Monday September 21, 2015

I've Been Thinking:

Once again, Hamas made a public denouncement of Egypt's "Operation Fish Farm" program because, according to them, it poses a "great danger to Gaza and to the ground water."

The Fish Farm is a program through which Egypt dug a huge mote next to their border with Gaza and repeatedly floods the mote with sea water.

Last week the Egyptians flooded the mote and in so doing, they significantly damaged several of Hamas' smuggling tunnels.

Hamas is upset because the tunnels that smuggle weapons and fighters back and forth between Gaza and Egypt are being destroyed.

Since Hamas took over Gaza in 2007, Egypt has blocked the border.
The Egyptians do periodically open the border for humanitarian purposes. But since Sisi took over as president of Egypt, he has been very serious about stopping terrorists from crossing the border.

Those terrorists that are now being stopped are the terrorist who attack Egyptian army personnel and civilians.

Operation Fish Farm is a low tech response to the smuggling tunnels - and from the point of view of Egypt, the operation is working well.

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