Haaretz: Hezbollah Tunnels Legitimate Effort To Find Evidence Of IDF War Crimes

“The effort to neutralize those tunnels appears to qualify as obstruction of justice.”

Tel Aviv, December 13 – A prominent Israeli daily newspaper is calling excavations by a Lebanese Shiite terrorist group into sovereign Israeli territory a sound moral and legal strategy to discover proof that the Jewish State’s military has engaged in atrocities and violations of the Laws of Armed Conflict.

Thursday’s lead editorial in Haaretz addressed the ongoing Israeli search for Hezbollah tunnels under the northern border, following exposure of two such passages over the weekend and a third earlier this week. The editorial board criticized the government for blowing the threat out of proportion, suggested the media campaign accompanying the anti-tunnel efforts provide political cover for a prime minister in legal trouble, and stated that under international law, Hezbollah may dig such tunnels into Israel if they undertake the effort as part of an investigation into inevitable Israeli war crimes.

“It would not surprise us to discover the entire operation is staged to coincide with reports of mounting evidence of corruption against Netanyahu,” asserted the editors. “Moreover, the premise that Hezbollah may not dig tunnels into Israel, either under international law or under UN Security Council Resolution 1701, is flawed. Numerous precedents exist for suspending the provisions of international law when it might otherwise benefit or protect Israel, and no evidence has emerged that this case proves in any way exceptional in that respect.”

Moreover, the editorial claims, the fact that the tunnel sizes dovetail with those required to move large infantry units, that Hezbollah officials have stated on numerous occasions that in the next conflict with Israel they intend to invade the Jewish State and take over portions of the Galilee, and that the movement routinely threatens Israel with an arsenal of 100,000 Iranian-supplied rockets, does not diminish Hezbollah’s right to dig into Israel to find evidence of IDF crimes.

“Those coincidences do not change the law,” admonished the paper. “Consequently, the effort to neutralize those tunnels appears to qualify as obstruction of justice and hampering an investigation – charges that we are certain will sound familiar to a certain prime minister and his set of cronies.”

Instead, Haaretz recommends allowing Hezbollah to continue tunneling into the country as a way of showcasing Israeli goodwill. “It would demonstrate we have nothing to hide, not to mention nowhere to hide, which is what they’ve been telling us for a long time, and if you can’t trust a genocidal Islamic terrorist group with a track record of brutality, ethnic cleansing, and support of the fascist regime in Syria, whom can you trust? Certainly not Bibi.”

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