When ABC News anchor Peter Jennings reported Monday night on the fatal tunnel blast in Gaza, he unspooled footage of terrorists lowering explosives down a deep, circular pit and crawling through a narrow tunnel.



The homemade-style film depicted two grinning Palestinians shaking hands in front of the tunnel, and the camera was assuredly running later when the reported 3,000 tons of explosives tore through several buildings and killed five Israeli soldiers Sunday at the Rafah crossing linking Egypt and Gaza.



A new low in degradation, literally. Not only did these scumbags murder and maim human beings, but they passed out the film so they could boast about their brutal deed.



I gasped when I watched the footage, but there was no reason to be surprised. After four years of so much blood, it has long been clear that these killers are capable of anything.



Their mindset makes one wonder. They are so proud of murdering people. They took this opportunity to bask in their brutality.



Consider that they claim to have spent four months digging an 800-yard tunnel; obtained three tons of explosives; ambushed Israeli rescuers who hurried to the scene; and then released film footage to the news media.



How can anyone commit themselves to such full destruction? It takes dedication. Where do they get this kind of attitude?



"This sends a message to everybody who tries to seek a peace settlement: Resistance is the only option for the Palestinian people," Hamas spokesman Moshir Al-Masri declared, as quoted in the New York Daily News.



Resistance to what? Israel is preparing to withdraw all its settlements from Gaza and four from the West Bank. However one may view the settlements, Israel took Gaza in the Six-Day War in 1967, which was brought on by its Arab neighbors.



It proves that all they want to do is destroy, no matter what the Israelis do.



Of course, a strike like this disrupts the efforts of the Palestinian leadership to build a new society. The same day, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas was in Kuwait apologizing for Yasser Arafat's support for Iraq's invasion in 1990.



He actually told the Kuwaitis: "Yes, we apologize for what we have done."



Think of what these terrorists can do for their people if they applied their efforts to building Palestinian society. Maybe in several months from now they could be filmed posing in front of a school that they constructed....