The 'Terror Tunnels'
(Journalist Greg Mitchell has been asking for information for days on exactly how "deadly" these tunnels are, since their destruction is supposedly the reason for the slaughter of 1100. The article is his conclusion.)
Greg Mitchell @GregMitch
I asked earlier for link to credible account of how many Israelis have died over many years due to tunnels. Help?
The 'Terror Tunnels'
http://gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-terror-tunnels.html
As we know, Israel's initial call for revenge against Palestinians in the current crisis was prompted by the kidnapping and killing of three teens in June, but soon there were doubts raised (even by some Israelis) that Hamas directed that. Then they highlighted Hamas firing rockets over and into Israel, but they've stressed that less often since flights started getting cancelled and tourism suffered. From the beginning, they have attacked what they called the "terror tunnels" built by Hamas over the years, but this has become the main oft-spoken cause for the ground and air attacks in the past ten days, since the ground invasion. U.S. media have dutifully taken tours of exposed tunnels and filed scare reports, such as the ones on CNN yesterday.
No doubt Israel is right to be concerned about these tunnels. No one would object to them destroying them along their border. Egypt has somehow destroyed as many as 1000 of them at its border used for smuggling goods (without killing many Gazans). The reason I raise this is: The tunnels are being used as a pretext for mass slaughter--and accepted or promoted as much by U.S. media. So the threat from them, especially before Israel escalated the war, must be proven and very clear
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