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SHAPIRO: Obama White House, Media, Hamas Push New Blood Libel”

A crime reminiscent of their holy matzas that became part of their history of betrayal and murder.”

7.3.2014Israel Revolt Ben Shapiro

via SHAPIRO: Obama White House, Media, Hamas Push New Blood Libel | Truth Revolt.

he world has moved from ignoring kidnapped and murdered Jewish boys directly to blood libels. It wasn’t enough for the world to go silent about the seizure and murders of Eyal Yifrach, 19; Gilad Shaar, 16; and American citizen Naftali Frenkel, 16. It wasn’t enough for the United States to continue sending $400 million worth of funding to their murderers, the Hamas-Palestinian Authority-Islamic Jihad unity government.

Now the Obama administration and the media are determined to establish a moral equivalence between those who murder Jewish boys and the Jews themselves. On Tuesday evening, news outlets across the world screamed that a “revenge killing” had taken place: the body of Muhammad Abu Khdeir, 17, had been found in Jerusalem Forest, abducted and murdered.

The State Department rushed to condemn the killing in terms it never used for the killing of the three Jewish boys: “condemns in the strongest possible terms the despicable and senseless abduction and murder…It is sickening…There are no words to convey adequately our condolences to the Palestinian people.” (By way of contrast, the State Department response to the kidnapping of the three Jewish boys was restricted to “strongly condemns the kidnapping.”)

But the State Department went further, with Secretary of State Kerry explaining, “Those who undertake acts of vengeance only destabilize an already explosive and emotional situation….The world has too often learned the hard way that violence only leads to more violence.”

Only one problem: there is not a single shred of evidence beyond speculation linking Jews to the murder. And the only evidence that has emerged so far suggests that the boy may have been killed by Arabs. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld stated that the boy’s body was burned, and that police are “investigating previous attempts to kidnap members of Abu Khdeir’s family, stemming from a personal dispute.” An ex-police official told Arutz Sheva that the murdered kid was known by police, as was the family: “it’s a problematic family with internal clashes that have been ongoing for many years.” This morning, Arutz Sheva noted that Channel Two in Israel had reported that the boy’s parents had reported the attempted kidnapping of Khdeir’s brother earlier this week – and that the father had told police that Arabs tried to kidnap the son.

Should it turn out that Jews did perform this disgusting atrocity, the State of Israel will find, prosecute, and give the harshest possible penalty to the perpetrators. That in and of itself destroys any attempted moral equivalence between Israel and her enemies, given that the Hamas-unity government itself stands behind the murder of the three Jewish boys, that the Hamas-unity government propagandized in celebration of their kidnappings and deaths, and that Palestinians celebrated their deaths.

But no matter who performed this act, what we are watching right now is a blood libel. Slandering Jews for the murder of children without evidence is blood libel. The world has performed this atrocity in the recent past with Mohammad Al Dura in 2000, when the entire world condemned Israeli troops for the staged, hoax killing of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy. Khdeir, tragically, was murdered – and whomever did it should pay the ultimate penalty. But to this point, nobody has provided any evidence it was “settlers” or “right-wing Jews” or anything of the sort. And that is certainly not stopping Hamas from directly invoking the blood libel – today, a Hamas-affiliated newspaper stated:

The settlers used the body of 17-year-old Muhammad Abu Khdeir, from Shuafat in northern Jerusalem, to carry out their sacred [act of] vengeance by torturing him and burning him to death, in a crime reminiscent of their holy matzas that became part of their history of betrayal and murder – for the culture of violence and blood grew among the Jews to such an extent that it seeped into their sacred rites and prayers.

It should be no surprise to see the Jew-hating Obama administration backing such monstrosities, both by implication and by signing checks.

Parents of Murdered Arab Can’t Keep Story Straight

Still no evidence Jews killed their son.

via Parents of Murdered Arab Can’t Keep Story Straight | Truth Revolt.

According to multiple reports, the parents of the murdered Arab youth gave contradictory statements to the police and media on Wednesday. Israel’s Arutz Sheva documented the recent development:

In a little-noticed report on Channel Two Wednesday night, analyst and reporter Moshe Nussbaum presented information which could upend the police inquiry into the murder of Muhammad Abu Khadr, the Beit Hanina youth whose burned body was found in the Jerusalem Forest early Wednesday.

In the report, Nussbaum cites contradictory statements by the youth’sparents, who both told police different stories about another attempted kidnapping – that of Muhammad’s nine year old brother – that may or may not have taken place.

Speaking on Israel Radio Thursday, Mohammed’s father said he had called police at about 4 a.m. Wednesday to tell them that his son was being kidnapped, and said that they could trace his cellphone, which was still active. Police have not commented on the content of the call Mohammed’s father said he made.

However, Nussbaum said, police were quite definitive that another call the family made to police on Tuesday turned out not to be the emergency the Abu Khadrs claimed it was. On Tuesday, police said, the mother called police to say that “settlers” had tried to kidnap her younger son. She said that individuals had stopped a car in front of her house where she was sitting with her son, and that they tried to grab him. She managed to hold onto him, she said, and they left, at which point she called police.

Officers arrived a few minutes later to take her statement, in which she said “settlers” had tried to kidnap her son, but could give no details. However, a few minutes later the father arrived, and he disputed his wife, saying that it was Arabs who tried to kidnap the son.

Police asked the father if he was positive regarding the identity of the would-be kidnappers, and he said he was. When they asked him to file a police complaint, he said he would, but that he would come down to the police station later on to do so in order to be able to comfort his son. He never showed up, police said, who contacted him several times asking him to file the complaint – but to no avail.

When asked on Israel Radio as to the identity of the kidnappers, Mohammed’s father said he did not know – but that it should be an easy matter for police to figure it out, because their images were captured on video by one of the many security cameras in the area.

“All they have to do is put the pictures on TV and I am sure someone will identify them,” he said.

An Israeli official also spoke to Arutz Sheva and refuted the idea that Israelis carried out a revenge attack:

Speaking to Arutz Sheva Wednesday, a senior former police official opined that the abduction and murder of Al Khadr was most likely a criminal act, rejecting the claim that Jewish “revenge” for the murdered Israeli teens lay behind it. The official noted that the family of the murdered 16-year-old was well known to police sources in Jerusalem.

“It’s a problematic family with internal clashes that have been ongoing for many years. I have no doubt that as time passes it will be clarified that the murder was criminal and nothing more,” the ex-official said, speaking to Arutz Sheva on condition of anonymity.

Police, for their part, have refused to speculate over the motive for the killing and say that at the moment they are pursuing all possible leads – both nationalistic and criminal.

Many officials, including John Kerry, rushed to condemn the murder and cited the potential “revenge” motive although legitimate evidence remains absent.