In the lead up to the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) operation to destroy Hamas and secure the release of over 100 hostages—including 8 Americas—believed to be in and around Rafah, leaders from around the world are panicked and demanding Israel end the war.
This from townhall.com.
Why are world leaders clamoring for Israel to stop?
What are they hiding?
Actually, they are hiding a lot.
Over one million Gazans were said to be sheltering in humanitarian safe areas in Rafah, and Hamas used them as human shields to ensure that Israel would not invade.
The Israeli operation has forced the international community to warn Israel against such action to protect civilians.
Indeed, Hamas’s strategy of sacrificing civilians has led Norway, Spain, and Ireland to decide that terrorism should be rewarded with recognition of a Palestinian state. This is the moral equivalent of offering a restored Reich to Adolph Hitler.
Israel—unswayed by threats from the international community and determined to defeat Hamas and rescue hostages—entered Rafah.
On the IDF’s first day of entry into Rafah in mid-May they discovered hundreds of tunnels with over 50 two-way underground tunnels between Rafah and Egypt. Dozens more cross-border tunnels have been discovered since, along the Rafah-Egypt border. An underground metropolis was built by Hamas in Rafah:
– Some tunnels were paved and wide enough for passage of full-sized cargo trucks,
– The IDF also found more gruesome evidence of Hamas’s barbarism, the bodies of hostages stolen from Israel on October 7, 2023,
– Some, like Shani Louk, had been raped, dismembered, and murdered with her corpse paraded into Gaza as a trophy by the barbarous terrorists, others were tortured in the tunnels and murdered there,
– Beyond hostage remains, the IDF seized hundreds of weapons and war materiel, and
– They discovered UN relief packages, food, cash, electrification, housing, office space, etc.
Now the question The Regime, The Egyptians, and Hamas do not want answered: Why did Washington pressure Israel to remain outside Rafah, including withholding arms to keep the IDF from entering? The answer is multifaceted and very dirty:
– The construction of Gaza’s underground cities is of particular interest to Egyptian financial concerns. In the Middle East marketplace, the souk culture is all about the baksheesh (bribery).
– Egypt built a formidable border wall, which is impenetrable, militarized, and closely guarded with Egyptian troops and security forces. The way through it for Gazans seeking to get out of Gaza? Baksheesh. Upwards of $5,000 per person. And the holder of the border keys has profited over $88 million.
– A Bedouin tribal leader named Ibrahim al-Organi is the holder of the keys and he is now the wealthiest man in northern Sinai. Further. he has extremely close ties to the Egyptian President al-Sisi, specifically, al-Sisi’s son, Mahmoud. General Mahmoud al-Sisi is the Deputy Chief of Egyptian intelligence and he sits on Organi’s board.
– Every day there is additional evidence of Egyptian smuggling in Gaza. Intelligence on May 31, 2024 uncovered surface to air missiles smuggled into Rafah from Egypt. The large cache purportedly would have been used to take down IDF helicopters.
– Trafficking helps explain Egypt’s desperate moves, down to its clumsy diplomatic effort. The embarrassment to rain down on Egypt’s government for its perfidy toward Israel and its American patron will be catastrophic reputationally and financially for the al-Sisi family.
– The Regime has been straddling a so-called ironclad commitment to Israeli security while striving to placate a hostile movement in America toward our only democratic ally in the Middle East. Selling out Israel, striving to cease IDF progress, and publicly acknowledging that Israel has not crossed any redlines has placed the Regime in a difficult conundrum.
– Add to all this the Biden foolish pier fiasco—an unmitigated disaster. No one in Rafah benefited—except the terrorists,
– Following Israel’s recent successful surgical strike in Rafah to eliminate two terrorist masterminds, a humanitarian safe area caught fire and several civilians were killed. The IDF undertook an investigation which uncovered that the fire ignited over 1.7 kilometers from the IDF strike and was not caused by their action. Rather there was an ordnance storage facility in Rafah abutting the humanitarian zone and there were explosions in the stockpile that caused the fire. Hamas purposely stored highly combustible ammunition alongside a humanitarian zone for civilians, and
– The ordnance themselves were quite interesting. It turns out the ordnance were US-manufactured munitions that had been sold to Egypt.
With Israel now in control over the entire Gaza-Egypt border area, no doubt more evidence of Egyptian smuggling of American-made weapons and possible collusion with Hamas will unfold. What will happen to the US-Egypt relationship as a result? Little doubt all of this is traceable back to Barack Hussein Obama.
The IDF operation in Rafah is bound to turn up mountains of evidence of more money changing hands.
What is becoming obvious is that there were a lot of reasons for Egypt and America to want Israel to remain outside of Rafah. The secrets that will be revealed through the IDF’s operations may well surprise the civilized world as Israel fights to defeat the barbarians.
