“To Hate Arabs is not Racism, it is Values!” from “The People of Israel Demands Revenge” Facebook Group. “No matter how much makeup they use, no matter how much they color their hair, the souls of these two Jewish girls is uglier than Hell.” – Roi Tov
by Don Clasen
July 6, 2014
When the Israeli military reported finding the three abducted teens dead on June 30, my first thought was “Show me the bodies.” It was prompted by my memory of the operation against Osama bin Laden a couple of years ago when no corpse was ever produced, supposedly out of respect for “Muslim sensibilities.” If the American government let alone the Israeli has ever shown any “respect for Muslim sensibilities” the past 30 years, I would like to know when? They certainly had no scruples about showing the gruesome corpses of Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, Ambassador Stevens or anyone else when it suited their purposes.
In the modern world of Machiavellian politics of which the Talmud is the genesis, “anything goes” when it comes to ingenious ways of fooling the enemy, which now extends apparently to the Jewish people themselves. In my original post I questioned whether these kidnappings were another Sandy Hook-type theatrical production, a previous event where no bodies, no blood, no panic was anywhere to be found. In fact, some of the “dead” children in that event showed up to sing at the Super Bowl. It’s all part of the mind games played with the public to get them to doubt their own eyes and ears.
The light-hearted attitude of Rachel Fraenkel who appeared before the cameras did not strike me as a mother with any real concern for her son, although I concede that people in a state of shock do not always act normally. Maybe she was flattered by all the media attention, I don’t know. Therefore I didn’t think it was out of the realm of possibility that these boys are still alive and looking forward to a posh life hidden out of public view. Unless anyone has seen the bodies, flag-draped coffins prove nothing. It’s a sad state of affairs when society comes to these levels of distrust but those are the conditions these cynics have sought for and the virtues they exploit.
Rachel Fraenkel was at the first almost flattered by all the media attention and participated in the hopeful #BringBackOurBoys campaign. She even took her case to the UN Human Rights Counsel and you can be sure she didn’t go there on her own.
A Whole Lot of Fishiness
Nevertheless all that said, I do believe that during the kidnapping they really were killed, though I’m also convinced that the real story is much more sordid than decent people would want to know. I will thus divide this Israeli teen kidnapping update into two sections. The first will go over some of the anomalies and questions still hanging out there and the theatrical nature of it all. The second will focus on the actual strategy and goals it appears to be seeking to accomplish.
The Big Production and the Big Deal about the Big Production
In Sunday School class, one of the first things you learn about the Devil’s tactics is, Beware when you feel rushed to act immediately.[1] From the start of this crisis, Benjamin Netanyahu right on cue strode all in a huff toward a podium to breathlessly announce to the world that he knows that Hamas is behind these kidnappings, all with no proof of course. From there in his usual mind-numbing style he made sure to repeat the charge over and over again until it became a fact in the public’s consciousness.
Furthermore, he didn’t bother to mention that Hamas has governmental power in Gaza not the West Bank where the Shin Bet secret police rule and where every tenth person is an informant[2] . The chant of “Hamas, Hamas, Hamas” was his aim. I will show why in the second half.
One of the biggest lingering questions out there is the emergency call. When Israeli media asked Rachel Frenkel what else was on the recording beyond “I’ve been kidnapped,” she said that the military would not say, that the rest has been classified. But when Israeli media released the audio, shots and groans can be heard thereafter along with “Allah bless your hands” in Arabic and singing and shouting in celebration. The police claimed the boys tried calling back eight times and then left a voicemail (!), and didn’t alert the military until 3 AM when one of the fathers showed up.
Moreover the cell phone kept emitting a signal till nearly midnight making their location easy to find. This gave the kidnappers time to torch the car, bury the bodies under rocks and do it all while the IDF was in the area responding to another call. Even more damning, “Israel’s Army Radio reported that the three were shot during the phone call and that blood and bullet casings were found in the Hyundai in which the boys were abducted and that was subsequently torched.”
In other words, the government knew from the beginning that they were already dead yet they still shamelessly proceeded on with The Big Production. Coverage within Israel was apparently wall-to-wall 24/7 for 18 days, complete with an excruciating countdown—“Day 4, Day 5,” etc. Calls for mass prayers went out to the nation and the world; touching, heart-wrenching photos were everywhere; weeping, wailing, rending—the whole nine yards.
One of the most telling signs this was all a cynical highly-coordinated psy-op, well-planned in advance was the Hash-tagged “Bring Back Our Boys” campaign. I have not had much time to watch coverage of all this but one clip I did see was an ABC News reporter at the intersection where the kids disappeared. Off to his side were what seemed like strategically-placed hand bills on the bus stop shelter with “Bring Back Our Boys,” in English no less, standing out in bold relief against some vague other writing. He then interviewed what seemed like a well-placed “woman on the street” who repeatedly used the phrase over and over, along with “Our Boys,” emphasizing that they were “just like your boys,” but certainly not like their boys presumably.
The Israeli govenment pys op, #BringBackOurBoys, with a sub-text of being in a constant state of war. And expanded sense of how this was orchestrated can be found here.
Rachel Fraenkel, one of the grieving mothers. The Netanyahu government would not even tell her her son was dead until weeks later, after they had wrung all the emotion and “national unity” they could out of the ordeal
The Big Production did not stop there. The three mothers traveled to the UN Human Rights Council holding a rare meeting in Geneva, a trip arranged and paid for by UN Watch, an Israeli NGO front group. Since the US, Israel and the European countries had boycotted the meeting under pressure from you know who, this gave Mrs. Frankel the opportunity to speak in their place, to plead that they “do something.”
What exactly were they supposed to do? Provide some helpful intel? The Council was amazingly unsympathetic, claiming there wasn’t even any proof they had been kidnapped at that point! Perhaps they felt they were being sucked into the next scene of yet another Israeli “Big Production.” It certainly was some grand theater, perhaps intended to reinforce in the Israeli public’s mind that the whole world is invariably anti-Semitic, that Hamas is evil or whatever. Only God knows what lurks in the hearts of inveterate Machiavellians like Netanyahu when they plot moves like this.
The Objectives Sought For
The 18 days was apparently not by accident. Roi Tov, an Israeli who converted to Christ and now in exile in Bolivia (because Netanyahu loves to protect Christians, don’t you know?) points out that it apparently involves Kabbalistic symbolism:
“In Jewish culture, the number 18 is a symbol of life. The necklaces reading “chai” mean “live” and “18.” Jewish men and women do not marry, they make a commercial contract. They sign a “ktuva” (“written”), a written agreement in which the husband promises to pay a given sum if he divorces his wife. Multiples of 18 are a popular sum in a ktuva due to their symbolizing life. The number 18 can be seen on Israeli streets more than 911 in New York.
18 Days it took the IDF to find the bodies buried less than ten minutes away from where they had been kidnapped, while the alleged perpetrators were in custody.
From now on, Israelis seeing the number 18 will see death instead of life. As subtly instructed by their government, they will blame Palestinians.”[3]
The Prime Minister of course added his usual charming touch. “They were abducted and murdered in cold blood by human animals,” he solemnly intoned on Day 18. “On behalf of the entire Jewish people [note], I would like to tell the dear families — the mothers, fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers, and brothers and sisters — we are deeply saddened, the entire [global] nation weeps with you… Hamas is responsible — and Hamas will pay.”
Of course he could have told them that 18 days earlier but that way he couldn’t wring every last drop of milk out of it. Perhaps the irony of multiple statements by Israeli officials over the years from Pinhas Lavon[4] to Moshe Dayan to Tipi Livni all likening Israel to a “mad dog” that “has the right to go crazy” when it’s crossed was lost on him. After all, at least our animals are not like their animals.
But go crazy it has, first by rounding up—kidnapping out of their beds at night if you will—over 400 Palestinian men and killing six more. Having whipped up the public to a frenzy now, Netanyahu panicked when some crazed fanatics kidnapped and burned alive a Palestinian kid from East Jerusalem on his way to prayers, identical to what neo-Nazis did in Odessa to petition gatherers May 2.
Parents of Muhammad Abu Kudair
And now we have a ground war against Gaza, a virtually defenseless and blockaded open-air prison cut off from the outside world. As if to put a thumb in the eye of the world, Mr. Netanyahu announced a fresh round of settlement construction including one in memory of the teenagers. “This had been prepared beforehand; the choice of the spot demanded planning” noted Tov, a former Israeli army officer. All this activity apparently has the annexation of the entire West Bank and a rape of Gaza in mind.
So let’s sum up so far. The Palestinian Authority and Hamas announce a new unity government, a move the White House goes out of its way to praise. A week or two later these boys conveniently go missing, the IDF can’t find them for 18 days, Hamas is blamed, and the Palestinian people undergo a new round of “price tag” paybacks. New settlements are announced, Western leaders are pressured to make the usual “condemnations” of this “cowardly act,” and Western populations are numbed to a new wave of hostilities in the Middle East and distracted by the summer. What’s there not to like about a black comedy like this? This theater almost perfectly follows the playbook outlined in Wag The Dog.[5]
Knowing How To Play and Magnify Hamas
Lastly a word about Hamas’ bottle rockets. Most people don’t know that Hamas was largely a creation of Israel back in the 1970’s when they funded them and egged them on as a “controlled opposition” to the secular PLO. What people don’t understand about these radical groups like Hamas, Al Queda, ISIS, ISIL, MEK and the like is that they serve a dual function for the powerful Western nations that arm, fund and train them. When they need a band of “ruthless terrorists” that serve as an excuse for interjecting themselves into a situation, then they play that role. But when the West wants to topple a national leader that won’t be controlled, then they magically become “freedom fighters” against a “brutal dictator.”
When Hamas alone tries to provide what meager social services the Gazans enjoy, when they fight valiantly back against the neighborhood bully, Israel knows Hamas has the hearts of their people behind them. The impunity with which Israel acts in manipulating situations like this easily provokes Hamas to fight back. Thus do they create the illusion that Israel is under siege by “senseless animals” and make their case for collective punishment before the world (despite it’s violation of the Geneva Accords).
This is why the Emir of Qatar for instance, can donate $250 million over the years to Hamas and never be pressured by the West to stop. Spoiled Sunni puppets like him and others like the Saudis all work with Israel and the United States to attack Shiite nations like Syria, Iran and now Iraq under Maliki. You would think it easy for Israel with its ownership of the United States to get this Qatari to stop funding Hamas, but they’ve needed Hamas to play this foil while they pursue the Oded Yinon plan to Balkanize the nations of the Middle East. Now it looks like the plan is to annihilate Hamas altogether. In the same way they’ll get rid of ISIS one day or at least try to. Eventually all these Frankensteins are going to turn on them at Armageddon.
Dermer Is Allowed to Agitprop
Ron Dermer, the Israeli-American who is now the Israeli Ambassador to the United States has been Netanyahu’s brain, his Karl Rove for the last five years. He still remains one of the Prime Minister’s most trusted advisors and may be a strategist behind a lot of Israel’s recent convoluted behavior. When interviewed by Gretchen Carlson of CNN, she didn’t of course actually ask for any proof of Hamas being behind the kidnapping, since they have denied all along having anything to do with it.
Still Dermer was not satisfied. As the interview began to wrap up he quickly interjected yet again the talking point he had brought to the studio—“We sincerely hope that the world community will send a message to Hamas over this dastardly deed and join us in condemning them,” something like that.
What message haven’t Hamas and the Palestinians gotten yet? That Israel despises the very ground they walk on? No wait, that’s right. They covet that land. It’s the people themselves that they despise, along with all the rest of the “stupid goys.” And to that we can now add apparently the “stupid Jews,” as Israel’s leadership merrily goes about to burn the world to the ground.
Love and Kisses in Gaza
Notes:
[1] I concede that there are times you don’t have the luxury to wait, but I’m just “speaking generally” here.
[2] Israel arrests so many Palestinians so routinely and then pressures them to be informants. “If you have any hope of seeing your relatives alive again, you’ll cooperate” is the general message sent. Thus the common expression in the West Bank about every ten people.
[3] http://www.roitov.com/articles/18.htm
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavon_affair
[5] A 1998 movie starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro about a Hollywood producer hired to stage a fake war to distract the public from a President’s sex scandal. Priceless.
