WHAT IF the recent kidnapping of the Israeli soldier and settler were an Israeli false-flag operation?
There is a sense in which it doesn’t matter; the brutality of the collective punishment of Gaza has shocked the world regardless. Yet the war party have worked out that spontaneous protests are never enough. Peace will not have a chance, until people of good will see through the tactics of fake self-terror. The Israelis sacrifice a pawn or two to militants, then issue themselves carte blanche to kill and destroy as much as they want in Gaza and the West Bank. The kidnapping is so convenient and ready-made for the goals of ongoing Zionist aggression, that it is hard to believe it wasn’t made to order. I’m not into long-shot coincidence theories. The longer the kidnappers stubbornly hang on as their homeland is destroyed, the more likely we have the Iraqi model here, where CIA countergangs abducted Phil Berg and the peacemakers. On the other hand, the odds of the establishment peace mouthpieces subscribing to my “conspiracy theory” may seem as long as the odds of thousands of Palestinian
