A viral Instagram clip by Israeli music content creator Yehuda Meitav has crystallized a truth that Israel's defenders have argued since October 7, 2023: while nations build monuments to life, Gaza built a subterranean empire of death. The clip, highlighted this week by The Jerusalem Post, runs through the iconic symbols of the world's nations, France and its Eiffel Tower, Italy's Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Sydney Opera House, the Statue of Liberty, the Taj Mahal, and then delivers the punchline: Gaza's showpiece is miles and miles of tunnels.
The comparison is simple, and it is devastating. As The Jerusalem Post noted in its October 31 piece, the people of Gaza had every material blessing available: a Mediterranean coastline, international aid, and a chance to build a flourishing society. Instead, Hamas poured concrete and labor into an underground network designed to transport weapons, hold hostages, and launch attacks on the Jewish state.
A Tunnel Network Built for War, Not for Life
Military analysts have documented that Gaza's tunnel network served as transport corridors, command centers, weapons depots, escape routes, and fighting positions, linking together the vital elements of Hamas's military infrastructure. This was not a civilian project gone astray. It was the foundation of an entire method of warfare, dug beneath hospitals, homes, and schools, with the civilians above ground serving as human shields for the machine below.
Think about what that choice means. A coastal territory could have invested in tourism, agriculture, technology. Instead, its rulers chose darkness. Hostages dragged underground were punished, as The Jerusalem Post wrote, by never seeing the sky or breathing free air. That is the society Hamas built, and it is the society that much of the European street has chosen to march for.
The European Street Drops the Mask
The Jerusalem Post report recounted a moment from Israel's N12 evening news that deserves wider attention. Reporter Ohad Chemo stood on the streets of Paris interviewing anti-Israel protesters. When he asked one of them how he would resolve the Gaza situation, the answer was unapologetic: all of Israel must be wiped out.
There it is. Not a critique of policy, not a call for a ceasefire, but the old genocidal dream stated plainly on a European boulevard. For years, the polite framing was the two-state solution, the notion that those whose charter spoke of pushing Jews into the sea could be accommodated with a handshake. That disguise, as the paper observed, has completely fallen off.
Anyone who has watched the keffiyeh-wearing crowds chanting from London to Paris knows the pattern. The protests are not about Gaza. They are about Israel's existence, and they are the street-level face of the same death cult that dug the tunnels.
An Ancient Struggle in a Modern Form
The Jewish people have seen this before. The Book of Deuteronomy sets before every generation the choice between life and death, blessing and curse, and commands: