwar in prison four times between 1993 and 2001.
“He was very clear that the state of Israel should be destroyed, and the Jews
