Claim that Hamas killed 3 teens is turning out to be the WMD of

Gaza onslaught
Adam Horowitz and Phil Weiss on July 26, 2014 15
Micky Rosenfeld
Truth is famously the first casualty of war, and the Israeli war on Gaza is no exception. Yesterday Jon
Donnison of the BBC pulled the rug out from under the Israeli governments pretext for the Gaza onslaught
with a series of tweets about a conversation hed had with Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld about
the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens in the West Bank in June.
The boys were not killed by Hamas, Rosenfeld told Donnison, as he reported on Twitter:
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Israeli police MickeyRosenfeld tells me men who killed 3
Israeli teens def lone cell, hamas afliated but not
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Seems to contradict the line from Netanyahu
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Israeli police spokes Mickey Rosenfeld also said if
kidnapping had been ordered by Hamas leadership,
they'd have known about it in advance.
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Mickey Rosenfeld said lone cells much harder to track.
Said they would nd whoever was now protecting the
two suspects.
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When this is over, there remain a lot of unanswered
questions about kidnapping and killing of three Israeli
teenagers. #gaza #israel #hamas
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This version of events is so important, because what the Weapons of Mass Destruction were to the Iraq war
a dubious pretext the three teens are to the Gaza onslaught. Lets review.
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The three teens were abducted on June 12. That same day Israeli authorities received a desperate phone call
from one of the boys that contained gunfire at its conclusion. The supposition that the boys were dead was
advanced when Israeli authorities found the car in which the abduction had taken place, with evidence theyd
been shot.
The information about the gunshots on that desperate last phone call was widely known in the media, but as
we reported, the Israeli government issued a gag order against these facts being published. And over the last
two-and-a-half weeks of June, the Israelis launched extensive raids across the West Bank, locking down
Hebron, supposedly to find the boys. But the major focus of the raids was rooting out Hamas affiliates and
arresting them. In fact, the purpose of the raids seemed to be to break up the recent unity government
between Hamas and Fatah, which Israel has vigorously opposed.
The boys bodies were found on June 30, in a shallow grave in the West Bank; and again the deaths were
exploited to punish Hamas. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said then, Hamas is responsible
Hamas will pay.
By June 16, Hamas increased rocket fire into Israel in response to the crackdown in the West Bank. Israel
ramped up its attacks on Gaza conducting 6 airstrikes that wounded two.
On July 7, eight days after the teens bodies were found, Israel launched Operation Protective Edge, and it has
now killed about 900 people in Gaza, most of them civilians.
As in the case of Weapons of Mass Destruction, many observers and journalists never bought the Israeli
story. We didnt. Annie Robbins picked up reports that Israeli authorities believed that a rogue faction of
Hamas was responsible for the killings weeks before Donnisons tweets on June 16, she reported Hamass
denial, calling the Israeli allegations stupid.Allison Deger also reported as much. Max Fisher was on to the
dishonest Israeli strategy at Vox.
Now Rosenfelds statement is going all over the world.
And New York Magazine is even more cynical about this matter than we are. From Katie Zavadskis story, It
Turns Out Hamas Didnt Kidnap and Kill the 3 Israeli Teens After All:
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.
As Donnison said, we can only hope that the three-teens pretext is broadly examined, not just in Israeli and
Palestinian public life, but in the American media. It is hardly the first time that a false story about
endangered security has been used to justify Israeli violence, from the Lavon affair in Egypt in the 50s to
Moshe Dayans confession about provoking Syrian attacks that were used to precipitate the Six Day war. The
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only good news is that many in the west are now seeing through the tactic and beginning to question the
veracity of Israeli government sources.
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just says:
July 26, 2014 at 11:05 am
Thank you MW.
(isnt it interesting that Lerner and Rosenfeld are the spokespeople for the IOF and IP with their perfectly proper British accents?
Coincidence? Nah. Its part of the illusion that Israel is civilized.)
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just says:
July 26, 2014 at 11:16 am
fyi: CNN about to do a bit about Americans serving in the IOF
David Meyer and Daniel Flesch are the two former servants to the state of Israel.
CNN anchor just thanked Flesch for his service. Nice slip, Ms Anchorlady.
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Justpassingby says:
July 26, 2014 at 11:24 am
what the H are these warcriminals doing in western MSM at all!?
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bilal a says:
July 26, 2014 at 11:33 am
You havent lived there , or read british colonial history, if you equate civilization with a British accent, but of course the
American public emotes otherwise.
As for Israelis, Boris and Natasha seem a more veritable representation, which may have been the hidden intent :
Hello suckers. Allow me to introducing myself. I am Boris Badenov, worlds greatest no-goodnik Sharrup you mouth!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdE2_rvCXl4
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just says:
July 26, 2014 at 11:54 am
but of course the American public emotes otherwise.
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exactly my point!
I got my education on the evils of British colonialism, etc. at a VERY young ageand learned ALL about the evils of Hitler,
too.
In many ways, I have been blessed by the many experienced and passionate voices around me.
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John O says:
July 26, 2014 at 11:47 am
Ive not heard Lerner speak, but Rosenfeld sounds like Mark Regev to be Australian. Back in the old days, I distinctly
remember Abba Eban sounding like a posh Oxbridge-educated Englishman, which of course he was.
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Boomer says:
July 26, 2014 at 11:06 am
How sad, how many deaths were avoidable. Too many successful politicians, it seems, are sociopaths.
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can of worms says:
July 26, 2014 at 11:17 am
Article on killed teens repeats the very exclusion of verifiable evidence it claims to remedy
Dont know they were either kidnapped or killed much less by whom or how.
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Justpassingby says:
July 26, 2014 at 11:23 am
Israel attacked Gaza due the Fatah and Hamas grouping!
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Qualtrough says:
July 26, 2014 at 11:27 am
Confirmation of what most sane people already strongly suspected. It wont make a difference, if the kidnappers so much as met
someone from Hamas at one point in their lives that would be enough in the eyes of Israel to make them close associates and
therefore marked for death.
Meanwhile, remember those two boys who were killed by Israeli snipers? The deaths that may have motivated the kidnappers to
seek vengeance a few days later? Anyone here thing anyone will be held responsible for their killings? Rhetorical question, sorry.
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John O says:
July 26, 2014 at 11:50 am
Another big question is to what extent did Netanyahu knowingly exploit the distraught parents of the three youths for political
gain?
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just says:
July 26, 2014 at 12:07 pm
He fully and completely exploited the entire sad event. He lied to the parents, to the Israeli people, and to the world. Worse, he
got away with the lies.
He then turned his venomous lies on the Palestinian people and the newly formed unity government. Hes still getting away
with his lies.
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Donald says:
July 26, 2014 at 12:11 pm
A local Jewish center of worship has this Netanyahu quote on its webpage. I dont want to single them out, so I wont give the link,
but heres the quote
From Binyamin Netanyahus speech to Hamas:
We, the people of Israel, owe you a huge debt of gratitude. You have succeeded where we have failed. Because never before, in the
history of the modern State of Israel, has the Jewish people been so united, like one person with one heart. You stole three of our
most precious children, and slaughtered them in cold blood. But before we could discover the horrible truth, we had 18 days of pain
and anxiety while we searched for them, during which our nation united as never before, in prayer, in hopes, in mutual support.
And now, as you continue to launch deadly missiles indiscriminately, intended to maim and murder as many civilians as possible,
while you take cowardly refuge behind your own civilians you continue to inspire us to hold strongly onto our newly discovered
unity. Whatever disputes we Jews may have with each other, we now know that we have one common goal: we will defeat you.
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Donald says:
July 26, 2014 at 12:15 pm
An interesting turn of events. I just put that speech into the advanced search google feature and according to the link below,
that speech is a hoax. This is from some Islamophobic blogger who wishes it were true
link
So I put that up as an example of Netanyahus cynicism and how he was misleading American Jews, but instead it might be a
hoax, though apparently the local temple thought it worth putting up on their site.
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Bumblebye says:
July 26, 2014 at 12:16 pm
Despite being found in shallow graves after being missing for 18 days (in temps of 30 40c, or 80 100+f), their autopsies
apparently showed no decomposition. So would you believe the NuttyYahu brigades found and then concealed the bodies until a
convenient moment presented itself to plant them on a farm belonging to relatives of the men theyve accused of the murders? Or
would that be just a tad too cynical?
Edit oops, should be in reply to John O!
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