How Yahya Sinwar’s death will change the Middle East

IN THE END Yahya Sinwar died brutally in the rubble of Gaza, like tens of thousands of victims of the war he unleashed a year earlier. In a firefight with an Israeli patrol in southern Gaza, the leader of Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist movement, was killed on October 17th. The massacre a year earlier that he masterminded altered the trajectory of the Middle East, although not in the way he dreamed of.