The kidnapping of 3 innocent youngsters by an extremist Islamist terrorist group is cruel, disgusting and tragic. Nothing on earth can justify such barbarity. It does not serve any cause at all - certainly not the Palestinian cause of freedom from occupation! We are waiting to hear sane voices of condemnation of this barbaric act from the Palestinian Authority. It serves the interests, if any, of the Netanyahu Coalition Government that blames the PA and Abu Mazen for this and justifies their hardline attitude towards a peaceful solution. These Islamist Jihadi terrorists do not care because they hate any form of peace with Israel, irrespective of who rules Israel. While these barbaric Islamist terrorists do what they do, peace will forever be evasive between Israel and the Palestinians. They want to destroy Israel and the Jewish People. They serve the right wing Jewish religious extremists more than anything else and any remains of sanity,moderation and pragmatism will recede into the mist.

Shimon Z. Klein