The Meaning of Yahya Sinwar's Death
Insights from Henry Kissinger reveal the path to victory against Iran.
This is an epilogue for the previous series at God of the Desert Books, Hostage Liberation News, which focused exclusively on new developments and efforts in the fight to ensure the release of the human beings kidnapped by the Islamist terror group Hamas for use as human shields. The series started June 1.
Please see my previous writings on this subject, linked at the bottom of this post. You can also read the 90 installments of the Antisemitism and Culture and Axis of Genocide series here. See also the first installment in the new Academic Inferno series here and note the plans for upcoming series announced at the conclusion of this essay.
Having concluded this series on the efforts to recover the hostages kidnapped on October 7, 2023 since Yahya Sinwar—the Hamas head and mastermind behind the most lethal antisemitic mass killing since the Holocaust—had abandoned negotiations, I was preparing to settle in for a long fight as Israel strove to ultimately kill this monster.
My next series was going to focus solely on Sinwar: keeping track of the news about the mission to find him and analyzing his autobiographical novel, The Thorn and the Carnation. While it seemed clear that Israel would soon win its war to defeat Hamas, whether that would include killing Sinwar appeared to be an open question. I suspected that Sinwar could potentially escape Gaza to lead "the resistance" against Israel and America potentially for years.
Now?
No more.
All these plans to try to understand one of history's most lethal antisemites?
Sinwar is gone. He's done. They got him.
And now it's time to forget him.
The Age of Sinwar has come to a close, and we need to start processing what that means.
As noted in the previous post, the series of recent blows against Hamas and Hezbollah leadership, coupled with the stunning successes of Israel's defense against two Iranian missile attacks have turned the tide not just of this war in Gaza, but of the entirety of the broader conflict with the Islamic regime in Iran.
Hamas and Hezbollah are not going to be able to recover from the devastation they have endured. This unprecedented, unexpected level of destruction means that Iran's primary shields have collapsed. Their failed missile attacks mean their ability to strike directly has been revealed as toothless.
So it's now just the atomic weapons program and the regime itself which need to be defeated in order to secure the Jewish state's existence.
And, my friends, in this continuing conflict I must now confess: a sense of optimism feels like caffeine flowing through my veins.
In both professional analysis and personal prophetic sense, I have grown much, much more confident about Israel's ultimate victory against Iran in the coming years. And this vision of victory will go further. In the battle with the Axis of Genocide—Russia, China and Iran—free societies based on Western values will triumph.
Why such optimism and confidence?
Because Sunday I finished reading my third book this month on artificial intelligence. In particular this one written by Henry Kissinger, former Google head Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher, a former dean of the computing college at MIT:
Just as AI has had a transformative impact this year on our publishing company and the books we are releasing, it is now going to do that at a mass scale in the fields of science, medicine, education, war, and global geopolitical strategy. And it isn't just me saying so. It's Kissinger - still embracing the future as he wrote this at age 98 - and two of the world's top tech geniuses saying it: AI is akin to when the world went nuclear. It is an atom bomb in our pockets which will unlock unimaginable discoveries and reforms across all fields.
And in pursuit of perpetually stronger AI and more innovative, effective ways to use it, free societies built on liberal values will win. The United States, Israel, Europe, and tech-advanced Asian allies like Japan, South Korea, Singapore, etc. are winning the AI and technology race. China is pushing on AI as a national strategy, but ultimately, free societies will win here. We are already much further ahead and can attract the world's most gifted visionaries in creating and employing AI because we can provide better financial rewards to those who do.
So, with AI, the people of Israel will kill “Supreme Leader” Ali Khamenei and crush his criminal, terrorist regime in Iran, liberating the Persian people to once again build a society based on their culture's longstanding moral values.
With AI, I am convinced that we who dedicate ourselves to Zionist activism can now reduce and ultimately defeat antisemitism.
Yes, you fucking read that right!
And with AI, we are going to accomplish the peace-building, culture-nourishing objectives of this publishing company on a scale bigger than I ever imagined.
I'm sorry to those here who choose to embrace a Luddite mentality regarding AI. If you want to unsubscribe, since AI is now going to become a key subject in this publishing company, my writing, and our activist efforts, then by all means, I more than understand. The pro/anti-AI debate will ultimately become a new ideological divide, just like the Left and Right.
But before you go, please pick up The Age of AI or Mastering AI. Keep an open mind. AI does not mean that you have to lose your job. It means that, by learning to use this tool now, you can do your job better, easier, and faster; that by developing new skills through this technology, you could potentially get a much better job, where you'd be more effective, happier, and better compensated.
So I'm done worrying about Yahya Sinwar.
Moving forward, I have now decided on three new series:
AI Vs. the Antisemites
In this first series, I am going to start researching and thinking about how the Jewish people and their Gentile allies can use AI as a new weapon to defeat antisemitic states, terrorists, hate groups, disinformation operatives, and bigoted extremist media activists on both the Far Left and the Far Right.
How will AI enable a victory over Iran? Which AI-based technologies will be key in toppling the regime?
How can AI better help us understand antisemitism itself? What do we not know that can help us figure out how to dissuade people from embracing hate?
How can Zionists use AI to counter online antisemitism? Which new tools can better aid in the flagging and removal of hate speech?
I’m tempted to simply ask ChatGPT some of these questions now, but we’ll save that for the series.
AI Vs. the Academic Inferno
In this second new writing focus, I will continue the series started previously exploring college and K-12 schools, only now not just as a smarmy critique, but with a solution based in AI. See the book above on AI and education that I will be reading to learn more on what experts are saying about how this technology can reform an institution that has long needed radical transformation.
Looking at the antisemitic campus protests the last year, it’s vital to understand that they’re merely symptoms of a disease that goes far deeper into the bones of America’s educational institutions.
AI for the Authors of the Desert
Finally, we are launching a premium series geared specifically toward our team of authors and others who want to join us in learning about how AI can assist creatives both in the art they create and our commercial goals of making a living selling it.
Rather than me just emailing our group of authors with ideas for how we can use AI at God of the Desert, these essays and podcasts will go out as paywalled posts.
In the months since beginning to use ChatGPT and its companion program, DALL-E, for our covers, I’ve started exploring all sorts of ways that AI can help us with everything we’re doing. Now that I’m digging deeper with books by others who have already begun exploring this subject, I anticipate finding so many ideas that we’ll have to use AI itself to keep track of them all. If this sounds like something you’ll enjoy, then keep an eye out, as I’ll be announcing more detailed plans for this series soon.
See the previous installments in the series:
Oh boy. I will certainly be interested in reading these. AI is my main political issue.
Some obvious topics that come to mind:
Open vs closed-source. Does it really matter if the AI race is won by liberal countries if we release the models open source, leaving it easy for Iran and other countries to download them and release them?
The goal orthogonality problem: If we are making agentic AI, how do we teach it to follow any goal we have for it? How do we know?
The compositionality problem: Right now, LLMs like image generators struggle to generate exactly what they are told. I.e., ask one to generate a pink square on top of a green triangle, resting on a purple rectangle, and it will get it wrong most of the time. Why is this?
The rule-following problem: Why can no LLM play chess?