Israel is reporting they have already found 50 smuggling tunnels going from Rafah into Egypt. Probably just the tip of the iceberg. As I said before, at its core the insurgency is a business, and by taking over the border crossing Israel is ****ing with the business; which is upsetting the Arabs way more than Palestinian's dying. Getting the smuggling tunnels back might actually be the impetus that gets the Sunni Arab states to finally work to get rid of Hamas.

Also, Israel is reporting that they are getting information that a lot of the hostages, including many Thai farmers, are dead and probably have been since 10/7. There is probably a reason Hamas has so steadfastly refused to confirm the live hostages, because there are a lot less than believed, and probably have been since the jump.

If there has one thing that has become evident with the liberal experiment of third world nation building, is that when you have "democracy" without any liberal norms to go with it, this should be expected.

Notice Kuwait just suspended their Parliament, and threw at least one member in jail, and there wasn't a single murmur about it from the liberal world. At this point we just accept that given the social and political norms of this part of the world (with the exception of Israel), the best you can hope for is a theocratic dictatorship where at least the dictator cares about having a functional state. And any democracy thrown in will probably yield much worse results.

I thought they gave back all the Thai hostages in Nov.

Wtf are they doing??

That's what the $400 buys you. That was the going price to get into Egypt from Gaza.

destroying a culture due to indoctrinated hatred. similar to when synagogues were burn--