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160+ children died building tunnels for Hamas
2014-07-30
[Jpost] Use of child labor not stopped by police in Gazoo, where children's "nimble bodies" help dig the tunnels that lead into Israel and Egypt.

Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, used children to help them dig numerous tunnels into Israel and Egypt, a 2012 paper written for the Journal of Paleostine Studies reported.

The paper, titled Gazoo's Tunnel Phenomenon: The Unintended Dynamics of Israel's Siege says that little had been done to stop the phenomenon of child labor during the digging of the tunnels by Hamas in Gazoo.

In December 2011, the paper's author Nicolas Pelham accompanied a police patrol in Gazoo and reported that "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."

He continued and said that "at least 160 children have been killed in the tunnels, according to Hamas officials."
Given the paper was published in 2012, likely considerably more than "at least 160 children" were killed digging those subway-like tunnels.
Since the beginning of Operation Protective Edge 21 days ago, IDF forces have uncovered 31 tunnels leading into Israel.
Posted by:Frozen Al

#13  **golf clap**
Posted by: Barbara   2014-07-30 15:18  

#12  coming soon: Paleo Billy Elliott (the musical).

Billy doesn't go to work in the the tunnels like his childhood peers, choosing instead to learn how to jump through flaming hoops and strap on a boom jacket. Eventually, however, his interests turn to ballet ("I want to daaaance") and his family murders him in an honor killing. The End
Posted by: Frank G   2014-07-30 14:43  

#11   Most at a subconscious level"

I beg to differ, rj.

Most is at a conscious level.
Posted by: Barbara   2014-07-30 14:37  

#10  I believe Marxists snapped at the end of the Cold War and are now bent on destroying the West as well. Most at a subconscious level.

Some were bent on destroying the west before, but most just thought things were unjust in the West and would be better under redistribution.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2014-07-30 14:26  

#9  "use of children in the tunnels, . . . much as in Victorian coal mines"

Yeah, but the West got over it.

The paleos won't get over it until ALL their children are dead. Then they'll try to kidnap other people's children to continue.
Posted by: Barbara   2014-07-30 14:24  

#8  had been done to stop the phenomenon of child labor during the digging of the tunnels by Hamas in Gazoo

It's how they keep their kids out of trouble when they're not in school. Learning how to hate the evil Jooz.
Posted by: gorb   2014-07-30 12:22  

#7  Are these 160+ kids the ones that Hamas takes photos of and then blames their deaths on Israel? Just wondering.
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-07-30 10:55  

#6  It's almost as if the world is, literally, morally upside down now

No, it's just going back to its normal state of affairs. Hope everyone enjoyed the break.
Posted by: Pappy   2014-07-30 09:44  

#5  When the Left took the initiative to condemn the West for failing to achieve 'perfection' and the spewing of the lie that 'all cultures are equal', you end up with such moral inversions. The Left exempts itself from the standards of perfection they've demanded of others. One set of rules for me, another set of rules for thee.

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as “bad luck.”
- ROBERT HEINLEIN
Posted by: Procopius2k   2014-07-30 09:10  

#4  It's almost as if the world is, literally, morally upside down now. Not a bit of hyperbole to that statement. Posted by Verlaine

It's not the inversion, it's the constant spinning that befuddles me.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-07-30 03:56  

#3  It's OK all will go on MSM list of Israel's victims.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-07-30 03:32  

#2  Been that way a long time, Verlaine.

Almost as if by design....
Posted by: DarthVader   2014-07-30 01:19  

#1  Lessee. Murderous child labor to build instruments of terror and aggressive war. Guess there'll be a wave of revulsion and criticism from the UN, Human Rights Watch, and sundry nitwits speaking in dramatic tones on NPR. What? OK.

Well then surely the large-scale, official, criminal, treaty- and conscience-violating human trafficking in young people, done for pay by violent criminal cartels, and leading to many deaths, disappearances, and abuses, and conducted by Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras will be savagely condemned and stopped?

What?

It's almost as if the world is, literally, morally upside down now. Not a bit of hyperbole to that statement.
Posted by: Verlaine   2014-07-30 01:14  

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