The United Nations accused Israel of kidnapping a Palestinian engineer while in Ukraine, with his wife contending that the abduction occurred to hinder work at an electrical plant in the Gaza Strip. According to Ynet:
Abu Sisi’s Ukrainian wife, Veronika, 32, alleges the Israeli secret service Mossad carried out the abduction in order to sabotage a key electric power plant in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip where he worked as a senior manager.
Let’s stop and think about that rationale for a second. Why would Israel want to sabotage work at a Gaza electrical plant that would necessitate either Israel provide Gazans with more power or suffer additional international condemnation for forcing the Gazans to live “in a prison” without power? It’s a lose-lose situation for Israel, and thus makes no sense.
Israel already provides a substantial amount of power to the Gaza Strip, even though Hamas rockets and mortars regularly target that facility in Ashkelon. Hamas attempts to destroy the plant would leave hundreds of thousands of Palestinians without power, yet terrorists insist on attempting to hurt Israelis at the expense of their own people.
A more plausible explanation is that if Israel did commit the abduction, the man was in some way tied to terrorism and now sits in Israeli prison with individuals who are known to have assisted or supported in the killing of Israeli civilians.
It’s unclear whether Israel even committed the abduction and its unknown why the abduction (if it even occurred) took place. But its crystal clear that holding the man in prison to prevent work at a Gaza electrical power plant is most certainly not a motive for an Israeli abduction of this man.
There should be an investigation of this incident to find out where this individual is, and also to remove the misinformation and thoughtless conjecture that Israel has no interest in Gazans developing a self-sustaining society.
The Ashkelon power plant
