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Ukraine
Aug 23rd, 2014
Daily NewsKoenig's Eye View News Briefs
Categories: Contemporary Issues

Chaos continues in eastern Ukraine. At least 17 civilians were killed when a convoy of refugees came under mortar and rocket fire southeast of Luhansk. Government and pro-Russia forces accused one another of launching the attack. Both sides have the same Russian-made Grad rockets that were used in the attack.

Since last week, the United Nations estimates that 22,000 people have fled fighting from the cities of Donetsk and Luhansk. The conflict incurs 60 new casualties on average each day, with over 5,000 casualties and 2,000 fatalities since it erupted in mid-April.

Ukraine said its artillery destroyed most of an armored column of Russian personnel carriers last week that had crossed its border overnight from Russia. So far Moscow has not retaliated, dismissing the report as "fantasy."

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen later confirmed that a nighttime "incursion" into Ukraine had occurred. This marks the first direct military engagement between Ukrainian and Russian forces.

The momentum on the ground has swung in favor of Ukrainian forces, which have nearly encircled the rebel strongholds of Donetsk and Luhansk and control the road linking the two cities. Heavy fighting continues with government forces engaged in street-to-street fighting in the center of Luhansk and shelling of the rebel headquarters in Donetsk.

Panic has reportedly set in among pro-Russia rebels. Some abandoned their positions in Luhansk to seek safe haven in Russia, while three senior rebel leaders were removed from their posts after sharp disagreements broke out over the deteriorating conditions.

Meanwhile, the prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko, announced that his rebel forces are in the process of receiving some 150 armored vehicles, including 30 tanks, and 1,200 fighters, who he said had spent four months training in Russia.

After a standoff for over a week at the Ukrainian border, a Russian convoy of 280 trucks said to be carrying water, food and medicine for civilians crossed into Ukraine. Moscow released a statement saying that Russia had run out of patience.

The Russian trucks were not accompanied by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) as had been planned.

The decision was also made without Kiev’s consent. Ukrainian state security chief Valentyn Nalivaychenko told journalists on Friday, "We consider this a direct invasion by Russia of Ukraine."

Ukraine had previously threatened to respond militarily if any Russian trucks crossed the border without its permission and without ICRC observers. It is not clear how Kiev will now respond.

If Ukrainian forces fire on the trucks, they could trigger an all-out invasion by the tens of thousands of Russian troops stationed just across the border.

If they allow the convoy through, they would be agreeing to a de facto ceasefire that could allow the rebels to regroup and be reinforced with fresh military supplies, especially if it turns out that the trucks are carrying more than just humanitarian aid.

Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko are scheduled to meet Aug. 26 in Belarus — the first time in two months — amid ongoing calls for a ceasefire.

Pope Rehabilitates Marxist Priest
Aug 23rd, 2014
Daily Newsworldviewweekend.com
Categories: One World Church;Contemporary Issues

An advocate of Marxist-oriented "liberation theology" and recipient of a Lenin Peace Prize has returned to his duties as a priest in the Roman Catholic Church, after a 29-year suspension.

Miguel D'Escoto, who served as President of the U.N. General Assembly from September 2008 until September 2009, had been suspended from his priestly functions by the anti-communist Pope John Paul II in 1985. D'Escoto had joined the communist Sandinista regime in Nicaragua as foreign minister, after which the Soviets recognized his service by giving him the International Lenin Peace Prize.

His reinstatement is another sign of the leftward drift of the papacy of Pope Francis, a worldwide media favorite, who recently said, "I can only say that the communists have stolen our flag," because the Marxists claim to be concerned about the poor.  

In a "Dear Brother President Barack Obama" letter, dated August 25, 2013, D'Escoto declared that U.S. foreign policy was being guided by Satan and constituted "terrorist, murderous and genocidal U.S. imperialism." He urged Obama to have "the courage to acknowledge also that capitalism is, in fact, the most un-Christian doctrine and practice ever devised by man to keep us separate and unequal in a kind of global apartheid."

An August 1 statement on his complete reintegration into the Roman Catholic Church, carried by Christian News Wire, said, "The Holy Father has given His benevolent assent that Father Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann be absolved from the canonical censure inflicted upon him, and entrusts him to the Superior General of the Institute [Maryknoll] for the purpose of accompanying him in the process of reintegration into the Ministerial Priesthood."

Mike Virgintino, communications manager at The Maryknoll Society, confirmed to Accuracy in Media that the ruling means that Pope Francis personally approved the return of D'Escoto to the priesthood. He said D'Escoto had approached the Vatican directly.

D'Escoto emerged as not only a strong critic of U.S. foreign policy, but is outspokenly critical of Israel's role in the Middle East. He became a favorite of the Al Jazeera propaganda channel for urging the expulsion of Israel from the U.N.

TBC: Note - None of this should be surprising. Francis is viewed by a number of evangelicals as a "pope we can work with." In truth, he has always added Liberation theology to his Catholicism, which by itself is unbiblical. As Dave Hunt pointed out, though labeled "fiercely anti-Communist, the late John Paul II declared that 'liberation theology' (divested of Marxism) is the hope of the world and that a common concern for the welfare of humanity will be the means of uniting all religions into one." Pope Francis is simply going a step further and adding back Marxism to the unholy mix that will culminate in the endtimes religious system of the Antichrist.

Official: 70% of Hamas's Arsenal Decimated
Aug 23rd, 2014
Daily NewsArutz Sheva
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel

Hamas terrorists in Gaza

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Most of Hamas's rocket arsenal has been decimated, a senior IDF officer stated Saturday, after the IAF hit multiple terror targets over the past week.

"Rocket fire in the Gaza periphery is related to Hamas's desire and ability to put pressure on Israel," the official told Arutz Sheva on condition of anonymity. "We're talking about 30% of the rockets left now." 

"In my opinion, Hamas's rocket production capabilities have decreased," he added. "Now, under duress, Hamas is also reporting firing rockets at places falsely [to keep up appearances]." Hamas suffered heavy blows last week as well, after three senior terrorists were confirmed killed in IAF airstrikes. 

The official added that Hamas is trying to keep up appearances, so to speak, claiming they are still at full rocket range capabilities and looking to carry out terror attacks inside Israel.

As a result, the official noted, Hamas is also cracking down more on more on the growing dissidence in Gaza - executing collaborators and spreading fear as dissent grows over Hamas's insistence in engaging in a losing battle.

A total of 48 Palestinian Arab "collaborators" were executed by Hamas over the past six weeks, according to both local and international media, in a rising trend of Hamas butchery. On Friday, Amnesty International condemned the terror group for the killings, amid reports that at least 18 more Gazans were put to death by firing squad for allegedly providing information to Israel.

Dissent has been growing in Gaza since Operation Protective Edge erupted on July 8, after Hamas's constant barrage of rocket fire and Israel's response has seen thousands of Palestinian Arabs killed.

Much of the deaths stem from Hamas's insistence on using civilians as human shields, and their refusal to adhere to ceasefires has sparked growing unrest in Gaza; even before then, polls showed growing distrust of Hamas leadership there and up to 80% of residents expressed support for the Palestinian Authority (PA) leadership to displace Hamas rule. 

Unrest has come to a head this month, after several Gaza residents reportedly attacked Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri over the deaths and destruction.

Obama Strategic Partnership With Iran in Iraq Does not Stop IS as U.S. Abandons Kurds
Aug 23rd, 2014
Daily Newsdebkafile
Categories: Contemporary Issues;Commentary

Sounding strikingly like US President Barack Obama’s Republican detractors, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this week knocked American foreign policy as overly cautious, and expressed concern about the threat posed by the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS).
“The failure to help build up a credible fighting force of the people who were the originators of the protests against Assad… left a big vacuum, which the jihadists have now filled,” Clinton told The Atlantic in an interview published Sunday, August 10.
“Great nations need organizing principles, and ‘Don’t do stupid stuff’ is not an organizing principle," she noted.
“One of the reasons why I worry about what’s happening in the Middle East right now is because of the breakout capacity of jihadist groups that can affect Europe, can affect the United States,” she said of IS’ drive through Syria and Iraq.
“Jihadist groups are governing territory. They will never stay there, though. They are driven to expand. Their raison d’etre is to be against the West, against the Crusaders, against the fill-in-the-blank—and we all fit into one of these categories. How do we try to contain that? I’m thinking a lot about containment, deterrence, and defeat.”

Obama assigns Iran to fill the “big vacuum” in Syria and Iraq

Clinton has fallen into the same fallacy as the other critics of Washington’s Iraq policy. Whereas she is concerned about the “big vacuum” being filled by IS and its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, there is no void in Syria or Iraq as far as President Barack Obama is concerned. It is filled by Iran.
As seen by DEBKA Weekly’s intelligence sources in Irbil, the capital of the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq, Iran by performing this function leaves Obama free to pursue his primary goals of political change in Iraq, while avoiding direct military action in Kurdistan.
Obama’s rationale is simplistic and easily explained to US and Mid East audiences: The ouster of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his replacement by the moderate fellow-Shiite Haider al-Abadi paved the way to national unity and the certain defeat of Al Qaeda’s Islamic State.
Never mind that Maliki, as Tehran’s servant, fought Iraq’s Sunnis and Kurds for years. He has become a disposable resource, because the same Sunni and Kurdish leaders which he persecuted are now needed for a unity government. By joining up with Abadi, moderate Sunnis would return to mainstream politics, withdraw their support from IS, and pull the rug from under al-Baghdadi.
It is Obama’s belief that with this scenario in place, the IS advance through Iraq would meet less and less Sunni support.

Kurds are abandoned by Washington

Our sources say the US president’s strategy might have a good chance of working were it not for his blatant collaboration with Tehran. Iraqi Sunni leaders’ backs were put up by the sight of Americans in Baghdad working closely with Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran’s powerful Supreme National Security Council, former Defense Minister and ex-chief of the Revolutionary Guards Navy.
On August 11, the day he was nominated prime minister, Abadi found Shamkhani in his face, when they met in the office of the Iranian ambassador in Baghdad. This told him plainly who sat in the driver’s seat in Baghdad.
While Iraq’s power players appreciate that the Washington-Tehran grip on Baghdad is too strong for them to take on, it is worth noting that Baghdad is far from ruling the roost in the Sunni areas of Iraq – certainly not in the semiautonomous Kurdish region, where KRG President Massoud Barzani is fully alert to Tehran’s covetousness of Kirkuk’s oil fields.
Our intelligence sources say Saudi intelligence agents operating in the Iraqi Sunni areas will likely keep the Sunnis abreast of any developments in the US-Iranian alliance.
The Kurds are even more leery of this alliance. This week, they began to suspect that the Obama administration was acting to frustrate their progress toward independence in the service of Tehran, which strongly objects to Kurdish aspirations lest they infect its own and Syria’s Kurdish minorities.
As a favor to Tehran, the Obama administration, while claiming to directly arm the Kurds’ Peshmerga army against the IS threat to Irbil, actually offered no more than small quantities of light firearms, which are no match for the Islamists and their heavy American weapons.

IS unfazed by US-Iran alliance

The Kurdish army is therefore in no shape to stand up to the IS onslaught.
Furthermore, Washington was found to be secretly undermining KRG oil exports via Turkey and Israel, by sending agents to persuade its oil clients to renege on their signed purchasing contracts. This was a blow to the KRG economy.
The paradoxical outcome of the logic behind Obama’s cozying up to Tehran via Baghdad is that the Al Qaeda Islamists, who were supposed to be most worried, appear unconcerned.
It may be recalled that their commander Baghdadi demonstrated, in two years of facing Iranian war tactics in Syria, that his own tactical flexibility was proof against them. It brought his jihadis such major scoops as near-total control of Syria’s gas and oil fields and victories in military clashes with the Iraqi Shiite militias, which Tehran imported to back its ally, Bashar Assad’s army.
For its part, Tehran has in recent months pulled some of its troops back from Syria for the defense of Baghdad.
Kurdish sources told DEBKA Weekly that US air strikes this week on IS targets were too sparse to have much effect.
Obama had been banking for some time on offering Iran an easy ride on its nuclear program as a lure for turning Tehran into a powerful helping hand to iron out US security difficulties in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.
But neither IS, nor Middle East Sunnis, appear to be fazed by the Iranian menace. And so Obama’s outreach to Iran has brought America scant relief from its global headaches.

Minister Says Israel Weighing Ground Incursion
Aug 23rd, 2014
Daily NewsArutz Sheva
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel

Communications Minister Gilad Erdan

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Israel is considering launching another heavy ground offensive into Gaza, Communications Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) indicated Saturday, in the wake of renewed rocket fire and an exodus of Negev residents from their homes. 

"Has the decision been made? No," Erdan stated to Channel 2 News. "But we are closer to it than we ever have been." 

A ground offensive would be the most extensive so far since the 2005 Disengagement, Erdan said. No matter what, he stressed, Israel would take action. 

"We are committed to this operation, and making sure it does not revert to how life was before," Erdan emphasized. "But we need patience and determination." 

"We cannot revert everything such that Hamas will be able to rebuild everything it has lost, and it has lost a lot - many tunnels, a considerable amount of its rocket arsenal, and several leaders," he added. "Hamas continues to fire rockets at us and it is not working [to scare Israel]." 

"Hamas continues a war of attrition and we are pounding them by air, but this is not a situation that can persist for weeks," he continued. "The purpose of a ground offensive could be retaking Gaza fully and the collapse of Hamas rule, or specific attacks on the organization itself." 

There have been multiple calls for Israel to retake Gaza in order to deal with the rocket threat from the Hamas-controlled territory. The most vocal calls have come from Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu), who has said time and time again that the only way to eliminate the rocket attacks is to take over Gaza; Finance Minister Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid) and former Israeli National Security Adviser Yaakov Amidror made similar comments several weeks ago.

Operation Protective Edge began again last week after nine days of quiet; over the past 24 hours, at least 86 rockets were fired into Israel. 

Four year-old Daniel Tragerman was killed Friday from a mortar shell strike on Kibbutz Nahal Oz, sending most of its residents elsewhere and prompting strong responses from Israel's political echelon. 

"The IDF and the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) will intensify the operations against Hamas and the other terrorist organizations in Gaza until the goals of Operation Protective Edge are achieved,” Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu vowed shortly after news surfaced of Daniel's death.

Let the Headlines Speak
Aug 23rd, 2014
Daily NewsFrom the internet
Categories: Today's Headlines;Contemporary Issues

Mapped: 568 earthquakes in Iceland in a single day
For more than a week the earth has been rumbling beneath Iceland’s looming Bardarbunga volcano. The almost continuous small earthquakes led the government to activate its National Crisis Coordination Centre this week and block off access to the largely uninhabited region around the Bardarbunga caldera.  

Iceland volcano: Bardarbunga eruption sparks red alert
Iceland has issued a red alert to the aviation industry for the Bardarbunga volcano, meaning significant ash emissions are likely. The Icelandic Met Office has warned that a small eruption under an ice cap has begun at Bardarbunga. The air space over the site has been closed, but all Icelandic airports currently remain open, authorities say.  

In focus: Myanmar struggles with ancient scourge of leprosy
HIGH IN THE hills of Myanmar’s war-torn borderlands, a clutch of new leprosy cases among communities virtually cut off from medical help is a sign that the country’s battle with the ancient disease is far from over. ...“Now cases are increasing… the complication rate is increasing,” she said, adding that the age range for the disease had also appeared to have widened, with one four-year-old treated this year.  

Iraq conflict: UN warns of possible Amerli 'massacre'
The UN has called for action to prevent what it says may be a possible massacre in the northern Iraqi town of Amerli. Special representative Nickolay Mladenov says he is "seriously alarmed" by reports regarding the conditions in which the town's residents live. The town, under siege by Islamic State for two months, has no electricity or drinking water, and is running out of food and medical supplies.  

IDF warns Gazans: Steer clear from terror sites
The IDF called on residents of Gaza to steer clear of areas used to wage attacks against Israel. The army distributed leaflets across the coastal territory and warned the population via recorded voice messages and text messages that it "will use force against any military or civilian facility used for terrorist activities."  

What's Really Behind Russia's Massive Oil Deal With Iran?
What's the best way to upset the United States? Russia may have figured it out: Help Iran get around sanctions designed to stop it from developing its nuclear program. Is this political theater, or is there some meat to this off-again, on-again deal?  

Voice, words may provide key clues about James Foley's killer
As UK investigators work to identify the Islamist militant who beheaded American journalist James Foley, the tiniest details in the videotape of the killing could provide the key clue.  

Iraq’s Sunnis halt govt talks after 68 killed in gunmen attack on mosque
Gunmen opened fire inside a Sunni mosque in Iraq’s eastern Diyala Province, killing at least 68 people, Reuters said citing medical officials. As Shia militia were blamed for the incident, Sunni politicians withdrew from talks on forming a new government.  

Russian convoy arrives in Ukraine amid shelling reports
NATO officials said on Friday that Moscow has sent Russian-manned artillery units into Ukraine in recent days and was using them to shell Ukrainian forces as part of a "major escalation" of Russian involvement in the disputed region.  

Iran's Other Hostage: The Internet
For those who were hoping Iranian President Hassan Rouhani would nudge Iran into the modern age by ensuring greater civil liberties and improved relations with the West, July 22 was an unsettling day. That evening, plainclothes men with a signed arrest warrant barged into the Tehran apartment of Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian and his wife, Yeganeh Salehi. The men detained the couple and two other journalists.  

Fleeing Iraqi Christians reveal horror of Islamic State
From the rescue plane which took them on a one-way journey to France, two Iraqi refugees revealed tales of rape and fear at the hands of Islamic State that forced them to flee their homeland with nothing.  

Gaza conflict: Israeli boy's death 'will intensify ops'
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday vowed harsh retribution against Hamas, the Islamist rulers of Gaza, after a mortar round fired from the Palestinian territory killed an Israeli child.  

US accuses China fighter of reckless mid-air intercept
A Chinese fighter came perilously close to a US military patrol plane over international waters east of China's Hainan Island, the Pentagon has said. Spokesman John Kirby said that the US had protested to the Chinese military over the mid-air intercept, calling the fighter pilot's actions "unsafe and unprofessional".  

WHO warns of 'shadow zones' and unreported Ebola cases
Families hiding infected loved ones and the existence of "shadow zones" where medics cannot go mean the West African Ebola epidemic is even bigger than thought, the World Health Organization said on Friday.

Islamic State Threat Beyond Anything We've Seen: Pentagon
Aug 23rd, 2014
CommentaryReuters
Categories: Contemporary Issues;Warning

The sophistication, wealth and military might of Islamic State militants represent a major threat to the United States that may surpass that once posed by al Qaeda, U.S. military leaders said on Thursday.

"They are an imminent threat to every interest we have, whether it's in Iraq or anywhere else," Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told reporters at the Pentagon.

Hagel's assessment of Islamic State, which gained strength during Syria's civil war and swept into northern Iraq earlier this summer, sounded a note of alarm several days after the group posted a video on social media showing one of its fighters beheading an American hostage kidnapped in Syria.

Asked if the hardline Sunni Muslim organization posed a threat to the United States comparable to that of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Hagel said it was "as sophisticated and well-funded as any group we have seen."

"They are beyond just a terrorist group. They marry ideology, a sophistication of ... military prowess. They are tremendously well-funded. This is beyond anything we've seen."

Hagel spoke as the United States continued attacking Islamic State targets in Iraq. In the past two weeks, U.S. drones and fighter jets have conducted 89 airstrikes against militant targets in northern Iraq.

So far, President Barack Obama has sought to limit his renewed military campaign in Iraq to protecting American diplomats and civilians under direct threat. Obama ended the war in Iraq that killed thousands of American soldiers and consumed U.S. foreign policy for nearly a decade,

Even after the gruesome killing of U.S. journalist James Foley, Obama is seen as unlikely to deepen his near-term military involvement in either Iraq or Syria as he seeks to avoid becoming embroiled in another messy Middle Eastern conflict.

But U.S. officials say they have not ruled out escalating military action against Islamic State, which has increased its overt threats against the United States since the air campaign in Iraq began.

'APOCALYPTIC, END-OF-DAYS VISION'

"We haven't made a decision to take additional actions at this time, but we truly don't rule out additional action against ISIL if it becomes warranted," Ben Rhodes, a senior Obama aide, told National Public Radio earlier on Thursday, using another name for Islamic State.

General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said officials were worried about the possibility that European or U.S. nationals, radicalized after fighting in Iraq or Syria, would return to their home countries.

Dempsey suggested Islamic State would remain a danger until it could no longer count on safe havens in areas of Syria under militant control.

"This is an organization that has an apocalyptic, end-of- days strategic vision and which will eventually have to be defeated," Dempsey said.

"To your question, can they be defeated without addressing that part of their organization which resides in Syria? The answer is no. That will have to be addressed on both sides of what is essentially at this point a non-existent border."

I am Wanted for Hate Crimes in Canada
Aug 23rd, 2014
Daily NewsMatt Barber
Categories: Moral Decline;Contemporary Issues

Hamas Leader Objects: Don't Compare us to ISIS
Aug 23rd, 2014
Daily NewsArutz Sheva
Categories: Today's Headlines;Contemporary Issues

Hamas and ISIS - ideological cousins?

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Hamas's Qatar-based leader Khaled Meshaal has objected to Israel Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's comparison between the Palestinian Islamist terror group and the Islamic State, or ISIS.

Speaking Thursday to visiting US Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA), Netanyahu said Israel was fighting the same war against Islamist terrorism as the US and other countries current working to combat the spread of the brutal Islamic State.

"We face the same Islamist network and we have to fight it together," Netanyahu stated. "Hamas is ISIS, ISIS is Hamas."

"You saw the gruesome beheading of James Foley. We see the gruesome murder and execution of three teenagers which Hamas has just admitted that they did. These are both branches of the same poisonous tree. The free world, the democracies have to stand together against this terrorism. That's the only way we'll roll them back. Ultimately that's the only way we'll defeat them.”

But Meshaal told Yahoo News the comparison was false, and claimed Hamas is "not a violent religious group" (see below for full interview).

"This is a lie and a clear attempt to try to tie the issue with the US war on terrorism," he said of Netanyahu's comments. "The truth is that the Palestinians are not terrorists - they're the victims of terrorism. Hamas aren't the terrorists but the Israelis are."

"We are not a religious violent group, we are fighting aggression in our land," Meshaal continued. "We are against the killing of innocent civilians and journalists."

That latter claim will raise eyebrows given that Hamas's charter is replete with quotes from religious Islamic literature calling for the annihilation of the Jewish people. It is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, one of the world's largest Islamist networks, and its ideology mixes political Islam with "Palestinian nationalism".

Meshaal's claim that Hamas does not target innocent civilians comes as the group continues to fire deadly rockets and mortar shells indiscriminately at Israeli population centers. On Friday, one such mortar killed a four-year-old boy in the southern Israeli community of Kibbutz Nahal Oz.

Meshaal's response to questions over such targeting of civilians, in breach of international law, were somewhat conflicting.

Prior to his claim that Hamas was not targeting civilians, he admitted rockets were being fired indiscriminately at Israeli civilian population centers, but said that if it was granted "more precise weapons" Hamas would "only target military targets," and "promised" to do more to warn Israeli civilians in advance in the future.

He also defended the kidnap and murder of three Israeli teenagers in June as "legitimate". Contradicting a recent statement by senior Hamas leader Salah Al-Aruri, who said Hamas's senior leadership was fully aware of the abduction and murder of Eyal Yifrah, Gilad Sha'ar and Naftali Frenkel, Meshaal admitted the kidnappers were Hamas members but said the group's leadership only found out about their actions afterwards.

However, he echoed sentiments already shared by Hamas leaders in the immediate aftermath of the kidnappings, saying he supported and sympathized with the murder.

Former MK Ben Ari: Elimination of Gaza Only Thing That will Restore Quiet
Aug 23rd, 2014
Daily NewsArutz Sheva
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel

Fomer MK Dr. Moshe Ben Ari had harsh criticism this evening (Motzei Shabbat) of Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

"I was convinced that following the horrible murder of young Daniel Tragerman at Kibbutz Nahal Oz that Israel's leaders - Ya'alon and PM Netanyahu - would understand that you have to speak to murderers for what they are - murderers," he said. 

"But at the end of Shabbat, 'Boogie' Ya'alon now tries to appease us with news that they are going to negotiate a diplomatic solution - he has credited them with being a country, and he is bringing down upon Israel a tragedy we will pay for for generations to come.  Any agreement with this gang of murderers will bring Iran here - will bring our worst enemies right here to us," Ben Ari stated.