Posted on 01/14/2024 11:10:46 AM PST by BenLurkin
Hamas “used more than 6,000 tons of concrete and 1,800 tons of metal to build hundreds of miles of underground infrastructure.”
While the existence of what Israelis refer to as the “Gaza Metro,” which Palestinians call “Lower Gaza,” has been well known about for years, with Hamas leaders even boasting about it, the question remains how, in one of the world’s most poverty-stricken territories, which relies largely on aid from U.N. agencies, regional and Western powers, the terror group had the financial means to invest in such an intricate and expansive terror tunnel network.
As the governing body in Gaza, Darshan-Leitner said a large bulk of Hamas’ funds were levied from the Strip’s 2.2 million residents via ordinary taxes, even as aid agencies such as the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA; the Palestinian Authority, which governs Palestinians in the West Bank; and regional powers like Qatar provided crucial humanitarian services or built key infrastructure projects in the coastal enclave.
“Hamas took taxes from its residents and let others pay for everything that, as a government, it was supposed to take care of,” Darshan-Leitner said. She described how for most of the past two decades, Qatar supplied oil and funded humanitarian projects, the PA covered the costs of electricity, water, health and education, while UNRWA – including with funding from the U.S. – took care of a wide variety of needs for some 75% of the population considered refugees.
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May their infrastructure become their tomb.
The lesson that holier-than-thou do-gooders never learn (or deliberately continue to ignore): monetary donations are fungible.
There is no business to fund people in oppressive regimes!
The oppressive regimes will take the money, feed the population to the level they can be useful slave and use the rest of the money on oppression and military.
It is kind of like feeding starving people in concentration camps - it will enable them to work longer, but it will just make their life more miserable and the rulers will be the only one to benefit!
Not to mention the water pipes financed by well-meaning westerners being torn up out of the ground to make lethal rockets to shoot at Israel.
Well...Duhhhhhh! Who’da thunk it?
It surely only “fooled” only a few of them. Most are anti Jewish to start with
Unembarrassed by their stupidity, the CNN news writers had their talking heads say
“The total miles of Hamas tunnels is less than the miles of the New York City subway system.”🤪
I question the term “gullible donors”. I suspect many of them knew exactly what they were helping to build.
This sounds like an old media attempt to excuse their behavior.
“The total miles of Hamas tunnels is less than the miles of the New York City subway system.”🤪
Oh. That completely changes my mind about Islamic terror. It is perhaps the only fact relevant to the whole situation.
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