[tet68]

Note, An airstrike IS a controlled explosion...

[2banana]

Killing seven Jihadist that were willing to storm into Israel through a tunnel to kill the first Jews they encountered does not make tensions any higher.

[Gen.Blather]

Here is an example of asymmetrical warfare favoring Israel. It takes a huge investment of manpower, time and materials to construct a tunnel. But new advances in detection technology make finding that tunnel and destroying it comparatively cheap. An analogy might be the Japanese continuing their focus on battleships when technology had clearly moved on to aircraft carriers. Hamas would be better off continuing and increasing their political attacks, which have been very successful in terms of getting other nations to boycott Israeli products and similar economic and political operations. However, Hamas has a problem in that they have created a culture where the majority of those in it want an old-fashioned stab-’em-in-the-chest battle. Israel will win that one most of the time.

[Signalman]

[rjsimmon]

Palestinian terrorists

Hmmm, they use those two words together in a sentence. As if there is a difference...

[Dennis M.]

Gopher gas bombs are far cheaper.

[SaxxonWoods]

“The discovery of the tunnel, its destruction and the deaths of so many terrorists has significantly raised tensions near the Gaza periphery.”

Tunnel gone, terrorists dead. Win-win.

No mention of whether CONSTRUCTING such a tunnel raises “tensions”.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Moreover, Hamas can no longer rely on Obama – who maintained hostile relations with Israel – to curtail Israeli military activity. The Trump administration views Israel as a vital ally and sympathizes with its security needs and Hamas knows this. For these reasons, it is unlikely that Hamas will choose to escalate tensions by retaliating for Hamas knows that in any war with Israel, it will lose both militarily and politically.

Most important words in the whole report.

[fella]

The North Koreans are known to have built many tunnels across the DMZ. Perhaps they’re giving the islamists some how-to tips.

[JimRed]

Based on solid intelligence, the IDF acted resolutely, destroying the tunnel and killing five Hamas operatives in the process.

Only five? Too bad.

[Sam Gamgee]

I always love headlines about Israel that say “tensions are high”. Yeah, I would be a little tense too if someone blew apart my terrorist tunnel.

[SJackson]

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