If there is any one lesson from America's first lost war -- the Vietnam War -- it is that tunnels can play a pivotal role.
If there is any one lesson from America’s first lost war — the Vietnam War — it is that tunnels can play a pivotal role. That lesson informs today’s war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip and explains why there can be no security in Israel without the total destruction of Hamas’ Gaza “terror tunnels.”
The tunnels were used to bivouac troops, set booby traps and mount surprise raids, sometimes inside the perimeters of American bases . It took the American military command until 1966 to recognize the seriousness of this lethal threat, and the response was beyond inadequate — brave American “tunnel rats” armed with only pistols and flashlights were sent fruitlessly into the breach. Without an effective tunnel response, we never stood a chance.
In Gaza, many tunnels are interconnected with schools, hospitals and mosques, and are part of the Hamas pattern of using civilians as masks and shields for their terrorist activities. Many tunnels also house the massive rocket operations that Hamas regularly conducts against Israel — thousands of rockets can be easily moved through the tunnels and remotely detonated.
Meanwhile, as Israeli troops begin to conduct house-to-house and building-to-building clearing operations in Gaza, Hamas’ terrorist brigades will be free to move undetected beneath sitting-duck Israeli troops across the length and breadth of Gaza. What is perhaps most surprising about the tunnel trap the Israelis are walking into, particularly given the technological sophistication of both Israel and the U.S., is the lack of any high-tech fix either to effectively detect the tunnels or to destroy them with advanced weapons once detected. Yet the Israelis must destroy this tunnel system if they are ever to be safe in their homes.
Not surprisingly, neighboring Egypt wants no part of this toxic, radicalized Palestinian population and has sealed its borders to refugees. Nor should they have any place in the United States — it would be impossible to separate the peaceful refugees from the terrorist chaff from this radicalized cohort.
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