Score: One thousand dead and climbing. Several hundred thousand wounded, displaced and part of a month-long trail of agony and violence. Gaza and the West bank scorched earth. Fear is the key and the world stands by and rubbernecks the death toll. Every single day. And now, pretty as you please, the Israeli police have agreed that the three teenage Israeli boys were not killed by the Hamas but by a group from the outside.
It’s Israeli Police Foreign Press spokesman, Micky Rosenfeld, who falsified the Israeli government’s claim that Hamas was responsible for the killing of the teens in June. These killings were the flash point that began the convulsion of violence. At the time it all began, Israeli authorities placed the blame squarely on Hamas, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying: "They were kidnapped and murdered in cold blood by animals in human form.”
So, why this making a clean breast of it now? How does one make sense of this confession? Is it a ploy, some new twist in the tale or just an indication that having cut through the west back and established its power base now it can rub salt into the wound.
Although the news was broken by a BBC correspondent who claims that Rosenfeld said the killers were a group who may have been affiliated to Hamas but not operating under its command. Hamas has always denied its involvement in the killings.
It seems to contradict the incredibly strong stance taken by Israel and a practical all-out war it conducted. Does it make any sense to “confess” all this to a news agency who then tweets it globally.
Even in the confession there is a bit of self-congratulation. Rosenfeld also said if kidnapping had been ordered by Hamas leadership, it would have known about it in advance.
So then if you knew this all along what was the point of destroying so many lives including those of women and children? Somewhere along the line very soon the Israelis will deny the Rosenfeld statement … there is no way they will allow this discovery to get a stamp of approval. It would undermine them so totally for any offensive in the future. The truth may just remain a tweet.
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