Israel Premier Says Hamas Kidnapped Missing Teens
Source: Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's prime minister on Sunday accused the Hamas militant group of kidnapping three Israeli teenagers who disappeared over the weekend, as the military arrested dozens of Palestinians and closed off West Bank roads in a frantic search for the youths.
The crisis escalated already heightened tensions between Israel and the new Palestinian government, which is headed by Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas but backed by Hamas. Israel, which considers Hamas a terrorist group, has condemned the alliance and said it holds Abbas responsible for the teens' safety.
"Hamas terrorists carried out Thursday's kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers. We know that for a fact," Netanyahu said. "Hamas denials do not change this fact."
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Netanyahu provided no evidence to back his claims. Palestinian officials rejected Netanyahu's contention that they are responsible. .
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Cal Carpenter
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Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)But that doesn't stop him from doing mass roundups of Palestinians.
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)Israel will now have no choice but to build at least a thousand new illegal homes in Palestinian East Jerusalem. Maybe they'll be condemned again for doing so, but the U.S. will veto any sanctions voted by the Security Council.
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)Just sayin'.
ellenrr
(3,864 posts)of course israel is going to blame Hamas. Israel blames hamas for bad weather. Hamas would have to be idiots to kidnap Israeli teen-agers, knowing it would bring down the wrath of the israeli govt. and what about the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians that israel has kidnapped and jailed with no trial, and without their relatives even knowing.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)I think accusing Israel of doing this is pretty far "out there." If there's a Shyamalan twist in this story, it's that the kids weren' kidnapped, but whichever made the phone call thought it would be 'funny'...
Which is itself pretty fucking unlikely.
However as it's been pointed out a few times prior? An ISIS-affiliated group has claimed credit for the kidnappings:
The organization, linked to ISIS, distributed pamphlets about the kidnappings in Hebron, Haaretz reported. Israel security services are investigating the claims.
ISIS are the group of bloody-thirsty jihadists behind this week's Iraq insurgency.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2657209/Israel-scours-West-Bank-teens-feared-abducted.html
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)Surveying the wreckage of a neighbor's bungalow hit by a Palestinian rocket, retired Israeli official Avner Cohen traces the missile's trajectory back to an "enormous, stupid mistake" made 30 years ago.
"Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel's creation," says Mr. Cohen, a Tunisian-born Jew who worked in Gaza for more than two decades. Responsible for religious affairs in the region until 1994, Mr. Cohen watched the Islamist movement take shape, muscle aside secular Palestinian rivals and then morph into what is today Hamas, a militant group that is sworn to Israel's destruction.
Instead of trying to curb Gaza's Islamists from the outset, says Mr. Cohen, Israel for years tolerated and, in some cases, encouraged them as a counterweight to the secular nationalists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and its dominant faction, Yasser Arafat's Fatah. Israel cooperated with a crippled, half-blind cleric named Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, even as he was laying the foundations for what would become Hamas. Sheikh Yassin continues to inspire militants today; during the recent war in Gaza, Hamas fighters confronted Israeli troops with "Yassins," primitive rocket-propelled grenades named in honor of the cleric.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB123275572295011847
