Tunnel cover-up?

We learn from “Arrest of teenage Hamas operative leads to new details on Gaza tunnel” (June 6) that the youth revealed valuable information that the Defense Ministry apparently never knew about. I think this is a cover-up for the absolute misinformation and inadequacies at the ministry under the leadership of the recently resigned Moshe Ya’alon.

The mind boggles at the thought that this 17-year-old boy was so well informed and knew so much about the tunnels, and the whole defense establishment knew nothing. It took cabinet minister Naftali Bennett to speak out and complain about not knowing what was truly going on during Operation Protective Edge.

I am ashamed of our media, which have not called attention to the fact that we are woefully inadequate when it comes to intelligence and are bound to the desires of the world that we not defend ourselves properly. A free people that desires to remain free cannot accept this kind of situation.

Why can we not go in and blow up the tunnels once and for all? Why are we restrained where there is absolutely no reason to be restrained?

There is not much time before the next confrontation. We had better win!

THELMA SUSSWEIN Jerusalem