Arlene Kushner on Rush To Say Jews Killed Mohammad Abu Khdeir -- And Why It's Unlikely

From Arlene Kushner:
July 3, 2014

Obscene Rush to Judgment

On Tuesday night, according to eye witnesses, a black car stopped near Mohammad Abu Khdeir, 16, from the upscale Beit Hanina neighborhood of Jerusalem and then took off with the boy inside.  Some time later, the family reported him missing.

By early Wednesday morning, his burnt body had been found in the Jerusalem Forest area.

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What happened next should not surprise us, as infuriating as it it: assumptions are being made far and wide that this boy was killed by Jews in retaliation for the terrorist murders of the three students.

Unfortunately, we are seeing this even among some Israelis, who, imagining themselves righteous people, are thumping their chests in an ill-advised and premature “mea culpa.”

Botched Kidnapping of Israeli Teens Force Hamas and Fatah Lies

Hamas and their fellow terrorists have a history of kidnapping Israelis

• 1989: Avi Sasportas and Ilan Saadon; kidnapped and murdered by Hamas
• 1992: Nissim Toledano; kidnapped and murdered by Hamas
• 1993: Yaron Chen; kidnapped and murdered by Hamas
• 1994: Nachshon Wachsman; kidnapped and murdered by Hamas
• 2001: Koby Mandell and Yosef Ishran; kidnapped and killed by Palestinian militants believed to be associated with Hamas
• 2006: Eliyahu Asheri; kidnapped and killed by the Palestinian Resistance Committees
• 2006: Gilad Shalit; kidnapped by Hamas, not released until 2011
• 2007: Alan Johnston; kidnapped by the Palestinian Army of Islam in Gaza City
• 2011: Vittorio Arrigoni; kidnapped and killed by Islamic extremists in Gaza

Since Hamas does not shy away from kidnapping -- let alone murder -- Elder of Ziyon explains Why Hamas denies the kidnappings

Hamas is denying the murders because it was a botched operation.

The goal was to kidnap a soldier or a "settler" to bargain for the release of prisoners. Hamas has made no secret of that desire, and even published handbooks on how to best accomplish a kidnapping.

The appearance of two more teens, the panicking over the phone call, and the murders in the backseat (from where it would have been nearly impossible for them to escape or fight back) were not planned. I'm not sure that the torching of the stolen car was planned either.

Fear of non-existent Israeli pursuit created a kidnapping attempt that ended in the Palestinian murder of 3 Israeli teenagers. Not the kind of feat that Hamas would have liked to brag about in order to increase its street creds in the Islamist world.

As Elder of Ziyon notes, Hamas is already on thin ice with Egypt -- which has accused it of being a terror group and then there is its unity government with Abbas not working out so well. Right now the last thing Hamas needs is to be associated in anyone's mind with ISIS and the outrages by Islamists in in Syria and Iraq

Meanwhile, on the other side of the "Unity Government", the Abbas regime in its own way has also played down the Palestinian terrorist attack as Fatah falsely depicts murdered teens as "soldiers":

Fatah posted photos of young Israelis mourning the death of the three students Naftali Frenkel, aged 16, Gilad Shaar, aged 16, and Eyal Yifrach, aged 19, and wrote:

"Israelis crying over the three killed soldiers, whose bodies, according to Israeli claims, were found this evening in Hebron, 19 days after they disappeared."

Fatah had been bragging about the kidnapping of the teenagers, but admitting that just teenagers -- not soldiers -- were killed by Palestinian Arabs might reveal the celebration over the deaths for what they are.

It remains to be seen when the would-be kidnappers are caught whether Abbas will be as generous in using US and EU funding to pay their stipend.

This has turned out to be an embarrassment to both Hamas and Fatah -- no relief to Israel that is in mourning over this terrible loss.

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Video: 3 Songs Dedicated to The 3 Kidnapped Israeli Students

Here are 3 songs that have come out, dedicated to Naftali Fraenkel , Gilad Shaar and Eyal Yifrah.
I posted them to Google Plus, and am posting them here in case you did not hear them yet.

Here they are:

Arlene Kushner: Israelis, Jews United In Face of Kidnapping of 3 Students

From Arlene Kushner:
June 21, 2014

Hoping, Waiting, Praying...

Motzei Shabbat (After Shabbat)

When last I wrote, I expressed the fervent hope that by the time I posted again the kidnapped students would have been brought back alive.  Days have gone by since then, but, most regretfully, we do not yet have them home.  I can do no more here than report on what is transpiring, to the degree that we are privy to information.

The mood of the nation is somber, watchful.  But what shows clear is a spirit of unity - Israel is with the boys and their families, in prayer, in thought, and in written word.  The Operation that is being conducted to find the boys and bring them back is called Operation Brothers Keeper, which tells us something as well.

We see prayers for them in different locales at different times, including...