It Turns Out Hamas Didn’t Kidnap and Kill the 3 Israeli Teens After All

[That Guy]

Hamas Didn’t Kidnap the Israeli Teens After All -- NYMag

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:

Sheera Frenkel ✔ @sheeraf Follow
After Israel's top leadership exhaustively blamed Hamas for kidnap of 3 teens, they've now admitted killers were acting as "lone cell."

7:40 AM - 25 Jul 2014

[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:

Repeated inconsistencies in Israeli descriptions of the situation have sparked debate over whether Israel wanted to provoke Hamas into a confrontation. Israeli intelligence is also said to have known that the boys were dead shortly after they disappeared, but to have maintained public optimism about their safe return to beef up support from the Jewish diaspora. Writing for Al Jazeera, Musa al-Gharbi argued that Israel was deliberately provoking Hamas:

All the illegal and immoral actions related to Operation Brother’s Keeper were justified under the premise of finding and saving the missing teens whom the Israeli government knew to be dead — cynically exploiting the tragedy to whip up public outcry in order to provoke and then confront Hamas. This pattern of deception continues under the ongoing military offensive in Gaza. For example, last week in collaboration with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi and Abbas, in its efforts to alienate Hamas, Israel announced a bad-faith cease-fire proposal, which Hamas was not consulted on and never agreed to but whose violation supposedly justified Israel’s expansion and intensification of the military campaign into Gaza.

Despite continued negotiations, the violence shows no signs of letting up, and after Thursday night's massive protests in the West Bank, there is still no ceasefire agreement. On Friday, it became clear that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's attempts to broker a seven-day truce were rejected by Israeli officials. Instead, Israel will apparently widen its ground operation in the Gaza Strip, despite international outcry about the civilian death toll. According to unnamed officials, the proposed truce was too generous to Hamas's demands.

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We told you this is a pariah state. That took advantage of a lone attack to commit miserable atrocities. All these people had to die because of this states political interests, including recently 14 of my relatives.

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Didn't I mention something similar when this entire situation started? The Israeli government used the kids' deaths as a political tool to destroy the unity government, and when that failed, they used it as an excuse to provoke Hamas into starting a fight.

The fact that a big news organization has also said this, pretty much vindicates me.

I'll go a step further now and claim that Israel is going to get the short end of the stick by the end of the conflict. Even if Hamas loses it's military capability, politically they'll be stronger than ever before. Despite what many people claim, this current Israeli operation has been a diplomatic disaster for Israel, and a massive boost for Hamas.

 

[Chak Bamu]

Henceforth the political aim for Palestinians should be an apartheid-free single democratic state. If one looks at events, this emerges as a motive for Palestinian actions.

Mark my words.

 

[Areesh]

Hamas Didn’t Kidnap the Israeli Teens After All -- NYMag

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:

Sheera Frenkel ✔ @sheeraf Follow
After Israel's top leadership exhaustively blamed Hamas for kidnap of 3 teens, they've now admitted killers were acting as "lone cell."

7:40 AM - 25 Jul 2014

[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:

Repeated inconsistencies in Israeli descriptions of the situation have sparked debate over whether Israel wanted to provoke Hamas into a confrontation. Israeli intelligence is also said to have known that the boys were dead shortly after they disappeared, but to have maintained public optimism about their safe return to beef up support from the Jewish diaspora. Writing for Al Jazeera, Musa al-Gharbi argued that Israel was deliberately provoking Hamas:

All the illegal and immoral actions related to Operation Brother’s Keeper were justified under the premise of finding and saving the missing teens whom the Israeli government knew to be dead — cynically exploiting the tragedy to whip up public outcry in order to provoke and then confront Hamas. This pattern of deception continues under the ongoing military offensive in Gaza. For example, last week in collaboration with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi and Abbas, in its efforts to alienate Hamas, Israel announced a bad-faith cease-fire proposal, which Hamas was not consulted on and never agreed to but whose violation supposedly justified Israel’s expansion and intensification of the military campaign into Gaza.

Despite continued negotiations, the violence shows no signs of letting up, and after Thursday night's massive protests in the West Bank, there is still no ceasefire agreement. On Friday, it became clear that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's attempts to broker a seven-day truce were rejected by Israeli officials. Instead, Israel will apparently widen its ground operation in the Gaza Strip, despite international outcry about the civilian death toll. According to unnamed officials, the proposed truce was too generous to Hamas's demands.

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We told you this is a pariah state. That took advantage of a lone attack to commit miserable atrocities. All these people had to die because of this states political interests, including recently 14 of my relatives.

@RFS_Br @Hasbara Buster @iranigirl2 @Serpentine @ResurgentIran @Aeronaut @al-Hasani @Arabian Legend @SALMAN AL-FARSI @Mahmoud_EGY @Umair Nawaz @That Guy @Developereo @Slav Defence @Dillinger @levina @Ravi Nair @dexter @Ceylal @S00R3NA @senheiser @Burger Boy @revolutionary mujahid @Riea @JUBA @Desert Fox @qamar1990 @Pakistanisage @Mugwop @Fulcrum15 @Chak Bamu @blain2 @WebMaster @Akheilos​

Freedom of Palestine and Kashmir are two inevitable. The sooner they happen the better. Or else they are bound to happen anyways even though with more bloodshed.

 

[Ammyy]

Freedom of Palestine and Kashmir are two inevitable. The sooner they happen the better. Or else they are bound to happen anyways even though with more bloodshed.

Dnt knw about palestine but one thing is sure J&K is not going any where for sure .... People can chose where they want to go but peace of land belongs to India and Indians. And Pakistan dnt have capacity to take it from Indian neither by force nor by diplomacy.

 

[boomslang]

So some chick with a blog says Hamas didn't do it and that's it ? HAHAHAHAHAHA !!!! And who are these 'Palestinians' everyone keeps talking about ?

 

[Levina]

So some chick with a blog says Hamas didn't do it and that's it ? HAHAHAHAHAHA !!!! And who are these 'Palestinians' everyone keeps talking about ?

Aahhhh the American flaggers!!

Not surprised at all,after all US was the only country which said No to an investigation against israel.

 

[Ahmad1996]

Dude you are late

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