What? hitchhiking kidnapped the kids? Because of hitchhiking the hijacking of Entebbe happened? Because of hitchhiking the abduction of Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev happened? Did hitchhiking cause the abduction of Gilad Shalit? did hitchhiking cause the abduction of 1000 Israelis during the second intifada?
We cannot darken our brains. We have an enemy who does not want that in Gush Etzion we should be able to go quietly. He also wants that in Ramat Aviv we should not be able to live quietly. Somebody who does not understand  that if kids cannot play quietly in Gush Etzion they also will not be able to play quietly in Ramat Aviv and Ranana - he does not understand anything.
Our task is to enable people to travel without fear in our land, and definitely to bring back Gilad, Eyal and Naftali. The power emanates from here and the source of life in our land is here, with your Torah learning, with your volunteerism, and with your safely and confidently traveling all around the land of Israel.

  -- Minister Naftali Bennet (Habayit Hayehudi), while visiting the yeshiva Mekor Chaim and commenting on the attempt to blame the victims for their hitchhiking..