A piece of impressive original enterprising reporting from journalist/blogger Michael Totten:
KARNI TERMINAL, ISRAEL-GAZA BORDER — The Israeli Defense Forces found and collapsed a 200 meter-long and 12 meter-deep tunnel one kilometer inside the Gaza Strip that terrorists intended to reach all the way into Israel. The tunnel was located near the Karni Terminal, a now-closed crossing point for goods and material from Israel into Gaza. Gun battles erupted near the entrance to the tunnel before the charges were detonated as tanks guarded the terminal itself. 20 gunmen were killed.
“The plan was to use the tunnel for suicide bombings at Karni,� IDF Major Tal Lev-Ram told me as we heard sub-machine gun fire in the distance. “I can’t understand it. Karni is their lifeline, their life. This is the biggest reason we closed it. It’s hard to understand why they keep doing these things at the crossing points unless they are trying to make life harder in Gaza.�
Read the entire post. Aside from the hosanas that Totten richly deserves for offering some original info from the scene, it is again another example of how the goal of terrorists is to increase a body count. It truly doesn’t matter if it’s men, women, infants, pre-teens, teens, Jews, Christians or Muslims — they’re playing a NUMBERS GAME to destroy as many lives as possible. It’s like the old gunslingers in the American West who were reputed to have notches on their guns for men they had killed.
Given the chance, you and your family (no matter where you live) will be a notch.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.