Was the Collapse of the Gazan Tunnels Prophesied in Isaiah? - By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz -
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"To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the crevices of the crags, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the glory of His majesty, when he ariseth to shake mightily the earth." (Isaiah 2:21)
Some called it poetic justice but others, including a renowned rabbi, saw the hand of God when two weeks ago, a terror tunnel, dug to infiltrate and attack Israel from Gaza, collapsed, killing seven Hamas militants. Two more tunnels followed within a week, killing at least three more terrorists. And again, on Monday morning, Safa News Agency announced another tunnel collapse in Gaza, killing yet another terrorist. Some hypothesize that the entire network is close to collapse.
The week of the tunnel collapses was rainy and many, including the Hamas spokesman, blamed the weather. However, the Middle Eastern winter has been relatively mild and such conditions should have been reasonably anticipated by the tunnels' engineers. The weather was not extreme and certainly did not seem to justify the collapse of multiple tunnels built from reinforced concrete.
Some have suggested that the tunnels' collapse is due to an Egyptian initiative to pump seawater into the tunnels which Hamas dug leading into the Sinai for the purpose of smuggling in weapons and other goods. The flooding, commenced in September of 2015, destroyed a number of tunnels on Gaza's southern border with Egypt. However, the tunnels which collapsed in recent weeks were located on Gaza's northern border with Israel, and are unlikely to have been compromised by Egypt's flooding many miles away.
Looking for a more logical explanation of this series of disasters, Palestinian Ma'an News asked Major General Yoav Mordechai, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), whether Israel had a hand in the tunnel collapses. His answer was a mysterious, "God knows."
Breaking Israel News took General Mordechai's direction and went to the source, asking Rabbi Yitzchak Batsri, a noted Kabbalist and Torah scholar from Jerusalem, for a Torah perspective on these recent developments. He noted that this situation was precisely described by Isaiah in 2:19.
"And men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the glory of His majesty, when He ariseth to shake mightily the earth."
Rabbi Batsri expanded on the prophecy, saying, "They are not going underground as an effective means of warfare. As the verse explained, they are going underground to try to hide their evil from the eyes of God, perhaps even from the eyes of other men. Has the world cried out against this evil, this warfare directed solely against women and children?"
Answering his own question, Rabbi Batsri said,"No, they remain silent because they say since it is hidden underground, God does not see. And just as it is written in Isaiah, God brought his judgement to them, even there."
The first tunnel that collapsed, killing seven, has a special reason to be the focus of divine wrath. Khalil Al-Hayeh, a senior Hamas official, revealed last Sunday that the tunnel was the same one that had been used to capture the body of IDF soldier Oron Shaul during the 2014 war. Hamas still holds Shaul's body in a macabre form of blackmail.
Hamas has devoted massive energy and resources to its prized network of tunnels, appropriating much of the humanitarian aid from Europe intended to rebuild the civilian infrastructure and directing it instead into its terror tunnels, which it uses to infiltrate Israeli communities, kidnap Israeli soldiers and civilians, and sneak weapons into Israel.
Divine intervention notwithstanding, the tunnels from Gaza are a proven threat, and in the 2014 during Operation Protective Edge, Israel destroyed more than 30 tunnels, estimated to be about three-fourths of the total amount. Hamas began working to rebuild its network almost immediately and is today estimated to have reached nearly the number of tunnels it had previously to the operation.
In a separate moment of recent divine karma, several Palestinians were injured during a massive funeral procession for seven terrorists killed while attempting to carry out attacks against Israel. Thousands of Palestinians attended the event in Gaza City, with several hundred climbing onto the rooftops to get a better vantage point. One roof gave way, spilling mourners onto the street. It is clear from the video released by 0404 that several people were injured, but Palestinian authorities did not comment on the number of casualties.
Netanyahu: Israel needs fences on all borders to keep out 'predators' in region - Herb Keinon - http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Netanyahu-Israel-needs-fences-on-all-borders-to-keep-out-beasts-in-region-444358
"We are preparing a multi-year project to encircle Israel with a security fence, to defend ourselves in the Middle East as it is now, and as it is expected to be," PM says.
Israel needs to erect a fence around the entire country to protect itself from "beasts" in the neighborhood, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday on a tour near Eilat of a segment of fence being erected along the Jordanian border.
"We are preparing a multiyear project to encircle Israel with a security fence, to defend ourselves in the Middle East as it is now, and as it is expected to be," he said.
"They will say to me, what do you want to do, protect the mansion? And the answer is, 'Yes.' What, we will encircle the whole country with a fence and obstacles? The answer is an unequivocal, 'Yes,'" he said.
"In the neighborhood in which we live we need to protect ourselves against beasts," Netanyahu added.
The prime minister said that a plan was also being drawn up to fill in the gaps in the security fence in Judea and Samaria.
Government officials said details about completing the West Bank fence were still being worked out. Despite a master plan for a barrier around the large settlement blocs of Ma'aleh Adumim, Ariel and Gush Etzion, only a small section of these routes has been built. Netanyahu's comments on Tuesday did not seem to signal that a final decision had been made.
Last month opposition leader Isaac Herzog (Zionist Union) called for completing the fence around the settlement blocs to both protect the settlements and send a message to the Palestinians that Israel would keep these enclaves under its control.
Netanyahu said that surrounding Israel with a security fence will cost billions of shekels, and the project would take a number of years.
Asked what Israel would do if tunnels were burrowed beneath the fence, he replied, "We are doing other things, that I will not describe here."
Netanyahu said that the advantage of putting up a barrier along the Jordanian border, in addition to that which has been built along the Egyptian border, was that there were no buildings nearby which could be used to camouflage the construction of tunnel shafts.
"That is not the situation in Gaza, or potentially in Judea and Samaria," he said.
"If you weigh whether to build a fence there you have to take into consideration that they could dig tunnels underneath. Those who said that there is no significance to territory in the modern era, should go to [look at the situation in] Gaza."
Every few months Netanyahu takes a tour of the fence under construction, and on Tuesday he helicoptered south to see work on a 30 kilometer stretch that begins in Eilat and works its way northward in the Arava. The price of this segment, also designed to protect the airport under construction at Timna, is NIS 288 million. Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen.
Gadi Eisenkot, OC Southern Command Maj.-Gen. Eyal Zamir, and Brig. Gen. Eran Ofir, head of the Security Fence Branch in the defense ministry, gave Netanyahu a progress report. Netanyahu was also accompanied by Transportation Minister Israel Katz.
In recent years, Israel has completed a 242 km. long fence from Kerem Shalom to Eilat along the Egyptian border that includes a five-meter tall fence, a thin strip that enables IDF trackers to identify footprints and a patrol route. In addition, another 103 km. fence has been built on the Golan Heights and some 500 kms. of fence has been erected in Judea and Samaria.
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