Posted on 06/30/2014 2:09:49 PM PDT by blam
Armin Rosen
June 30, 2014
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised a strong response to the killing of three Israeli teens abducted from a highway junction outside of the West Bank settlement of Kfar Etzion on June 12.
The Israeli security cabinet is meeting to weigh possible responses to the teens' murders. Netanyahu ordered an extensive air campaign in the Gaza Strip in late 2012 in response to rocket attacks originating in the Hamas-controlled coastal area. While the campaign resulted in the deaths of several high-ranking Hamas operatives, including Hamas military chief Ahmed Jabari, the campaign ceased amid international pressure — and resulted in Israel lightening its control of goods and people entering the Strip.
So any large-scale action comes with risk. And for now there's still a chance that the kidnapping was the work of rogue Hamas cells, rather than a conspiracy ordered by the organization's top leadership.
"I don't think that we know enough to say anything conclusively as of yet," an IDF source told Business Insider. "We do know that the two suspects and their support staff are Hamas operatives, Hamas activists and Hamas affiliates. There's no question there. Is this part of something larger? That's still something that we're looking at."
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They should line up every Hamas suspect they have pulled in an publicly execute them . That sould be the just retribution. Release not a single man . Kill them all. Publicly
I somehow don’t think BIbi means an Obama-like red line.
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