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ISLAMIC STATE TRYING TO BRING ISRAEL INTO THE CONFLICT WITH SHOOTING OF ISRAELI ARAB……?

Nice try but Israel isn’t biting.

I believe that J.E.Dyer has an excellent point worth exploring, that the Arab shot was in fact a ‘martyr’ recruited to get the Israelis to retaliate against them as did Jordan and Egypt in response to killing their citizens. I seriously doubt that the ploy will work, especially since the Arab left Israel to join the jihad.

This image was purportedly taken of Muhammad Musallam  on the Syrian-Turkish border several weeks after he left to join jihadists

NOTE: This is a picture from the Daily Mail referred to by Dyer in her post.

Final moments: Muhammad Said Ismail Musallam, who the Islamic State claim was working for Israeli intelligence when he was captured in Syria last year, is seen kneeling in front of ISIS militants in the video

Final moments: Muhammad Said Ismail Musallam, who the Islamic State claim was working for Israeli intelligence when he was captured in Syria last year, is seen kneeling in front of ISIS militants in the video

Game on: New Islamic State video tries to drag Israel into attacking in Syria

This one ups the ante.  The reporting by Daily Mail focuses on the hostage’s story, and whether the 10-year-old featured in the video did the actual shooting. But there’s potentially a much bigger concern.

Here’s Daily Mail:

Islamic State militants have released a sickening new video that purports to show a boy shooting dead a 19-year-old Israeli-Arab who was taken hostage by the terror group.

The film shows a man identified as Muhammad Said Ismail Musallam describing how he was sent by Israeli intelligence to infiltrate ISIS in Syria, where the group claim he was captured last year.

Wearing an orange jumpsuit, the hostage is later kneeling at the feet of two uniformed militants, one of whom appears to be no older than 10, before being shot in the forehead at point-blank range.

But while ISIS claim the child – described in the video as one of the ‘cubs of the caliphate’ – was the shooter, careful editing means it is impossible to tell whether he pulled the trigger.

I’m going to let you visit the Daily Mail site if you want to view the video.  There doesn’t seem to be a question whether the hostage was killed.  What’s in doubt is who actually did the killing.  Nevertheless, the boy was clearly there for the whole event.

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The important thing about Musallam is that he apparently was, in fact, an Israeli.  If his parents are correct, and he intended to join Islamic State and fight for them, the odds are good he agreed to become a martyr in this video, so that Islamic State could taunt the Israeli government with the execution of an Israeli.

Executing the Jordanian pilot caused Jordan to attack ISIS in Syria.  Executing the Egyptian Christians in Libya got Egypt to attack ISIS there.

Now Islamic State wants to goad Israel into joining the fight.  Why now?  The battle for Tikrit, which Iran is slowly but surely winning.  IS wants to expand the war.  Any expansion of chaos is to Islamic State’s advantage.  But not every expansion of chaos would be to Iran’s advantage.  There are reasons for IS’s planners to think Iran would be caught out of position if Israel could be dragged into doing something in Syria, just at this moment.  An Israeli reaction would also imperil the effective solidarity subsisting right now between Israel and the status quo Arab states (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan).  That helps IS, even if it’s also beneficial for Iran.

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