IDF to complete destruction of Hamas tunnels by Sunday; Troops begin withdrawal
ANALYSIS: In two weeks, IDF destroyed tunnel network which took Hamas five years to build; Army discovers motorcycles in some tunnels, earmarked by Hamas for rapid raids into Israel.
Gaza border, July 18 Photo: BEN HARTMAN
Hamas has spent five years preparing this strategic threat; the IDF wrecked 31 tunnels in two weeks. By Sunday, all of the tunnels the IDF knew about, or discovered during the offensive, will be destroyed. A few tunnels that Israel doesn’t know about may remain intact.
Many of the underground passages were designed to send heavily armed murder squads into Israeli villages for killing sprees, and attack army positions from behind. They were filled with weapons, explosives, and equipment, enabling terrorists dressed in civilian clothing to disappear into a shaft in Gaza, and emerge in Israel, disguised as IDF soldiers and fully equipped to carry out a mass casualty attack. The IDF has discovered motorcycles in some of the tunnels, which were earmarked by Hamas for rapid raids into Israel and subsequent retreats back into Gaza.
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Hmm. Something’s seems odd. What do you think?:
1) Why broadcast this?
2) Is international pressure, rabid and nonsensical as it is, causing Israel to share this? To show that they’re adhering to Just War Theory? They’ve GOT to have more going on than this.
3) Doesn’t this seem to set Israel up for some unnecessary risks in the way of, oh, traps?
4) Why destroy the tunnels immediately? At very least, Israel should act like it’s pulling out. Then, when these useless, sub-human mongrels come scrambling down the tunnels (like orcs), POOF! Anthrax cloud! Then destroy the tunnels after they’ve gone back to spread the love with their hives of like-minded swine.
All that money down a hamas rat hole.
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It occurred to me that it might be better to booby trap the exits than to destroy the tunnels, but after the first few casualties, Hamas would make sure that the first one out of the tunnel was a child.
I’m guessing that the IDF is being cagey here. They don’t do stupid.
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Israeli troops entering Gaza last week have so far uncovered 18 tunnels used by Hamas to send armed terrorists into Israel and built using an estimated 800,000 tons of concrete.
What else might that much concrete build? Erecting Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest tower, required 110,000 tons of concrete. Hamas, then, could’ve treated itself to seven such monstrosities and still had a few tens of thousands of tons to spare. If it wanted to build kindergartens equipped with bomb shelters, like Israel has built for the besieged citizens of Sderot, for example—after all, noted military strategists like Jon Stewart have spent last week proclaiming that Gaza’s citizens had nowhere to hide from Israel’s artillery—Hamas could have used its leftovers to whip up about two that were each as big as Giants Stadium. And that’s just 18 tunnels. Egypt, on its end, recently claimed to have destroyed an additional 1,370. That’s a lot of concrete.
Bibi for President 2014
I meant 2016, but maybe 2014 was a Freudian slip.
Anyone watching BBC America
“The great Martian war”
Pretty Kool idea
How about bombing the Mexican drug tunnels?
Go IDF Go. Don’t leave a stone standing upon a stone.
Hopefully Obama will receive a second Nobel Peace Prize once this work is done. He did send Kerry, after all. And his birthday is on Monday, so the timing would be just perfect!
Think about this.
These Hamas idiots spent countless hours, over many years, to build these tunnels with only one purpose in mind – an evil surprise attack on the Israeli populace. There was some chance they could have been completely successful – maybe overtaking a city or two. How would Obama have reacted? I’m skeptical he would have helped Israel.
But the bigger question is why was all this time and manpower wasted on such a futile pursuit? What if these idiots had instead built schools, hospitals, houses? Things that advance the Gazan civilization?
The fact they wasted so much time in pursuit of evil is all one needs to know in order to choose sides – side with the civilized man, shun the Barbarian.
Our tax money that went to the Pals turned to concrete.
I’m with Moe Tom. Israel, kick the ever-lovin’ shit out of them !!!!!
Knock these fucks right back into the 7th century where they fucking belong.
Oh, and FUCK ALLAH, TOO.