The latest Wile E. Coyote—Road Runner cartoon is now ready for viewing. Wile E. has just dug the deepest tunnel he’s ever dug, from Gaza into Israel, hoping to sneak up on the Road Runner, but the Road Runner yet again has managed to foil him. Beep-beep. The story is here: “Cross border attack tunnel discovered last month was deepest ever found,” by Anna Ahronheim, Jerusalem Post, November 19, 2020:
…The Hamas tunnel that stretched several meters into Israel and was discovered by the IDF last month near Kissufim forest was the deepest tunnel ever dug.
This means the tunnel must have gone at least 80 meters (the depth of the previously deepest tunnel dug under the Israeli border – not by Hamas but by Hezbollah), or approximately 260 feet under the surface. It is 1.25 miles long. It took an extraordinary effort by Hamas – like Wile E. Coyote’s complicated contraptions involving Acme Missile’s sticks of dynamite – and if it was built to test if Israel could manage to detect it, the Israelis have now let Hamas and the world know: Yes!
While the military is not certain as to what its purpose was, it believes that it was intended to test the underground barrier or to be used for a cross-border raid by the terror group though not necessarily to abduct Israeli troops or civilians.
It was only dug recently and was not one of 20 terror tunnels used by Hamas and Islamic Jihad and destroyed by the IDF since the end of the last war between Israel and Gaza in 2014.
The tunnel which began in the Gazan city of Khan Younis was found after being notified by the new underground barrier system and by the noise of excavations which were heard by female soldiers in the Gaza Division who are tasked which identifying such sounds.
The detection of this deepest of all Hamas tunnels by sensors that are part of Israel’s underground anti-tunnel barrier, aided by the apparently superior hearing of female Israeli soldiers (I did not know until now that women have keener hearing than men), allowed Israel to hear the faint noises from at least 240 feet underground. The underground anti-tunnel barrier stretches across 40 miles of the Gaza-Israel border. It will be complete in a matter of a few months, but it has already passed an extraordinary test, by detecting a tunnel dug to such a depth.
Like other attack tunnels built by the group, the tunnel was fitted with concrete slabs in the form of arches and due to the depth that it reached, it also had an upgraded oxygen and ventilation system.
Such an elaborate tunnel cost many millions of dollars – possibly as much as $5-$10 million. Imagine what such sums could do for the impoverished people of Gaza. At what point will Hamas recognize how much money and effort it is wasting, only to be foiled at every turn by those astoundingly clever Israelis? I suspect after this fiasco, they will call a halt to this wasteful tunnel building.
It was about two kilometers long (1.25 miles) and though the military sealed part of the tunnel, they intend to use the remaining route to carry out a number of experiments against terror tunnels.
The discovery of the tunnel has encouraged the military regarding the success of its 60 km long underground barrier which has a system of advanced sensor and monitoring devices to detect tunnels and is combined with a 6 m. (20 feet) high above-ground fence.
Construction on the barrier began in 2017 and is expected to be finished by March 2021.
Infiltration attempts are common along the border, with many Gazans looking to get arrested by IDF troops rather than remain in the Strip which is verging on a humanitarian catastrophe, with serious economic, social, and infrastructure crises only getting worse.
Just think what that means: many Gazans try to enter Israel, above ground, not to attack Israelis, but because they want to be arrested. Given the miserable condition of life under Hamas rule in Gaza, with the grand theft by its leaders (two of them, Khaled Meshaal and Moussa abu Marzouk, have each managed to amass a fortune of at least $2.5 billion), and the impossibility of protesting the mismanagement and corruption they must endure, it’s not surprising that some would prefer to be detained in Israeli jails than to be “free” in Gaza.
In 2018 some 702 Palestinians from the Strip infiltrated into Israel and were arrested, the next year saw 397 infiltration and only 56 in the past year. The marked decrease in infiltration is associated with the ending of the Great March of Return demonstrations as well as the coronavirus pandemic.
In addition to the underground barrier meant to stop cross-border attack tunnels, the IDF is also implementing a “Smart Border” concept.
It will be implemented first along a 6 km section along the northern part of the coastal enclave, with a combination of artificial intelligence, sensors, and drones able to detect changes on the ground or suspicious movements as well as remotely piloted trucks with machine guns that can neutralize threats.
The concept of a smart, multidimensional smart border which is based on technology and intelligence alongside combat forces, would allow the IDF to reorganize troop configuration therefore increasing force protection and raising operational lethality….
Early on Sunday morning, a year after al-Ata’s [a PIJ leader] killing, two rockets were fired from the Strip towards central Israel. While the timing was suspicious, the IDF believes that the two rockets, belonging to Hamas, were fired after a lightning bolt hit an electrical panel that was connected to an underground launcher in a field near the neighborhood of Sajaiya.
In the days leading up to the launch, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad worked to restrain operatives from launching rockets to mark the anniversary, carrying out preventative arrests and patrolled launch areas.
Hamas understands that Israel has no intention to occupy Gaza and acts to refrain operatives from terror groups and lone actors from carrying out attacks that would break the tense understanding with Israel….
Hamas wants for now to keep violence from the Palestinian side in check. It has been restraining, not encouraging, those Palestinians, including its own operatives, and those of PIJ, who are eager to attack Israel. They’ve been patrolling places where rockets are known to have been launched, and even gone so far as to arrest the hotheads who might disobey the order from the Hamas leaders to refrain from attacking Israel. They know that Israel, too, does not want attacks to get out of hand; Israel right now wants calm on its Gazan border; it has enough on its plate with the Iranian threat, a new administration in Washington to figure out, and above all, the coronavirus pandemic. Israel does not want to have to reenter Gaza, crushing Hamas and likely ending up having to be responsible for ruling the Strip, a task the Israelis wish to avoid.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian tunneling may have experienced its last hurrah. In the north, under the border with Lebanon, all six of the very long tunnels Hezbollah built at great expense have been discovered and destroyed. In the south, the Israelis have detected and destroyed 20 massive tunnels dug by Hamas since 2014, before any of them could be used. Now they have detected and largely destroyed (they deliberately kept part of the tunnel intact to use for testing purposes) the deepest tunnel yet dug by the Palestinians. Though that tunnel is at least 240 feet underground, the sound-and-movement sensors attached to Israel’s underground barrier, aided by the keen hearing of Israeli female soldiers, managed to detect it.
With its 60 km (37 miles) long underground barrier, which has a system of advanced sensor and monitoring devices to detect tunnels, and is combined with a 6 m. (20 feet) high above-ground fence, Israel has yet again foiled the latest tunneling feat by Hamas from Gaza to Israel. If Hamas does a cost-benefit analysis of its latest fiasco, it will find that the cost has been terrific (a tunnel 1.25 miles long! 240 feet deep!) while the benefit has been non-existent (no one from Hamas has managed to infiltrate by tunnel into Israel in the last six years). Hamas and Hezbollah posed a challenge to Israel with their exceedingly deep tunnels; Israel met the challenge by coming up with extremely powerful sensors that have been able to detect all of those tunnels, despite how deeply — 240 feet underground — some of them had been dug.
Hamas, the Wile E. Coyote of the Arab-Israeli conflict, has been foiled yet again by those clever Israelis. It’s back to the drawing board for Hamas to figure out what else it can possibly try. And for Israel, our endlessly creative Road-Runner, it’s time for a victory lap: Beep-beep.
Dsinc says
Jews have a higher IQ. That’s why Muslims hate them. Islam can’t compete with rocket science.
Rarely says
Sources please.
Dan says
Well you can START by looking at British medical records, which stated while Muslims were around 5% of the population, they accounted for nearly 30% of genetic medical problems, mental as well, up to and including intelligence tests.
This is entirely due to inbreeding, as the vast majority marry within close family members; (1st cousins for all you libs who yak about Hillbillies and British royalty.)
Also, American military training Egyptian pilots said the Egyptians took far longer to learn basic tasks and tactics, and one of biggest problems Egyptians had was inadequate night vision, another genetic condition arising from inbreeding.
Then there’s the various Nobel Prizes. (Except for the sham Nobel Peace Prize.) Dozens and dozens of Jews have won Nobel Prizes, spread over all the fields, while, if I remember right, Muslims have won maybe 7 or 8. (And that probably includes the sham Nobel Peace Prize.)
Gene says
Donald I Templer. The Comparison of Mean IQ in Muslim and Non-Muslim Countries. Mankind Quarterly. Washington: Spring 2010. Vol. 50, Iss. 3; pg. 188 (The mean IQ in Arab countries is 84.) 84 is borderline deficiency for intelligence. This is actually too stupid to even enlist in the US Army, probably because they can’t train you to peel potatoes at that level. It also probably explains why Arab wars against Israel last about a week.
eduardo odraude says
If 84 is in fact the mean IQ in Arab nations, that is an indication of the retarding effect of Islam. And it should be no surprise, since if the mind is bound and gagged, it cannot develop. And Islam is one of the most powerful tools for binding and gagging the free mind.
gravenimage says
84 is the mean IQ in Arab lands–it is even slighltly lower, 81, in Muslim nations in general:
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Comparison-of-Mean-IQ-in-Muslim-and-Non-Muslim-Templer/7612c3e84a708dc0000dae0fe6607228ea8749f5
Ade Fegan says
I suggest you go by the number of nobel prizes won by Jews and the number won my muslims … and bare in mind how many muslims there are in the world compared with Jews (and also the effect of inbreeding on IQ)
Peter WF says
Dear Rarely, please approach with your clear thinking hat on. I have not made any contribution to anything you will find. Here are some of my sources / references –
Search “world map average IQ”.
Note the 2 smartest nations don’t have a jihadi problem. One locks them up and the other doesn’t let them in.
Some other searches –
“world map marry first cousins”
“Effects of Centuries of Inbreeding Among Muslims”. There is a wentworth article. Be sure to go to the end and “enjoy” the video. Destined I am sure for western subsidised medical care by some convoluted path.
“world map corruption”
“world map muslims” or “world map christians” and / or any other religion. Is there a correlation?
“world map violence against children”. I recommend the https://ourworldindata.org/ link.
As I say to junior staff after instructing them on a task – “I have every confidence in you”.
don vito says
The source in the post.
don vito says
Have pity don, rarely needs your help. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh ok, here is the source “The story is here: “Cross border attack tunnel discovered last month was deepest ever found,” by Anna Ahronheim, Jerusalem Post, November 19, 2020:” How did he miss that? I dunno.
Del says
Google, please.
For everyone’s information, J. Trudeau, the current PM of Canada, laundered over $125 million to Hamas through the UNRWA. Some of that Canadian tax money was likely used for concrete for these tunnels.
PCola Dave says
I suspect Muslims are democrats at their core. Stupid abounds!
eduardo odraude says
Obviously not all Muslims hate Jews, though it is a notorious fact that anti-Semitism is rife in the Islamic world — not because “Jews have a higher IQ” — though it may well be true that Ashkenazi Jews currently have the highest average IQ of any population group — the reason there is such anti-Semitism in the Islamic world is that the Qur’an and Hadith are full of anti-Semitism.
Although Ashkenazi Jews’ average IQ — 115 — is not that much higher than the average of “average” population groups, the higher starting point of 115 means that a single standard deviation is already a “genius-level” or near-genius level IQ. Thus Jews produce a relatively large number of geniuses.
All that said, there seems to be evidence that IQ goes up over time — if not in the life of an individual, at any rate over the course of generations in population groups.
Rarely says
IQ levels have little, if anything, to do with muslim antisemitism. There are more than 100 times more muslims than Jews so they should have no shortage of geniuses either even if it is a smaller percentage.
When one can discover why there has been an exponential growth of antisemitism among non-muslims in the Western World in recent years the answer may come into focus. Admittedly muslim texts give encouragement but not to non-muslims.
Rarely says
P.S. Israel is winning because it can’t afford to lose.
The main thing the Holocaust taught Jews is that when countries say they are going to annihilate you they may mean it and you’d best take them seriously. Israel can’t afford to lose even once and, even more importantly, they know it.
eduardo odraude says
True, (as I said in the comment to which you are responding) IQ levels are not the source of anti-Semitism in Islam. The sources are the Qur’an and Hadith and Sira.
Islamic anti-Semitism has been a huge force encouraging non-Muslim anti-Semitism. Muslim anti-Semitism was a force pressing Hitler to start the Holocaust. Hitler himself wanted the Holocaust, of course, but what made the Holocaust a pragmatic and plausible policy was something the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem told Hitler, namely that if Hitler wanted the Arab world as an ally, Hitler had to stop permitting Jews, in exchange for ransoms, to leave Germany. Instead, the Mufti urged, Hitler should kill them off in Germany. Because of the Mufti, who was one of the top two or three leaders of the Islamic world, perhaps the top leader, Hitler’s personal anti-Semitic obsessions now dovetailed with his foreign policy needs, paving the way for him to the Holocaust.
Thomas Sowell has noted that highly successful minority groups — such as Jews and the overseas Chinese — tend to be the focus of some hostility and envy among majority populations. It is a scapegoating phenomenon combined with suspicious jealousy and envy.
eduardo odraude says
I neglected to mention why the Grand Mufti told Hitler to stop letting Jews leave Germany. The reason was that many of the Jews were going to Palestine.
Rarely says
eduardo.
I agree with much of what you say here.
However, (1) Nazi antisemitism needed no help from anyone to become full-blown.
(2) How well or poorly Jews are doing in a society seems to have little or no bearing on the level of antisemitism. e.g. throughout European history. The majority of the Jews killed in the Holocaust were poor Polish-Jews. There was plenty of antisemitism in Poland (and elsewhere in Europe) before Hitler. As a rule local populations were eager to help with the “roundup”.
(3) There may well be some envy of the success of “new” arrivals but antisemitism tends to linger on and on and on. Right now it is on the upswing.
So my point remains: in spite of muslim influences antisemitism exists big time and is growing in the West by leaps and bounds. Why?
Simone says
Love it! Spot on.
Buraq says
Hamas — tunnel vision, myopia on a grand scale. Clowns!
CogitoErgoSum says
Morlocks.
Ade Fegan says
they lack the ethics of morlocks
RichardL says
they probably send people to Mexico to learn from the cartels how to dig tunnels. allah gives his followers many things but intelligence is not among them.
PCola Dave says
Islamist groups are sending operators to Mexico, living and learning their language and ways, eventually sneaking into the US disguised as Mexicans.
roberta says
Hamas comes up with another ”jobs plan” for its people, and Israel selfishly shuts it down.
AI sarc
eduardo odraude says
From a random google search: “…women of all ages have better hearing at frequencies above 2,000 Hz, but, as they age, women are less able to hear low frequencies (1,000 – 2,000 Hz) than men.”
Christopher Watson says
So that’s how my wife found out!
Rarely says
She knows what the neighbours are saying too.
mortimer says
Any international funding sent to the Pallies will pay for slay, pay for terrorist tunnels or pay for the construction of retirement monster homes in Cyprus for the Pally leaders and their families.
Oren says
The road runner is going to lose one day, G-d forbid, if the Coyote wakes up every day trying to think of A way to destroy the Jews, and the road runner only catches him and exposes him, only to be ignored by the western media for all time. There are unlimited numbers of coyotes who desire to kill the Jews. In G-d I trust.
Ade Fegan says
and I’m sure it won’t be enough to wake the world to the fact that islam is evil when it does
nicholas tesdorf says
If Gaza’s Muslims spent half as much time on good works as they now spend on evil works, Gaza would become a shining example to the Arab World and a decent place to live. However the malign hand of Islam prevents this.
Rarely says
Such a waste.
gravenimage says
True, Nicholas.
gravenimage says
Hamas Digs the Deepest Tunnel Into Israel That It Has Ever Dug, But the IDF Foils It Again
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Kudos to the IDF!
JohnTheRevelator says
Foiled it? Too bad, Israel should’ve extended the tunnel to their weapons testing grounds and use them for target practice.
Walter Sieruk says
Those jihadists of Hamas puting forth all their demonic energy to dig a pit to construct a terror tunnel with their sinister Islamic quest and dream of destroying the State of Israel are foiled again in that insidious tunnel terror scheme.
This is, sort of a reminder of the Wisdom found in Proverbs 26 28 of the Bible,which reads “Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and he who roll rolls a stone will have it roll back on him.” [N.K.J.V.]
Furthermore, the jihadists of Hamas with their delusional and unrealistic agenda of destroying Israel and replacing her with an Islamic “state” are all fated to fail and lose in that Islamic goal.
This is because God sides with Israel and will not allow her to be destroyed.
As the Bible informs its reader in Psalm 135:4. “For the Lord has chosen Jacob for Himself, Israel for his special treasure.”
JDow says
In the mid 60s I was a minor cog (read BSEE student) in a Univ of Mich seismology lab for a summer. I helped process some of the data from intrusion detection experiments that took place in Thailand. These grew into the intrusion detection system deployed in Vietnam. I accidentally ended up working for one of the companies involved in the communications aspect of the detection system. My takeaway from this contact with seismic intrusion detection is that properly fielded surface seismometers are insanely sensitive and effective tools. Seismometers buried 100′ or even 400′ under ground would not find themselves periodically losing sensitivity when a propeller driven plane flies nearby (within 20 miles or so). If Israel has done what I think they have done, the PA can give up trying to dig their way in. But, being worshipers of Muhammed’s fantasy god I don’t expect them to stop trying. I do see Israel allowing their attempts to proceed until they start to dig upwards or get out of lateral range until the Israelis randomize the “pull the trigger” time.
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Cornelius says
Question: How does Israel destroy the tunnels? If they blow them up, might it be easier for the Pals and Hezbollah to re-dig them in the same location as opposed to carving out new ones?
Walter Sieruk says
The jihadists of Hamas and the similar jihad entities don’t understand the Truth of God.Likewise ,they don’t understand that their delusional Islamic religious war against Israel is a false and lost cause.which is based on false religion.
The Bible informs its reader that “the wicked shall do wickedly;and none ofthe wicked shall understand, but the wise will understand.” Daniel 12:10. [N.K.J.V]
Also, Ecclesiastes 9:3 reads “Turly the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil; madness is in their hearts while they live , and after that they go to the dead”
DingedUpBad says
Women have keener hearing than men?
I thought all differences between men and women were social constructs?