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One cannot help but connect this statement to the story of four Israeli soldiers who were killed on November 10 by a hidden terrorist explosive device in a booby-trapped tunnel shaft next to a mosque in Gaza’s Beit Hanoun
The father of one of the soldiers, Major Moshe Yedidyah Leiter, grew up in Joe Biden’s hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania.
The question of the possible future of Hamas in Gaza is one that, tragically, now must be asked since the late November ceasefire has given Hamas the chance to refortify and resupply in their terrorist tunnels.
Dennis Ross, a U.S. envoy to the Middle East, admitted in an op-ed in the Washington Post in August 2014 that he put pressure on Israel to allow Hamas to import cement into Gaza.Ross acknowledged that he knew the cement might be misused. “At times, I argued with Israeli leaders and security officials, telling them they needed to allow more construction materials, including cement, into Gaza so that housing, schools and basic infrastructure could be built,” Ross wrote. “They countered that Hamas would misuse it, and they were right.”
We will never know if that cement was used to build the particular tunnel where Moshe Leiter was murdered. What we do know is that the cement was used to build thousands of terror tunnels in Gaza. And it is because of those tunnels that these Israeli soldiers had to go into Gaza and target the tunnels, one by one. That is what put them all in harm’s way and, it also must be said, allowed the terrorists to carry out October 7 in the first place. That is why Major Leiter and his fellow soldiers lost their lives on November 10.
But Ross is far from the only American to blame. Back in 2010, the Obama Administration began pressuring Israel to ease up on its blockade of cement and other building material to Gaza. Then Vice President Joe Biden told interviewer Charlie Rose, on Bloomberg TV: “We have put as much pressure and as much cajoling on Israel as we can to allow them to get building materials” into Gaza.
The international pressure on Israel intensified until finally, in 2013, the Israeli government caved in. The New York Times reported on September 17 that Israel had agreed “to allow building materials meant for private projects into the Gaza Strip for the first time in six years…Gaza has been struggling with a shortage of building materials…[An] Israeli official said that 350 trucks of cement, steel and concrete would cross into Gaza weekly.”
Giving “humanitarian aid” and “dual use” items to the people of Gaza will never bring peace and will only allow the terrorists to build more and better tunnels. Peace will only come when Hamas is eradicated along with their tunnels.
Moshe Phillips is a commentator on Middle East affairs whose writings appear regularly in the American and Israeli press.
And since Israel is at the mercy of the Israeli left, global public opinion and a very low stock of munitions and spare parts, they can expect more of the same.
Yes, and it will continue as long as the Dems hold office to rule America.
The Obiden administration is continuing its betrayal of Jews, and for that matter, Americans.
I don’t understand why the IDF doesn’t flood the Hamas rat tunnels with chemical and biological weapons.
Probably they were hoping to get back more hostages who might be in the tunnels, . Today I saw stories of “ hoses” for sea water to Gaza. I am hoping as I think you are it’s to finally flood the tunnels.
Yes, I do hope so. Sea water is good because the IDF could wait at the other ends of the tunnels and blow the rats away as they scurry out, and maybe some captives would come out with them. Tunnels filled with seawater might undermine the buildings above, which would serve the Paleosimians right. Some guy just wrote into the Steve Gruber show and said it would be like flushing a commode, ha ha!
If they can save more hostages that would be great but I doubt they can because the Hamas subhumans would murder them if they were about to be killed.
Of course, the IDF could pump in knockout gas but they haven’t, so they probably have a good reason not too.
Sealing all the tunnel openings with tons of concrete would kill all the rats inside, too, and asphyxiation is supposed to be a bad way to go, which is what the Hamas subhumans deserve.
Or goats to keep the islamic Hamas cowards busy.
How do you handle the incel armies of Islam?
More goats.
Good answer.
LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL! Just be sure to send some Islamic bridal outfits with them.
Just a guess here but, it may be connected to the fact that doing so would violate international law.
Maybe but the Hamas butchers not merely violated international law but they violated every standard of living among a modern civilization. Kill each and every one of the Hamas because they do not merit living in a modern society. Period!
The Rump Ranger,
there’s no such thing as international law, as the atrocities of Hamas so ably prove.
Why don’t you volunteer to be a human shields for the Hamas subhumans?
Partly because of the hostages that are held somewhere in these tunnels. Now there is a plan in place to flood the tunnels with sea water by using pumps, but it has not been approved yet by the government (again, fearing for the fate of hostages).
The Romans are said to have salted all the earth around Carthage after the 3rd Punic War. Not sure if that’s a myth or true, but perhaps Israel is thinking along the same lines – flush out the subterranean Hamasshole monsters in the tunnels.
Hamas has Israeli children locked in cages in the tunnels.
thermobaric bombs should shatter and collapse them, but as Cat said, hostages are almost certainly being held in them. I don’t think just flooding them is a long term solution, too easy to pump the water back out, but it should compromise many of the booby traps. Collapsing them will probably damage the structures above them, but I consider that just TDB for their structures.
Why does Israel need to provide anything to Gaza? Hamas runs it, Hamas has over a hundred miles of coastline in which to import whatever it wants to pay for using the UNRWA billions donated by western countries.
The last thing one should want is for a hostile entity like Gaza to be able to import whatever they want, because what they want is more and more deadly weaponry. That’s why Israel years ago destroyed Gaza’s port and airfield, and why both Egypt and Israel monitor what’s going into Gaza, though lots of material still gets in via smuggling tunnels from Egypt.
One interesting proposal is for goods to be routed through Cyprus, where everything can be checked, then transshipped to Gaza. El Arish in Egypt is another potential waypoint, though Israeli inspection teams would likely be less welcome there than in Cyprus.
True, for sure. But the “need” is merely a social construct of the lefties in America. It signifies learning nothing, zero, nada from history. Therefore, the left here pushes the scam.
And there are MANY jihadi terrorist groups in Gaza besides Hamas and NONE of them need “humanitarian” supplies. You’re right to call bullshit.
The IDF needs to flood the tunnels to such an extent that the end result is 25 miles of new Mediterranean coastline for Israel, and the disappearance into the sea—like Pharaoh’s chariots some years ago—of what was there before.
Dennis Ross said that he had been wrong but did he apologize? He has a lot of blood on his hands, after all. Obama and Biden, too. When there’s an Iranian mushroom cloud over Tel Aviv will Biden admit to, or apologize for, being wrong about giving and allowing Iran to get its hands on hundreds of millions of dollars? No. Being a delusional Leftist means never saying you’re sorry.
Sadly, it is not hundreds of millions of dollars. It is hundreds of billions of dollars. Plus, two weeks before the butchers attacked on Oct. 7th, Biden directly gifted Hamas $158,000,000. He should be hung upside down for his accomplicing the horrific crime.
Not only that, but Alzheimer Joe doesn’t even remember he did that, not that he cared about what Iran would do with the free fortune when he signed it away at his handlers’ command.
“IF” Israel is committing genocide on Fakestinians, why do they need so much building material??
Just one more reason I call them Fakestinians. They are built and maintained on lies.
What’s up, Kuhnkat? I haven’t seen any of your comments in quite awhile.
You cannot trust the Demo party. They probably knew the cement would be used for terror tunnels, but they do not care. They do not want Israel to survive anyway.
Perhaps one solution to the diversion of building materials would be for architects to design buildings appropriate to the climate, using glass and non-traditional materials which would not have sufficient weight-bearing properties for tunnel construction.