by Dr. Reuven Berko
The Israeli trifecta of intelligence agents, electronic capabilities and engineering genius spells disaster for Hamas.
The
detonation of a terror tunnel last week signaled the collapse of Hamas
and Islamic Jihad's strategy of creating mass killing capabilities and
taking Israeli communities or individuals hostage in order to free their
terrorists and issue unprecedented political and security demands.
The collapse of a number of Hamas tunnels
under mysterious circumstances has left many terror organizations in the
Gaza Strip with unanswered questions and harmed their members' sense of
personal and operational security. These were direct hits to the hiding
places where senior Hamas and Islamic Jihad officials planned to hide
while Gaza's residents served as their human shields.
The Israeli trifecta of intelligence
agents, electronic capabilities and engineering genius spells disaster
for Hamas. The terrorist organization's obstinate decision to dig itself
to death, knowing full well the sophisticated obstacle Israel was
placing in its path, served to speed up the process.
This was a mortal blow to the subterranean
concept the organization adopted in an effort to replicate on a much
grander scale the Gilad Schalit prisoner exchange. The detonation of the
tunnel left the bodies of five senior terrorists as bargaining chips to
be used by Israel for the return of the missing Israelis and the bodies
of the Israelis soldiers being held by Hamas and put an end to its
illusions Israel would free terrorists along the Schalit model.
In the meantime, Hamas has rejected an
offer to exchange the missing Israelis and the bodies of the IDF
soldiers for the terrorists' bodies. The terror organizations' lack of
interest in their own people and their dead has always been evident in
the fact that they never demanded the bodies of terrorists buried in the
Jordan Valley. These dead terrorists, however, belonged to
organizations that pretend to be "Islamic" and are therefore obligated
to bury their martyrs according to Shariah law.
The detonation of the terror tunnel also
constitutes a failure of leadership and morality, as Hamas promised its
Gazan constituents that their suffering benefits their strategy against
Israel.
Hamas' leaders will be forced to explain
why the life of one Israeli soldier, living or dead, is worth 1,000 of
its own. They will need to inform the terrorists' families that their
relatives will not be released from prison and explain to those digging
the tunnels they will likely die in an explosion and not be buried
according to the laws of Islam. One can assume that Hamas, in an act of
desperation, will seek to repeat the scenario of the exploded tunnel in
an effort prove to Israel the futility of its improved preparedness. As
the famous adage commonly attributed to Albert Einstein says, insanity
is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different
result.
Dr. Reuven Berko
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/hamas-moral-collapse/
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