Posted on 01/03/2009 8:51:24 PM PST by bruinbirdman
The large-scale Israeli offensive in Gaza has sent Hamas leaders and operatives physically under the ground. They are nowhere to be seen. None of them have appeared in public or in the media apart from a recorded speech by Hamas government chief Ismael Haniya. Prominent Hamas leader Nizar Rayan, who chose to remain on ground level, was killed Thursday by an Israeli missile attack on his house.
Supplies go into a tunnel in Gaza
For Israelis and Palestinians the whereabouts of Hamas leaders is no secret at all. For almost three years, Hamas was busy digging and building an extensive network of tunnels under the cities of Gaza and Rafah for military purposes, leaving smuggling tunnels across the border with Egypt for private entrepreneurs who pay lucrative taxes to Hamas.
Hamas has even taken the tunnels far away from Gaza to Hebron in the West Bank where Israeli authorities destroyed a one hundred-metre-long tunnel last November.
Ayemen Taha, a junior Hamas activist told the AFP news agency this week that
"communication between our people and the leadership has never been interrupted anywhere in Gaza, we are ready for any land attack on Gaza." He was apparently referring to the fact that the Hamas leaders are in the safe tunnels under Gaza City. According to the Israeli press these tunnels are well supplied, protected and equipped with efficient control and command centers.
Inspiration from Lebanon Hamas was inspired by the effective use of tunnels by the Lebanese Hezbollah against the Israeli attack in the summer of 2006. Tunnels were used by Hamas earlier against its Palestinian rival Fatah in the power struggle in Gaza in 2007. Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority who currently resides in Ramallah on the West Bank, earlier complained that
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Nice.
The saying I used is English for an Arabic curse I wanted to throw back in the face.
“Why is it that Israel can’t carpet bomb Gaza with conventional weapons. The population elected Hamas. Therefore they support Hamas. Therefore they should be considered as terrorists. Pull back and don’t enter Gaza at all. Im getting annoyed about this now. Carpet bomb mile by mile Gaza until there is nothing left. Then no need for mines or other hazards when Israel retakes their rightful land.”
Political expedience.
We have to give GWB credit for our not being attacked again since 9-11.
It's telling that the author considers smugglers - who breach the laws of TWO governments (Egypt and Hamas) - "entrepreneurs" who pay "lucrative taxes" (otherwise known as bribes).
Hmmmm... I wonder what the supply of heavier-than-air non-breathable gases is in Gaza?
FASTER PUSSYCAT! KILL KILL!
Not sure. How about a hyper-thermobaric bomb? As it explodes, it roasts them and shoots them out like chunks of shishkebobs.
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