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Where’s BBC scoop on Netanyahu’s big lie?

By Jonathon Cook | The Blog from Nazareth | July 26, 2014

Here’s a hugely significant story that I suspect will get almost no play outside Palestinian solidarity sites. Mickey Rosenfeld, the Israeli police spokesman, has told BBC reporter Jon Donnison that there are no grounds for believing Hamas ordered the abduction of three Israeli teens on June 12. Rather, the police say, it was carried out by a rogue cell from Hebron with a loose political affiliation to Hamas.

351947_Israel-Benjamin-NetanyahuIt was those abductions, and Israel’s response in blaming Hamas and rounding up and jailing hundreds of its activists in the West Bank, that triggered Hamas rocket fire that in turn was used by Israel to justify its attack on Gaza, which is currently killing hundreds of civilians.

Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, stated at the time that he had cast-iron evidence that Hamas was behind the abductions and the movement would pay a “heavy price”. He never produced that evidence. But now Israel’s police force itself concedes that Hamas was not involved.

Many of us, of course, suspected that Netanyahu was using the abductions as a pretext to destroy the unity government Hamas and Fatah had recently set up after years of conflict. Now we have official confirmation.

I wonder why, given the great scoop he has, Donnison appears only to have tweeted about this. It’s now more than 24 hours since he went public with the information. Is he waiting for another news outlets to beat him to the story? Or is he tweeting it because he knows the BBC isn’t interested in running a story so embarrassing to Israel?

Anyway, kudos to him for getting the scoop, even if no one seems interested in it. Another one down the memory hole.

July 26, 2014 - Posted by | Deception, Ethnic Cleansing, Racism, Zionism, Mainstream Media, Warmongering | , , , ,

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  1. “It was those abductions, and Israel’s response in blaming Hamas and rounding up and jailing hundreds of its activists in the West Bank, that triggered Hamas rocket fire that in turn was used by Israel to justify its attack on Gaza, which is currently killing hundreds of civilians.

    Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, stated at the time that he had cast-iron evidence that Hamas was behind the abductions and the movement would pay a “heavy price”. He never produced that evidence. But now Israel’s police force itself concedes that Hamas was not involved.“

    Nutty Yahoo knew it wasn’t Hamas. He merely wanted to make the association the way Cheney made the association between Hussein and 9/11. He’s a snake, and his tactics are not the least bit slick. They’re predictable, actually. Israel collects the taxes for Palestine which pays the government officials in Palestine. This entire event was Israel’s response to the prospect of a Hamas + Palestine Authority unity government. This was announced at the end of June, as I recall. And it would have created a situation where back pay was owed to Hamas officials — which Israel would have had to pay.

    “Elements of this policy have been seen before, perhaps most famously from General Moshe Dayan, “Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother” quoted by Martin van Creveld, a professor at Israel’s Hebrew University in Sept 2003 who continued in his own words: “We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that will happen, before Israel goes under.”[7] The BBC quotes Israeli commentators as saying that Israel has “a new military doctrine: ‘go nuts’ once and your enemies will fear to strike again”.[8] with Ofer Shelah saying “In the face of enemies who have opted for a strategy of attrition and attacking from a distance, Israel will present itself as a ‘crazy country’, the kind that will respond (albeit after a great deal of time) in a massive and unfettered assault, with no proportion to the amount of casualties it has endured.”“ (Wikispooks)

    “The Dahiya doctrine is a military strategy put forth by the Israeli general Gadi Eizenkot that pertains to asymmetric warfare in an urban setting, in which the army deliberately targets civilian infrastructure, as a means of inducing suffering for the civilian population, thereby establishing deterrence.“ (Wikipedia)

    There you have it. It even has a name — the Dahiya Doctrine. Why isn’t the US media pressing Israel on this policy which is CLEARLY a premeditated violation of international law?

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