Hamas tunnels: Your aid money at work

Urban warfare is horrible, but tunnel wars are worse, as the Philippine military found when they fought to take back the city of Marawi from local Islamic terrorists.

The difference? The local Muslims didn't back them, nor did the international jihadi networks

So this StrategyPage article that is a couple days old notes:

Hamas had a lot of equipment, like bulldozers and trucks, that were needed for the attack on Israel but had legitimate uses inside Gaza. All the missiles and rockets were concealed in a network of tunnels underneath Gaza. Israel knew of some of these tunnels but had not been able to monitor their current status or use. Hamas prepared tunnel exits that allowed rockets and missiles to be quickly brought to the surface and launched....Hamas forces are mostly in the vast network of tunnels below Gaza, along with the remaining hundreds or thousands of guided missiles and rockets which are still being launched at Israel.

italics mine. 

as this Japanese editorial points out, this is not a war of Israel against the Palestinians but a war of Israel against Hamas terrorists, who are using hostages and innoscnt civilians as human hostages to protect them.

UKExpress discusses that an RT report from a few years ago toured the tunnel system.

The video clip emphasises the strategic importance of these tunnels for Hamas and other militant groups in the region. The journalist says: "All military activities come from these places, the group confirms." This underlines the pivotal role these tunnels play in the organisation's ability to carry out military operations and evade Israeli surveillance.

italics mine. 

so much for all that aid money sent to help the Palestinians, but which is diverted from civilians to fund jihad.

There are a lot of articles on the tunnels that someone finally noticed were there: I guess the MSM  just ignored that RT article about their plans because it was in Arabic, but now finally there seems to be a lot of articles about them. 

We are told the locals, who for some reason didn't evacuate, are lacking food and water and hospitals lament no diesel to run their generator.

and of course when Israel aims a rocket at the tunnels and storage areas beneath apartment buildings or hospitals, you can be sure that the local authorities will first insist that Israel was aiming at civilians, second, they will exaggerate the numbers, and third, they will post horrible photos of the dead where the bodies are shown in a way that you can't tell if they are combatants or just ordinary civilians.

Alas, the world correctly laments civilians being killed, but without this context it is a form of disinformation (dare I say propaganda?), and for some reason no one seems to be asking why Hamas  dangerously hides munitions inside or under buildings in civilian areas.

And those lamenting the civilian deaths seem to believe Hamas is being honest. The calls for a cease fire assumes that Israel is fighting logical people who would make peace. 

So why not offer a peace plan to release the hostages and get UN inspectors into their tunnels? Nope. No one is proposing this,

The dirty little secrets is that the Children of Light underestimate the Children of darkness. They lack malice so they underestimate that some freely chose revenge, malice, lies and murder to fulfill their desires.

Dirty little secret: it's hard to make peace with those who admit they don't want peace: They want to kill you.  But only satire sites dare to notice this.

'We May Never Know Exactly What Hamas Wants' Says Reporter In Front Of Hamas Holding 'Exterminate Jews From Existence' Banner

GAZA — Members of the media remain unsure of the motivation behind Hamas' violent attacks against Israel, with a reporter on the scene left speculating… pic.twitter.com/3iddddJiiE

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) November 1, 2023

The people of Palestine are suffering.

Of course, lots of food and water etc. are in the tunnels, but Hamas won't help the starving civilians because the supplies are for the military.... but they will put out propaganda videos blaming Israel for this, and pretending that when aid is sent it will be given only to the suffering civilians and not stolen like millions of dollars of aid have been stolen in the past.

Diverting aid money into military operations is is not new, of course; it is the same problem that NGOs have run into in North Korea, Somalia, Afghanistan etc. where many NGOs have left in frustration because those in need are not getting the aid.

And remember how Biden just released oodles of Iran's money back to them asking them to be nice? How much of this will go to their proxies making war, not just on Israel, but Hezobollah against the Sunni Muslim/Christian Lebanese government.

And Iran's proxies, the Houthis. are getting into the act too. 

A lot of leftist who lament the civil war in Yemen and blame the Saudis ignore that Iran is behind the Houthis who are making war against the Saudis by attacking Saudi border guards, and aiming missiles at that country. And these same human rights activists seem to look the other way at the Houthi's anti woman policies that make Mohammed look like Gloria Steinum and the Taliban as feminists.  

But never mind: The left ignores atrocities unless they can figure out how to blame them on the west.

however, the Arabs and the Turks are playing along with the anti Israel propaganda for now, partly because of their common faith and years of reflexive anti Israeli propaganda has made their citizens take the side of the Palestinians...

but the dirty little secret is that a lot of Arab countries know that this is not about the Palestinians, but a plan by Iran to use Hamas, an Iranian proxy terrorist group, to start a war to disrupt the growing peace in the area thanks to the Abraham agreements.

And these countries also are aware that they have extensive terrorist networks (both ISIS and Iranian) in their own countries that could cause violence/terrorism/civil war if they dare admit that Hamas had it coming, and that the suffering of the Palestinian people is only partly due to a stubborn Israel: most of their suffering is due to bad leadership who sponsor terror, and make things worse by their leaders who steal millions of aid money. Starting war is a tried and true way for tyrants to deflect anger against them by blaming all their problems on a scapegoat: in this case, Israel.

Sigh.

Don't blame Islam: these wars have been gong on for 3600 years. It must be something in the water.