Israel Takes 200 Palestinian Hostages in Retaliation for Disappearance of 3 Jewish Teenage Colonizers

In a frenzy over the disappearance and presumed kidnapping of 3 Jewish teenage West Bank colonizers, Israel has seized over 200 Palestinians as hostages, including the speaker of the Palestinian parliament, and killed one Palestinian (so far).  But this Nazi-style response doesn't trouble the U.S. media. Israeli Jews are humans "like us." To the U.S. media, Palestinians are a faceless mob, angrily chanting fanatical jibberish, subhumans, terrorists, not people.

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has already blamed Hamas for the putative kidnappings (Hamas denies it) and threatened Palestinian "Authority" "President" Mahmoud Abbas, saying Abbas is responsible for the safe return of the teens. (As if any political boss is omnipotent in the area they hold political authority over. Of course Abbas doesn't even really have authority there, Israel does.)

I think Israeli Jews would be a lot safer behind the wall they built (which stole a bunch of Palestinian farm land outside the so-called "Green Line," which is the actual legal, internationally-recognized border of Israel) instead of relentlessly absorbing more land where other people already live. They've been driving Palestinians out of their homes- and they've bulldozed tens of thousands of those homes in recent decades with armored bulldozers purchased with U.S. tax dollars from a U.S. corporation, Caterpillar. They used one of those 'dozers to murder an American, Rachel Corrie. Not the first American murdered by Israel (see the attack in the U.S.S. Liberty in 1967, best recounted in the book by a U.S. naval officer who survived the lengthy daylight attack, Assault on the Liberty) and won't be the last, in all probability. (A dual-U.S.-Turkish citizen was one of the 10 people killed in the last Israeli attack on a relief flotilla that tried to defy the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip.)