I think the tunnels that the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood allowed had all manner of things passing through them. Weapons + more ordinary items. The new regime in Egypt has destroyed or closed them off.
Weapons saved Gaza from the israeli brutal attack, if people in Gaza were defensless they would be living under direct occupation.
And notice that Hamas did not start the war. And the three israeli teens were not killed in Gaza !
The tunnels I'm talking about end up in Israeli territory, where there would be no point of attaining food or medicine. Here in the West the news shows Hamas militants emerging from these tunnels and shooting at soldiers and civilians alike.
Has Hamas ever used them before the israeli attack ? Did Hamas used them to hit civilians or to target soldiers ?
i mean why not building the tunnels in case israel starts a new war ?
A quick note about aid: I was looking at the comments at some paper's site, the Wall St Journal, I think, and someone was complaining that he contacted UNICEF or some aid agency about giving charity to the Palestinians. He was told that the money would first go to Israel for distribution. "Why, he asked, does it go to Israel and not directly to the Palestinians?" Others responded that it was the only way PL civilians would actualy benefit from the aid money. They told him that if the money is sent directly to Palestine it would either go to more weapons or to enrich the Hamas leaders (just as the PLO leaders like Arafat enriched themselves). Crazily, they said, the only way to get the money to the PL civilians was to first give it to the Israelis.
i don't think you believe such claim, You post this but do you really believe it ?
All the money go to Arafat then Abbas government, But small amount of money goes to families who surrender and obey israel.
Arab and Palestian people are not dogs, Nobody can buy them with money, they will hold to their rights or die defending their rights.
Thank you for the clarification. Sounds good to me.
It was a reaction, Extremism create extremism, Arab nations always were shelters for all people who run from their lands because of wars, bad economy etc..., Jews, Armenians, Africans, Asians etc etc.
If you review the region since the spread of islam you will find out that no civilian war happened ever since until the fall of Ottoman caliphate, All wars were between governments, Umayyads vs Abbasids, Ottomans vs Mamluks, Ottomans vs Safavis, Etc.
It's very very hard to think of people killing each others.
Well, as you can see above, the authors I'm reading document attacks by Palestinians well before 1948 or any announcement of statehood. As for statehood, I guess the British did the best they knew how but it appears that they really did handle things clumsily.
Yes when extremist groups of jews carried weapons and start taking lands from Palestinians, of course with Britain help.
Jews have been in Palestine for years before the British colonization, They were Ottoman citizens like other groups/ethinics.
I guess we'll have to disagree on that. Wherever you can find men, know that some of them are rapists, whether they are Jewish, Muslim, Inuit or whatever.
You could do some researchs instead of posting theories, Pride in Arab world is as important as person's life, harming civilians is never of Arab background, Let alone of rape !
Modern Arab military/Police/Security are the worst kind of creatures, The trainings that they learned in western camps/bases made them like robots, They kill, rape and torture their own people, See what's happening now in Syria, Egypt, Iraq.....i have never witnessed something like that in my life, My grandparents are badly shocked from what they saw on TV, they kept saying " Haraam ! Where is the pride, where is mercy in those men (soldiers) " .
The current Arab armies are the worst scum in the world.
