Teen captives deserve whatever they get because they are Jews: World media

By Caroline Glick, JewishWorldReview.com |

‘Peace’ and compromise agitators reveal their true colors Is anybody paying attention?

Three Jewish boys were abducted by Palestinian terrorists while trying to catch a ride home from school Thursday night. And as far as the foreign press is concerned, it’s their own damned fault.

As Honest Reporting documented, everyone from The Guardian to CNN, to Sky News to the Christian Science Monitor blamed Eyal Yifrach, Gil-Ad Shaer and Naftali Frankel for their victimization.

The boys deserve whatever they get, according to the media, because they are Jews and Jews have no right to be located anywhere that the Palestinians demand be cleansed of Jewish presence. And the Palestinians demand that Gush Etzion be emptied of Jews. So the boys, who dared to be located in Gush Etzion, had it coming.

And the blame doesn’t end with the victims. In trying to rescue them, the Israeli government is also committing an unpardonable crime — against Palestinian unity, no less.

According to The New York Times’ Israel bureau chief Jodi Rudoren, by searching for the boys, Israel has “further destabilized Israeli-Palestinian relations, and challenged the new Palestinian government’s ability to hold together disparate political factions and reunite the West Bank and Gaza after a seven-year split.”
As Seth Mandel wrote in Commentary, “If the unity government can survive only by being permitted to carry out terrorism against Israel without response or consequences, it is not so much a government as a sadistic terrorist gang.”
Mandel understated the problem. There is no conditionality. The Palestinian government is “a sadistic terrorist gang.” “The disparate political factions,” Rudoren was referring to are Fatah and Hamas.

Hamas, as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said, kidnapped the teenagers. Hamas is a jihadist movement recognized by the US State Department and the EU as a foreign terrorist organization.

Its declared goal is the genocide of world Jewry. And to advance its aim, it has murdered Jews, and incited, trained and indoctrinated Palestinians to murder Jews every single day since it was founded in 1988.

As for Fatah, since Frankel, Shaer and Yifrach were taken on Thursday night, Fatah has glorified and celebrated their capture on its official Facebook page and its official newspaper. Fatah’s Facebook page depicted the boys as rats, reeled in by a fishing pole.

The Palestinian Authority’s daily newspaper Al Hayat al Jadida published a mock World Cup logo in which three hands held three people who held their hands up in surrender.

And Fatah activists posted a revealing directive on Facebook after the boys were abducted.

No, Abbas’ “moderate” faction of the Palestinian unity government, so energetically supported by the US, the EU and the western media, did not call for the public to quit celebrating the abduction. Nor did it condemn the brutal assault.

The Fatah activists called for shopkeepers in the vicinity of the kidnapping to destroy any footage their security cameras filmed in the 24 hours following the operation to prevent the IDF from seizing the footage and using it in its efforts to locate the boys.

That makes Fatah an accessory after the fact to the attack. And yes, that means that the PA — which is comprised of Fatah and Hamas — is in fact one great big terrorist organization.

When Rudoren and her colleagues in the media look in the mirror, they don’t see themselves as enablers of murderers and champions of terrorists.
They see themselves as right-minded people who seek peace.

The same of course goes for the EU, which celebrated the formation of the Fatah-Hamas unity government, and has so far refused to condemn the kidnapping.
It also goes for the Obama administration which raced the EU to recognize the Fatah-Hamas government and promised that the US would continue funding the PA in breach of the letter of US law.
They all say they just want peace, for the betterment of all.
Taking them at their word, it is mystifying why they are so unconcerned with the behavior of Palestinian leaders.
All the two-state champions view PA President and Fatah chief Mahmoud Abbas as either the head of a state or as the head of a state-in-the-making. And as such, they perceive him as someone who represents the Palestinians, and as Rudoren wrote, someone who is unifying “disparate political factions and reunit[ing] the West Bank and Gaza after a seven-year split.”
Abbas himself encourages this view by among other things presenting himself as the “President of Palestine,” by signing international agreements for the “State of Palestine” and by demanding that the world community pressure Israel to submit to his territorial and political demands for the benefit of “Palestine.”
Yet when Israel does what he supposedly wants, and holds him responsible, as the head of the Palestinian government, for the abduction of its children by his coalition partner, Abbas cries foul and says Israel has no right to hold him responsible.
Rather than demand that Abbas take the responsibility he claims to carry, and convince his coalition partner to return the children they stole, the two-stater peaceniks blame Israel. And the kidnapped boys.
Maybe there is something else going on here.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but perhaps the media and the governments championing Palestinian unity are less motivated by geopolitical concerns than they would have us believe?
In one of those ironic coincidences that happens every so often when events converge to expose patterns and relations between seemingly unrelated events, in the two weeks before the Palestinians abducted Yifrach, Shaer and Frankel, the American Jewish community discovered that the object of the largesse of many an American Jewish patron of the arts — New York’s Metropolitan Opera — has gone full-on anti-Semitic.

In its fall line-up, the Met will produce the acclaimed-by- anti-Semites opera, The Death of Klinghoffer. Not only will they stage the show at Lincoln Center, the Met is going to broadcast it through its HD broadcast program to 2,000 theaters in 66 countries reaching a potential audience of millions.

The Death of Klinghoffer romanticizes the lives and times of the PLO terrorists who hijacked the Achille Laurocruise liner in 1985 and murdered wheelchair-bound Leon Klinghoffer, a 69-year-old Jewish American.

Among its other catchy tunes, the soon-to-be-seen worldwide opera includes this snappy ditty: “Wherever poor men — Are gathered they can — Find Jews getting fat — You know how to cheat — The simple, exploit — The virgin, pollute — Where you have exploited — Defame those you cheated — And break your own law — With idolatry.”
Ah, the arts. Unfortunately, the Met isn’t operating in isolation.

Throughout elite circles in the US, opinion is moving in an aggressively anti-Jewish direction.
University administrators and professors routinely side with anti-Semitic leftist and Muslim activists against their Jewish victims.
And led by the Presbyterian Church, mainline Protestant churches, as well as growing numbers of Evangelical churches are becoming openly hostile to Israel and the very notion of Jewish rights, including human rights.
The American elite are playing catchup with their European counterparts.
Under the guiding hand but blind eye of Europe’s elites, over the past 20 years anti-Semitism has become endemic in the political systems of EU member states as well as in the EU bureaucracy. Jew hatred serves as the one sentiment that unites leftists, rightists and Muslims.

And in Europe today, anti-Semitism doesn’t merely serve to justify Palestinian violence against Israelis. It also empowers Muslim Jew haters to believe that they can attack Jews violently with impunity on the streets of Europe.

Over the past week alone, Jews in Paris were subjected to four violent attacks. Jewish teenage boys were chased by a man wielding ax. Other teenagers were sprayed with tear gas. Another Jewish teenage boy was tasered. And on Sunday, two men approached a synagogue while shooting a submachine gun and a handgun.

Outside the Jewish media, the events were barely reported. This, but a few weeks after the Belgian government refused to acknowledge that the massacre of four people at the Jewish museum in Brussels by a French jihadi was an anti-Semitic assault.

Jewish teenagers are kidnapped by Palestinian terrorists in Israel, and it’s their fault.

A old, handicapped Jewish man was thrown over the deck of a cruise ship, and America’s premier opera house says it’s art. Jewish teenagers are violently assaulted on the streets of Europe, and Europe yawns.

There is a pattern here. And it has nothing to do with peace.

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  1. CuriousAmerican Said:

    The ones who did the kidnapping are probably Islamic extremists who would be more than happy if Israel killed the sons of Fatah and Hamas

    You think ?? Well, just Bless you’re lil’ol heart !!!!!!!

  2. @ XLucid:

    “During his Bar Ilan speech, Netanyahu described the Fatah as ‘the more moderate elements in Judea and Samaria, the Palestinian Authority – it is true that they do not engage in terror and this is an important distinction’…”

    It WOULD be an important distinction — if it were true:

    “Palestinian Media Watch is reporting that a new post on the official Fatah Facebook page glorifies a series of ‘terror firsts’ achieved by Fatah. Here is the translated text of the post:

    “…’Did you know?
    The first maritime operation (i.e., terror attack) in the history of the Palestinian revolution was carried out by Fatah heroes under the command of the hero Dalal Mughrabi.’

    “Note: In 1978, female terrorist Dalal Mughrabi led the most deadly attack against Israel when she and other terrorists landed on the Israeli coast, hijacked a bus, and murdered 37 civilians, 12 of whom were children.

    “…’Did you know?
    The first female Martyrdom-seeker to carry out a military operation (i.e., terror attack) during the Palestinian Intifada was under the command of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade. It was carried out by Wafa Idris, who was the first female Martyrdom-seeker of the Al-Aqsa Intifada.’

    “Note: Wafa Idris carried out a suicide-bombing in Jerusalem in 2002, and thus became the first female suicide terrorist of the Al-Aqsa Intifada. One was killed and 150 were wounded in her attack. Idris worked for the Palestinian Red Crescent in Ramallah. She crossed the checkpoint into Israel wearing a Red Crescent uniform and carrying the bomb with her in the ambulance.

    “…’Did you know?
    The first operation (i.e., terror attack) against an Israeli target outside the occupied or Arab territory was the Munich operation carried out by Fatah under the command of Martyr Commander Salah Khalaf Abu Iyad, one of the outstanding Fatah commanders. It was carried out to sustain a Palestinian presence and representation in international forums.’

    “Note: 11 Israeli athletes were murdered at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich by members of Fatah’s Palestinian Black September branch.

    “…’Did you know?
    The operation (i.e., terror attack) with the most casualties was Fatah’s. Martyrs Abd Al-Rahman and Samer Imad carried it out in January 2003. It killed more than 30 and wounded more than 200.’

    “Note: This refers to a double suicide bombing in Tel Aviv’s central bus station that killed 23 people (not 30 as written).

    “…’Did you know?
    The first to change the Al-Aqsa Intifada into a military escalation were Fatah fighters who escalated the sniper operations against settlers in the West Bank and fired at settlements in [the] Gaza [Strip]…’

    “…’Did you know?
    The first retaliation for the assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin (i.e., founder and head of Hamas) was done by Martyrdom-seeker Fadi Al-Amudi of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades.’

    “Note: This refers to a suicide bombing at the Erez crossing point in 2004 that killed an Israeli soldier and wounded three.

    “…’Did you know?
    The first explosive belt Martyrdom-seeking operation (i.e., terror attack) in the history of the Palestinian revolution was carried out by the first Martyrdom-seeker at the battle of Karameh, Martyr Abd Al-Mutalleb Al-Dmeik, known as ‘Phosphorous,’ one of the most outstanding activists of Fatah.

    “…’Did you know?
    The first Martyrdom-seeking operation (i.e., terror attack) against the Zionist nuclear arsenal was carried out by Fatah. It was commanded by the Martyr commander Kahlil Al-Wazir (Abu Jihad).’

    “Note: This refers to an attack on a bus carrying workers to the nuclear research facility in Dimona in 1988, when three people were killed.

    “…’Did you know?
    The first to launch a rocket from the Gaza Strip at the Zionist enemy (i.e., into Southern Israel) were the heroes of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, Commanders Jihad Al-Amarin and Majdi Al-Khatib, to be exact’.”

    [Facebook, “Fatah – The Main Page,” accessed Aug. 6, 2013; orig. posted July 26, 2013]

  3. I am, for once, at a loss for adequate words.
    But those people, those media, those governments all those entities that are responsible for or put the blame on the unfortunate boys and/or on Israel must never, ever be forgotten or forgiven.
    Israel has much to offer to better and improve this world. None of Israel’s developments in any field whatsoever should ever benefit those vile, despicable hate filled people or institutions or entities.
    Any Israeli developments that are currently being utilized by them should be withdrawn or allowed to degenerate and deteriorate.

  4. @ SHmuel HaLevi 2:
    I agree with you.
    Israel is responsible for having created the conditions that enable kidnappings with the certainty that there will be no repercussions.
    Sadly, I predict that the incompetent IDF will not find these three kids. At best, if they’re kept alive, they will be traded for another 1000 Palestinians, at worst, well, the worst, G-d forbid.
    Israel needs a leadership that immediately reacts to a kidnapping like this one by:
    – cutting the Arabs electric supply
    – retaining all tax monies collected on behalf of the Palestinian authority
    – slowly and systematically disarming the PA and annexing Judea and Samaria.
    can the present leadership do it??? no way

  5. @ Laura:
    The IDF should kidnap the sons of hamas and fatah members and frankly any of those “palestinians” cheering the abduction of those three Jewish boys.

    The ones who did the kidnapping are probably Islamic extremists who would be more than happy if Israel killed the sons of Fatah and Hamas.

  6. Whatever Jews do or refrain to do, they are always “guilty”: it became a pavlovian reflex after 2000 years of practice.

    Even a spokesman for the United Nazis said yesterday that “there is no “concrete evidence” that the teenagers were “actually” kidnapped”

    That being said, a major mistake – among many others – made by the Israeli government is to distinguish between the Fatah and the Hamas terrorist organizations.

    The Hamas’ charter calls for the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews, while the Fatah calls for the destruction of Israel and the eradication of Jewish national existence by means of terrorism.

    During his Bar Ilan speech, Netanyahu described the Fatah as “the more moderate elements in Judea and Samaria, the Palestinian Authority – it is true that they do not engage in terror and this is an important distinction.”

    G-d already warned us to expel the enemies from the Land because “those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will give you trouble in the land where you will live.”

  7. Netanyahu’s ensemble, the present one and the previous one, systematically created the conditions for the tragedy. The pseudo war on Hamas is a sham as well.
    Road blocks removed… Barak-Netanyahu-Peres.
    Special facilities, (including but not limited to free electricity, five star detention facilities) provided to the enemy, Barak-Netanyahu-Peres.
    Assaulting Jews and abandoning Heritage. Etc.
    Israel must raze the political generals and their civilian gangs and freely elect true government. NOW!

  8. The IDF should kidnap the sons of hamas and fatah members and frankly any of those “palestinians” cheering the abduction of those three Jewish boys.