Dear Family & Friends,

We have funerals & Torah. We have Islamic Jihadi Terror who mercilessly murdered the Litmans & we mourn the Islamic Jihadi Terror who mercilessly struck civilians in Paris, City of Lights. Same night. Two Torah Lit-mans shot. In the City of Lights, at least 130 people have been killed and 352 more injured (99 critically).

REMEMBER: From 1988 to now: 11/16/15

REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the Marine Barracks in Lebanon, 10/23/83

REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of Khobar Towers, U.S. Barracks Saudi Arabia, 6/25/88

REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of PanAm Flight 103, 12/21/88

REMEMBER THE MUSLIM suicide bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina March 17, 1992, killing 29 civilians with 242 wounded.

REMEMBER the first MUSLIM bombing of the World Trade Center in 2/26/93

REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the AMIA, Jewish Center in Argentina, July 18, 1994 killing 85 people, wounding hundreds by Hezb’Allah & Iran.

REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of U.S. Embassies-Nairobi & Dar es Salaam, Africa, 8/10/98

REMEMBER the MUSLIM attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon & (probably intended for the White House or Congress, but crash-landed by the enraged passenger into an empty field in Pennsylvania – on 9/11/01

REMEMBER that since 9/11, estimates of staggering 25,000 lethal acts of Islamic Terrorism.

REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombings of commuter trains in Madrid 3/11/04: 191 dead & 1,800 wounded.

REMEMBER the MUSLIM murders of at least 368, half were children in Beslan, Russia 9/1/2004

REMEMBER the Muslim bombings in London 7/7/2005 52 people killed on 3 subway trains & 1 double-decker bus – with over 700 wounded.

REMEMBER the slaughter of 170 Killed & over 600 injured in Mumbai, India, including the Chabad Rabbi Holzberg & his wife in November 2008.

REMEMBER the Moscow metro bombing 40 dead & over 100 injured in 2010.

REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombings on the Boston Marathon 4/51/2013 with 5 Killed; 264 injured including 16 amputees.

REMEMBER the MUSLIMS who shot the 12 cartoonists & editors in France.

REMEMBER the MUSLIMS who shot the 4 Jewish men shopping for Shabbos in France & a Muslim policeman.

REMEMBER the MUSLIMS who killed 4 holy Jewish men at prayer in Har Nof Nov. 2014

REMEMBER the MUSLIMS who killed at least 130 people & 352 more injured (99 critically) in Paris, the City of Lights Friday Nov. 13, 2015 REMEMBER all of the AMERICAN & other lives lost in those vicious MUSLIM attacks.

THIS SAYS IT ALL from Janet Lehr “Israel Lives” April 7, 2015

2013 The Boston Marathon Bombers were Muslims

2012 The Libyan U.S. Embassy Attack was by Muslims

2009 The Fort Hood Shooter was a Muslim

2009 The underwear Bomber was a Muslim

2008 The Bombay & Mumbai, India Attackers were Muslims

2005 The London Subway Bombers were Muslims

2004 The Beslan Russian School Attackers were Muslims

2004 The Madrid Train Bombers were Muslims

2002 The Bali Nightclub Bombers were Muslims

2002 The Moscow Theatre Attackers were Muslims

2002 The Beltway Snipers were Muslims

2001 The Shoe Bomber was a Muslim

2001/9/11 Airline Hijackers were Muslims, 15 Saudis & 4 Egyptians

2000 The U-S.S. Cole Bombers were Muslims

1998 The Pan-Am flight #93 Bombers were Muslims

1998 The Kenyan U.S, Embassy Bombers were Muslims

1996 The Saudi, Khobar Towers Bombers were Muslims

1995 The first World Trade Center Bombers were Muslims

1994 The Buenos Aires Suicide Bombers were Muslims

1985 The Achille Lauro Cruise Ship Hijackers were Muslims

1983 The Beirut U.S. Embassy bombers were Muslims

1983 The Beirut Marine Barracks bombers were Muslims

1979 The Iranian Embassy Takeover was by Muslims

1976 The Air France Entebbe Hijackers were Muslims

1972 The Israeli Munich Olympic Team Attackers were Muslims

Too sad & tragic for words.

So, try for a calm night…a pleasurable day.

All the very best, Gail/Geula/Savta/Savta Raba x 2/Mom/

1.If Israel has it, then I Demand it: A Torah Thought for Parashat Toldot by Moshe Feiglin

2.Jewish Building Will Prevent Terrorism By Batya Medad

3.Arlene Kushner “Horrendous” November 15, 2015

4.Obama, say the words ‘Radical Islamic terrorists’ by Sherri Mandell

5.The tweets that saved lives by Sacha Dratwa

6.Republican hopefuls use Paris terror attacks as ammo against refugees

7.The New Blood Libel? By Sherri Mandell

8.French President Hollande was top target in multiple terror atrocity in Paris

9.How serious is France about the war against Muslim terror?

11.PM: In Israel, as in France, terrorism is terrorism

12.Radical Islam must be destroyed by Meyer Habib

13.Islamic Doctrine in Action

14.French Jews: This time the terrorists were not just after us

1.If Israel has it, then I Demand it: A Torah Thought for Parashat Toldot by Moshe Feiglin

· Nov-12-2015

Torah Thoughts

“And Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil soup and he ate and he drank and he rose and he went and Esau despised the birthright.” (From this week’s Torah portion, Toldot, Genesis 25:34)

Esau is a practical guy. Modern. He isn’t interested in “birthrights,” titles and mysticism. He builds the world with his own two hands. Jacob’s soup smells good and if his primitive dreamer of a brother wants some intangible entity in exchange for the red stew, he is more than happy to sell it to him. After all, everybody dies in the end anyway, so what good is a birthright?

“When Esau heard the words of his father, and he shouted a great and exceedingly bitter cry and he said to his father, “Bless me as well, my father.” (ibid:27:34)

Just a minute. Is this the same Esau who scorned the birthright? And even if now he has changed his mind and wants the blessing of the firstborn, he already sold it to Jacob. So what can he possibly claim? And why the change from one extreme to the other – from scorning the birthright to crying and shouting when he loses it?

To understand the mentality of the nations of the world regarding Israel, it is a good idea to join one of the groups that ascends the Temple Mount in purity. Although Ishmael prevails on the Mount, Esau also has his hands in the pot, albeit in a more subtle manner. As long as the Temple Mount was not in the hands of the Jews and abandoned, it interested no one. Even today, Arab children still play soccer on the Mount.

When the Arabs gather to pray, they face Mecca, with their hindquarters facing the site of the Holy Temple on the Temple Mount. Just one thing is important to them: that the Jews should not pray there. In other words, as long as the birthright and blessing is in their hands, it is meaningless to them. But from the moment that Israel has the birthright, it becomes very desirable and its loss evokes an exceedingly bitter cry.

Shabbat Shalom, Moshe Feiglin

If Israel has it, then I Demand it: A Torah Thought for Parashat Toldot by Moshe Feiglin

New York-born Batya Medad made aliyah with her husband just weeks after their 1970 wedding and has been living in Shiloh since 1981. Political pundit, with a unique perspective, Batya has worked in a variety of professions: teaching, fitness, sales, cooking, public relations, photography and more. She has a B.S. in Journalism, is a licensed English Teacher specializing as a remedial teacher and for a number of years has been studying Tanach (Bible) in Matan. Batya blogs on Shiloh Musings and me-ander

Just to make it clear that all opinions, interpretations and politics are mine and mine only.

Last week at a new class I’m taking in Matan, Ezra-Nehemiah: Shivat Tzion´s Challenges and Triumphs by, Yael Leibowitz, I felt myself in one of those deja vuexperiences.

I had decided to take that course, even though it makes my Wednesdays very long, full and rushed, because I had a feeling that I’d find a lot of crucial and important similarities between the Ezra-Nechemia era and today. And just that you know, I had known absolutely nothing about that era until I began the course. Last week showed that my instinct was correct. Leibowitz was telling us about the arguments of the time as to whether or not to build the Second Temple. There was extreme poverty in the Jewish community of Jerusalem and the Land of Israel at the time, so many complained that it would be impossible, but the visionaries insisted, very much like the Kevin Costner movie:

“If you build it, he will come.” Field of Dreams (1989)

At least that is what shouted in my mind. And there were some agreeing laughs when I said some mangled version of the line in class.

There are so many parallels in today’s controversies surrounding the Temple Mount, establishing Jewish communities and building in Judea, Samaria, Jordan Valley etc. In the Ezra-Nechemia era, like today Jewish leaders feared building and made all sorts of excuses for not building. And on the other side there were those who insisted that building would prevent and solve the poverty and terrorism of the time.

The Prophet Chagai made it clear that building the Temple would bring prosperity. And during last week’s lesson, I couldn’t stop thinking of my feelings about all of the towns, cities and communities named after people murdered by terrorists. If only we had built them earlier, then those good Jews would not have been murdered.

More recently, in June, 1967, if after the Six Days War, if we had begun building the Third Jewish Temple, instead of handing the keys of the Temple Mount over to the wakf, we would now be living in true PEACE!

3.Arlene Kushner “Horrendous” November 15, 2015 11pm

I know my readers have become accustomed to seeing a good news piece or two at the beginning of a posting. Not today.

Does not mean there is no good news – there always is. But we must focus now on the horrendous news just past.

It began here in Israel, right before Shabbat, outside of Hevron. Every single terrorist attack endured here is painful for the nation. But some are harder because of unique circumstances. And this was true on Friday.

There is an Ashkenazi custom for a prospective groom (chatan, in Hebrew) to be called to the Torah on the Shabbat before his wedding. The air is festive and there is traditionally rejoicing after the Torah reading. This is Shabbat Chatan.

In Hevron this past Shabbat there was going to be a Shabbat Chatan, and Rabbi Ya’akov Litman was on his way – for this was the celebration for the man who was going to be his new son-in-law in a matter of days. Outside of Hevron, at Otniel, terrorists shot at the Rabbi’s car. He was killed as was his son, Netanel, 18.

Courtesy: family

The prospective bride was not in the car, but other members of the family were wounded – including, I believe, her mother. Her 16 year-old brother, shot in the leg, contacted security forces and directed them to the scene.

When the news came to me Friday at almost sundown, my thought was, How little the world understands of what we Israelis endure. Nor does the world understand how strong we are. My mind flew to the Applebaums. Twelve years ago, father, David, and daughter. Nava, met in the Jerusalem café Hillel for talk a day before her wedding, and were blown away.

And then, I lit my Shabbat candles, and went to synagogue, and sang at the Shabbat table. Because this is what we do.

The funeral – attended by hundreds and vastly emotional – was last night, in Jerusalem. The young woman who was scheduled to be married this week is instead sitting shiva (observing a stringent one-week mourning period) for her father and brother. Reports are that she was inconsolable, and who could blame her?

President Ruby Rivlin spoke at the funeral, and he said (emphasis added):

“We are not afraid, we do not surrender and we do not retreat – even when our blood, the blood of fathers and sons is spilled, we remember that our roots are planted in the earth of this land.”

THAT, my friends, is how strong we are.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/hundreds-attend-funeral-of-father-and-son-killed-in-terror-attack/

Security forces have the weapon that was used in the attack, and have located the car, which had been abandoned. As the result of a massive manhunt, and a joint security operation, one of the terrorists has been apprehended. In the course of interrogation, he implicated himself. Rest assured, his accomplices will also be apprehended.

There were reports that an ambulance of the Red Crescent, the Muslim version of the Red Cross, passed by the dead and wounded at Otniel, and declined to stop and lend assistance. Officials from the prime minister down are furious. A campaign will be launched against Red Crescent by Israel: a complaint will be registered with the International Committee of the Red Cross, along with a demand for Red Crescent officials to explain themselves.

A foreign ministry official said, “Israel will enact all necessary sanctions against the Red Crescent.”

What must be understood here is that this is routine practice for Red Crescent, despite ethical obligations to treat all casualties – as the Israeli Magen David Adom does.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/203375#.Vkios5uhfIX

And then, no sooner was Shabbat over then I received word of the ISIS jihadi attacks in Paris, which had occurred later Friday night and had huge dimensions. While many of my readers may not have heard what went on here before Shabbat, I doubt there is anyone who has not heard about this.

At least 130 people have been killed & 352 more injured (99 critically). This was not one attack, but a series of six timed and coordinated attacks in different locations in Paris, in the 11th and 12th arrondissements. A very sophisticated, well-planned operation, it all occurred within 30 minutes, starting at 9:45 PM. This strongly suggests a lack of adequate French intelligence, especially as France was on a high security alert even before the attack.

In the worst attack, at least 88 people were killed at a concert at the Bataclan night club/theater. There is reason to believe that this club was chosen because of its Jewish ownership.

Credit: Gatewaypundit

“French magazine Le Point says the Bataclan theater has for years been the target of anti-Zionist groups as its Jewish owners often put on pro-Israel events.”

http://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/french-mag-bataclan-an-islamist-target-due-to-jewish-owners/

In another hit, there was a double suicide bombing right outside the Stadium of France, where French President Hollande and the German foreign minister were watching an international soccer game. Altogether too close…

Several select restaurants were also attacked.

France is now observing three days of mourning, with many shops closed, and people remaining at home. Certainly all Jewish institutions in Paris are shut.

Heartfelt condolences came from many quarters, including, of course, Israel. Last night, Netanyahu said, “An attack on any one of use should be seen as an attack on all of us…Terrorism is the deliberate and systematic targeting of civilians . It can never be justified.”

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Netanyahu-responds-to-Paris-attack-An-attack-on-one-of-us-is-an-attack-on-all-of-us-433056

Additionally, Netanyahu said: “You can’t fight terrorism selectively. You can’t say these are the good terrorists and these are the bad terrorists. All terrorists are bad.
“Just as we have condemned murderous acts around the world, so too I expected condemnation to be issued against the murders that occurred yesterday, of Yaakov and Natanel Litman.” (emphasis added)

Dearly do I wish the Western world would respond to this expectation. I do not for a moment believe it will.

In a spirit of solidarity with Paris, the walls of the Old City in Jerusalem were lit up in the colors of the French flag.

Credit: Perry Mandelbaum

Three teams of ISIS- affiliated attackers acting in unison carried out the terrorist operation. All the attackers carried assault rifles and wore suicide vests. The coordinator of the entire attack is still at large, as is the bomb-maker and apparently a member of one of the terrorist teams.

While some French nationals were involved – Belgian authorities say two of the French nationals were living in Belgium – there were also at least two attackers who came into France as Syrian “refugees.”

“Syrian passport found by police at the scene of the mass shooting in a Paris concert hall belonged to an asylum seeker who registered on a Greek island in October, a Greek minister said Saturday.

“’We confirm that the Syrian passport holder came through the Greek island of Leros on October 3 where he was registered under EU rules,’ said a statement issued by Nikos Toskas, the minister for citizen protection.

“’The most logical assumption is that it’s the same person, sent on a mission to Europe,’ said a European security expert speaking on condition of anonymity.”

http://www.timesofisrael.com/greece-syrian-terrorist-passed-through-country-as-migrant/

“Second Suspected Paris Attacker Likely Passed Through Greece as Refugee

“Holder of Syrian passport found near gunman’s body arrived in Europe with 69 refugees in island of Leros in October, Greek official says…” http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/1.686021

This entire matter of jihadists posing as “refugees” is of enormous import for all of Europe, which has been welcoming those coming from Syria with open arms. Of course not every person who claims refugee status is a jihadist, but analysts – yours truly among them – have been warning that the signs of a dangerous situation have been clear for all to see.

The unrest and anxiety this now causes in Europe is tremendous; already Poland has indicated a reluctance to take future refugees according to an allotment spelled out by the EU.

Whatever the reluctance now to take more refugees, the fact remains that thousands who are militants are likely already inside Europe’s borders. That is, Europe has a humungous problem which we’ve seen coming down the road.

President Hollande has declared:

“It is an act of war that was committed by a terrorist army, a jihadist army, Daesh [ISIS], against France. It is an act of war that was prepared, organized and planned from abroad, with complicity from the inside, which the investigation will help establish.”

He is planning to call out the army in strength; Paris, which he expects will remain under a state of emergency for three months, will be patrolled by the military.

France, said Hollande, will “be unforgiving with the barbarians from Daesh,” Acting within the law, France would respond with “all the necessary means, and on all terrains, inside and outside, in coordination with our allies.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/world/europe/paris-terrorist-attacks.html?_r=0

There are reports of French planes flying over ISIS strongholds in Libya, and there is an investigation already begun, to determine precisely who each of the terrorists was, and how it all came together. But beyond this, there is no clarity on what Hollande intends.

I will be returning to this.

Ana Bekoach is an ancient Kabbalistic poem set to music. A prayer. It allegedly has great mystical power and meaning. What I know is that I love it, and think it appropriate for ending this posting. We need to reach for the mystical powers.

“We beg thee, with the strength and greatest of Thy right arm, Untangle our twisted fate.

“Accept your people’s song, elevate and purify us…

“Accept our cries, and hear our screams, oh knower of mysteries.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp4HRYBhtSI&list=PLrEf38ndf2USoU2Jvi0KUEHQuoaNWS32V

© Arlene Kushner. This material is produced by Arlene Kushner, functioning as an independent journalist. Permission is granted for it to be reproduced only with proper attribution. If it is reproduced and emphasis is added, the fact that it has been added must be noted.See my website at www.arlenefromisrael.info Contact Arlene at akushner18@gmail.com

4.Obama, say the words ‘Radical Islamic terrorists’ by Sherri Mandell

November 15, 2015, 1:44 pm

Sherri Mandell is co-director of the Koby Mandell Foundation which runs programs for bereaved families in Israel. Her book, “The Blessing of a Broken Heart,” won a National Jewish Book Award in 2004.

Dear President Obama,

Say it. Say the word, “Islam,” say the words, “radical Islam.” Say the words, “radical Islam extremists.” Say the words, “radical Islam terrorists.” Repeat after me. Say the words, “Muslims who murder, Muslims who murder innocents.” Say the word, “jihad,” say the words, Obama. Finally, say the words.

Don’t tell us that this terror is not connected to the religion of Islam when, in Israel, Muslim terrorists again began attacking innocent Israelis this fall after Abbas claimed that Jews were treading on the site of the El Aqsa Mosque with their dirty feet, changing the status quo on the Temple Mount.

After Paris, the free world’s narrative has changed. At least, there is the possibility that the narrative has changed. We here in Israel have not had the luxury of being able to deny this murderous reality. It has happened below our feet — in front of our eyes.

Two days ago, a father and a son were murdered in cold blood a week before the daughter’s wedding.

A few weeks ago, a father of eight was knifed, or was it shot, or did they throw a Molotov cocktail, or did they throw rocks and then stab the victim, or did they board a bus and toss bombs and kill us? I can no longer count the ways that innocent Israelis have been attacked.

We Israelis cannot drive or walk the streets without fear that a radical Muslim terrorist will attack us. Our narrative has always been one of fighting an enemy sworn to our destruction. And the world has blamed us.

So now, President Obama,, do not continue to deny the reality of radical Islam terror rooted in a religious narrative. Don’t tell us about senseless killings. Because the sense is this: radical Muslim extremists employ their religion to hate everything that the free world stands for. Their ideology is to destroy. Use the words murder, jihad, Obama, use the words. Don’t obfuscate, and don’t minimize our common enemy, because maybe just maybe, the truth of the enemy we are facing can no longer be minimized.

Maybe the eyes of the world have been opened.

Don’t tell us that it’s because of despair. Don’t tell us it’s because of a lack of justice or economic opportunity.

Say the words, “war against radical Islam terror” because that is what we are fighting. Don’t tell us that terrorists attack because they are hopeless. Don’t tell us that it has nothing to do with Islam, when before the murderers kill, they praise the name of their God. Their hope is to kill us, to destroy us.

Their pleasure is death and their greater pleasure is weakness, the weakness of countries and leaders like you who for too many years have tried to ignore or minimize the unpleasant reality of radical Muslim terror.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during the Sunshine Summit conference being held at the Rosen Shingle Creek, November 13, 2015 Orlando, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

Stuart Winer is a breaking news editor at The Times of Israel.

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Republican presidential front-runners on Saturday used the weekend terror attacks in Paris as an argument against the US taking in Syrian refugees and as the basis for calls to toughen up immigration and border security.

Referring to reports that one of the terrorists who struck in the French capital was from Syria, Donald Trump lambasted what he claimed was a White House plan to bring hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees to America.

“Our president wants to take in 250,000 from Syria,” he said. “I mean, think of it. 250,000 people. And we all have heart. And we all want people taken care of and all of that. But with the problems our country has, to take in 250.000 people — some of whom are going to have problems, big problems.”

According to Reuters, the Obama administration revealed in September a plan to take in 10,000 Syrian refugees in the twelve months from October, a significant increase from the less than 2,000 who were let in last year.

Trump, speaking at a rally in Beaumont, Texas, also said the terror attacks in Paris would have been “a much, much different situation” had the victims been armed with guns.

He began the event with a moment of silence in honor of the victims of the attacks.

In an interview with Fox News Senator Ted Cruz also attacked the idea of evacuating Syrian refugees to the US.

“President Obama & Hillary Clinton’s idea that we should bring tens of thousands of Syrian Muslim refugees to America, it is nothing less than lunacy,” Cruz said speaking from an event in Greenville.

French officials said 129 people were dead and hundreds more injured after the series of coordinated bombings and shootings.

Trump also criticized President Barack Obama’s handling of the Islamic State group, saying that the US should be more aggressive in its approach.

He has been calling for the US to destroy oil fields the group controls.

At the Sunshine Summit Republican, Florida, Chris Christie panned the US government for not having implemented better border security to prevent IS agents from infiltrating into the US, Politico reported.

If tighter measure were in place then “on an afternoon like this afternoon we wouldn’t be worried about ISIS [Islamic State] slipping across our borders to commit unspeakable acts of violence,” he said.

Bobby Jindal, speaking at the same happening, pointed to French President François Hollande’s slamming shut of France’s border immediately after the attacks as an example the US should follow.

“It’s time for us here in America to secure our borders & keep us safe as well from these radical evil terrorists,” he said.

7.The New Blood Libel? By Sherri Mandell

Times Of Israel.com OCTOBER 13, 2015, 12:00 PM

Sherri Mandell is co-director of the Koby Mandell Foundation which runs programs for bereaved families in Israel. Her book, “The Blessing of a Broken Heart,” won a National Jewish Book Award in 2004.

We Israelis face a libel—the Palestinian proclamation and belief that the Jews are trying to take over the Temple Mount.

As Netanyahu remarked, it is not the first time that the Arabs have incited the killing of Jews based on a supposed takeover of the Temple Mount. The mufti of Jerusalem said something similar, igniting the 1929 massacre of scores of Jews in Hebron.

Abbas and the Palestinian leadership continue with this heritage of poisonous indoctrination. Jews have a legitimate claim to the Temple Mount. But nobody is conquering it from the Arabs. Jews can’t even pray there, or bring a prayer book there. And when they visit, until very recently, they were harassed by groups of Arab women who were hired to surround them and shout at them.

Unfortunately, Jews have historical experience with the terrible repercussions of the lies of libel. In the 12th century, Christians in Europe and England began to accuse Jews of killing Christian children in order to bake their blood into matzah as part of a Jewish religious obligation for Passover. This preposterous and primitive blood libel continued for centuries and resulted in the massacre of Jews in England and Europe. Most recently, in Syria, Jews were accused of killing Arab children to put their blood in matzah.

What is new about this latest permutation of libel is the ease with which incitement can spread and morph. On social media, Arabs are now encouraging the murder of Jews to prevent them from taking over the Temple Mount. On Facebook, the Palestinians are inciting each other to murder Jews with knives—but not only that–to soak their knives with poison so that if the Jews they stab are not immediately killed or maimed, they will die because of infection from the poison.

Poison may serve here not only as a terrible means of murder but also as a metaphor. For too many years, a poison has been injected into the hearts and minds of the Palestinian public–from their schools, their mosques, their TV shows, and their leadership. The populace is trained to hate the Jewish state, the Jewish people. Schools are named after suicide murderers. Children are educated for war, not peace.

Now with the ease of social media, the poison of unbridled hatred, tragically, becomes more potent. It spreads more quickly, more thoroughly and lethally. And instead of trying to lessen the incitement, Palestinian leaders ignite it with their declaration to visit the Temple Mount, which is temporarily closed to all government ministers. They ignite it with their denial of responsibility.

The fact that it is Palestinian youth and young adults who are now the main killers in this wave of terror may be because they are the ones who spend most of their time on Facebook and Twitter, imbibing a potent cocktail of malice and evil, a tragedy not only for the Jewish people, but for these Palestinian youth–and their elders– as well. For the prospects of peace are poisoned. And there is no ready antidote.

8.French President Hollande was top target in multiple terror atrocity in Paris

DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis November 14, 2015, 12:42 PM (IDT)

The geography of the six Paris locations targeted by terrorists Friday night points to precise advance planning in support of a primary target, namely, French President Francois Hollande, while at the same time sowing bloody havoc in the French capital, frightening tourists away and shaking the French governing system to the core. The cost in lives has not been finally tallied. Estimates range from 127 to 153 with dozens of people injured.

DEBKAfile’s counterterrorism sources note that the parties who orchestrated the deadliest terrorism attack on any European capital took into account that President Hollande would be attending a friendly French-German football match at the Stade de France, presenting them with a high-quality target for assassination or capture as their hostage. Saturday, the president was the first French official to explicitly accuse ISIS of “an act of war” against France.

One of the terrorists shouted before he died, “Francois Hollande’s foreign policy is to blame!” Another was reported by a witness as shouting “This is for Syria!” while spraying gunfire in one of the targeted restaurants: The other attacks on at least six locations were a kind of vicious subplot with the dual purpose of bloody terror per se as well as a diversionary tactic to confuse French security forces and keep them running around in several directions. The president’s bodyguards were meant to be distracted by two earsplitting explosions staged by two suicide bombers outside the stadium.

The guards however quickly whisked the president out of the stadium in time to escape harm.

Whatever their primary objective, coordinating so many simultaneous terror attacks by a large team called for months of preparation, precise intelligence, a variety of weapons and a large team of dedicated killers backed by exceptional staff work and organization.
Our analysts attribute the multiple assaults to a collaborative effort between Al Qaeda and the Islamic State. Together they were capable of putting up the necessary resources which included: –

1. A group of at least 20 terrorists for executing the six attacks. The French Prosecutor’s office reported Satuday that seven died in suicide bombings & the eighth was killed by security forces when they raided the concert hall, where dozens of hostages were being killed. Others may still be at large.

Our sources suspect that the survivors of the group are lying low and may be planning to emerge for a second round of atrocities in the coming hours or days, like after the Charlie Hebdo episode ten months ago, which was quickly succeeded by a massacre at the Jewish kosher store.

2. A second group of back-up confederates was made up of drivers, who drove the terrorists to the scenes of attack and were ready to extricate any survivors. They handed the attackers their bomb belts, automatic weapons and explosives and acting also as spotters who watched and recording the movements of French security forces. They also photographed the incident.

3. A command group planned the attacks, enlisted operatives, directed and coordinated them, and maintained communications among the different teams.
At least 200 operatives at various levels were completely in the picture and directly involved in at least two months of advance planning.
The night of November 14 will be remembered for the failure of France’s Director-General for Internal Security (DGSI) and Director-General for External Security (DGSE) – or their refusal – to pick up the slightest clue to the massive preparations afoot for a horrendous, wide-scale terrorist outrage against their capital city.
Reclusive Muslim communities populate whole Paris suburbs and often practice an extremist Islamic life style which does not recognize the authority of the French Republic. When French police are forced to enter those areas they take care to have an armored military escort with automatic rifles. Rife with crime, poverty and deprivation, these communities are perfect breeding grounds for terrorist networks.

The alienation of the Paris Muslim community and the experiences of young radicals in former Islamic terrorist operations in the past two years have raised a high wall against penetration by French intelligence and police services and any attempts by them to enlist informers, undercover agents or collaborators able to whisper a warning when trouble lies ahead.

The French agencies therefore work in the almost total absence of human intelligence from Arabic speakers conversant with the local dialect, and rely almost exclusively on “signal Intelligence” (SIGINT) for warnings of a deadly threat of the kind that swept Paris Friday and is unlikely to end any time soon.

Since it could not have been the work of 200 lone wolves, but only a large organization with headquarters in Syria and Iraq and impressive multinational capabilities, it is hard to understand how the far-reaching preparations for a multiple Paris terror assault were not detected by any Western signals intelligence branches, including ECHELON, the all-seeing American digital surveillance system and its small brother, Frenchelon. This is bad news for other Western capitals, which ISIS has placed under threat.

9.How serious is France about the war against Muslim terror? Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld The whole of France — and by extension Europe – its population and culture, is under attack. There needs to be a master plan. Arutz Sheva IsraelNationalNews.com Published: Monday, November 16, 2015 9:14 PM Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld has been a long-term adviser on strategy issues to the boards of several major multinational corporations in Europe and North America.He is board member and former chairman of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and recipient of the LIfetime Achievement Award (2012) of the Journal for the Study of Anti-Semitism.

Many tough words have been used by President François Hollande and other French leaders after the terrible massacres in Paris on November 13. “Even if France is wounded, she will rise,” Hollande said. “Even if we are in grief, nothing will destroy her.” He also called the massacres an “act of war.”[1] Prime Minister Manuel Valls said “we are at war.” The government has also called a state of emergency which it now wants to extend for three months.

The French government gives the impression that it is going to undertake a huge program to fight the Islamic State. French planes have already bombed the Syrian city Raqqa, the de facto capital of the organization. As an aside one might mention here that a summer 2014 poll found that 16% of the French population viewed ISIS favorably at that time.[2]

France or indeed any other country going to war, has to assess the battlefield. In a post-modern society this is radically different from classic warfare, as it is not limited to a geographically defined area. The battlefield includes a disparate collection of many individuals with seditious intentions. Radical Muslim ideology is widespread in France and elsewhere in Western Europe. The Islamic State variant is just one among several others.

Some of the terrorists came from the Molenbeek quarter, a radical Muslim hotbed in Brussels. The Belgian government has admitted that it has lost control over the area.[3] France has temporarily closed its borders. However, instituting permanent border controls is a prerequisite in any effective fight against radicalized Muslims. Such a measure will inevitably undermine the Schengen open borders agreement, one of the major achievements of the EU.

France’s leaders have given no indication, in what we have heard from them thus far, that the country intends to deal with the entire battlefield. On the contrary, after the January 2015 murders of the Charlie Hebdo journalists and the Jews in the Hyper Cacher supermarket,
Hollande nonsensically claimed that when a Muslim with intent to murder shouts “Allahu Akbar” as a battle cry it has nothing to do with Islam
Hollande stated: “these fanatics have nothing to do with the Muslim religion.”[4] He thus nonsensically claimed that when a Muslim with intent to murder shouts “Allahu Akbar” as a battle cry it has nothing to do with Islam. Valls spoke more truthfully when he commented on the minority ghettoes at the time. He said that there is a “territorial, social, and ethnic apartheid” separating these neighborhoods from the rest of France.[5]

These attacks pose a problem far greater than that faced in January this year, as the target is clearly no longer limited to journalist and Jews. The whole of France — and by extension Europe – its population and culture, is under attack.

Problems in the French Muslim community have multiple aspects, as for instance pointed in a study by Gilles Kepel.[6] It is probable that only a small percentage of the anti-democrats among the Muslims in France currently harbor terrorist intentions. However, many more are susceptible to radicalization, and therefore must be seen as potential terrorists. Convincing a few more French Muslim leaders to condemn the murders is not going to help much. The real postmodern war against violent and other antidemocratic Muslims requires a master plan that goes far beyond interim measures such as the closure of radical mosques.

This means reclaiming the lost territories in French cities and society, a move tantamount to the elimination of defined urban areas currently ruled, to all intents and purposes, by Sharia law, where French law has been marginalized. It would mean the end of “no go zones” where the police can only enter in large numbers on an ‘ad hoc’ basis.

To state explicitly that government control would have to be restored in self-contained Muslim enclaves would verge on the sacrilegious for a socialist politician in France. This is not the result of a conspiracy of silence on the part of the French government and politically correct media. Such avoidance has its origins in something more insidious: a sanitization of public expression encouraged by the establishment’s main actors, both social and political.

The absence of any clear mention of problems specifically related to the French Muslim population and to Islam, allows for the fallacious belief that such problems are not major.

In order to fight the war it has declared against terrorism, the government has to define the battlefield. This requires statements which, within the French context, would be extreme. They boil down to: ‘In order to effectively fight the Islamic State, we have to reassess systematically what is wrong in French society, with a strong emphasis on its Muslim component. We are going to deal with these problems come what may, and however long it takes, in a systematic way. We know that if we don’t do so we are asking for even more trouble.’

In France there are important forces which are not part of the establishment, which may have been propelled forward by the massacres. The main one is Marine le Pen’s right wing National Front party. Its leaders have no problem in pointing out their very different and sometimes racist views of what is wrong in French Muslim society.

It may still be too early to see a further popular swing toward the party in the upcoming regional elections at the beginning of December. But even shortly before the massacre, Le Pen was leading in the polls for the first round of the 2017 presidential election, ahead of the Republicans’ Nicolas Sarkozy. Hollande was behind in third place, and according to the polls, would not make it to the second round.[7] This is an additional incentive for him to take matters far more seriously in the current crisis than he has done so far.

By observing whether the battlefield has been correctly addressed, as time passes political observers will be able to judge the extent to which the French government is serious about dealing with and preventing terrorism. As far as Israel is concerned: if France acts as it should do for its own security, then it should be more difficult for its government to come up with further disturbing posturing in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and condemnations of Israeli actions against terrorists.

If France does not act, Israel can only emphasize that France’s policies have led to a far greater Muslim-perpetrated massacre in Paris, than has ever occurred in Israel. If Hollande is serious, the French intelligence services would do well to come to the only democratic country in the Middle East for more sophisticated advice. Israel has successfully developed detailed intelligence methods over the years to avoid such massacres, dealing with a constant threat of many willing Palestinian and to a lesser extent local Muslim perpetrators.

[1] “Hollande : “C’est un acte de guerre commis par une armée terroriste, Daech”,” France 24, 14 Nov 2015

[2] Madeline Grant, “16% of French Citizens Support ISIS, Poll Finds,” Newsweek, 26 August 2014

[3] Von Christoph B. Schiltz, Brüssel, “Hier fallen islamistische Terroristen nicht auf,” Die Welt, 15 Nov 2015

[4] “12-French forces kill newspaper attack suspects, hostages die in second siege,” Reuters, 10 Jan 2014.

[5] Sylvia Zappi, “Manuel Valls, l’apartheid et les banlieues”, Le Monde, 26 January 2015. [French]

[6] Luc Bronner, “La place croissante de l’islam en banlieue” Le Monde, 4 October 2011. [French]

[7] Raheem Kassam, “Marine le-Pen Tops Another French Presidency Poll,” Breitbart , 13 Nov. 2015.

How serious is France about the war against Muslim terror?

10.J’accuse Obama by Barry Shaw

Obama is a leftist who is out of synch with harsh reality. World chaos can be traced to his feckless foreign policy. It is certain that what we saw in the French capital is coming to America. It is predictable. Arutz Sheva IsraelNationalNews.com Published: Sunday, November 15, 2015 10:27 PM

Barry Shaw, The writer is the Senior Associate for Public Diplomacy at the Israeli Institute for Strategic Studies. He is also the author of ‘Fighting Hamas, BDS and Anti-Semitism.’

Historically, the President of the United States wears the title “leader of the free world.”

Obama, in his presidency, has relinquished that role almost gleefully. As a result, the world is a far more dangerous place.

Charles Crawford, former British ambassador to Sarajavo, Belgrade and Warsaw, said in an article in PunditWire on 16 June, 2013, that Obama’s Cairo speech “set the stage for Egypt’s disaster,” meaning the overthrow of President Mubarak and the election of the Muslim Brotherhood.

President Obama is the personification of leftist progressive ideology totally out of step with harsh reality. It is a faulted policy of denial, of cover up. Making nice doesn’t make it nice.

President George Bush said in the aftermath of 9/11 that “if America shows weakness and uncertainty there will be a drift towards tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.”

It did happen on Obama’s watch.

What is happening with ISIS in Syria and Iraq, with the spread of Hezbollah, with the confidence of Hamas and the rejection of Israel by the Palestinian Authority, are all consequences of Obama’s feckless foreign policy.

Obama called ISIS “a JV team” earlier this year. As we see the spread of ISIS into Africa and Europe, Iran celebrating the death of sanctions and boasting about their intercontinental ballistic developments, and Russia encroaching into the Ukraine and picking up the Syrian thread dropped by Obama, it appears to an outside observer that it is the Obama Administration that is the JV team.

Let me make it clear to Americans. What you see in Syria, Iraq, with Russia and Iran are not local games. This violence gets exported to Western soft targets as it was in Paris and, to its enemies, America is the grand prize, and the enemy is playing the long game.

In his own JV moment, Secretary of State, John Kerry, said of the alleged death of ISIS English speaking beheader, known as Jihadi John, “with the death of Jihadi John we are winning and ISIS is losing.”

The slaughter of over a hundred people in Paris just two days later emphasized the pathetic dream world of the US Administration.

The denial that America and the West are at war with Islamic jihad is the prime cause of the weakness of confronting a brutal and determined enemy with a global goal of Shariah law and an Islamic caliphate. This war in nothing new, as a forgotten chapter in American history has been retold in Brian Kilmeade’s new book “Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates” which reminds all who will listen that America waged a war against jihad two hundred years ago and that war, despite the White House whitewash, is being waged even more strongly today.

When Putin announced he was sending troops and equipment to back up Syria’s Assad, he did it the day after he met with Obama – without telling him in advance that this was his operational plan. At a town hall meeting at Fort Meade, Maryland, on September 11, 2015, Obama talked of a conversation he had with Putin “ four or five years before” in which he advised the Russian leader that is was wrong to provide financial support and arms to Assad. He complained that Putin didn’t listen to him.

“He did not take my warnings,” is how Obama expressed it, but when Obama had a golden opportunity to apply the “red lines” that he had imposed on President Assad on Syria’s use of chemical weapons, he backed down when challenged by the Syrian dictator’s use of these weapons. This was viewed by every player in the Middle East, including Iran and the regional terror organizations, as a further deterioration in American strength and a lack of political will to stand by its word.

The Obama/Kerry nuclear deal with Tehran is looked on as paving the way to the bomb while gifting a radical and dangerous Iranian regime with $150 Billion for terrorism and military build-up. This is exasperating to America’s allies and a confidence boost to the malevolent actors in the region.

To be sure, the US has played a very short losing game in its fight against ISIS. After stubbornly refusing to “put boots on the ground” in Syria, Obama recently agreed to allow fifty soldiers to play an advisory role there in a weak effort to put facts on the ground. To military and security experts this number is a joke. It’s hardly a number that would make ISIS quiver in fear.

When Israel was forced to respond to thousands of missiles and rockets fired by Hamas last year, they flew 5500 air sorties over Gaza during the fifty five days of the conflict. US planes have barely flown 1500 sorties in over a year against ISIS. This, to any military chief, is not serious.

With Russia and Iran displaying muscle, with nefarious Islamic terror armies marching over the Middle East, Africa, Yemen, and attacking and killing European and American targets, the United States and the world is in worse shape today than it was after 9/11.

America has had the blessing of time, that is, has not suffered the same slaughter we have seen in Paris. It is time to kick political correctness into touch and call it for what it is.

It is certain that what we saw in the French capital is coming to America. It is predictable. You do not deflect the aims of the enemy by being nice. You do not stop them by surrendering to their demands.

America withdrew from Iraq, and ISIS rolled in to grab major tracts of territory, stole assets, killed, raped, and turned hundreds into slaves. America visibly refused to meddle in Syria, and ISIS lay down its headquarters there to metastasize into a global Islamic network of evil and death.

France’s President Hollande said, “We will lead a war without pity.” This is the new PC for democracy. It’s a pity he said it the day after Paris and not the months before.

It is a pity that the American president hasn’t said it at all.

Barry Shaw is a Senior Associate at the Israeli Institute for Strategic Studies.

J’accuse Obama by Barry Shaw

In wake of Paris attacks, PM Benjamin Netanyahu calls for a united global campaign against terrorism • “The time has come for countries to condemn terrorism against us to the same degree that they condemn terrorism everywhere else in the world,” he says.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Sunday

At the start of Sunday’s cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke about Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris and called for a united global campaign against terrorism.

“In Israel, as in France, terrorism is terrorism, and standing behind it is radical Islam and its desire to destroy its victims,” Netanyahu said. “The time has come for the world to wake up and unite in order to defeat terrorism. The time has come for countries to condemn terrorism against us to the same degree that they condemn terrorism everywhere else in the world. It would be proper for Abu Mazen [Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas], who condemned the attack in France yesterday, to condemn ruthless terrorism against innocent people in Israel and fight the incitement that motivates it.

“We should remember: We are not to blame for the terrorism directed against us, just as the French are not to blame for the terrorism directed against them. It is the terrorists who are to blame for terrorism, not the territories, not the settlements, and not any other thing. It is the desire to destroy us that perpetuates this conflict and drives the murderous aggression against us.

“Lastly, the terrorists who attack us have the same murderous intent as those in Paris. Thanks to our aggressive policy against terrorism — to control the ground, go into the villages, demolish terrorists’ homes and take preventive action against the infrastructure of terrorism — along with the determined action of the IDF and the security services in carrying out this policy, we succeed many times in frustrating and preventing more serious disasters.”

In an interview with Army Radio on Sunday, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon called the Paris attacks “an event that will likely influence Europe as the 9/11 attacks influenced the U.S.”

“Countries fighting terrorism have no alternative shifting in the direction of security [on the balance between security and human rights],” Ya’alon said.

13.Islamic Doctrine in Action

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As we are seeing in Paris, and as we have seen again and again, as perplexing as it may be to non-Muslims, jihad is a form of worship.
Allah discouraged Muslims from passive expressions of faith. To prove one’s faith, Allah demands action. Specifically and most importantly, jihad — fighting in the way of Allah. Fighting to establish the legal domination of Islam. It is Islam’s prime directive.
You and I may think it is wrong, but to a Muslim, it is right. It is commanded by Allah. What could be more right than that to someone who believes it?
The world must awaken to the existence of such a creed and stop blinding itself with wishful thinking. This is not going to go away.

“[In January], the attacks were against Jews, against journalists, against soldiers. This time, they were against the entire French nation,” Roger Cukierman, president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France, tells Israel Hayom.

Hundreds of people, including several diplomats and politicians, gathered under tight security Sunday evening at Paris’ Grand Synagogue to hold a special prayer vigil in honor of all those who lost their lives in Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris.

At the service, a memorial candle was lit for the victims, and the congregation observed a minute of silence. The synagogue’s chief rabbi, Moshe Sebbag, said it was a time of great mourning for those who perished and those still undergoing treatment in hospitals.

The attacks in the French capital claimed 132 lives and left 349 people injured, dozens of them still in intensive care.

“This ceremony is us showing our solidarity with our brothers who lost their lives two days ago, showing solidarity with those injured in hospital. Today is about national unity, Jews, Christians and Muslims, each of them in their place of worship, to express our pain and profound sorrow. Most of all, today is about brotherhood,” Sebbag said.

The president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France, Roger Cukierman, was also present at the service.

“I think these attacks were different from the ones in January,” he told Israel Hayom, referring to the deadly attacks on the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Jan. 7 and on the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket two days later.

“And I really hope the French people understand the difference: Then, the attacks were against Jews, against journalists, against soldiers. This time, they were against the entire French nation,” Cukierman said.

He added that he hopes “that in Europe, they will understand what happened and respond appropriately. The French people all understand the danger of terrorism now, and [they understand] that the Islamic State group’s terrorism is a threat to all of us.”

Chief Rabbi of Paris Michel Gugenheim told the crowd that his hope is for “laughter to overcome the tears and sadness.” He and Chief Rabbi of France Haim Korsia expressed the Jewish community’s sorrow over the attacks and offered their condolences to the victims’ families.

Also present at the ceremony was the imam of the Drancy mosque, Hassene Chalghoumi, who said that all people of faith were mourning the attacks, and that he joined the Jewish community in praying for the memory of the victims.

At the end of the service, the congregation broke out into the first verse of the French national anthem, “La Marseillaise,” in a sign of solidarity.

Asked by Israel Hayom if the Bataclan theater was targeted for an attack because of its Jewish ownership, a Jewish community leader said, “That’s nonsense. What about the Cambodian restaurant and the stadium? This time it was not against the Jews. This time, it was against the French people, and the Jews are a part of them. We are all in the same boat.”

15.Government warns of ‘actual bloodshed’ if synagogue demolished

Government asks Supreme Court to delay Givat Ze’ev synagogue’s demolition by several days to ensure maximum security. By Ido Ben-Porat Arutz Sheva IsraelNationalNews.com First Publish: 11/16/2015, 9:07 pm

Residents gather for showdown at Givat Ze’ev synagogue Photo: Eliran Aharon

The State filed an urgent request to the Supreme Court Monday, asking to delay the demolition of the Ayelet HaShachar synagogue in Givat Ze’ev.

The state stated that the Prime Minister and the Defense Minister were given intelligence assessments from security officials warning of actual bloodshed in the event the congregants were evicted from their synagogue without consent – despite news of a compromise first revealed by Arutz Sheva.

On Sunday, representatives of the government – headed by Ministers Moshe Ya’alon, Naftali Bennett and Aryeh Deri – the Givat Ze’ev Regional Council head, the synagogue’s rabbi, and a representative of the synagogue’s congregants reached a compromise over the demolition, in which a new building was promised to the synagogue within three months and a temporary structure provided.

Another meeting Monday with all parties involved yielded an agreement for the synagogue to be evicted peacefully, and for all the constituents to leave of their own will – and to ensure that every object had been removed from the building.

To this end, the date for demolition was set for Thursday – with no postponements allowed later than some 3 weeks from now, December 10, 2015. A security detail will be posted to the site 24/7 until the demolition ends, ensuring no one can enter the building.

The outline signifies a compromise between religious leaders, congregants, MKs, and Israelis across the country who protested against the demolition of the synagogue, which despite being built over 20 years ago was slated for demolition after a petition from extremist leftist group Yesh Din.

The group claims that the structure had been build on privately-owned Palestinian Arab land, but congregants say they have proof they purchased it legally, and note the alleged Arab “owner” has yet to emerge. Public officials have rallied behind the synagogue and called to save it, stating that sends the wrong message to Israelis over the character of the Jewish state.

[GAIL SEZ: DEMOLISHING THE AYELET HASHACHAR SYNAGOGUE IN GIVAT ZE’EV SENDS THE WRONG MESSAGE TO THE WHOLE WORLD THAT JEWS CANNOT PROTECT THEIR OWN PRAYERS.]