During Ben Shapiro’s infamous BBC interview, interviewer Andrew Neill expressed horrified disdain at Shapiro’s past opinion that Israelis build things, while Hamas “bomb crap and live in open sewage”. But for all Neill’s arch disapproval, Shapiro is right. Almost literally: Hamas are boasting about pulling up Israeli-made water pipes in order to make bombs.
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar threatened to “crush Tel Aviv,” promised to blow up IDF tanks, and told of how Hamas uses irrigation pipes left in Gaza after the 2005 Disengagement in order to manufacture rockets.
The pipes, used by Gush Katif farmers, were left in Gaza after Israel expelled all the Jews from the area in summer 2005. Now, these same pipes – which could have been used for Gazan farmers – are being used by Hamas to manufacture rockets.
The Disengagement was a chance for the Palestinian leadership – and, by proxy, the Palestinians who enthusiastically voted for them – to prove their dedication to improving their people’s lot. With the despised Israelis withdrawn, and flush with billions of UN dollars, Hamas could have built schools, hospitals, all manner of infrastructure.
So what did they do?
“We have hundreds of kilometers of underground tunnels, thousands of advanced, homemade, anti-tank missiles, and the ability to shell Tel Aviv for six straight months,” Sinwar said, promising that Hamas “will turn Israel’s cities into ghost towns.”
At a Hamas youth conference, Sinwar said: “One day, someone from the commanders of the al-Qassam Brigades came and said there were no more pipes to produce missiles with, the pipes were used up and we couldn’t bring import iron from outside. We couldn’t bring it via the tunnels, because the pipes are long, so we would have to cease producing missiles within a month.”
Imagine that? Instead of putting all their efforts into making rockets to rain down on Israeli civilians, Hamas might have had to divert its attention to actually building things. Lucky for Hamas, ordinary Palestinians soon came up with a solution. Why build things when the Israelis had already built them, then handed them over to the Palestinians? You know, useless stuff like water infrastructure.
“I said Allah would help us find a way,’ Sinwar recalled. He then described how “a simple farmer came to one of the people in the brigades, and told him, ‘I heard you have a problem with the pipes to produce missiles, I have a solution for you.'”
“They went together to the released settlements (Gush Katif – ed.),” Sinwar said, adding that in the agricultural areas of Gush Katif there were pipes of different diameters, left by the “occupiers” who left Gaza in 2005.
“The brothers began digging and pulled out of the ground pipes which the occupation had left behind them […]which would allow the al-Qassam Brigades to manufacture missiles for the next ten years.”
So, faced with a choice of using the pipes to supply water to their people and farms, and make the desert bloom, Hamas chose destruction and violence.
Promised peace in exchange for land, Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005, removing all IDF soldiers from the area and uprooting thousands of Jews from their homes. Israel left greenhouses, produce, irrigation systems, and other infrastructure for the “Palestinians” due to enter the area. However, the greenhouses were raided and the infrastructure went unused.
israelnationalnews.com
Not just unused: torn up and turned into weapons of terror.