Issues Under Fire: Shin Bet Proves Gaza Has A Rat Problem

Issues Under Fire: Shin Bet Proves Gaza Has A Rat Problem 

Day 46 of the Assault on Gaza: The al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' military wing, reported Mohamed Abo Shamaleh, Raed al-Attar and Mohamed Barhoum were targeted and assassinated in an attack in Rafah on Thursday. After failing to blast its leader Mohammed Deif the day before, excellent intelligence gathering by Israel's security agency Shin Bet, according Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, led to the demise of three of Hamas' top commanders. 

Shin Bet, answering only to the Prime Minister of Israel, is tasked with Arab related counterterrorism activities in both Israel Judea & Samaria and the Gaza Strip, among other resonsibilities. With a reputation for regularly using heavy-handed and brutal methods to extract intel from suspects and arguably the world's darkest black ops entity known, Shin Bet has built up an impressive network of collaborators, traitors and rats in order to do its job. 

Although Israel relies heavily on technology to spy on the Palestinian resistance, there is nothing more valuable than having eyes and ears on the ground to provide dependable and actionable intelligence. In order for a Palestinian to be given a knock on the roof to vacate the premises immediately or be decimated, that Palestinian had to be identified, located and monitored. Without having rats working for them, targeting someone for a pinpoint drone or air strike would be extremely difficult. Hence, the indiscriminate bombings. 

While the Israelis celebrate these latest trophy kills, the Palestinians must be wondering who amongst their ranks is a snitch. They have to be giving each other a real hard second look. Who can be trusted, if anybody anymore has to be the question of the day. They have to be damn near paranoid trying to figure out who could be so low. How could somebody do such a thing to their own people? How could a Palestinian be recruited to spy and lie for the other side? What is the inducement? 

More than the above, how do the rats live with themselves? How do they continue to live among and hangout with their people, while knowing what they've done and are doing? How does a rat look a "friend" in the face during the day, while knowing that "friend" and his entire family will be killed during the night. How do rats convince themselves they're doing the right thing? How do the Israelis convince the rats they're doing the right thing? What do the Israelis think of their rats and how do they keep them ratting? 

Bottom line: When you think of Gaza rats scavenging through the rubble, ripping ravenously at the rotting flesh of those yet to be discovered, you'd think nothing could be more disgusting or repulsive. But when you stop to think of Gaza rats reporting regularly to an enemy committed to the Palestinian's demise, you're bound to think, nothing could be more disgusting or repulsive. The Palestinians could use an exterminator.

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