Palestinian Suicide Watch
Media sources are reporting that the Palestinian group that kidnapped an 18-year old Israeli has announced his execution. The Popular Resistance Committee (PRC) supposedly made the announcement, but no confirmation has yet been received. Reports are in the Jerusalem Post and the AP.
J-Post: An unconfirmed report from the Popular Resistance Committees said early Thursday that it executed 18-year-old Eliyahu Asheri, an Israeli settler kidnapped earlier in the week in the West Bank.
The group, which has links to the ruling Hamas, had threatened to execute the Israeli if Israel did not halt its invasion of Gaza.
Earlier Wednesday, Israel's fears came true Wednesday when a spokesman for the PRC in the Gaza Strip revealed an authentic copy of missing teenager Asheri's identity card to the press, confirming claims that he had been kidnapped.
AP is also reporting that Israeli forces have captured many of the Palestinian cabinet members and lawmakers.
Hamas officials said more than 30 lawmakers have been arrested in the West Bank.
Palestinian security officials said Israeli forces detained the Palestinian deputy prime minister, Nasser Shaer, and three other Cabinet ministers, as well as four lawmakers in Ramallah. Several others were arrested in the town of Jenin, they said.
Israeli media reported a roundup of Hamas lawmakers in Jerusalem and other locations.
Also, the Hamas mayor of the West Bank town of Qalqiliya and his deputy were detained, security officials said.
This is an appallingly bad strategy for the Palestinians and will lead to even their staunchest apologists turning their backs on the Palestinians.
UPDATE: Others: Assorted Babble, All Things Beautiful, Riehl World View, Praire Pundit, Gateway Pundit, Liberty and Justice, Israel Matzav, Flopping Aces, Daily Pundit, Obligatory Anecdotes,
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By Shawn, June 29, 2006 @ 5:31 am
I’ve read that the IDF has recovered his body. They just keep spitting into the face of Israel and provoking a greater fight.
By Gaius, June 29, 2006 @ 5:48 am
THere have been reports, but I have not seen a confirmation yet. I’m still reading overnights, though.
By Jeremayakovka, June 29, 2006 @ 8:11 am
Will Israel exact blood for the “lynching” (not my term, David Horowitz’s) of young Eliahu? I doubt it. I don’t think Olmert’s govt, and Israel as a whole, have the will to punish the Palestinians for this.
By Klein Verzet, June 29, 2006 @ 1:44 pm
In other news today
The Palestinian Authority seems to be well and truly in self-destruct mode. Alexandra of All Things Beautiful links to an article in the Jerusalem Post discussing the Prisoners Letter, the agreement between Fatah and Hamas which supposedly ‘implicitly recognizes Israel’: