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Guest Blog by Brigitte Wunsch, Luxembourg – “Open letter to an Israeli friend who is living in Germany and is very critical of Israel”

06 Wednesday Aug 2014

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Dear ______,

I’d rather we would not talk about Israel because we seem to totally disagree on this subject, and I don’t want it to have a bad impact on our long-time friendship. But I want to share my thoughts with you about you saying that in reality the Israelis are ashamed about the war in Gaza.

I am sure that the vast majority of my friends in Israel are certainly not ashamed of that war.

Many have children in the army in Gaza or in the West Bank. Many are worried, desperate, and certainly feel no less compassion for the Palestinian civilian victims than you. Most find war terribly and do not want that innocent people die.

But they also do not want thousands of Israelis to die or to continue to live under rocket-fire, under constant threat, with radical Islamists around them that make no secret of what they will do with Jews as soon as they will have the occasion.

Hamas never says “Israelis”.  For them there is no difference.

But I can comment only for myself: I am against violence and war and just as horrified and shocked as you are about injured and killed children all over the world .

My compassion is not limited to Indian or South American children, nor is it limited to Palestinian kids either.

My sympathies are also go to Syrian Pakistani, Sudanese, Nigerian, Iraqi, Somali, Lybian children who are killed by hundreds of thousands by the same ideology, by radical Islam, which has cost the lives of more tha 11 000 000 Muslims since 1948 11 000 !!! [STET]

I have contacts with Palestinians, even with a filmmaker from Gaza, now … but .. I see the danger posed by radical Islamists such as Hamas, and that the blockade of Gaza came AFTER the rocket attacks, and is not it’s cause.

And I know that the wall  that has been erected after horrible terror attacks brutally murdered more than thousand Israeli civilians in buses, schools and pubs have lost their lives, and that the settlements are NOT the main cause of failed peace talks, which is the general consensus and mantra of the “European Hasbara” of the Left, Greens, Islamists and neo-Nazis.

I am shocked by your lack of compassion for Israelis being bombarded for years, the many gruesome terrorist attacks, many of which I indirectly (and one even had directly experienced!) !!

And your one-sided criticism of Israel and your lack of understanding what is happening there.  Your black and white view of Israel scares me.

I also have my criticism of many what happened in Israel, the swing to the right, but that is also happening in Europe.

My friends there, and I are almost all for a two-state solution.

But radical Islamism all around Israel makes this solution increasingly impossible and dangerous for Israel.

It is not only the settlement policy, which can be criticized of course.

But writing hateful and ironic, cynical comments, and sometimes even posting false photos or articles is certainly no way to peace either.

The only way to peace is the path of the heart, through encountering each other, and a mutual attempt to understand each other’s pain and fears.

I have a few such friends in Israel who are seeking this path. But it is not possible when organizations like Hamas have power because they are making any contact impossible.

And to liken Bibi and Bennet, no matter how much one may accuse them of racism or war-mongering, to the leaders of Hamas, who kill and torture their own people, is absurd.

I am often enough in Israel to capture the atmosphere there. Yes, there is a growing racism , and hatred, and religious fanaticism, like all over the world, and it has to be taken care of.

But the way you criticize Israel in your many posts, and never utter even a single word of criticism of Hamas or Fatah, you kindle only hatred of Israel.

I’m against war and violence, but I see a great danger in radical Islam, that is the new fascism, and history repeats itself again, unfortunately. And with radical Islamists, it is not possible to conclude peace negotiations.  

Have you read the Hamas Constitution which openly calls for the murder of Jews?

Hamas wanted to start a mega terrorist attack and would kill every Israeli if they had the chance.

And now they can send rockets from Gaza to Haifa. What should Israel do according to you, to protect their civilians?

Was it wrong that the Allies bombed Dresden and Berlin?

It is not easy to answer this moral question…

The violence and the suffering of many innocents is of course shocking to any feeling being, and the pictures of dead or injured children are heart-breaking of course.

But the vast majority of people in Israel is also realizing the danger of not reacting to the constant shelling of rockets and the threat of the tunnels, and of Hamas acquiring more weapons.

Would you like to see such gruesome pictures also from Israel? Bombs on planes? Some rockets hit Ben Gurion airport a few days ago.  How many deaths would there be now in Israel, after years of missiles fired into Israel by Hamas if there were no shelters and no iron dome? 

Israel is between a rock and a hard place.

And what I do know, not from the media but from the children of my friends who are now soldiers in Gaza, is that they very often tell people exactly where they should stay to be safe if the houses are being blown up, but that Hamas prevents them to escape, and fires rockets near schools, hospitals and mosques.

This whole situation is terrible, and moves me very much.

However, I am sure that one-sided criticism of Israel, particularly in Europe where anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism are so closely intertwined, does not contribute to peace, and hurts not only Israel, but also the non-Islamist Palestinians.

I would appreciate if this issue would be settled between us, I respect your opinion, but do not agree with it.

For me this is not a reason not to be friends, or to judge you.

Everyone has their past, and experiences, and if I lived in Germany I would perhaps also share your opinion; if you were in Israel and your sons in the army now , you would probably think differently as you do now, I don’t want to condemn anyone.

I look forward but to talk to you about other issues.

Very best wishes, and also do not condemn you me and some of your friends in Israel on our opinion.

Our children have often wept over friends killed in attacks, and we sat there with our gas masks during the Gulf War, or in the shelter when missiles were falling.

There is a wise Indian saying “condemn no one unless you’ve been walking around a few days in his moccasins”.

See you soon, be well, and I hope that soon peace will come ………

Shalom, 

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Reference – Jacobson (2009) – and a Comment on Hamas and Habits of Mind

05 Tuesday Aug 2014

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A discriminatory, over-and-above hatred, inexplicable in its hysteria and virulence whatever justification is adduced for it; an unreasoning, deranged and as far as I can see irreversible revulsion that is poisoning everything we are supposed to believe in here – the free exchange of opinions, the clear-headedness of thinkers and teachers, the fine tracery of social interdependence we call community relations, modernity of outlook, tolerance, truth. You can taste the toxins on your tongue.

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/howard-jacobson/howard-jacobson-letrsquos-see-the-criticism-of-israel-for-what-it-really-is-1624827.html – 2/18/2009.

Often in the rush that comes with appreciating a well known writer’s voice on a cogent topic, I’m wont to overlook the date or catch up with that detail after posting.  Not this time.  February 18, 2009 — the last war involving Hamas!  Same evil — same useful idiots out on the street embarked on their very own experience of that syndrome well known to the Tutsi of Rwanda: Paranoid Delusional Narcissistic Reflection of Motivation AKA “Reflection” or “Reflection in a Mirror.”

Try a hall of mirrors, for this habitual mode known well to the rank and file of the New Old Now Old Far Out and Lost Left (start with the rabid anti-Semites of the International Solidarity Movements, please) would seem well related to both the grandiose messianic delusions of malignant narcissists and the methods launched against others to get whatever it is they want, never mind that whatever they get, it’s never enough, for the damage in their souls is located elsewhere: nonetheless — flattery and patronage on one hand; intimidation, theft, and murder on the other.

And in between, “Gaslighting” with that capital “G”, i.e., the effort to produce so closed and pervasive an information environment — add an equally perverse communal group-think environment (bounded by ostracism or violence) — that their marks actually swallow their garbage.

Would that the manipulation had to do with only garbage, but these that fabricate their own “hall of mirrors” without end, who aggrandize themselves on their martyrdom of children and whole families, have ways of “taking off” that bring ruin to their worlds.

The case I make with that date and the persistent relevance of Howard Jacobson’s fine observations: what Hamas does in setting itself up and what it does to others by way of exploiting their energies and ultimately ruining their lives has to do with “habits of mind”.

Break those habits in the head suspended in cliches and tropes, and the criminality and the warring will diminish; keep them going — another six months or another sixty-six years — and they will grind down the humanity that keeps those habits in its possession.

Related from Pat Condell and posted to YouTube today:

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Link – Martin Luther King on the Jewish People and Israel – But There’s a Hitch . . . .

31 Thursday Jul 2014

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“. . . You declare, my friend, that you do not hate the Jews, you are merely ‘anti-Zionist.’ And I say, let the truth ring forth from the high mountain tops, let it echo through the valleys of God’s green earth: When people criticize Zionism, they mean Jews–this is God’s own truth.

“Antisemitism, the hatred of the Jewish people, has been and remains a blot on the soul of mankind. In this we are in full agreement. So know also this: anti-Zionist is inherently antisemitic, and ever will be so.

“Why is this? You know that Zionism is nothing less than the dream and ideal of the Jewish people returning to live in their own land. The Jewish people, the Scriptures tell us, once enjoyed a flourishing Commonwealth in the Holy Land. From this they were expelled by the Roman tyrant, the same Romans who cruelly murdered Our Lord. Driven from their homeland, their nation in ashes, forced to wander the globe, the Jewish people time and again suffered the lash of whichever tyrant happened to rule over them.

http://web.archive.org/web/20031211052106/http://www.mideasttruth.com/mlk.html – August 1967

About seven additional paragraphs follow from the three quoted here.

The hitch?

The body’s a hoax, but not completely inauthentic:

However, because we do not ordinarily rely on anyone else’s research, we decided to double-check, by searching back issues of Saturday Review (Rabbi Shneier’s book had referenced the “letter” as being published in the August 1967 Saturday Review). We found no such letter in any of the August issues, nor do the page and volume numbers cited conform to those actually used by that publication. CAMERA also checked with Boston University, where Dr. King’s work is archived. The archivists, too, were unable to locate any such letter. We can only conclude that no such letter was written by Dr. King . . . Since the message of the letter (anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism) was one Martin Luther King, Jr., had indeed articulated, we can understand why the King family and the ADL did not feel the need to verify the “Letter to an anti-Zionist friend.” This episode is a reminder of the importance of verifying the authenticity and accuracy of sources, even when they appear to be solid.

http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_article=369&x_context=8 – 1/22/2002.

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The author of this blog apologizes for slingin’ it a little too fast.

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True about The Lancet – And Shame on It for the Anti-Semitic Knuckleheads It Chose to Support With Its Platform

28 Monday Jul 2014

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On July 23rd, The Lancet published an Open Letter describing the situation in Gaza — http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)61044-8/fulltext.  Here is but a taste of that deeply ad hominem anti-Semitic rant:

On the basis of our ethics and practice, we are denouncing what we witness in the aggression of Gaza by Israel.

We ask our colleagues, old and young professionals, to denounce this Israeli aggression. We challenge the perversity of a propaganda that justifies the creation of an emergency to masquerade a massacre, a so-called “defensive aggression”. In reality it is a ruthless assault of unlimited duration, extent, and intensity. We wish to report the facts as we see them and their implications on the lives of the people.

We are appalled by the military onslaught on civilians in Gaza under the guise of punishing terrorists.

Rightfully, the esteemed publication caught heat:

The Lancet, a top tier scientific journal by all accounts, did a great disservice to the medical community. The publication of an extremely biased one-sided analysis of such a complex situation is outrageous and full of lies.

http://www.jewishjournal.com/dr_emranis_mystic_healing/item/when_anti_semitism_strikes_science_and_medicine – 7/28/2014.

And setting to rights, it brought also a long riposte by nearly a dozen esteemed medical professionals at the end of last week (8/15/2014).  Excerpted:

For The Lancet and its editors to avoid any further embarrassment in associating this prestigious journal with such a vituperative betrayal of its scientific mission, we recommend The Lancet retract the authors’ letter on the basis of favouritism for anti-Israeli political positions, the victimisation of Israeli academia, and the competing interests of a lead author known to be a political activist with anti-Israeli stances . . . .

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We find abhorrent that academic authors would, without evidence or data, accuse an entire academic community of crimes against humanity by association of national identity or professional affiliation, an accusation that is not only a rank dehumanisation of an entire state, but explicitly seditious in propagating virulent anti-semitic sentiments to the detriment of whole academies. Although our feelings will undoubtedly recover, the authors, through their reckless words, have inflicted a deep wound to the body and soul of global scientific and medical academia at the very moment opportunities for apolitical engagement, collaboration, and bridge-building are most needed.

http://download.thelancet.com/flatcontentassets/pdfs/S0140673614613143.pdf – 8/15/2014.  Response at length by Doctors Qanta Ahmed, Alon Y. Avidan, Aaron Ciechanover, Daniel Shechtman, Daniel Zajfman, Uriel Reichman, Roger Kornberg, Avram Hershko, Peretz Lavie.

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FTAC – Open Letter to a Pakistani Friend Regarding Hamas Inhumanity

24 Thursday Jul 2014

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Hi, N.,

I am so sorry for these upside-down wars driven by a malevolent mindset.

When Ayesha Siddiqa writes, “It is interesting to see how people engaged in social media are calling out people who seem to be slow or timid in condemning Israeli atrocities,” one wants to note, even merely suggest, that its Hamas that invites war by making war on the Jews, Israel first (Israel, incidentally, is 20 percent Muslim).

Smuggling tunnels, tunnels into Israel, tunnels leading to underground launch sites, tunnels for everything but use as bomb shelters for the residents of Gaza . . . that’s the truth: then humans and civilian sites, including UN schools, for shielding rockets, launch sites, manufacturing elements.

As with most anti-Semitic / anti-Zionists (the two are inseparable) political cant, the lie appears in the first or second paragraph. Baldfaced dishonest, meddling, mischief-making. It sounds loyal to the ear. It panders. But it does not bear examination.

By the accidents of fate and technology, I have been a part of the Islamic Small Wars for more than seven years, not a long time in a scholar’s life, but long enough to note that Muslim-on-Muslim violence predominates in the world’s obviously troubled Islamic-majority states, that “more Islam” as al-Qaeda to Taliban would have it has meant only more death and plunder for the Islamists, and that the demonizing of Jews and the Jewish-majority state of Israel, which is actually a vibrant people-aiding — ALL people aiding — secular society, again itself 20 percent Muslim with the same treated by law like everyone else, Jewish, Christian, Sunni, Shiite, Baha’i Buddhist, Hindu, and so on. Wherefore then Ayesha Seddiqa’s familiar Jew hate in the name of Islam?

Take another look at Israel: hospital care for Palestinian children: routine; provision of all basic services continuing despite open warfare; higher education services for qualified Palestinian students — long offered and often fulfilled (some of that has changed, I don’t know the details); trade economy — Israel is Gaza’s first export customer, and it does not impede business and trade development by Gaza beyond Israel.

Pakistan has its own now long history of suffering directly at the hands of bomb-making, mosque-destroying fanatics. Jews have never been a part of that and never will be. That is not who we are. With regard to Gaza, we regret every single death with perhaps the exception of those actually doing the building, aiming, and firing of rockets at our own children. Our IDF frequently aborts launch-site or rocket-destroying missions in light of the presence of noncombatants in the target. Ask Bashar al-Assad — or Baghdaddi’s Islamic state now sowing mayhem and murder throughout Iraq — to consider that kind of consideration for humanity.

A well funded and long-planned propaganda campaign has been launched against Israel, but the funny thing is it has been launched against you too. It takes you in. It tells you that for being Muslim, you are wonderful, which might be true, Muslim or not, but then your nominal co-religionists in the Muslim Brotherhood, and they show the world what their idea of Islam is about, and then they push children and families — not their own — in front of an army legitimately defending its children, its families, its people, Jewish in majority but larger than that and democratic, open, and generous.

The “sides” engaged in The Islamic Small Wars may not be anything like what they first appear to be.

The Jews tell the truth. We don’t lie. We accept criticism. We believe in ourselves and we believe in mankind, and we go to work on those beliefs, providing emergency and health services — and emergency charity services to all, worldwide, and much including Pakistan: we’re a small entity in the world, but when there’s an earthquake, we give what we can give.

Those who wish to destroy us would seem to be manipulated to rally around bigotry and hate as well as a mode poisoning every aspect of their lives and their communities. Where they would exclude, we include. We don’t know where the current fighting will go, but if Hamas is gone and war is finished for a time in this enclave between Israel and Egypt, who have been pushed more together because of this deeply egotistical Brotherhood affiliate, we will be there to help our neighbors, even deeply resentful with enmity, recover.

Referenced: Ayesha Siddiqa’s article appearing today in Pakistan’s Express Tribune

The Palestinian Cause as a rallying point, the tropes that go with that, belie an inhumanity most apparent in Pakistan where terrorists have for years routinely attacked facilities, including mosques, and populating,much including minorities, with near impunity, and the state has fought back with military and paramilitary forces in ways that have gone dismally hard on innocents caught in the middle of the violence.  Those victims of the Islamic Small Wars would seem to be forced to experience the worst of both worlds, for who really embraces their well being and security?

It should not take a Jew to ask that question.

However, apparently, it does.

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FTAC – Fascism – Hamas – Succession – Anti-Semitism – General Note

20 Sunday Jul 2014

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What Hamas and others have in mind isn’t about land: it’s about the existence of Jews in light of their presumptuous possession of the final instructions from God, which they use handily to manipulate their minions and aggrandize themselves. Political absolutists all, they lie and struggle without end to aggrandize themselves through crime and kleptocracy. For those in Gaza not sharing the Hamas mission sense, political solutions have been always at hand. Fatah has a slightly different racist cast with the pan-Arab movement and now historic Soviet influence, but it too as represented by Mahmoud Abbas has reached its dead end mired in anti-Semitic cant and directly related political impotence, blind racist hate never matching in power the presence of a healthy and productive attitude toward humanity. http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/18454

“Anti-Semitism” is never only about the Jews. The attitude and posture have much wider margins that over time isolate the bearers, induce a barbaric narcissism, and, predictably, bring down the roof on their own heads. Would that “brown shirts”, Hamas, and ISIS and others could be definitively isolated from surrounding populations and dealt with noncombatant involvement, but they really use the defenseless reliably.

Pakistan this past month has attempted to empty whole quarters to get at Taliban his past month and has displaced hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis in doing so — and Taliban have shaved their beards to elude security notice, and the state has a long way to go — as do the Arab states with such as Hamas — in channeling off the related and perverse jihadist worldview.

PALESTINE OCCUPIED BY ISLAMISM AS MUCH AS ISRAEL

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/07/18/Palestine-occupied-by-Islamism-as-much-as-Israel 7/18/2014

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90 percent of slain Muslims killed by ‘brothers’: Turkey’s religious head

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/90-percent-of-slain-muslims-killed-by-brothers-turkeys-religious-head.aspx?pageID=238&nID=69347&NewsCatID=393 – 7/19/2014

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“Israeli minister: Abbas is world’s “most anti-Semitic leader”

http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/18454 – 1/30/2014.

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“The Anti-Semitism of Hamas: Anti-Semitism is a major pillar in the ideology of Hamas.”

http://www.pij.org/details.php?id=345 – 2005

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http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/17/world/asia/pakistan-taliban-profile/ 10/17/2012

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“Pakistan launches new military offensive against Taliban”

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/9be3ee14-f502-11e3-bf6e-00144feabdc0.html#axzz381JN9Y1e 6/16/2014

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“Inside militants’ secret tunnels in Pakistan”

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/10/world/asia/pakistan-tribal-area-operation/index.html 7/11/2014

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FTAC – Gaza – Hamas – Fascism

18 Friday Jul 2014

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http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Israeli-hospital-treats-Hamas-PM-Haniyehs-granddaughter-332193 Military hardware and supplies look alike all over the world, but between some states, their purposes are very, very different.

Egyptians control the Rafah Crossing, not Israel, and they are not happy either with the Muslim Brotherhood in their state or in Gaza. http://thecairopost.com/news/118936/news/rafah-crossing-is-red-line-egypts-fm

In addition to routinely providing health services to children from the Preoccupied Territories (the barbaric and lethal spread of anti-Semitic rhetoric is what has really happened in the Arab world) — http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/08/02/increase-in-palestinians-treated-in-israeli-hospitals/ ,

Until recently, and for obvious reasons, Israeli universities have provided education services to qualified Palestinian students.

There are many other areas in business and trade in which Israelis and Palestinians participate together or partner. News about Cisco and Sodastream, about Qualifying Industrial Zones, and any number of Israel-based advocacy and peace program organizations are easily found on the web. In fact, one would have to exercise willful blindness to mistake a terror-suppressing security wall for a concentration camp enclosure.

The only Gestapo, SS, and Nazis in Gaza are the fascist Hamas and similar Jew-hating genocidal fascist organizations.

What did those do with the Jews of Gaza who had been nearly continuously on the strip, validated by archaeological evidence, for 3,500 years?

What has happened to their property — greenhouses, synagogues, cemeteries?

https://conflict-backchannels.com/coins-and-other-terms/anthropolitical-psychology/paranoid-delusional-narcissistic-reflection-of-motivation/

The prompt: a vicious visual comparison of military images matching IDF and Nazi elements — soldiers, barbed wire, concrete barriers — devoid of context or honest interpretation.

Related Reference

Fascist Genocidal Mission

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/01/confronting_hamas_genocidal_je.html

http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=7&x_issue=20&x_article=1618

Human Rights

http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/10/03/gaza-arbitrary-arrests-torture-unfair-trials –

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4192/human-rights-palestinian-islamic-culture –

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/human-shields-are-hamass-pr/article19602451/ – “Israel doesn’t want to shed civilian blood. Hamas needs it – especially from its own civilians.”

Image Control Integrity

http://blog.camera.org/archives/2014/07/hamas_instructs_gazans_to_lie.html

http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/8076.htm#_edn1

Plunder

http://www.reuters.com/investigates/iran/#article/part1

While Gazans Suffer in Poverty, Leaders of Hamas Live in Luxury

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3308/gaza-millionaires

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Cynically Scripted? East Jerusalem Riots

04 Friday Jul 2014

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Hate, mindless hate, manipulated, ignorant, pointless would seem to course through East Jerusalem at the moment.

While police continue to investigate the murder of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir, rioting crowds have erupted in East Jerusalem on the assumption — no evidence — that the crime must relate directly to revenge associated with the murder of three Israeli teens.

Posted to YouTube yesterday:

http://youtu.be/lTOyBwAX6fU

By AFP yesterday:

Posted to YouTube about an hour ago.

The basis: martyrdom, for the sake of martyrdom.

Without investigation, without process in the courts, the explanations for the murder are many, including a Palestinian false-flag operation to provoke and condone today’s rioting.

Prove it’s not so.

Prove the Palestinians now rioting are not being played into doing just that by their own handlers.

No investigation?

No proof of anything.

Additional Reference

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-braces-as-palestinians-bury-mohammed-abu-khdeir-jerusalem/ 7/4/7014.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/07/02/benjamin-netanyahu-warns-vigilantes-against-trying-to-avenge-slain-israeli-teens-after-abducted-arab-boy-reportedly-found-dead-in-jerusalem-forest/ – 7/3/3014.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.602736 – 7/3/2014.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-braces-as-palestinians-bury-mohammed-abu-khdeir-jerusalem/ – 7/3/2014.

http://www.jpost.com/National-News/Comment-After-the-horror-361106 – 7/1/2014.