NY Mag: When the bodies of three Israeli teenagers, kidnapped in the West Bank, were found late last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not mince words. “Hamas is responsible, and Hamas will pay,” he said, initiating a campaign that eventually escalated into the present conflict in the region.
But now, officials admit the kidnappings were not Hamas’s handiwork after all.
Non-plagiarizing BuzzFeed writer Sheera Frenkel was among the first to suggest that it was unlikely that Hamas was behind the deaths of Gilad Shaar, Naftali Frenkel, and Eyal Yifrach. Citing Palestinian sources and experts the field, Frenkel reported that kidnapping three Israeli teens would be a foolish move for Hamas. International experts told her it was likely the work of a local group, acting without concern for the repercussions:
[Gershon Baskin] pointed out that Hamas has earlier this month signed an agreement to form a unity government with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, bridging, for the first time in seven years, the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank and Gaza.
“They will lose their reconciliation agreement with Abbas if they do take responsibility for [the kidnappings],” Baskin added.
Today, she was proven right:
After Israel’s top leadership exhaustively blamed Hamas for kidnap of 3 teens, they’ve now admitted killers were acting as “lone cell.”
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Israeli PM Netanyahu is responsible for war crime and he must be tried and punished by international court of justice for killings and destruction of innocent women & children and destruction of Palestinian property in Ghaza.
Israel was the first kingdom eastablished by King David father of Solomon. Long before the Romans uprooted them and humilated them and exiled them and named it Palestine…. These are two different people. One is the tribe called Fillistine and the other is called Palestine. Jews were everywhere in Arabia, yemen Yathrib( Madina) Syria, Iraq, Iran . They were everywhere and they have no land But the Muslims conquered everypart of the world and made it Muslim countires. ISIS is doing the same they are expelling all non Muslims. Today there is 2 billion Muslims and over 150 Muslims countries. There is 4 million Israelis and just one country. yet a muslim man only speaks in favour of muslim..There is so much hatred for the jews all over the world. The country Saudi is not really a country but family of saud Just one tribe and they made it into a country.Muslims from other parts of the world cannot marry a Saudi. But they want people to come there and work and build thier country and then leave..