SURPRISE! HAMAS DID NOT KIDNAP AND MURDER THREE ISRAELI TEENAGERS

It seems like months now, after all the death and destruction in Gaza, but just a few weeks ago Benjamin Netanyahu accused Hamas of kidnapping and murdering three Israeli teenagers. This provoked several Israelis to kidnap and burn alive a Palestinian child. This in turn provoked Hamas to increase its rocket fire into Israel. And this in turn provoked Israel to wage yet another shooting-fish-in-a-barrel war on Gaza.

I knew Hamas had not kidnapped and murdered those 3 Israeli teenagers. A splinter group of ISIS claimed responsibility, pledging allegiance to al-Baghadi, the graduate of Guantanamo Bay. I heard the BBC report this claim in the morning. But by tea time that same day this claim was absent, and the BBC began to continually report Netanyahu's unsubstantiated allegation that Hamas had done the murderous deed.

I knew then that the the fix was in. I had seen this type of media manipulation and provocation before in late 2008. So I called it out: Netanyahu wanted another war.

And so with over 1000 Palestinians now dead, Israel continues to claim the moral high ground, claiming to be defending itself.

But in 1917, The Balfour Declaration, which gave British support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine, said this:

His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.

The most relevant section to Gaza is this:

it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine

But what do we see today? Palestinians herded off their lands into refugee camps in 1948, now living in squalor, occupied, bombed and bombed and bombed, from above, from the land and from the sea, bombed and bombed and bombed.

This latest bloody adventure for the trigger-happy IDF is due to Nutty Netanyahu's unsubstantiated allegations that Hamas kidnapped and murdered 3 Israeli teenagers.

But now an Israeli Police spokesman has stated that Hamas did not, repeat not, do the murderous deed.

The Israeli Police Foreign Press Spokesman, Micky Rosenfeld, appears to have falsified the Israeli government’s claim that Hamas was responsible for the killing of three Israeli settler teens in June, by saying responsibility lies with a lone cell that operated without the complicity of Hamas’ leadership.

[Source : Hamas not complicit in teens’ kidnap: Israeli police, The Daily Star, http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2014/Jul-26/265229-hamas-not-complicit-in-teens-kidnap-israeli-police.ashx#axzz38eGNu4Pd, 26th July 2014]