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Israel Can Thank Hillary For Hamas Terror Tunnels
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| Hillary Rodham Clinton Source: www.hlntv.com |
Mideast: Finally, the president has scolded Hamas for using its tunnels to attack Israel. But he should also fault his former secretary of state. It was Hillary Clinton who aided their construction.
Rewind to 2012.
Then, as now, Hamas terrorists in Gaza were raining rockets on Israeli towns. Eight days of cross-border fighting claimed 166 Palestinian and six Israeli lives.
Just 48 hours before Israeli troops planned to invade Gaza, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton brokered a cease-fire. She flew to the region and met with Israeli and Palestinian leaders and announced a peace deal from Cairo.
The cease-fire held, and Washington headlines trumpeted the exiting secretary's parting feat.
"Hillary Clinton scores Gaza cease-fire success," Politico.com said.
"Clinton got a Gaza cease-fire right at the moment hope seemed dead for a rapid end to the violence — and next time, President Obama will probably have to do it without her," the news site gushed.
Only, the cease-fire didn't really hold.
That's because the deal Clinton brokered required Israel to ease its blockade of building materials and other dual-use goods bound for Gaza, which is ruled by the terrorist group Hamas.
Israel had banned construction goods because Hamas used them to build an underground network of weapons depots, bunkers and rocket-launching pads.
But Clinton naively believed Hamas leaders' pledge that such supplies would go to bridges, hospitals and schools. And so the successful five-year Israeli blockade was lifted.
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