Report: Hamas Used Child Labor to Build Terror Tunnels; Hundreds Killed

by JOEL B. POLLAK 27 Jul 2014, 5:36 AM PDT

Hamas killed hundreds of children in the construction of its extensive tunnel network, built partly to carry out attacks on children across the Gaza border in Israel. That report--confirmed by Hamas itself--emerged in 2012, not from the Israeli government, but the sympathetic Journal of Palestine Studies, in an article that otherwise celebrated the secret tunnel system as a symbol of Palestinian resistance to the Israeli "siege" of the Gaza Strip.

The article, "Gaza's Tunnel Phenomenon: The Unintended Dynamics of Israel's Siege," was published in the Summer 2012 edition of the Journal by Nicholas Pelham, who writes for the Economist and the New York Review of Books, according to his bio. It is receiving new attention thanks to Myer Freimann of Tablet, an online journal of Jewish affairs, whose post about Hamas's use of child labor has gone viral in social media.

Pelham wrote that despite the economic success of the tunnels underneath the Egyptian border, which enriched Hamas through a thriving black market as well as arming it with new weapons, there were a few drawbacks. One of these was a "cavalier approach to child labor and tunnel fatalities," he noted. "During a police patrol that the author was permitted to accompany in December 2011, nothing was done to impede the use of children in the tunnels, where, much as in Victorian coal mines, they are prized for their nimble bodies. At least 160 children have been killed in the tunnels, according to Hamas officials" (emphasis added). (CONTINUED)

FULL ARTICLE HERE: Report: Hamas Used Child Labor to Build Terror Tunnels; Hundreds Killed

Cara Isadora McKinney Sings: The Black Swan from The Medium by Menotti - YouTube

Cara Isadora McKinney sings The Black Swan from The Medium by Menotti at the Norfolk Chrysler Museum's Perry Glass Studio for an evening of arias and "performance glass blowing" called The Phantom of the Hotshop. Accompanist is Beth Barefoot. Cara also coordinated and directed the night's performances. 

VIDEO LINK: Cara Isadora McKinney Sings: The Black Swan from The Medium by Menotti - YouTube

Cara Isadora McKinney Singing Un Bel di Vedremo from Madama Butterfly by Puccini - YouTube

Cara Isadora McKinney sings Un Bel di Vedremo from Madama Butterfly at the Norfolk Chrysler Museum's Perry Glass Studio for an evening of Arias and "dramatic" glass blowing called The Phantom of the Hotshop, complete with crazed and disfigured phantom and a falling glass chandelier. Accompanist is Beth Barefoot. Cara also coordinated and directed the night's performances.

VIDEO LINK: Cara Isadora McKinney: Un Bel di Vedremo from Madama Butterfly by Puccini - YouTube

Apollo Astronaut: Climate Alarmism Is the ‘Biggest Fraud in the Field of Science’ | CNS News

Climate alarmism is "the biggest fraud in the field of science" and the 97% consensus claim is nonsensical, Apollo 7 astronaut Walter Cunningham tells MRCTV in a preview of his presentation at the upcoming Heartland Institute climate conference, July 7-9.

"Since about 2000, I looked farther and farther into it," Col. Cunningham (USMC, Ret.) tells MRCTV in an exclusive interview. "I found that not one of the claims that the alarmists were making out there had any bearings, whatsoever. And, so, it was kind of a no-brainer to come to the conclusion." (CONTINUED)

FULL ARTICLE W/VIDEO HERE: Apollo Astronaut: Climate Alarmism Is the ‘Biggest Fraud in the Field of Science’ | CNS News