Two weeks ago 3 young Israeli teenagers were kidnapped.
They were found dead a few days ago. Nobody claimed the kidnapping during these 2 weeks.
Hamas and other suspected organisations all denied that they were responsable.
As one Palestinian man said in an interview: Kidnapping children is wrong, but if you do it, then you don't kill them. Then you use them and try to get out of prison as much prisoners as you can.
( This is what was done with the soldier Gilad Shalit: he was released after the liberation of over 10027 prisoners)
So, we have no idea who were the perpetrators. Could it be Hamas? They know very well how terrible Israel's revenge is in these cases. They know very well how this will be used to create sympathy for the Israeli's in the world's media.
Where is the benefit for Hamas?
Could it be an Israeli idiot? Or even an Israeli extremist organisation?
I can hardly believe it. But we know that they have been known to kill their own people, just for political gains. ( Baghdad) ( Egypt)
Here is a very good article about all the crimes of the OIsraeli's versus the Palestinians: ands these crimes hardly are reported in the Media. No American president sheds crocodile tears about the killing of Palestinian children by the Israeli Government.
Three Israeli
Settlers And The The Searing Hypocrisy of the West
( From: ICH) The bodies of three Israeli settlers who went missing on June 12th were found in a hastily dug shallow grave in Halhul, north of Hebron. By Susan Abulhawa July 02, 2014 "ICH" -Since the teens went missing from Gush Etzion, a Jewish-only colony in the West Bank, Israel has besieged the 4 million Palestinians who already live under its thumb, storming through towns, ransacking homes and civil institutions, conducting night raids on families, stealing property, kidnapping, injuring, and killing. Warplanes were dispatched to bomb Gaza, again and repeatedly, destroying more homes and institutions and carrying out extrajudicial executions. Thus far, over 570 Palestinians have been kidnapped and imprisoned, most notably a Samer Issawi, the Palestinian who went on a 266-day hunger strike in protest of a previous arbitrary detention. At least 10 Palestinians have been killed, including at least three children, a pregnant woman, and a mentally ill man. Hundreds have been injured, thousands terrorized. Universities and social welfare organizations were ransacked, shut down, their computers and equipment destroyed or stolen, and both private and public documents confiscated from civil institutions. This wonton thuggery is official state policy conducted by its military and does not include the violence to persons and properties perpetuated by paramilitary Israeli settlers, whose persistent attacks against Palestinian civilians have also escalated in the past weeks. And now that the settlers are confirmed dead, Israel has vowed to exact revenge. Naftali Bennet, Economy Minister said, "There is no mercy for the murderers of children. This is the time for action, not words."
Although no Palestinian faction has claimed
responsibility for the abduction, and most, including Hamas, deny any
involvement, Benjamin Netanyahu is adamant that Hamas is responsible. The
United Nations requested that Israel provide evidence to support their
contention, but no evidence has been forthcoming, casting doubt on Israel’s
claims, particularly in light of its public ire over the
recent unification of Palestinian factions and President Obama’s acceptance
of the new Palestinian unity.
In the West, headlines over pictures of the three
Israeli settler teens referred to Israel's reign of terror over Palestine as
a "manhunt" and "military sweep." Portraits of innocent
young Israeli lives emerged from news outlets and the voices of their parents
are featured in the fullness of their anguish. The US, EU, UK, UN, Canada and
the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) condemned the kidnapping
and called for their immediate and unconditional release. Upon discovery of
the bodies, there has been an outpouring of condemnation and condolences.
President Obama said, "As a father, I cannot
imagine the indescribable pain that the parents of these teenage boys are
experiencing. The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms this
senseless act of terror against innocent youth."
Although hundreds of Palestinian children are
kidnapped, brutalized or killed by Israel, including several in the past two
weeks, there is rarely, if ever, such a reaction from the world.
Just prior to the disappearance of the Israeli settler
teens, the murder of two Palestinian teens was caught on a local surveillance camera.
Ample evidence, including the recovered bullets and a CNNcamera filming an
Israeli sharpshooter pulling the trigger at the precise moment one of the
boys was shot indicated that they were killed in cold blood by Israeli
soldiers. There were no condemnations or calls for justice for these teens by
world leaders or international institutions, no solidarity with their
grieving parents, nor mention of the more than 250 Palestinian children,
kidnapped from their beds or on their way to school, who continue to languish
in Israeli jails without charge or trial, physically and psychologically
tortured. This is to say nothing of the barbaric siege of Gaza, or the
decades of ongoing theft, evictions, assaults on education, confiscation of
land, demolition of homes, color coded permit system, arbitrary imprisonment,
restriction of movement, checkpoints, extrajudicial executions, torture, and
denials at every turn squeezing Palestinians into isolated ghettos.
None of that seemingly matters.
It does not matter that no one knows who murdered the
Israeli teens. It seems the entire country is calling for Palestinian blood,
reminiscent of American southern lynching rallies that went after black men
whenever a white person turned up dead. Nor does it matter that these Israeli
teens were settlers living in illegal Jewish-only colonies that were built on
land stolen by the state mostly from Palestinian owners from the village of
el-Khader. A huge portion of the settlers there are Americans, mostly from
New York, like one of the murdered teens, who exercise Jewish privilege to
hold dual citizenship; to have an extra country no matter where they're from,
one in their own homeland and one in ours, at the same time that the
indigenous Palestinians fester in refugee camps, occupied ghettos, or
boundless exile.
Palestinian children are assaulted or murdered every
day and barely do their lives register in western press. While Palestinian
mothers are frequently blamed when Israel kills their children, accused of
sending them to die or neglecting to keep them at home away from Israeli
snipers, no one questions Rachel Frankel, the mother of one of the
murdered settlers. She is not asked to comment on the fact that one of the
missing settlers is a soldier who likely participated in the oppression of
his Palestinian neighbors. No one asks why she would move her family from the
United States to live in a segregated, supremacist colony established on land
confiscated from the native non-Jewish owners. Certainly no one dares accuse
her of therefore putting her children in harms way.
No mother should have endure the murder of her child.
No mother or father. That does not only apply to Jewish parents. The lives of
our children are no less precious and their loss are no less shattering and
spiritually unhinging. But there is a terrible disparity in the value of life
here in the eyes of the state and the world, where Palestinian life is cheap
and disposable, but Jewish life is sacrosanct.
This exceptionalism and supremacy of Jewish life is a
fundamental underpinning of the state of Israel. It pervades their every law
and protocol, and is matched only by their apparent contempt and disregard
for Palestinian life. Whether through laws that favor Jews for employment and
educational opportunities, or laws that allow the exclusion of non-Jews from
buying or renting among Jews, or endless military orders that limit the
movement, water consumption, food access, education, marriage possibilities,
and economic independence, or these periodic upending of Palestinian civil
society, life for non-Jews ultimately conforms to the religious edict issued
by Dov Lior, Chief Rabbi of Hebron and Kiryat Arba, saying "a thousand
non-Jewish lives are not worth a Jew's fingernail."
Israeli violence of the past few weeks is generally
accepted and expected. And the terror we know they will unleash on our people
will be, as it always is, cloaked in the legitimacy of uniforms and
technological death machines. Israeli violence, no matter how vulgar, is
inevitably couched as a heroic, ironic violence that western media frames as
“response,” as if Palestinian resistance itself were not a response to
Israeli oppression. When the ICRC was asked to issue a similar call for the
immediate and unconditional release of the hundreds of Palestinian children
held in Israeli jails (which is also in contravention of international
humanitarian law), the ICRC refused, indicating
there’s a difference between the isolated abduction of Israeli teens and the
routine abduction, torture, isolation, and imprisonment of Palestinian
children.
When our children throw rocks at heavily armed Israeli
tanks and jeeps rolling through our streets, we are contemptible parents who
should be bear responsibility for the murder of our children if they are shot
by Israeli soldiers or settlers. When we refuse to capitulate completely, we
are “not partners for peace,” and deserve to have more land confiscated from
us for the exclusive use of Jews. When we take up arms and fight back, kidnap
a soldier, we are terrorists of the extreme kind who have no one to blame but
ourselves as Israel subjects the entire Palestinian population to punitive
collective punishment. When we engage in peaceful protests, we are rioters
who deserve the live fire they send our way. When we debate, write, and
boycott, we are anti-Semites who should be silenced, deported, marginalized,
or prosecuted.
What should we do, then? Palestine is quite literally
being wiped off the map by a state that openly upholds Jewish supremacy and
Jewish privilege. Our people continue to be robbed of home and heritage,
pushed to the margins of humanity, blamed for our own miserable fate. We are
a traumatized, principally unarmed, native society being destroyed and erased by one of the
most powerful militaries in the world.
Rachel Frankel went to the UN to plead for their
support, saying “it is wrong to take children, innocent boys or girls, and
use them as instruments of any struggle. It is cruel…I wish to ask: Doesn’t
every child have the right to come home safely from school?” Do those
sentiments apply to Palestinian children, too? Here, and here, and here, and here, and here, and here are video examples of the abduction
of Palestinian children from their homes at night and on their way to and
from school.
But none of that matters either. Does it? It matters
that three Israeli Jews were killed. It doesn’t matter who did it or what the
circumstances were, the entire Palestinian population will be made to suffer,
more than they already are.
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Susan Abulhawa (born 1970) is a Palestinian-American
writer and human rights activist. She is the author of a bestselling novel,
Mornings in Jenin (2010) and the founder of a non-governmental organization,
Playgrounds for Palestine. She currently lives in Yardley, Pennsylvania.
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