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1. IDF braces for possible attack-deploys Iron Dome in north 

2. New threats in the Middle East by Boaz Bismuth

3. Hezbollah vows revenge after Mughniyeh’s son killed 

4. Ya’alon: What was Hezb’Allah Doing in Syria?

5. Nasrallah’s moment of truth by Prof. Eyal Zisser

6. Jihad Mughniyeh: ‘The prince of Hezbollah’

7. Hezb’Allah gets hit right between the eyes by Yoav Limor

8. Terrorism & tiaras by Ruthie Blum

9. Pre-emptive action   by Dan Margalit

10. Framed Suicide? Shot Argentine Prosecutor Received Threats

11. The strange death of Alberto Nisman by Elliott Abrams

12. A War America Can’t Win by Prof. Paul Eidelberg

13. The West Cannot Win this War; the West doesn’t want to make the Changes that will allow it to win by Giulio Meotti

14. Why We Need to Talk About Muslim Anti-Semitism by Daniel Greenfield 

15. Europe Offers Israel the Peace of the Dead by Kenneth Levin

16. Jihad in France: It’s Just Beginning by Guy Millière Gatestone Institute

17. Europe Unable &  Unwilling to Confront Islamic Extremism by Peter Martino Gatestone Institute

1. IDF braces for possible attack-deploys Iron Dome in north

By Lilach Shoval & Danny Brenner

            After Sunday’s Syria strike, attributed to Israel, IDF prepares for possible Hezb’Allah counter-strike on Israel’s northern border or against Israeli targets abroad • “We’re monitoring every development. We’re prepared to act as necessary,” says IDF chief.

            Following reports of an Israeli strike in Syria on Sunday, which killed a prominent Hezb’Allah fighter, Israel deployed Iron Dome rocket defense batteries in the north of the country as part of preparations for a possible counter-strike.

            There were conflicting reports about the number of fatalities in the strike, which took place around 2:30 p.m. on Sunday afternoon. Some reports said a number of Iranian Revolutionary Guards members were among the dead. Rebel websites in Syria reported at least 20 people were killed in the strike.

            According to Hezb’Allah, six of its members were killed, including Jihad Mughniyeh (the son of the late Hezb’Allah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, who was reportedly assassinated by Israel in Damascus in February 2008) & Mohammed Issa, known as Abu Issa.

On Monday, Iranian state television confirmed the death of Iranian Revolutionary Guard General Mohammad Allahdadi.

            Israel was on high alert following the strike, with the Israel Defense Forces bracing for possible counter-strikes on Israel’s northern border as well as possible attacks against Israeli or Jewish targets abroad. On Tuesday morning, an IDF rapid response team was called up in the northern town of Metulla after civilian vehicles bearing Hezb’Allah flags were spotted close to the Israeli border in the Lebanese town of Khiam.

            A number of shots were fired from the vehicles, but a rapid investigation revealed that the gunfire was part of a funeral procession for one of the Hezb’Allah members killed in Sunday’s strike.

            On Monday, defense officials convened an emergency meeting to assess the situation. While majority opinion in security circles is that Hezb’Allah will not initiate a large-scale confrontation with Israel, security officials are concerned about the possibility of a series of escalations that could nevertheless lead to such a scenario.

            During a decorations & citations ceremony on Monday, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz stopped short of addressing the security situation, but said, “We may be challenged at any point & time on any of our active fronts — in the south, the center & the north.

            “We are prepared, we are monitoring every development, & we are prepared to act as necessary.”

            Meanwhile, residents of the northern Galilee met with the IDF’s Northern Command to discuss the security situation. Residents were told to continue with life as usual until given new instructions.

            “Of course, every time there is an incident like this, tension rises,” said local resident Yitzhak Levy, “but that’s all. It doesn’t stop us from continuing with our daily routines, & we did not get any new instructions [from the security forces].” 

IDF braces for possible attack, deploys Iron Dome in north   2.New threats in the Middle East  by  Boaz Bismuth       In the Middle East, change is not usually for the best. Sunday’s incident just across the border from us in Syria, in which Jihad Mughniyeh & a cell of terrorists, including Lebanese & Iranian nationals, were eliminated, was an example of the new Middle East in which we live.         Today, our enemies have become only more dangerous, more radical & more fragmented.         The new Middle East we were promised has merely produced the disintegration of Arab nations in our neighborhood. Syria & Iraq already realized long ago that maintaining sovereignty over their entire territories is a thing of the past. Shiites against Sunnis, government forces against extremist militias — everyone is battling for control of the Arab world, the unity of which has turned into a myth. It is tough to talk about one Arab world, given what is going on in Syria, Iraq, Yemen & Libya. Everything is split & smashed to pieces. The vacuum left by collapsed governments has been filled by groups many times more dangerous than they governments they replaced.          Our enemies have not decreased in number in the new Middle East. Rather, they have multiplied. The Mughniyeh family is an example of what was & what will be in the Middle East. No one in the Mughniyeh family has ever changed paths & become a doctor or plumber. Expertise in terrorism is passed down from father to son. Imad Mughniyeh specialized in global terrorism, while it appears that his son, Jihad, with backing from Hezb’Allah leader Hassan Nasrallah, sought to focus on terrorism against Israel. The new Middle East has brought Iran, Hezbollah, al-Qaida, the Islamic State group & the Nusra Front to our borders. Just a few months ago, the Nusra Front seized control of the Quneitra border crossing for a short time. For Israel, the current situation represents a nightmare scenario that has materialized. Sunday’s incident in Syria was a reminder that before we have peace, we will likely have more war. It looks like we have more military action, rather than diplomatic initiatives, on the horizon. & those who say this should be the opposite must be asked — how does one make peace with terrorist militias? Hopefully, what is happening across the border will stay across the border. But it seems that, in reality, this may not hold true. The one thing that unites the groups fighting each other across the border in Syria is their desire to topple the border fence & attack Israel. On this, there is no dispute. Iran is no longer satisfied with just acting via its emissaries (Hezbollah & Hamas) on our borders. It is now sending its own troops to observe our border towns. They are gathering intelligence ahead of future operations. Sunday’s strike in Syria sent a clear message to the terrorists — Israel is on alert & it will pull the trigger, if necessary. New threats in the Middle East  by Boaz Bismuth

3.Hezbollah vows revenge after Mughniyeh’s son killed by Daniel Siryoti, Lilach Shoval, Israel Hayom Staff &  News Agencies        According to foreign reports, IAF helicopter targets convoy carrying Jihad Mughniyeh & other Hezb’Allah members in Quneitra region of Syria • Hezb’Allah says six of its members were killed, pledges “harsh response to Israel’s criminal attack.” Hezb’Allah vowed revenge on Sunday after a convoy carrying Jihad Mughniyeh & a number of other Hezb’Allah members was, according foreign reports, targeted by an IAF helicopter missile strike in the Quneitra region of Syria, near the border with Israel in the Golan Heights.       Hezb’Allah leader Hassan Nasrallah was quoted as saying that Hezb’Allah’s response to the reported Israeli strike would be “harsh.” There were conflicting reports about the number of fatalities in the incident, which took place around 2:30 p.m. on Sunday afternoon. Some reports said a number of Iranian Revolutionary Guards members were among the dead. Rebel websites in Syria reported at least 20 people were killed in the strike.       According to Hezb’Allah, six of its members were killed, including Mughniyeh (the son of the late Hezb’Allah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, who was reportedly assassinated by Israel in Damascus in February 2008) & Mohammed Issa, known Abu Issa.       Some reports named Iranian field commander Abu Ali Tabtabai as a fatality in the strike.

Jihad Mughniyeh with his father Imad Mughniyeh who was killed by a car bomb in Damascus in 2008 Jihad Mughniyeh (R) with Iranian Gen. Ghassem Soleimani       A Hezb’Allah official was quoted as saying, “Hezb’Allah’s leadership cannot accept the blow it received from the Israeli strike &  the killing of [Hezbollah] officials. Hezb’Allah’s leadership will choose how & when to respond to this criminal Israeli attack.”      The Hezb’Allah-run al-Manar news channel said the reported Israeli strike suggested “the enemy has gone crazy because of Hezb’Allah’s growing capabilities & it could lead to a costly adventure [by Israel].”      As usual in such circumstances, Israel did not issue an official response to the reports on Sunday’s incident.      However, speaking to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remarked that like Japan, Israel has known the pain of war. “Israel strives for peace with all its neighbors, but we know that in a region like ours, peace & security are intertwined. If we don’t defend ourselves from those who threaten us, threaten to attack us, & actually do it, then there will not be peace. Israel insists on having the right to defend itself from those who commit acts of terrorism against its citizens & attack them.”

     Jihad Mughniyeh was born in 1989, making him either 25 or 26 at the time of his death. Hezb’Allah officials said Mughniyeh was one of the Hezb’Allah fighters tasked with overseeing operations in the Golan Heights.

     He was a Hezb’Allah student activist at the Lebanese American University, & took on a more prominent role after the death of his father. His photograph has been taken with Nasrallah & with the powerful Iranian Gen. Ghasem Soleimani, highlighting his prominence within Hezb’Allah.

     Jihad Mughniyeh appeared in public for the first time a week after his father’s death to pledge loyalty to Nasrallah. “We are with you & we will go wherever you go,” he said at the time, while wearing a Hezb’Allah military uniform in front of thousands of mourners. “We will never leave the battlefield & we will never drop our guns. We answer for you Nasrallah.”

     According to Western intelligence officials, Jihad Mughniyeh was a ruthless terrorist who was in charge of infrastructure in the Golan Heights region that had already been used for attacks against Israel in the past. The officials said Mughniyeh had planned a string of attacks against Israel in the Golan Heights region, including rocket fire, terrorist infiltrations, roadside bombings & anti-tank strikes. His goal was to kill both Israeli soldiers & civilians, the officials noted.

     Following Sunday’s incident, Hezb’Allah reportedly raised its alert level on the Israel-Lebanon border & began concentrating its forces there.

     UNIFIL peacekeepers intensified their patrols on the Israel-Lebanon border on Sunday night, local sources said.

     Shortly before the reported Israeli strike in Syria on Sunday, the Lebanese military said IDF soldiers fired smoke bombs at Lebanese soldiers in the border village of Ayta ash-Shab. According to reports, seven Lebanese soldiers were hurt by smoke inhalation. The Lebanese military filed a complaint with UNIFIL about the incident, calling it a “flagrant violation” of both Lebanese sovereignty & U.N. Resolution 1701, which brought the Second Lebanon War to an end in August 2006.

     Lebanese media outlets speculated that this incident was meant to distract Hezb’Allah ahead of the later strike in Syria.

Hezbollah vows revenge after Mughniyeh’s son killed

4.Ya’alon: What was Hezb’Allah Doing in Syria?  By Shlomo Pitrikovsky, Gil Ronen  Arutz Sheva  IsraselNationalNews.com First Publish: 1/18/2015, 9:21 PM Defense minister refuses to confirm IAF strike that reportedly killed Jihad Mughniyeh, son of Imad Mughniyeh. Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon tours the Jordan Valley. Flash 90.        Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon refused to say anything Sunday evening about the reported IAF strike in the Syrian Golan that killed Jihad Mughniyeh, a senior Hezb’Allah man whose father, Imad Mughniyeh, was also assassinated by Israel.       However, Ya’alon did respond to the reports from Hezb’Allah about the incident, & said that they contradicted Hezbollah’s own official claims, made in recent years, that they do not operate in the Golan.       “If Hezb’Allah says their people were hurt in the targeted killing, let them explain what they were doing in Syria,” Ya’alon told Radio Kol Chai.       He also took a swipe at Labor’s Yitzchak “Buji” Herzog & Tzipi Livni. “If Buji & Tzipi were running the country, we would already be [facing a] Hamastan in Judea & Samaria,” he said.       Hezb’Allah admitted Sunday that one of its senior men was killed along with five or six other operatives in an IAF strike in Syria. Reports quoted in Israeli media said that the man is Jihad Mughniyeh. Hezb’Allah reportedly called the death of Jihad Mughniyeh “an unbearable blow.” He was reportedly very close to Hezb’Allah chief Hassan Nasrallah.       The men killed in the strike were reportedly assisting terrorists in preparing missiles for launch against Israel.         Besides Mughniyeh, six other fighters were killed, a Lebanese security source told The Daily Star. They included Hezb’Allah field commander Mohammad Issa, whose kunya name is Abu Issa, the source said.       An Iranian field commander, Abu Ali Tabtabai, was reportedly also killed in the strike, which entirely destroyed one Hezb’Allah vehicle &  damaged another, the source said Ya’alon: What was Hezb’Allah Doing in Syria? 5.Nasrallah’s moment of truth  BY  Prof. Eyal Zisser Some nine years ago Hezb’Allah chief Hassan Nasrallah suffered a lapse in judgement. He figured he could get away with a kidnapping operation & that Israel would not retaliate forcefully. Instead, he triggered a war that dealt a crushing blow to his people & the Shiites in Lebanon (of course, Israel was also hurt by the war, although to a lesser extent). Some two years later, when his right-hand man & Hezbollah’s chief of operations Imad Mughniyeh was assassinated in Damascus, he let it slide. Now, in the wake of Sunday’s attack, Nasrallah faces the same dilemma: Should he retaliate for the killing of his people in the Golan Heights, potentially setting off a large-scale conflagration on the Israel-Lebanon border, or should he move on & essentially give Israel a green light to strike his organization with impunity? The fact of the matter is that Nasrallah has already decided on his preferred course of action. In 2014, he claimed responsibility for the improvised explosive devices that were placed on IDF patrol routes in the Sheba Farms area, where the borders of Israel, Lebanon & Syria meet. The first device was planted in response to an alleged Israeli attack on a Hezb’Allah depot in Lebanon & the second was used to avenge the death of a Hezb’Allah operative who died from what was believed to be an Israeli bomb. We don’t need to wait for Hezbollah’s official response to know it will not let latest provocation go unanswered. The only question is the timing & the modus operandi. Hezb’Allah’s response will be measured & cautious — perhaps resorting to more IEDs to make it clear that Israel had crossed a line. That said, the organization would like to avoid a regional flare-up. But Hezb’Allah could also opt for a more forceful retaliation due to the Mughniyeh’s high status, the risk of a fully fledged confrontation notwithstanding. Of course, Hezb’Allah has another weapon in its arsenal. It could try to do what it did in 1992 after Israel killed its leader Abbas Musawi. Back then Hezb’Allah waited only a month before it sent Iranian operatives to bomb the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, an attack that left 29 people dead. Two years later, Hezb’Allah bombed the AMIA building, a large Jewish community center in the city. Nasrallah’s moment of truth by Prof. Eyal Zisser       6.Jihad Mughniyeh: ‘The prince of Hezbollah’ by Daniel Siryoti Jihad Mughniyeh, son of late Hezb’Allah operations chief Imad Mughniyeh, was reportedly assassinated in an Israeli strike on Sunday • Jihad was being groomed for Hezb’Allah leadership & was nicknamed “the Prince” of the terrorist group.      The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree: Jihad Mughniyeh was a teenager when his father, the late Hezb’Allah operations chief Imad Mughniyeh, was assassinated in Damascus in February of 2008. This past October, Jihad was appointed Hezbollah’s military commander of the Syrian Golan. On Sunday, he was reportedly assassinated in an Israeli strike.       Jihad’s father was responsible for orchestrating Hezbollah’s military strategy during the Second Lebanon War in 2006. Even before his father’s death, Jihad was being groomed to become a leader in the terrorist organization.       He was nicknamed “the Prince” & was Hezb’Allah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s protegé. The group’s intention of priming him for leadership became clear with his October appointment to military commander, despite his age & lack of experience.       Chief of Hezb’Allah operations in Syria Mohammed Issa was chosen to be Jihad’s mentor. Issa, also killed in Sunday’s strike, was one of the founders of Hezbollah’s military wing.       He in effect took over the position as mentor from the elder Mughniyeh’s brother-in-law Mustafa Badr al-Din, who went on to become Hezbollah’s military leader when Mughniyeh was assassinated.       When Bader al-Din was declared wanted by the Special Tribune for Lebanon for the assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, he was forced to go into hiding, & was no longer able to take “the Prince” under his wing.       According to Lebanese reports, the people killed in Sunday’s strike included Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander Abu Ali al-Tabtabani, who was serving as an advisor to Hezb’Allah in the Syrian Golan &  was Jihad’s right-hand man. The reports say al-Tabtabani & Issa had arrived in the Syrian Golan from a Syrian base used by Hezb’Allah & Revolutionary Guard officials to be briefed by Jihad about preliminary plans to attack Israel in the Golan Heights region.   Jihad Mughniyeh: ‘The prince of Hezbollah’   Hezbollah 7.H    7. Hezb’Allah gets hit right between the eyes by  Yoav Limor       The question facing Hezb’Allah right now is not if, but how & when. Revenge will come, that is certain. The debate in Beirut (and Tehran) will be whether to make the response large enough to risk triggering a large-scale conflict in the north.      Hezb’Allah would have a hard time quietly absorbing the strike on Sunday for multiple reasons. One of the biggest is the high profile nature of the strike: not car bomb or shooting from close range that leave no foot prints, but rather missiles fired from a helicopter, in broad daylight & with witnesses. Israel may not be officially confirming the attack as to not publicly humiliate Hezbollah, but it does not really matter; the accurate intelligence throughout &  the pinpoint precision (no collateral damage) only add insult to injury for Hezbollah, which once again got one between the eyes.       The identities of those killed will also warrant a response. Imad Mughniyeh was Hezb’Allah’s all-star military commander, a brilliant tactician whose assassination left a deep void in the organization. His son Jihad was a far cry away from his ability & charisma, but he was the prince, the heir. Despite his limited talents, Hezb’Allah appointed him to command a new front developed by the group (with the Iranian Revolutionary Corps, a few members of which were also killed Sunday) in the Golan Heights region. Jihad’s appointment was more for morale than operational capability, & so was his loss — a shot straight to the gut.      Hezb’Allah & Iran opened up the new Golan Heights front a year ago to carry out attacks, with the intention of keeping their finger prints off those activities. The attacks, the boldest of which was the March 2014 explosive detonated against Israeli paratroopers on the Syrian border, were carried out by agents on behalf of Hezb’Allah but who do not belong to it, as to distance Hezb’Allah from the crime & prevent a conflict on the Israel-Lebanon border.      The group had previously denied involvement in activity on the Golan Heights. But Hezb’Allah has changed its stance since: after an attack on a weapons convoy in Lebanon a year ago, Hezb’Allah said it was returning to anti-Israel operations, &  last week Hezb’Allah leader Hassan Nasrallah vowed to respond to attacks conducted not only on Lebanese soil but in Syria as well.       Hezb’Allah will now have to pay that bill. The fact that Hezb’Allah’s own media outlet was the first to report the identities of those killed points to the level of anger & frustration within the group & in a way paves the way for its expected response. Once the dust settles however, Hezb’Allah, with the majority of its fighters embroiled in the Syrian civil war, &  with members also sent to advise the Iraqi military in fighting Islamic State, will have to decide how far to take its revenge: Will an attack on Har Dov suffice? Rocket fire on the Galilee? A significant terrorist attack abroad?       Israel must be ready for all these potential scenarios. The natural focal point is high level readiness in the intelligence community & active defense, but increased vigilance will be required for every action taken along the border, as every soldier could be target of an immediate strike. A decade ago, Hezb’Allah snipers killed two soldiers who were fixing an antenna on a rooftop near the border: this kind of scenario is something that must be taken into account, as Hezb’Allah will likely seek to strike a high ranking officer as a revenge of equal value for the killing of Mughniyeh’s son.       If Hezb’Allah employs a violent response, with many casualties, it will undoubtedly warrant an Israeli counter-action & could lead to a dangerous escalation. Currently it seems neither side wants that — despite suggestions made Sunday by some politicians in Israel that the strike was an “election ploy.” But the next two weeks, Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz’s last as IDF chief of staff, will be marked by high tension in the north.       This reality will also accompany incoming IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot, who had previously been GOC Northern Command. In an interview with Israel Hayom published over the weekend, Brig. Gen. Itai Brun, the outgoing director of the IDF Military Intelligence research division, said that the northern front, Syria &  especially Lebanon, was heating up quickly, that the eight years of quiet Israel’s north has enjoyed was likely coming to an end, &  that the new-old reality would replace it soon.     Hezb’Allah gets hit right between the eyes by Yoav Limor     8.Terrorism &  tiaras  by  Ruthie Blum      Two weeks into the 2006 Second War in Lebanon, as Israel tried to put a stop to Hezb’Allah rockets that were pummeling huge swaths of the northern part of the country, then-U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in the region. She had come to tell Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to do his best to eliminate the terrorist threat as swiftly as possible. Dur     Hosting a press conference with Rice in Jerusalem, Olmert said that he was “determined to carry on the fight against Hezbollah.” This undertaking was particularly difficult, due to the fact that the arch-terrorist organization supplied by Iran placed its headquarters & bases in civilian apartment buildings & strategically stashed military materiel under structures such as nurseries & a baby-formula factory.       Sound familiar?      Yes, in keeping with Islamist terrorist tradition, Hezb’Allah welcomed the killing of men, women & children on both sides of the border. While aiming its missiles at Israeli population centers, it simultaneously hid behind civilians in Lebanon, delighted whenever an Israeli sortie resulted in high casualties. It also knew that Israel was taking great pains to pinpoint terrorists & their infrastructure, so as to minimize the killing of noncombatants.      In addition, it was confident it could rely on Western media outlets to report on the higher death tolls in Lebanon. This imbalance was a result of the care Israel took to protect its populace, which was holed up in bomb shelters for weeks, in contrast to Hezbollah’s purposely putting the people it dominated in harm’s way.      In true liberal – ad nauseam — fashion, Olmert’s press conference included a clarification of Israel’s mission.     “We are not fighting the Lebanese government or the Lebanese people,” he stressed. “We are fighting against Hezbollah.”      At the time, this statement was irksome to those of us who were sick of Israel’s walking on eggshells even when under massive artillery fire. Hezb’Allah was & is an active participant in the political system in Lebanon, holding several seats in parliament. For this, the Lebanese government & people should be held accountable by the West, not constantly touted as a paragon of relative modernity in the Middle East.       On Sunday, two events occurred to drive this point home.       The first was an Israeli helicopter strike on a convoy in the Syrian province of Quneitra, which killed 12 terror chiefs, among them Hezb’Allah operatives, a commander & a number of Iranian Revolutionary Guard members. This targeted killing (for which the Israeli military has not officially taken credit) comes on the heels of an interview that Hezb’Allah leader Hassan Nasrallah gave to the Lebanese TV station Al Mayadeen on Thursday.        During the three-hour (!) interview, Nasrallah openly threatened Israel.        “The resistance in Lebanon has everything the enemy can imagine & not imagine,” he said.        “We have weapons of all types, whatever comes to mind.”        Following the preemptive strike, aimed at dealing a critical blow to Hezb’Allah operations, Israel went into high alert. In anticipation of vowed revenge attacks from Hezb’Allah in Syria & Lebanon, Israel dispatched Iron Dome batteries to the north & citizens were warned of potential danger.       The second event on Sunday — which has been as widely publicized as the snake-head assassinations — took place in Florida, during preliminary preparations for the Miss Universe contest.       Miss Israel, Doron Matalon, snapped a selfie with Miss Lebanon, Saly Greige, who was standing next to Miss Slovenia & Miss Japan. When she uploaded the photo to Instagram, all hell broke loose.       The Lebanese media attacked her for fraternizing with the enemy, & Lebanese bloggers & Twitter-users called for her tiara to be torn off her head.       The Lebanese government is now weighing such a measure, for which there is a precedent. In 1993, it decrowned Miss Lebanon for appearing in a photo arm-in-arm with Miss Israel.        Rather than taking a stand on “world peace,” as is laughingly customary during beauty pageants, Greige went on both the defensive & the offensive.        First she swore that she had done her best to avoid having any contact whatsoever with Matalon, whom she accused of “photo-bombing” her without her permission. Her agent went even further, accusing Matalon of having stalked Greige for the purpose of having her competitor’s title taken away.        Matalon took the opposite position.       “Too bad you cannot put the hostility out of the game, only for three weeks of an experience of a lifetime that we can meet girls from around the world &  also from the neighboring country,” she said via social media.       On Monday, Matalon appeared on the “Today” show, where she reiterated her disappointment.       “We need to remember that we represent the country & the people, not the government & not the political issues,” she said.       Of course, Matalon had been foolish to assume that Israel’s neighbors want the same kind of peaceful relations with the Jewish state that she envisions. Though it would be logical for a Lebanese beauty queen to identify with a counterpart from a free society, rational behavior is not the norm in the Middle East.       Her Miss Universe pageant bio is enlightening in this context.       “[F]rom Al-Koura village, north of Lebanon, she graduated two years ago with a master’s degree in civil engineering & is very enthusiastic about her field of work,” it reads. “Despite the unstable situation in Lebanon, she is overwhelmed with the continuous hunger of Lebanese citizens for survival, resistance & most importantly success.”        Note the word “resistance.” Not love. Not kindness. Certainly not peace.       Such attitudes are what enable the likes of Hezb’Allah to flourish. Let us keep that in mind during the next war that Israel is forced to fight against terrorists using innocent people as human shields.       Ruthie Blum is the author of “To Hell in a Handbasket: Carter, Obama, & the ‘Arab Spring.'” Terrorism &  tiaras by Ruthie Blum   9.Pre-emptive action   by Dan Margalit       The people killed on Syrian soil Sunday were evildoers who were bent on hurting Israel. Hezb’Allah chief Hassan Nasrallah would like us to believe that he & his organization do not operate in Syria. But the truth is that they have tried to establish a foothold there that would serve both Hezb’Allah & Iran. From there they hoped they could train their guns on the Galilee & the Golan Heights. “If someone comes to kill you, rise up & kill him first,” says an old Jewish adage. This great rule of thumb can be summed up into two words: targeted killing. Those who were in the convoy in Syria — including the son of the dead terrorist Imad Mughniyeh, Jihad — were what the Bible would call the “evil angels” (Psalms 78:49). They were mortals & their lives ended in appropriately. Period. That said, the war on terrorism along our northern border did not start with their killing & it is unlikely to end with their burial. This week, as the Israel Defense Forces braces for a possible retaliation &  beefs up security around communities in the Galilee &  the Golan Heights, we have to address two issues: 1.    We might find ourselves in a protracted war of attrition against an enemy many times stronger than Hamas. Let’s hope that all possible scenarios were considered before the mission was green-lighted. A protracted escalation could undo the gains of these killings. In other words, if Hezb’Allah opts for a symbolic retaliation, we must make sure it is contained. 2.    We should uphold the long-held precedent that the enemy gets to fire the last salvo. This is just the right thing to do on a psychological level.  [WHY??!!: GAIL] 3.    We are bound to hear more statements like the one sounded by Maj. Gen. (res.) Yoav Galant on Sunday. Galant, who is No. 2 on the Kulanu Knesset candidate list, said the IDF had been used as an election prop in the past & hinted that this could have been the case this time around. We have all heard this old chestnut before. In fact, the same criticism was leveled at Prime Minister Menachem Begin in 1981, after he took out Iraq’s nuclear reactor (the approaching elections were not lost on Begin at the time & he even talked about the electoral impact the mission would have with then-Israeli Air Force chief David Ivry).  If the government is to act with prudence, it must address this claim, in part because it serves to undermine its motives & in part because the opposition will blame it for being trigger-happy if things get out of control. The wise thing to do would be to invite D. M. Moshe Ya’alon & IDF Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz to testify before the most secret subcommittee in the Knesset, where they would elaborate on what happened. This would generate national consensus that could help the nation deal with what’s to come. Thinking ahead of the curve is the name of the game. Pre-emptive action by Dan Margalit

10. Framed Suicide? Shot Argentine Prosecutor Received Threats               By Arutz Sheva Staff  IsraelNationalNews.com  First Publish: 1/19/2015, 12:39 PM

      Nisman, found shot dead hours before hearing accusing Argentine president of Jewish center bombing cover up, had been threatened. 

Argentina’s Cristina Kirchner  Reuters

     Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman (51), who accused President Cristina Kirchner of obstructing a probe into a 1994 Jewish center bombing, was found shot dead Monday, just hours before he was due to testify at a congressional hearing.

            Nisman was found dead overnight in his apartment in the trendy Puerto Madero neighborhood of the capital.

            “I can confirm that a .22-caliber handgun was found beside the body,” prosecutor Viviana Fein said. “Death is due to gunshot.” Given the timing, & threats he was revealed to have received, there is a high suspicion of a framed suicide.

            Authorities said Nisman had been found by his mother in the bathroom of his 13th floor apartment after his security detail was unable to contact him.

            Nisman had since 2004 been investigating the 1994 van bombing of the building of the Argentine Jewish Charities Federation, or AMIA. The bombing left 85 people dead & 300 others injured in the worst attack of its kind in the South American country.

            Nisman had last week asked for an investigation into possible obstruction by Kirchner & was due to speak at a Congressional hearing Monday to provide evidence of his assertions.

The prosecutor has accused Iran of being behind the attack & said Kirchner hampered the inquiry to curry favor with the Islamic republic. The government has categorically denied the accusations.

            Nisman had also accused former president Carlos Menem (1989-’99) of helping obstruct an investigation into the bombing, which has never been solved.

            With his request last week for an investigation, Nisman said in an interview that the investigation was “likely to kill me.” In the interview he added “from today my life has changed. I told my daughter she is likely to hear awful things about her father.”

            Since 2006, Argentine courts have demanded the extradition of eight Iranians, including former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former defense minister Ahmad Vahidi & Mohsen Rabbani, Iran’s former cultural attaché in Buenos Aires.

            Likewise, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was found to have been on the special Iranian government committee that plotted the 1994 bombing, according to an indictment by the Argentine government prosecutor investigating the case.

Argentina charges that Hezb’Allah, the Lebanese Shi’ite terrorist movement & Iranian proxy, carried out the attack under orders from Iran, which Tehran denies.

Received threats

Nisman had said he had phone recordings that show the Kirchner government & Argentine authorities had bowed to Iranian demands after the Islamic republic dangled lucrative commercial contracts.

Nisman was supposed to present proof of his allegations that Kirchner & Foreign Minister Hector Timerman had a “plan of impunity” to “protect the Iranian fugitives.”

In addition to his complaint, Nisman had ordered the freezing of assets worth some $23 million of Kirchner, Timerman & other officials.

Jewish community members had cautiously welcomed Nisman’s complaint, but also requested he make public evidence to back up his assertions.

Opposition lawmaker Patricia Bullrich said she was shocked by Nisman’s death, calling it “a grave affront to the country’s institutions.”

Bullrich said she’d spoken to Nisman on the phone on Saturday on three occasions & he’d said that he’d received several threats.

In 2013, Argentina’s congress approved, at the request of the executive branch, an agreement with Tehran to form a truth commission to investigate the bombing, consisting of five members who don’t come from either Argentina or Iran.

It also authorized an Argentine judge to travel to Iran to question the former officials accused of involvement.

The Jewish center bombing came two years after an attack against the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires that killed 29 people.

In January 2014, Argentina accused Israel of concealing information about the attacks after a former Israeli ambassador to Argentina suggested that those responsible had been killed by Israeli security forces.

Argentina’s Jewish population of about 300,000 people is the largest in Latin America.

AFP contributed to this report.

The strange death of Alberto Nisman by Elliott Abrams

12. A War America Can’t Win by Prof. Paul Eidelberg

            This article was published nine days after 9/11, after I had seen with my own eyes the rubble of the World Trade Center, which I had previously visited on various occasions. I am publishing the article again for two reasons: first, because American scholars &  politicians, as well as Israeli scholars &  politicians – including Benjamin Netanyahu – persist in denying a clash of civilizations between Islam &  the West, second, because my 2001 article, “A War America Can’t Win” explains why Israel can’t win her current war with the Palestinians.

PART I.

America can’t win the war against international terrorism because the U.S. has failed to identify the enemy. The enemy is nothing less than Islam, & democratic, multicultural America is conceptually incapable of conquering such an enemy. 

            We have here a clash of civilizations of world-historical significance. The United States, including its most notable intellectuals, obscure this clash by defining the enemy as “Islamic fundamentalism” or “Islamism,” supposedly an extremist aspect of Islam.  But as I shall now show, what is called “Islamic fundamentalism” is authentic, resurgent Islam.

            First, consider a booklet entitled Arab Theologians on Jews & Israel (1971) edited by D.F. Green.  The booklet is a 76-page condensation of a 951-page volume containing papers presented at “The Fourth Conference of the Academy of Islamic Research” of Al Azhar University in Cairo (1968).  Al Azhar University, it should be emphasized, is the Harvard of the Islamic world.  Al Azhar is attached to the office of the President of Egypt & unofficially represents the theological-political position of that country, if not most of the Arab-Islamic world.

            Delegates from 24 countries attended the conference:  Algeria, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Morocco, Nigeria, Philippines, Russia, Senegal, Sierra-Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Togoland, Turkey, Uganda, Yemen, &  Yugoslavia.

Some 22 papers were presented by Islamic theologians & professors:  Egypt 10; Lebanon 3; Jordan 2; Syria 2; Indonesia 2; &  one each from Morocco, Iraq, &  “Palestine.”

            The papers frequently denote Jews as the “Enemies of God” or the “Enemies of humanity.” One paper refers to Jews as “the dogs of humanity.”  The Bible of Israel is referred to in pejorative terms & as a counterfeit work.  Jews are described as evil, as deserving the hatred & persecution of all the peoples with whom they have come into contact—and this was said in full awareness of the Nazi Holocaust! Also, the State of Israel is described as a culmination of historical & cultural depravity. 

Since the Conference portrays the evil of the Jews as immutable & permanent, the attending Muslim theologians & professors were prompting the Arab-Islamic world to annihilate Israel (Politicide) & the Jews (Genocide).  This was not a conference of “Islamic fundamentalists,” unless Islamic fundamentalism is authentic Islam!

            Second, the present writer has shown that the Israel-Egypt peace treaty of March 1979 did not diminish Egyptian hatred of Jews & Israel.  (See my Sadat’s Strategy, 1979.)  Indeed, as the eminent Islamic scholar Bernard Lewis has noted, Egypt’s anti-Jewish & anti-Israel propaganda increased after the signing of that treaty! 

            Third, consider Professor Y. Harkabi’s Arab Attitudes to Israel (1972).  This 500-page volume documents hundreds of statements made by Arab rulers, scholars, journalists, & writers throughout the Arab-Islamic world vilifying Jews & calling for Israel’s destruction.   Harkabi makes no distinction between Islam & “Islamic fundamentalism” when he describes Islam as a “militant,” “combative,” & “expansionist” creed.

            Fourth, recall the Teheran Conference of October 1991 (which, by the way, took place two weeks before the October 30 Madrid “peace” conference sponsored by the U.S. & the USSR & attended by Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, & PLO surrogates).   Attended by a score of Arab & Islamic states, including Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, & the PLO, the Teheran Conference unanimously signed various resolutions calling for Israel’s destruction.  Egypt, despite its peace treaty with Israel, signed those resolutions!  Again, this was not a conference of “Islamic fundamentalists” or of any single Islamic sect—Sunni, Shi’ite, or Wahhabi.

            Now for some basic principles.  In The Political Language of Islam (1988), Professor Lewis notes that Islam divides the world in two:  “the House of Islam (Dar al-Islam), where Muslims rule & the law of Islam prevail; & the House of War (Dar al-Harb), comprising the rest of the world.  Between the two there is a morally necessary, legally & religiously obligatory state of war, until the inevitable & final triumph of Islam over unbelief.  According to Islamic law books, this state of war could be interrupted, when expedient, by an armistice or truce of limited duration.  It could not be terminated by peace but only by a final victory” (p. 73).

            The question arises:  How should Muslims behave in territories previously conquered by Islam—for example Portugal, Spain, &  the Balkans—but which were subsequently re-conquered by Christians?  According to certain Islamic jurists, it was the duty of Muslims to leave such territories & not remain under non-Muslim rule.  Other jurists held that Muslims might remain under a non-Muslim ruler & were even obliged to obey his orders, provided only that Muslims were allowed to observe their religion.  This ruling, however, was based on practical necessity.  For as Lewis remarks, the territories conquered by Christians would then become part of the House of War, “subject, when circumstances permit, to jihad & reconquest” (p. 106).   (This has obvious implications for Israel & its Muslim citizens.)

Finally, it should be noted that the destruction of the World Trade Center is the manifestation of a war between East & the West. 

PART II.

            … Unbeknownst to the West, & unacknowledged by Israel’s ruling elites, the 1948 War of Independence was a civilizational war, one that has been going on to this day.  Thus, in a lecture sponsored by the Arab League in Cairo, ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Bazzaz, Professor of Law at the University of Baghdad, who later became Iraq’s Prime Minister, declared in 1962:  “The existence of Israel … is a flagrant challenge to our philosophy of life & the ideals for which we live, & a total barrier against the values & aims to which we aspire in the world.”

Islam perceives Israel both as a Jewish & secular democratic state that threatens the religio-political power structure of the Islamic world. Tyrannies do not like democracies on their borders.  But let us probe a little deeper into the conflict between the East (here limited to Islam) & the West, with which Israel finds itself precariously aligned.

The West exalts the individual, & the State exists to maximize his comfort.  Accordingly, the function of the State is not to cultivate virtue or morality but to promote freedom & material prosperity.  In the West, therefore, religion is a private matter.  Contrast the fatalistic world of Islam.  Their personal & political freedom is unknown.  There the State is all-powerful.  Its primary function is to serve Allah by imbuing people with the moral & religious teachings of the Koran.   There poverty is the rule.   

            The World Trade Center represented the pinnacle wealth.  Like the Tower of Babel, it symbolized the exaltation of man.  The Twin Towers were monuments of scientific technology in stark contrast to pre-industrial, feudal Islam.  

            The destruction of the Twin Towers by 19 suicide bombers reveals the unbridgeable gap between the West’s preoccupation with this world & Islam’s concern with the afterworld.  While America pursues a life of pleasure here & now, Islam is infatuated with death as the entry to eternal Paradise.  Can mundane life defend itself against death?  

            The World Trade Center’s destruction was an act of revenge—revenge against centuries of Western domination of the East—intolerable to Muslims.  The West is the home of Christianity, hated by Islam.  Also, the U.S., by supporting Israel, is the Great Satan.  Hence the Mufti of Jerusalem urges Muslims to kill Americans as well as Jews.

            Multicultural, relativistic America is incapable of waging war against this totalitarian enemy.  It lacks the concepts, the understanding, required to wage such a war.  President Bush called the destruction of the World Trade Center a “cowardly” act, when, in truth, it was an act of dauntless courage.  He called this act “senseless,” when in fact it was well calculated to humble America, to uplift Islamic pride, to glorify Allah. 

            Moreover, responsibility for this monstrous act was attributed to “Islamic fundamentalism,” or to a network of terrorists led by Osama bin Laden.  True, Islamic states were held responsible for harboring these terrorists.  But this tacitly indicates that the so-called war against international terrorism involves Islam as a whole: there is hardly an Islamic state that does not provide a haven, to say nothing of financial support, for Arab terrorists.  Yet, to make a mockery of the World Trade Center disaster, the U.S. invited Islamic regimes & even arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat to join the war against international terrorism!  Nor is this all.

            President Bush called this a war between good & evil.  And so it is.  But the United States & the West have long been silent about evil, indeed; have honored the personification of evil, again, Yasser Arafat.  Hence the U.S. is far from being simply good.  Besides, American cultural imperialism is vulgarizing much of the world, undermining moral & religious values.   We see this in the Americanization of Israel.  True, Israel is indebted to the United States & is itself to blame for the vices it has imported from America.  Some may also blame Washington for Oslo, which has resulted in thousands of Jewish casualties—an enormous number for a small country like Israel.  But Oslo is primarily the product of Westernized or secularized Jews.  Indeed, the Israeli architects of Oslo were animated by one ultimate objective, & that is to destroy Israel as a Jewish state & to transform it into miniature, multicultural America!

PART III

If it is true, as I maintain, that “Islamic fundamentalism” is authentic Islam (now resurgent), & if international terrorism is merely a manifestation of Islam’s war against Western civilization, then it should be obvious that multicultural America is incapable of winning such a war.   Never mind the enormous economic interests of the United States in the Islamic Middle East.  There are some 50 Muslim states & more than one billion Muslims on this planet; they are not going to be cowed by America.

            To win this war, America would have to bring about a Protestant Reformation in Islam.   Muslims would have to renounce the ethos of jihad.  Islam would then cease being a militant, expansionist, & proselytizing creed.  It would have to recognize, as one may see in the Bible of Israel, that God creates nations as well as individuals, & that the independence of diverse nations, above all Israel, is to be respected so long as they observe the Seven Noahide Laws of Universal Morality.

            Moreover, Islamic autocracies, without becoming secular, would have to become commercial republics.  On the one hand, they would cease to be corporate states in which the individual has no unalienable rights.  On the other hand, the rights of individuals would not be exalted at the expense of religious-based morality.  Accordingly, the state would introduce an ethical market economy.  This would promise an end to the poverty endemic in the Islamic world.  It would promote creativity & the development of a middle class, a precondition of a moderate & stable republic. 

            From this it should be obvious that American democracy, to the extent that it has departed from the principles of the American founding fathers, is hardly a model for the Islamic world.  To mention present tendencies:  Its unrestrained freedom spawns licentiousness; its indiscriminate egalitarianism undermines deference & respect for parents & lawful authority; its form of capitalism promotes avarice & materialism; its pop culture fosters vulgarity; its university-bred doctrine of moral relativism breeds atheism & cynicism.   

            If Islam has to undergo a “Protestant Reformation,” America has to undergo a Judeo-Christian Restoration.?

A War America Can’t Win by Prof. Paul Eidelberg

13. The West Cannot Win this War; The West doesn’t want to make the changes that will allow it to win by Giulio Meotti                                                              Published: Arutz Sheva IsraelNationalNews.com – Monday, January 19, 2015 12:50 AM

 Giulio Meotti

The writer, an Italian journalist with Il Foglio, writes a twice-weekly column  for Arutz Sheva. He is the author of the book “A New Shoah”, that researched the personal stories of Israel’s terror victims, published by Encounter. His writing has appeared in publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, Frontpage & Commentary. He has just published a book about the Vatican & Israel titled “J’Accuse: the Vatican Against Israel” published by Mantua Books,

     Take another look at the video filmed under the Charlie Hebdo’s building, the black car of the terrorists who had no fear of death & are advancing by shooting, while the white car of the policemen is forced to retreat.

     We are capitulating. 

     The West cannot win this war. Take the last French mass rally with dozens of heads of states from around the world: it was a silent march, a mute show where nobody took the podium. As if these people didn’t know what to say. As if these Western leaders didn’t really believe in what they were doing in Paris.

     A few days ago, Martin Wolf in the British daily Financial Times gave voice to the deep estrangement of Europe’s élite. He suggested using massive doses of multicultural recognition of equality between different cultures in order to combat Islamism. Mr. Wolf is implicitly saying that we must surrender, that we cannot win, that we have to contain terror & finally find a way to coexist with it.

     The French horror doesn’t lie in the killings per se. A few hours later, in Nigeria, Boko Haram destroyed many villages & burned hundreds of people to death. Europe’s horror lies in the fact that the terrorists came from the heart of the continent. The Chouaci’s brothers, the British bombers & Theo Van Gogh’s killer didn’t come from Raqqa, in Syria, or Al Qaeda in Yemen. No, they were born & raised in European democracies.

     Europe gave everything to these terrorists: schools, education, entertainment, sexual pleasures, salaries & freedom. The French terrorists rejected the French values of Liberté, Égalité & Fraternité; the British suicide bombers rejected British multiculturalism, while Dutch terrorist Mohammed Bouyeri, who slaughtered the film maker in Amsterdam, rejected the Dutch mute values of moral indifference. 

     A few days ago, I was talking with Flemming Rose, the Danish journalist who first published the cartoons in 2006 & now lives protected by the police. He told me the shocking truth nobody wants to hear:

     “I am pretty pessimistic about the future of free speech, though I am delighted that so many people came out to support Charlie Hebdo”, Rose told me. “I knew several of the cartoonists who were killed, & I was a witness in a criminal case against CH in 2007. My fear is that this support will not translate into real decisions & changed behavior when we get back to our day-to-day life. We have seen that before. Madrid 2004, Theo van Gogh 2004, London 2005, Kurt Westergaard 2008 & 2010 (one planned attack & another real attack in which he was nearly killed). Every time lots of support & solidarity with the victims, but very little has changed in reality, quite to the contrary, apart from CH no European newspapers have dared to publish Mohammed cartoons since 2008”.

     They speak theology, we reply with logic. They use bullets, we march in the streets.  Charlie

Hebdo’s journalists were brave people, defiant, but if they are the Western heroes, we have already lost. “Charb” & the other cartoonists didn’t believe in anything. 

     A few years ago, at my newspaper in Italy, I suggested we publish a letter that Mohammed Bouyeri released from his Dutch prison. Bouyeri says he does not feel remorse for what he did. The tone of the letter is marked by a kind of puerile candor. Bouyeri never mentions Van Gogh, but he makes it clear that he has fulfilled a religious duty by killing him. 

     The West cannot win this war. The price it would have to pay is the loss of European values: reducing the civil rights of many people, deporting them, declaring a war of values, sending boots on the ground in the Middle East, imposing Western civilization on them. Europe will never do that. Europe itself doesn’t believe in these values anymore. This is also one of the reasons why Europe hates Israeli Jews who daily confront evil & fight it, so deeply.

     The terrorists of Charlie Hebdo talk a religious language & use terms like honor, faith, prophet & loyalty, while the West replies to them with words such as freedom, democracy, rights, respect & tolerance. They speak theology, we reply with logic. They use bullets, we march in the streets.

     It is a sad joke. The truth is that people in the West are relieved that they don’t have to fight, that we are surrendering, that life goes on as usual. Hurray, we are capitulating! 

The West Cannot Win this War; The West doesn’t want to make the changes that will allow it to win by Giulio Meotti

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14.Why We Need to Talk About Muslim Anti-Semitism By Daniel Greenfield 

On January 20, 2015 – Daily Mailer,FrontPage

            Even articles about Muslim Anti-Semitism rarely want to talk about Muslim Anti-Semitism. In the aftermath of the Kosher supermarket massacre in France, articles about the Muslim persecution of Jews in Europe nervously hover around the subject before swerving away to discuss the European far-right.

An article about Muslim anti-Semitism in France inevitably becomes an article about the National Front, which is not actually shooting Jews in supermarkets. Broader European pieces obsessively focus on the Jobbik party in Hungary which for all its vileness has not actually killed any Jews.

(The endless articles about Jobbik characterize it as a far-right European Christian party, but in fact it’s a pan-Turkic organization whose chairman had told a Turkish audience, “Islam is the last hope for humanity.” Its actual identity is based on a broad front of ethnic solidarity by identifying Hungarians as a Turkic people. Its anti-Semitism is anti-Zionist. Jobbik hates Jews because it identifies with Muslims.)

The usual treatment of Muslim anti-Semitism is cursory. History books acknowledge its existence while asserting that European anti-Semitism was worse. Modern media coverage takes the same approach by finding a useful distraction in the European far-right.

Muslim anti-Semitism needs to be addressed on its own if for no other reason than that it’s the dominant form of violence against Jews in Europe. And it has been that way for some time now.

Articles that gloss over Muslim Anti-Semitism to flit on to the National Front, which in this current crisis has shown itself to be less anti-Semitic than the BBC whose reporter Tim Wilcox accused a daughter of Holocaust survivors in France of oppressing Palestinians, are very deliberately ignoring the issue. The politics of the media led it to class together anti-immigration with violent bigotry. But the violent bigotry isn’t coming from the sort of people that the media thinks it ought to.

It’s not UKIP supporters that are hunting down & killing Jews & so the media avoids the subject until some violent atrocity forces its hand & then it blames Muslim anti-Semitism on a failure to integrate. Ahmed can’t get a job because of UKIP or Wilders & so he shoots up a synagogue. The Jews are just collateral damage in Muslim blowback to their persecution by European opponents of immigration.

Throw in a little something about Israel & Muslim anti-Semitism is transformed into a misunderstood phenomenon that really isn’t what it appears to be. Muslims don’t hate Jews. They’re just confused.

But Muslim anti-Semitism predates the difficulties of integrating Algerians & Pakistanis into Europe by over a thousand years. In Islam, Jews represent both a subject race & a primal enemy. Israel infuriates Muslims so much not because they care a great deal about the Palestinian Arabs who have been expelled in huge numbers from Muslim countries within the last generation, but because Jews no longer know their place. Islam is supremacist. Allahu Akbar asserts Islamic supremacy over all other religions.

As an historical subject race, Jews are a natural target for violence by Muslim immigrants with strong supremacist leanings. The disenfranchised Muslim isn’t looking for equality. He’s seeking supremacy. That is what the Islamic State & the Koran give him. He picks the same Jewish targets as Mohammed did because the Jews are a vulnerable minority. That is as true in Europe today as it was in Arabia then.

Unlike the Christian world, which was never fully subjugated by Islam, both the Jewish homeland & much of the Jewish diaspora population existed under Muslim rule long enough that non-submissive Jews became a particularly galling reminder of the fall of the Caliphate.

Muslims had taken Jewish submission for granted, making the existence of non-submissive Jews, whether in Jerusalem or in Paris, that much more outrageous. The Algerian Muslim can more readily accept taking a back seat to a French Christian than to an Algerian Jew, whom he knows would have been considered inferior to him if they were both back in Algeria.

The left has become so mired in a post-colonial worldview that it refuses to understand that the struggle is not between Western European colonialism & a post-colonial Third World, but between different eras of colonialism. Arab Islamic domination is not post-colonial; it’s a colonialism that predates it.

When Western leftists make common cause with Arab &  Islamic nationalists, they aren’t being post-colonial, they’re advocating an earlier form of colonialism that led &  is once again leading to ethnic cleansing, genocide, mass slavery &  the destruction of indigenous cultures; including that of the Jews.

Middle Eastern Jews, like other non-Muslim & non-Arab minorities, welcomed European colonialism as relief from Islamic & Arab colonialism. France is filled with Jews from North Africa because they received their rights for the first time under French rule. As French citizens, they could shed their mandatory black clothes & no longer had fear being killed because of Islamic law, like Batto Sfez, a Tunisian Jew who was executed for blasphemy in an atrocity that triggered French intervention.

Yoav Hattab, one of the Jews murdered in the Kosher supermarket attack in Paris, was the son of the Chief Rabbi of Tunisia. While the Chief Rabbi was, in the unfortunate Dhimmi fashion of those who live under Islamic rule, forced to praise how well Tunisia treats Jews, his son was buried in Israel. Israel was also the place where most Tunisian Jews moved to escape Arab Muslim persecution.

The Western left can’t talk about Muslim anti-Semitism because it would also have to talk about Muslim colonialism.  And then the entire basis of its approach to the Arab & Muslim world would collapse. If post-colonialism in the Middle East is just the replacement of one colonialism with another, then the left would have to admit that it has once again disgraced itself by supporting a totalitarian system.

Just as it replaced the czar with the commissar, it is replacing the protectorate with the caliphate.

Modern histories of the Middle East excuse the historical Muslim persecution of Jews for the same reason the media excuses modern Muslim attacks on Jews. This historical revisionism justifies Islamic colonialism in the service of post-colonialism with the myth of a golden age of benevolent tyranny.

The post-colonial narrative obligates academics & journalists to favorably contrast the Muslim treatment of Jews, then or now, with the European treatment of Jews. This obstructionism has endangered European Jews even more than Jihadist videos advocating violence because it makes it impossible to discuss an urgent violent threat for fear of violating the left’s post-colonial narrative.

Muslim anti-Semitism must be discussed. & it must be contextualized within the history of Muslim-Jewish relations, not European ones like the National Front or Jobbik. It must not be dismissed as some transient phenomenon caused by poverty or the latest Hamas clashes, but viewed within the context of Islamic colonialism & the treatment of non-Muslims in the Muslim world.

The treatment of Yazidis in Iraq & Christians in Syria must also be placed within that same context.

Historical revisionism for Muslim anti-Semitism is as unacceptable as Holocaust denial or any other attempt to stick a smiley face on the oppression of Jews. &  what is at stake here is not merely history, but the root cause that drives Muslim men &  women born in Europe to attack &  kill Jews.

The post-colonial authorities of the left may not be interested in discussing Muslim anti-Semitism, but Muslim Supremacist anti-Semitism remains interested in persecuting & killing Jews.

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Why We Need to Talk About Muslim Anti-Semitism By Daniel Greenfield

15.Europe Offers Israel the Peace of the Dead By Kenneth Levin  Jan. 19, 2015 –      Daily Mailer, FrontPage

     As parliaments in more & more European nations vote to recognize “Palestine,” European politicians insist they are doing so to promote the objective of an independent Palestinian state living in peace beside a secure Israel. But both the declared aims of Palestinian leaders & the pattern of European policy vis-a-vis Israel & the Palestinians give the lie to European averments of benign intent.

     Neither party of the divided Palestinian leadership has, to say the least, demonstrated an interest in peace with Israel. Hamas, now controlling Gaza & enjoying extensive popularity in the West Bank, openly trumpets its objective not only to destroy Israel but to annihilate all the world’s Jews. The Palestinian Authority under Mahmoud Abbas repeatedly insists it will never recognize Israel’s legitimacy as the national homeland of the Jewish people & will never give up its demand for implementation of the so-called “right of return” of millions of descendants of Palestinian refugees to Israel – thereby demographically destroying the Jewish state. In the same vein, it conveys it will never sign an end of conflict agreement with Israel no matter what territorial concessions the latter offers.

     Palestinian Authority media, mosques &  schools, like those of Hamas, incessantly indoctrinate their audiences in the message that the Jews are colonial usurpers &  their presence, &  their state, must be expunged, that Palestinians who attack &  kill Israeli civilians are heroes, &  that it is the responsibility of all to emulate those heroes in the struggle for Israel’s annihilation. Abbas, like Arafat before him, has made clear his goal in seeking recognition of “Palestine” by European nations & by others is to force the establishment of a Palestinian state without any bilateral agreement with Israel that would require Palestinian foreswearing of additional claims against the Jewish state.

     While declaring its support for a two-state solution, European leaders, in promoting their parliaments’ recognition of “Palestine,” are actually advancing the Palestinian leadership’s goal of a single, Muslim Arab, state comprised of the West Bank, what is now Israel, & Gaza. But then, the policies of the European nations have long been to advance the Palestinian agenda & to undermine any possibility of a genuine, durable two-state agreement. Consider the issues touched on below, what stance on them would be taken by those truly dedicated to achieving a viable two-state accord, & what stances European nations have actually taken:

     1) Palestinian insistence on the “right of return” obviously precludes an agreement that allows for Israel’s continued existence. Any genuine peace would require whatever resettlement there is of Palestinian refugees & their descendants to take place within the territories allotted to the Palestinians. If the Europeans were truly interested in a two state solution, they would insist that some of the largesse they now lavish on the Palestinians be dedicated to creating decent, permanent housing for those Palestinians residing in “refugee camps” within areas already under Palestinian control. But they have not done so.

     2) The United Nations Relief & Works Agency (UNRWA) has provided for Palestinian refugees & their descendants for sixty-five years. Every other refugee population in the post-World War II era has been cared for by another UN organ, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). In addition, with all other refugee populations, whose total numbers over the decades have been orders of magnitude greater than the Palestinian number, “refugee” is defined as an individual actually displaced by hostilities or related events, not his or her descendants as well. The special status accorded the Palestinians has obviously been orchestrated by the Arab states & their allies to use as a permanent weapon in the fight for Israel’s annihilation.

     Were Palestinian refugees defined in the manner of all other refugees, they would now number at most less than 50,000 &  Israel might even entertain offering those individuals the option of return in the context of a peace settlement. But the Europeans continue to support & generously fund the unique UN treatment of Palestinian “refugees” & continue to help Palestinian leaders wield this cudgel against Israel’s continued survival.

            Moreover, UNRWA schools, often employing Hamas-affiliated & PA-affiliated teachers, contribute to the indoctrination of Palestinian children in the cause of pursuing Israel’s annihilation, & UNRWA facilities have served as recruiting, training & logistical centers for Hamas & other Palestinian terror organizations. Yet this, too, has elicited virtually no objection, or curtailment of support, from European nations.

3) As noted, PA media, mosques & schools are focused on indoctrinating their audiences in anti-Israel & anti-Jewish hatred & on the necessity of pursuing Israel’s destruction. Yet many of the relevant PA institutions enjoy European financial support.

            4) The PA provides extensive financial support to the families of Palestinian terrorists- both of those killed & of those imprisoned by Israel – & the European states have done little to prevent the use of European funds for this purpose.

5) Genuinely moderate Palestinian voices, those who would support a viable two-state solution, are an endangered lot. After twenty years of indoctrination by PA & Hamas media, mosques & schools, the great majority of Palestinians, according to opinion polls, support anti-Israel violence & the objective of Israel, & its Jews’, annihilation. What moderates remain in the territories are either cowed into silence by the PA & Hamas, or are subject to harassment, assault & arbitrary arrest.  This has been the fate, for example, of Palestinian journalists who have dared to report on PA corruption or to question PA policies that preclude a peaceful settlement with Israel. European nations have done virtually nothing to come to the aid of Palestinian moderates, to support the different, often genuinely peace-promoting, course they seek to advance, or even to pressure the PA to end its abuse of them.

6) European states directly finance a plethora of anti-Israel NGO’s, including NGO’s that openly call for Israel’s destruction. (The proliferation &  broadened reach of such organizations, particularly in the wake of the openly anti-Semitic, ironically titled, 2001 “World Conference Against Racism” in Durban, has been most extensively chronicled by Gerald Steinberg’s “NGO Monitor.”)

7) Areas Israel has not already ceded to the Palestinians – either via agreement, as in Areas A &  B now governed by the PA, or unilaterally, as in Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza – have the status in international law of disputed territory. UN Security Council Resolution 242, unanimously passed in the fall of 1967, calls for the negotiation of new “secure & recognized boundaries,” & the authors of 242 argued that the pre-1967 lines were merely armistice lines, were indefensible & left Israel vulnerable to future aggression. Yet many European states insist on referring to those lands as Palestinian, precluding the negotiated agreement on boundaries envisioned in Resolution 242 & seeking to deprive Israel of defensible borders.

In a similar vein, European states routinely attack any Israeli construction in the disputed territories. One can argue that creating such facts on the ground does prejudice ultimate agreement on the land’s disposition. But the same European states are not only silent on no less prejudicial Palestinian building in the disputed areas but actually support &  fund it. Since Palestinian construction has largely been focused on reinforcing claims to areas that would leave Israel more strategically vulnerable, European states are in this manner as well working against the Jewish state’s achieving an agreement that would provide it with defensible borders.

8) The recognition of “Palestine” by European parliaments obviously violates prior endorsement by European states & the European Union of agreements calling for resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict via bilateral negotiations. At the same time, in a further demonstration of shameless European anti-Israel hypocrisy, Europe threatens measures against Israel if it does not re-engage in bilateral negotiations with the Palestinians. In fact, it is Israel that has most sought to advance such negotiations & the Palestinians that have shunned them. It is Israel that has – in, for example, 2000, 2001, & 2008 – made repeated concrete offers of a territorial settlement & the Palestinians that have rejected all of them without providing any counter-offers. Rather, they have sought to pursue an agenda of advancing their cause – the cause of replacing Israel – by means other than bilateral negotiations, as in their seeking recognition of “Palestine” by European states & international bodies. & the Europeans at once help them move forward on their alternative path while excoriating Israel for ostensibly rejecting direct negotiations.

For all the self-righteous doubletalk from Europe about seeking to promote a peace that will serve both the Palestinians &  the Jewish state, what the Europeans are promoting by their actions is the exterminationist agenda of the Palestinian leadership &  reeks of age-old, murderous European anti-Jewish bias.

Kenneth Levin is a psychiatrist & historian & author of The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People under Siege.

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Europe Offers Israel the Peace of the Dead by Kenneth Levin

16. Jihad in France: It’s Just Beginning by Guy Millière  http://www.gatestoneinstitute. org/5120/jihad-in-france            January 19, 2015 at 5:00 am

The demonstration gathered nearly four million people, but seeing in it a mobilization against terrorism, jihad & anti-Semitism would be a mistake.

The Ambassador of Saudi Arabia attended, shortly after his nation had just finished flogging the young blogger Raif Badawi with the first 50 lashes of his 1000 lash sentence. Badawi is being flayed alive — “very severely,” the lashing order said. He has 950 lashes to go.

Mahmoud Abbas, the President of Palestinian unity government, which includes Hamas &  supports jihadist terrorism as well as genocide, was at the forefront — smiling. Israel’s Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, was originally not invited. He came anyhow. He was told not to speak. He spoke anyhow. As a sign of disapproval, French officials left before his speech.

Although six Jews were among the seventeen victims, the anti-Semitic dimension of the attacks was barely spoken about.

The words “Islam” & “jihadist” were not mentioned. President François Hollande said, against all evidence, “Those who committed these acts have nothing to do with Islam.”

Few Muslims came. They stated their only concern: “Avoid stigmatization of the Muslim community!”

Anyone who watches television & sees what is happening in many Muslim countries has to doubt that Islam is peaceful.

Several polls show that more than 70% of the French think Islam is incompatible with democracy & Western civilization. Those polls predate the attacks.

The French demonstration of “unity” on Sunday, January 11, may have attracted nearly four million marchers & shown a facade of unity, but behind this facade, rising tensions are approaching the breaking point.[1]

Government members immediately called for fighting “terrorism” & for “national unity.” Mainstream media called for defending “free speech.” Signs saying “I am Charlie” [“Je Suis Charlie”] began to appear the next day & quickly multiplied. TV channels showed the sign on their screens. Newspapers & magazines put it on their front page.

After the terrorist attack against the kosher supermarket, signs saying “I am a Jew” appeared, too, but were much less numerous. Although six Jews were among the seventeen victims, the anti-Semitic dimension of the attacks was barely spoken about.

And although it was obvious that the attacks were committed by Islamist jihadists, the words “Islam” & “jihadists” were not mentioned. In a solemn statement on television, on January 9, President François Hollande insisted, against all evidence, “Those who committed these acts have nothing to do with Islam.”

The calls for “national unity” & the defense of “free speech” led to the organization of a huge demonstration, on Sunday, January 11. Hollande called on the leaders of all political parties to join; they agreed. He called on world leaders to come to Paris; leaders & representatives from forty countries came. He requested the support of all the media; he got it. He requested the support of the entire population, & millions of people responded to his call.

The event gathered nearly four million people, but seeing in it a mobilization against terrorism, jihad & anti-Semitism would be a mistake. Leaders of “anti-Zionist” left-wing organizations that support Hamas were present. Ministers of states financing jihadist terrorism, & even genocide, were also there.

The Ambassador of Saudi Arabia attended, shortly after his nation had just finished flogging Raif Badawi, a young Saudi blogger accused of “insulting Islam,” with the first fifty lashes of his sentence of 1000 lashes plus 10 years in prison, for practicing the gentlest free speech. Badawi is now being flayed alive — “very severely,” the lashing order said. He has 950 lashes to go.

Participants march in the Paris unity rally, January 11, 2014. (Image source: Wikimedia Commons)

Turkey, which hosts part of the leadership of the genocidal Hamas organization, was there. Turkey has also jailed more journalists than any other country, including Iran & China.

Mahmoud Abbas, the president of a Palestinian unity government, which includes Hamas & directly supports jihadist terrorism as well as genocide, was at the forefront — smiling. Binyamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, was initially not invited. He came anyhow. French officials let him know that he was not welcome & not to speak. He spoke anyhow. As a sign of disapproval, French officials left the Grand Synagogue of Paris during the ceremony for the dead Jews, before Netanyahu’s speech.

The President of the populist National Front, Marine Le Pen, was also not included. She is silent. She is sure a coming explosion will happen, & that she will receive more votes.

Prime Minister Manuel Valls had told journalists he was “afraid” for Muslims. Two days later — & only two days later — on January 13, he said that “France is at war against terrorism, jihadism & radical Islam.” He added immediately that one of his priorities was to fight mercilessly against Islamophobia.”

Emergency decisions were taken. Ten thousand soldiers were deployed throughout the nation. Military patrols were placed at the entrance of Jewish sites & mosques. A few Muslims who shouted “Long live Coulibaly” or “Long live the Kouachi brothers” were arrested.

Debates in the media were organized around ethereal questions: “How to build a ‘French Islam'”, “how to explain that Islam is peaceful,” “how better to integrate Muslims.”

Anyone who knows Islam & knows of the existence of the internet also knows that “French Islam” does not exist, & that Islam in France cannot be separated from Islam as it is everywhere else.

Anyone who watches television & sees what is happening in many Muslim countries has to be doubting that Islam is peaceful. Most Muslim “experts” invited to speak are familiar with Islam, familiar with the internet &  familiar with what is going on in many Muslim countries — but they lie. Almost all of them are militants, imams, Muslim scholars. Most of them are members of Islamic organizations. Many belong to the French branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, & the French have just obligingly given them a platform.

The idea that Muslims have to be integrated was discussed many times — in vain. The absence of integration has worsened decade after decade. “Experts” invited to speak about integration were forcefully lying too. Those who knew the truth & could tell it were kept away.

More than 750 no-go zones exist in the country, all under the sway of gang leaders & radical imams.

More than 60% percent of inmates in French prisons are Muslim. &  future Amedy Coulibalys, Cherif Kouachis, Mohamed Merahs &  Mehdi Nemmouches are radicalized every year before going off to train for jihad in Syria or Yemen.

Terrorism experts say that dozens of jihadists are preparing attacks in France alone, & that more deadly attacks will take place. They stress that many terrorist sleeper cells exist in the country. France is a country where gun ownership by ordinary citizens is forbidden. So most people are powerless against aggressors, as tens of thousands of guns are hidden in basements.

French Jews have no illusions. Anti-Semitic attacks have become common & increasingly severe. When members of the government dare to speak of anti-Semitism, they refuse to speak of Islamic anti-Semitism, even if Islamic anti-Semitism is now the cause of almost all anti-Semitic attacks.

French Jews could see on January 11 that Prime Minister Netanyahu was not welcome, while Abbas & other supporters of jihad were celebrated. They see how speaking ill of Israel blows through the mainstream media & feeds increasing Jew-hate. They see the French parliament vote for the creation of an admittedly genocidal “ Palestinian State.”

They see that they are unarmed & that the soldiers in the streets will not be there forever. They see that jihadists are preparing more attacks. They see no-go zones grow increasingly turbulent. They see what is happening in prisons. They see that the French justice system gives short terms to jihadists & releases them quickly. They see that the government cannot stop mass riots & has no way to prevent more attacks. They see that if just Jews had been targeted in recent attacks, no protests would have taken place. Each year they see more Jews leave the country. Seven thousand left for Israel in 2014, & the Jewish Agency for Israel expects 15,000 this year.

The Muslim population is largely silent, except in the heavily-Muslim suburbs, where those who support Coulibaly & the Kouachi brothers can speak without risking arrest. Those who speak officially in the name of the French Muslim community explain that Islam is not the threat, that the real culprits are those who “insult Islam,” & that “the main victims” are Muslims.

The rest of the French population is not convinced. Several polls show that more that 70% of the French think Islam is incompatible with democracy & Western civilization; those polls predate the recent attacks.

French society has not been this split for a very long time. The political consensus that prevails in the country will not last. Recent polls show the rising fear of a widespread explosion.

The French journalist Eric Zemmour said a short while ago that France was on edge of civil war. His remarks provoked shock. He received multiple death threats. He is now under police protection. All those who criticize Islam in France suffer the same fate. Charlie Hebdo cartoonists received death threats. They were also under police protection. They are dead.

French Jews are now under military protection.

More than three million copies of the issue of Charlie Hebdo published January 14, a week after the murders, were sold on the day of its release, & at least four million more the days after. The cover says, “All is forgiven,” & shows Mohammed crying & bearing a sign saying, “I am Charlie.” Many French Muslims, & Muslims in Niger & Pakistan, are voicing their anger. Jihadist movements are hurling threats against France.

On January 15, two jihadists who had returned recently from Syria were killed in Verviers, Belgium, a hundred miles from the French border. They were about to commit serious attacks, police reported. They had accomplices, & there have been arrests. The situation in Belgium is as bad as the situation in France. There are terror cells, we are told, in France, Belgium, Germany & the Netherlands. The jihad in Europe is just beginning.

            [1] On Wednesday, January 7, two men entered the office of the satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, in Paris. They killed twelve people, including four famous French cartoonists & two police officers, then fled, shouting, “We have avenged the Prophet!” The next day, a man driving a stolen car had a traffic accident in Montrouge, south of Paris, close to the entrance of a Jewish primary school, at 8:20 a.m., when parents accompany their children on their way to class. A female police officer was present. The man killed the police officer & escaped. It is easy to imagine what would have happened in the Jewish school if he had not had that accident.

The day after that, the man who had an accident in Montrouge entered a kosher supermarket at Porte de Vincennes in the east of Paris. He killed four people, kidnapped those he did not kill, & threatened to kill all of them. A few hours later, the killer in the kosher supermarket was shot dead.

The two killers who acted at Charlie Hebdo, Cherif & Said Kouachi, were Muslims born in France. The killer at the kosher supermarket, Amedy Coulibaly, was also a Muslim born in France.

The three killers of the Paris office of Charlie Hebdo magazine & the kosher supermarket knew each other. Two of them, Cherif Kouachi, the younger brother of Said Kouachi, &  Amedy Coulibaly, had met &  been radicalized in prison. They had served short sentences, despite involvement in jihadist activities, & were released prematurely. They joined al Qaeda in Yemen, and then returned to France. French police knew about their ties with al Qaeda, but did not monitor them.

The attack against Charlie Hebdo was the deadliest terrorist attack in France since 1961.

The attack against the kosher supermarket was the third deadly jihadist attack committed by young Muslims born in France against Jews on European soil since 2012.

Jihad in France: It’s Just Beginning by Guy Millière

17. Europe Unable & Unwilling to Confront Islamic Extremism by Peter Martino http://www.gatestoneinstitute. org/5121/europe-islamic- extremism  January 19, 2015 at 4:00 am

The Algerian example shows that deploying a few thousand French troops is hardly sufficient to win this war.

While the French Pied-Noirs in Algeria in 1962 still had a place to be “repatriated” to, for the indigenous Europeans who want to escape Islam, there is simply so safe haven any more.

Fear is already ruling Europe.

Last week, the authorities in Belgium were able to prevent a major terror attack about to be committed by Belgian jihadis who had returned from Syria. The Belgians were lucky, & apparently they know it. “It takes 24 police officers to shadow one single jihadi who has returned from Syria,” Belgian officials say. “We simply do not have the manpower to keep an eye on all of them.” There are at least 101 returned Syria fighters in Belgium, meaning that a small army of almost 2,500 policemen is needed to follow them all.

It is one year ago now, in January 2014, that the then French Interior Minister &  current Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, warned that France &  Europe were about to be “overwhelmed” by the phenomenon of European jihadis returning home from Syria. He said that threat represents “the greatest danger we will have to face in the coming years.”

Last December, the number of returned Syria fighters in France was estimated to be over 200. One of them, Mehdi Nemmouche, murdered four people in the Jewish Museum in Brussels, Belgium, in May 2014. At that time, the Belgians were taken by surprise. With Europe’s open-border policies, imposed by the European Union, national authorities must keep track not only of their own Muslim terrorists returned from Syria, but also of those from other EU countries who are planning attacks on their soil. It is an impossible task.

Lessons from history confirm this. Officially, there are five million Muslims in France today. Including illegal immigrants, the number is probably close to 6 million, accounting for up to 10 per cent of the population.

In 1962, France was involved in a brutal war in Algeria. At the time, there were eight million Muslims in Algeria & one million French. The latter, the so-called Pied-Noirs (“black- feet”), often were second-, third- or fourth-generation immigrants to the country. In the case of the 130,000 Jewish Pied-Noirs, their ancestors had even been in Algeria for over a thousand years, predating the Islamic conquest of the country.

Belgian police vehicles crowd a street in Verviers, where an anti-terror raid resulted in a shoot-out that left two jihadists dead, January 15, 2014. (Image source: RT video screenshot)

The Algerian Muslims, fighting for independence, committed countless terror attacks against the Pied-Noirs. The deployment of half a million French troops proved insufficient to protect the one million Pied-Noirs. Ultimately, Algeria gained independence & became an Islamic state. Under the threat of physical extermination, over 800,000 Pied-Noirs were forced to “repatriate” to France.

Last month, The French journalist Éric Zemmour, the son of Jewish Pied-Noirs &  the author of the bestselling Le Suicide français (The French Suicide) was accused of having suggested in an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera that the only way to avoid civil war &  chaos in France was to deport the Muslim immigrants. Though Zemmour was misquoted, he was nevertheless sacked as a result of the controversy by a television chat show in which he had been participating for over a decade.

In Algeria, half a million French soldiers were unable to protect one million Frenchmen by monitoring a few hundred terrorists within a group of eight million Muslims. The question today is: How many police officers or soldiers will the French state need to protect 60 million Frenchmen, by monitoring the Islamic extremists within the group of six million Muslim immigrants in France?

Prime Minister Valls said last week that France is “at war with terrorism, jihadism & radical Islamism.” But the Algerian example shows that deploying a few thousand French troops is hardly sufficient to win this war. One can protect army & police barracks, government buildings & politicians, but it is simply impossible to protect all the newspapers, universities, churches, synagogues, train stations & shops.

Meanwhile, the inability of European governments to protect their own people is affecting Germany as well. In the city of Dresden, the grass roots organization Pegida has for weeks been organizing demonstrations against the Islamization of Germany. The German authorities have tried to prevent people from participating in these rallies, but without success.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has accused Pegida of inciting hatred & has participated in counter-demonstrations. Week after week, however, the numbers of Pegida demonstrators grow. Last Sunday, however, Pegida announced that it was cancelling its demonstration this week after a meeting with the police. The German authorities claimed to have received information that Islamic extremists were planning an attack against Pegida. According to Pegida, it would be “irresponsible” to hold a rally that would expose its supporters & the city of Dresden to “incalculable risks.”

Since the German authorities are unable to protect peaceful demonstrators against the threat of Islamic terrorists, Pegida was forced to do what the German authorities had been wanting it to do all the time: Shut up &  stop complaining about Islamization. The European authorities lack the manpower to confront Islamic extremism. But they also seem to lack the will to do so. As a consequence, fear is already ruling Europe.

And while the Pied-Noirs in 1962 still had a place to be “repatriated” to, for the indigenous Europeans who want to escape Islam, there simply is no safe haven any more. Not even in Dresden.

Europe Unable & Unwilling to Confront Islamic Extremism