Multiple media outlets report that Hamas’s offensive tunnel network – now known to have been composed of over forty attack tunnels dug underneath Israel’s border with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip – was set to be activated during the Jewish High Holidays (September 24th) as a mass terror attack.
The attack was meant to generate as many as ten thousand casualties, men, women and particularly children and hundreds of captives. Explosives were particularly placed underneath kindergartens to make certain that these “institutions” would be the first struck, even before any thing else.
The IDF recently published the below map showing that tunnels were created in pairs, to empty out on both sides of nearby communities. The known cost of the infrastructure – each tunnel costs upward of some $1 million – clearly shows that Hamas was planning a coordinated mega-attack. It must be understood that use of even one tunnel would inevitably trigger Israeli retaliation against the entire network.
A map of a small portion of the tunnels meant to be used 9 weeks from now.
Revelations regarding the planned tunnel attack magnitude played a decisive role in the Israeli government’s rejection of a ceasefire proposed late Friday by Secretary of State John Kerry.
Unbelievably, Kerry actually proposed in his latest “cease-fire proposal” – none of which have been honored by Hamas so far – that Israel refrains from degrading remaining attack tunnels. This mind-boggling concept would necessarily be rejected by any sane government, of any country.
Israeli security sources, citing information acquired in interrogations of captured brigands, described a scenario under which hundreds of heavily armed Hamas fighters would have spilled out into Israel in the dead of night and within 10 minutes been positioned to infiltrate essentially all Israeli communities surrounding the Gaza Strip. Waiting then in hiding until schools and kindergartens were occupied, the terrorists would then attempt to kill the children first, and then kill and kidnap as many Israelis as possible. The plot was set to take place during Jewish New Year, on September 24.
Peace Tunnels!
Damning Video: Indian TV Appears to Catch Hamas Red-Handed Outside Its Hotel:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/08/05/video-indian-tv-appears-to-catch-hamas-building-red-handed-outside-its-hotel/
From the desk of one of our great educators, Thomas Sowell.
Is Thinking Obsolete?:
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell080514.php3#.U-FJtul0z84
People across the world who still think Israel doesn’t have a right to defend themselves, or who think Israel hasn’t tried incredibly hard to resolve problems are just willfully blind to the truth.
The flotilla crowd was going to do their thing again…anybody hear whether or not they have gone through with it?
Good question!
Why does Israel supply Gaza with electricity and cement?:
Is Israel just being stupid, or does it have a legal obligation to supply the Gaza Strip with cement and electricity? As explained by Prof. Avi Bell from Bar-Ilan University in a recent paper published by the Kohelet Policy Forum, a think-tank, Israel is under no legal obligation to provide Gaza with electricity.
Article 23 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states, inter alia, that the contracting parties shall allow the free passage of food, clothing and medicine to children under 15 and to pregnant women (the article mentions neither electricity nor cement). The Gaza Strip is not a contracting party to that Convention, nor is it occupied by Israel. Israel, for its part, is not a party to the First Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1977, whose Article 70 imposes wider duties upon belligerents (though it doesn’t mention electricity and cement, either). Even if these articles were to apply to the conflict between Israel and Gaza, Israel would still be under no obligation to supply electricity to Gaza because the parties are required “to allow the free passage” of goods (Article 23) and to “allow and facilitate” their “rapid and unimpeded passage” (Article 70) – but not to supply them.
On the specific issue of electricity, targeting electric plants during wartime is a widespread and accepted practice. How can a country be allowed to destroy its enemy’s electric supply but be required to guarantee that supply? This is why Prof. Yoram Dinstein, a renowned expert on international law and on the laws of war, writes in his book “The Law of Belligerent Occupation:”
“The notion that a Belligerent Party in wartime is duty bound to supply electricity and fuel to its enemy is plainly absurd.”
continued…
http://www.i24news.tv/en/opinion/38008-140723-why-does-israel-supply-gaza-with-electricity-and-cement
Written in their own words.
Captured Hamas Combat Manual Explains Benefits of Human Shields:
http://www.idfblog.com/blog/2014/08/04/captured-hamas-combat-manual-explains-benefits-human-shields/
Israel is caught in a catch twenty two. They supply Palestinians with food, medicines, cement, building supplies and energy for political or diplomatic reasons…as a show of good faith. They also treat innocent victims and wounded enemies in their hospitals. The land they gave up had beautiful full functioning green houses that have now been abandoned and the area looks like a wasteland.
What do Arabs do about this? When will the world point fingers toward the only group, Arabs, with the authority to do something about terrorists in their midst? If they will not don’t we have to assume they have no interest in stopping it?
If you are interested in the tunnels here is the other side of them. This doc has been on for awhile…
Block off survival of a territory you surroubd and they will find a way to survive
http://www.linktv.org/programs/gaza-tunnels-to-nowhere
Dewey you are easily duped, my friend.
Palestinians in Gaza have access to Egypt at the Rafah crossing…as long as they behave themselves and are not operating in terrorists mode:
Israel is the nation surrounded by enemies.