We are not facing an isolated episode, but something planned at the table by first-rate minds. There is also an intelligence component to this kidnapping which denotes a deep understanding of unconventional military tactics.
The "bad guy", in the common Western imagination, is always idealized as a dirty, angry character, dressed in rags, with a stubble and Soviet equipment.
The good guys, on the other hand, are always imagined outnumbered, but equipped with every super-technological means. The good guys are always smarter, more intelligent and able to always get away with it thanks to the superior Western preparation. This is perhaps what movies have always wanted to believe.
What we are experiencing with the tragedy of the three Israeli boys, denotes a highly respected apparatus, with subjects trained in unconventional guerrilla warfare and who are putting one of the most technological and lethal armies on the planet in check.
And with the term guerrilla, we must not think of the usual explosive obtained inside a can of coca cola, but of the ability to bend the enemy even without exploding a blow, that is, undermining its psychoemotional integrity.
Immediately after the kidnapping last Thursday, many terrorist organizations in the Middle East praised the kidnapping, urging Palestinians in Judea and Samaria to hinder IDF's efforts to identify the boys.
High officials of Hamas (who cowardly has not yet claimed action) and of Palestinian Islamic Jihad have demanded the seizure of a greater number of Israelis, so as to exchange them with the prisoners kept in the prisons of Tel Aviv.
The students of the university in Birzeit, distributed sweets to celebrate the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers. Other Palestinians have delivered candy on the streets, praising terrorists on social networks.
The posters you see were released by Israeli intelligence and show Palestinian propaganda immediately after the kidnapping of the three students.
The support "campaign" started last Friday and was clearly planned.
Thousands of Palestinians have even changed their Facebook profile picture, with an image depicting three fingers: they represent the kidnapped boys.
Comics and cartoons starring the three kidnapped boys, are widespread among the youngest at all hours of the day.
Such a system certainly cannot have been orchestrated within a cave and in a few hours.
This strategy of terror is a clear example of unconventional guerrilla warfare.
Hamas has not yet claimed abduction, but it is now a matter of hours. In total, the alleged terrorists arrested are 150.
In Israel, meanwhile, anger is rising. The three unfortunate students may or may not return to their homeland alive or dead, but now, the whole world fears the revenge of Israel.
Beyond what can be hidden from international public opinion, it falls asleep from the world championships in Brazil, in the Middle East it is risking a large-scale war.
The attitude of Hamas is clear: to unleash Israel in an attempt to isolate the entire nation, then accusing it of genocide against the defenseless population. A well known technique, but it is a game that if played will not decide winners.
Just a few hours ago, some missiles were launched from the Gaza Strip in southern Israel. The Iron Dome system has intercepted the rockets.
The Israeli psychological counter-offensive has already begun. On social networks, thousands of Israelis have started changing their profile picture to that of a lion you see in the picture.
A lion cornered, ready to launch into a last deadly attack.
Israeli public opinion wants revenge.
The army, meanwhile, in the official communiques begins to post another terrible phrase "No Palestinian terrorist will be safer, nothing will stop the armed wing of Israel".
Franco Iacch
(Note for the opening image: In 2011, for the release of Gilad Shalit, the Israelis handed over 1027 Palestinian prisoners - 1 Shalit = 1027 prisoners - The same unit of measurement invoked for the release of the three young students - 3 Shalits = 3081 prisoners - 1027 Palestinian prisoners for one Israeli hostage, 3081 for three hostages)
