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Who really wants this lot in their backyard? The BFD.

One of the big questions about last week’s horrific progrom by Hamas is not why the left are so supportive of the murderers. We already knew that the left are anti-Semitic to the core. Rather, many people are asking: how?

How, after all, does a motley terrorist government which can’t even feed or provide basic infrastructure for the people who voted for it mount such a devastating mass-terror attack against a thriving, industrious, first-world nation? A nation, moreover, renowned for its military and security prowess?

Really, no one should have to ask themselves such questions, not after watching the military and surveillance might of the USA humbled for twenty years by a ragtag horde of illiterate goat herders with AK-47s and Toyota Hiluxes.

But, so the loathsome apologists for Pallywood anti-Semitism will splutter, Gaza’s been an “open-air prison” for seventeen years! (Oddly, the jihadi-cuddling left always seems to forget that Muslim Egypt blockades Gaza just as assiduously as Israel, and is even more loathe to admit Palestinians inside its borders.)

Still:

How did Hamas amass the sheer amount of weaponry that enabled the group to pull off coordinated attacks that have left more than 1,200 people dead in Israel and thousands more injured – while continuing to rain rocket fire down on Israel?

The answer, according to experts, is through a combination of guile, improvisation, tenacity and an important overseas benefactor.

“Hamas acquires its weapons through smuggling or local construction and receives some military support from Iran,” the CIA’s World Factbook says.

As the NZ media would know, Iran and Iranians have little love for Jews. Despite the Islamophilic blitherings of some in the mainstream media, there are fewer Jews in Iran than is the rule even in the mostly virulently anti-Semitic Middle East. Since the Iranian Revolution, 90% of the country’s Jewish population has fled — or been expelled. The regime remains fiercely dedicated to its aim of the destruction of Israel.

And it uses bloodthirsty savages like Hamas to do its dirty work.

Experts say the Islamic Republic has long been Hamas’ main military supporter, smuggling weapons into the enclave through clandestine cross-border tunnels or boats that have escaped the Mediterranean blockade.

“Hamas’ tunnel infrastructure is still massive despite Israel and Egypt regularly degrading it,” said Bilal Saab, senior fellow and director of the Defense and Security Program at the Middle East Institute (MEI) in Washington.

When media talk about “tunnels”, it’s easy to imagine perilous, rabbit-like warrens dug through the dirt, like something from The Great Escape, or the Viet Cong. In fact, Hamas’ tunnels are huge, concrete-lined affairs, which allow the smuggling of a mind-boggling array of arms. Then there’s the stuff smuggled by the “flotillas” such as the fatuous twits of the anti-Semitic BDS movement so proudly boast of.

“Hamas has received arms from Iran smuggled into the (Gaza) Strip via tunnels. This often included longer-range systems,” said Daniel Byman, a senior fellow with the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

Hamas mightn’t be bothered much with such footling stuff as hospitals, schools, or building a solid economy, but they are all-too willing to expend serious efforts into killing Jews.

“We have local factories for everything, for rockets with ranges of 250 km, for 160 km, 80km, and 10 km. We have factories for mortars and their shells. … We have factories for Kalashnikovs (rifles) and their bullets. We’re manufacturing the bullets with permission from the Russians. We’re building it in Gaza,” Ali Baraka, head of Hamas National Relations Abroad, is quoted as saying.

For bigger items, the MEI’s Lister said Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a branch of the Iranian military that answers directly to the country’s supreme leader, has been giving Hamas engineers weapons training for almost two decades.

And, for a region where brain-power is in such apparent short supply (Gaza has an average IQ of 68, which is charitably described as “very low” (other classifications unapologetically dub it, “Mentally Retarded”), an almost admirable amount of rat-cunning is given over to making Jew-killing machinery.

Gaza has none of the heavy industry that would support weapons production in most of the world […]

But among its main exports are scrap iron, which can provide material to make weapons in the tunnel network below the enclave.

And that metal in many instances comes from previous destructive fighting in Gaza, according to Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, who wrote about it for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy’s Fikra Forum in 2021.

When Gaza infrastructure has been destroyed in Israeli airstrikes, what’s left – sheet metal and metal pipes, rebar, electrical wiring – has found its way into Hamas’ weapon workshops, emerging as rocket tubes or other explosive devices, he wrote.

Recycling unexploded Israel munitions for their explosive material and other parts adds to Hamas’ supply chain, Alkhatib wrote.

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Heaven forbid they should put such ingenuity toward something, oh, like building their economy and their infrastructure.

Instead, they’d much rather butcher Israelis.

A priority which tens of thousands of leftists in the West seem only too happy to applaud.

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