No Way Out

It’s late at night, the world is blanketed in black, and once again I’m checking the news. It is just as dark as the sky.

Politicians and pundits are still faithfully bleating their belief in the “two-state solution,” but those protestors on the Brooklyn Bridge have made it quite clear that they will only tolerate one state — and it doesn’t include Jews. I have zero foreign policy expertise, but from my vantage point it seems pretty clear that there’s no political solution for our problems.

Maybe there’s a military solution, though. Can’t the IDF blast Hamas out of existence, like the government promised?

I turn to two investigative reports about Hamas’s tunnel network, where it houses soldiers, weapons, and resources. One IDF soldier describes the specialized equipment and skills needed to fight in tunnels — the standard night vision goggles and communication systems don’t work underground. And since oxygen is limited, soldiers must bring oxygen supplies, respirators, and masks. An experienced tunnel soldier tells NBC News that inside the tunnels, every meter traveled “is like crossing a desert for a month.”