... oh yeah, tunnels under the Gaza-Israel border to enable Hamas to kidnap Israelis (tip to Weekly Standard):
And so the cement flowed; Israel lifted its ban. But now it turns out that what was being constructed by Hamas in Gaza was not an economy, not houses or public buildings, but tunnels whose purpose was to permit terrorist attacks into Israel. Most recently, Israel discovered a great project: a tunnel 60 feet deep and 1.5 miles long. Construction appears to have been started two years ago—after cement began to flow into Gaza.
As the AP reported, “Concrete walls and arches lined the tunnel and electrical cords could be seen along its walls….The military said it was the third tunnel found along the Gaza border fence in the past year. It estimated that 500 tons of cement and concrete were used, and the structure took more than a year to build.” Hamas has now admitted building the tunnel and claims that its goal was to permit the kidnapping of Israel soldiers[.]
Israel was vilified by a deeply concerned international community for doing what they needed to do to protect themselves by refusing to allow cement into Gaza that they knew would be used for preparing for the next conflict.
Hamas faces the brutally hurtful sound of crickets from the world for refusing to allow cement to be used to erase the humanitarian disaster they described so they could more effectively kill Jews.
But what the heck. From the point of view of the mostly European (with a good assist from the left here) pro-Hamas activists, what's the worst that could happen? More dead Jews?
They can live with that. You have to have dreams to strive for, right?
So the European-led global Left lets the Palestinian jihadis who dream of living off the Intifada' the lan' stroke their soft, progressive egos, confident, by George, that Hamas and their ilk could never harm them.
Yeah, this can have a happy ending.
UPDATE: Hamas admits the tunnel isn't a Jewish fabrication:
A website for a Hamas radio station called al Aqsa said the group's armed wing was responsible for what it called the "Khan Younis Tunnel," named for a part of the coastal territory where the subterranean passage was found.
Abu Ubaida, spokesman for the Islamist group's military wing, said in an interview broadcast by the station that Hamas's armed brigades "dug the tunnel, they were responsible for it".
Let's be grateful they didn't try to perpetuate the charade by claiming it was a storage facility for baby formula that would work in the cool depths of the Earth even if the cruel Israelis cut off their electricity.
