Hossfly, Billo_Really, aris2chat, et al,
This is not totally unexpected. This is the general attempt to mitigate "command responsibility" by establishing in advance of an investigation, that the Senior Leadership had no prior knowledge of the event. It is a perfectly good and proper legal strategy and posture to assume.
(COMMENT)Billo, the Hamas sent a high ranking member to a conference in Turkey and he bragged about the killings. He wasn't lying, he is a spokesman for Hamas, the interpretation was not phony and we are getting tired of your tribe denying everything they do and say when it comes to terror.Hamas political chief Khaled Mashaal admits that Hamas members killed three Israeli teens in the West Bank in June, though he says the leadership of the organization was not made aware of the details of the abduction plan in advance.
In an interview with Michael Isikoff for Yahoo News in Doha, the Qatari capital, Mashaal says that the leadership of Hamas learned of the details of the killings of the three students, Naftali Fraenkel, Gil-ad Shaar and Eyal Yifrach, from the Israeli investigation into them.
“We were not aware of this action taken by this group of Hamas members in advance,” he says. “But we understand people are frustrated under the occupation and the oppression, and they take all kinds of action.”
Remember, that much of the old regime leadership of HAMAS is in exile either in Qatar or Turkey. There is not real law to pursue HAMAS once outside the immediate region of conflict.
The HAMAS Leadership actually violates Article 4 of the EU Framework for Combating Terrorism, in that they operated to incite, aid and abet, terrorist activity (both before and after the fact); but, under the Rome Statutes, there is really some difficulty in charging the leadership in HAMAS. While HAMAS (a hardline Palestinian Sunni Islamic Jihadist group) can be described as having a grave indifference to the criminal activity of its subordinate elements (eg Al-Aqsa Brigades and al-Qassam Brigades) or its cohorts (eg Palestinian Islamic Jihad), it is setting the stage of separation. You will notice that in recent days, the Hamas Political Chief Khaled Mashaal made a special effort to distance himself from Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS - Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), another hardline Sunni Islamic Jihadist group with the intentions of establishing a new state.
You should also notice that HAMAS did not forget the lessons from Hollywood Crime Dramas; leave no witnesses. Currently, all the IDF informants or suspected informants, are being neutralized. None of this is really in the frame for international prosecution.
Most Respectfully,
R
HAMAS are doing exactly what any national liberation movement has done over the past few centuries. The ANC bombed shopping centers and was far more deadly to the whites in South Africa than anything HAMAS has done. The ANC leader, Mandela, is revered around the world. Cut your BS Rocco.
He is hated around the world bah all those who have faced terrorism, even his own people hate him for what he did to South Africa and want white rule back with its laws. The world likewise views hamas as no better than the ANC, in fact it sees both groups as child murdering scum and racists. Just like all nations that fall to terrorist groups S.A. has seen a sharp rise in violent crime and more blacks have been murdered by other blacks in this year than were killed during the many years of white rule. The gazan Christians have been all but wiped out by hamas, and the deaths at the hands of hamas "execution" squads is greater than the deaths of children by Israel.