Dear Family & Friends,

We’re in the middle of a real fire-storm here in Israel. It seems as if the Arab Terrorists have found “Fire” as a weapon – again.

85,000 residents of Haifa have been evacuated. Six separate fires are currently burning around Haifa, choking city streets with smoke. About half of the 200 wildfires raging across the country were “deliberately set”. So far, thank G-d, no one has been killed although hundreds of wounded casualties (90 for smoke inhalation) & several homes destroyed – plus at least 1,850 acres of forests, flora & fauna destroyed. As Education Minister Naftali Bennett said: “Only someone to whom this land does not belong, could be able to burn it.” As MK Nava Koker (Likud), whose police office husband was murdered in the 2010 Mt. Carmel forest fire wrote on Facebook: “200 fires in one day – the time has come to say it openly:; This is ecological Terrorism!” As Likud MK Amir Ohana said: the fires show that “they want to destroy the one Jewish State more than they want to establish the 22^nd Arab State.”

The “good” news is that Israel’s Fire & Rescue Services have greatly improved since the Carmel Fire disaster of 2010. Plus, the world response & help has been wonderful! Russia sent 2 massive Beriev-Be-200 Fire Fighting planes that can carry 12000 liters of water scooped out of the sea in 14 seconds plus their crews of 19 members & another plane due to arrive Friday. Greece sent 3 planes & a crew of 32; Croatia sent 2 planes & their crew of 14; Turkey sent 2 planes & an 8-member crew (with 2 more planes coming); Italy sent 2 planes & 13 crew members; & Cyprus sent it sold fire-fighting plane & crew of 7; France & Ukraine both offered 2 planes each with crews which are expected Friday. Netanyahu requested the American 747 Super-Tanker, the only fire plane capable of operating at night – expected to arrive Friday night & can carry 20,000 gallons of firefighting liquids, including water, foaming agents & fire retardants. That costs $1.5 million dollars to rent but, in this kind of existential Terror War crisis, it would be worthwhile, if needed.

That this is an Arab Terror War is undisputed. Several members of Knesset suggest appropriate penalties for any convicted of such arson. Also, the culpability of incitement to Fire Intifada by social media will face criminal charges & penalties. Social media in Arabic celebrates fires as they spread across Israel. The ‘hashtag’ “Israel is burning” with a smiley face Emoticon & multiple photos of fires went ‘viral’ in Arabic posts with the message: “Good luck with the fires”.

Our fire emergency preparations take precedence over the deeply important statements made by various Israeli & world diplomats on Wednesday at the Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference 2016. My light analysis of their deep analyses will have to wait til Saturday night or Sunday’s GW Diary.

Have a wonderful Shabbat! To my American family & friends: Enjoy your Thanksgiving turkey & trimmings. Even though Israel has turkey farms, I’ve not succeeded in capturing a whole turkey here – except once & then it didn’t fit in my oven. But, I make a terrific stuffing & sweet potato pie with marshmellows!

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

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2.Security forces find rags soaked in gasoline in abandoned car 3.Dry Bones by Ya’acov Kirschen “Israel is Burning” 4.PA sends firetrucks to assist Israel 5.Fire breaks out near Beit Meir & Shorashim & Neve Ilan & Kiryat Gat &&& 6. EIGHT arrested for arsons in northern Israel 7.Netanyahu faced terrorism lighters 8.Fire breaks out in the Galilee

1.Minister Erdan: Half of wildfires caused by arson

Internal Security Minister says half of wildfires caused by arson. 85,000 residents of Haifa have evacuated. Arutz Sheva Staff, 24/11/16 22:03

Fire in Haifa’s Romema neighborhood – Hof Region Fire and Rescue Services

Meanwhile, four firefighting aircraft arrived in Israel on Thursday from Cyprus and Greece, and additional aircraft came from Russia, Turkey, the UK, Italy and Croatia.

The biggest fires so far were recorded in the city of Haifa, where 85,000 people in eight neighborhoods were forced to leave their homes.

Of some 200 fires recorded over the past three days, Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan said it was estimated that roughly one half were deliberately set by Arab arsonists.

Police have arrested eight individuals believed to be responsible for some of the fires over the past three days.

The eight are suspected of operating across northern Israel, setting multiple fires in the midst of a long dry spell, which, along with strong winds, has made for rapid spreading of blazes around the country.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu declared the arsons acts of terrorism, and vowed to bring the perpetrators to justice.

“Every fire caused by arson, or incitement to commit arson, is terrorism for all intents and purposes, and we will bring them to justice.”

About half of the 200 wildfires raging across the country were “deliberately set,” according to Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan.

A number of people have been arrested on suspicion of setting fires, and students from a yeshiva in Haifa spotted an individual attempting to start a fire near their yeshiva.

Earlier, Prime Minister Netanyahu called the arsonists who set many of the wildfires terrorists.

It is currently estimated that nearly a third of the population of Haifa, about 85,000 people, have been forced to flee their homes as a result of the wildfires. Six separate fires are currently burning around Haifa, choking city streets with smoke.

Magen David Adom teams have treated 95 people for smoke inhalation.

Damage & destruction to nature – woods, flora & forest creatures – is immeasurable at this point.

Minister Erdan: Half of wildfires caused by arson

Minister Erdan: Half of wildfires caused by arson

2.Security forces find rags soaked in gasoline in abandoned car Cheshvan 24, 5777 , 25/11/16 Security forces on Thursday night located an abandoned car in the area near Oranit where a fire broke out earlier in the day. Security services suspect that the passengers of the vehicle were involve in arson.

Here are your Dry Bones blog updates

3.Dry Bones by Ya’acov Kirschen “Israel is Burning”

According to the Telegraph: “Israel’s government has accused arsonists of sparking half of a wave of wildfires that has paralysed parts of the country and forced 60,000 people to evacuate from their homes. The flames began on Tuesday but have grown more powerful because of dry weather and strong winds and by Thursday fires were raging inside the port city of Haifa. No one has been killed by the fires but several dozen people were taken to hospital and eight neighbourhoods were evacuated inside Haifa, a city of 270,000 people.

Dry Bones by Ya’acov Kirschen “Israel is Burning”

4.PA sends firetrucks to assist Israel by Elad Benari, 24/11/16 23:36

Israel accepts offer of help from the PA to join the international effort to extinguish the fires that have broken out this week.

Israel on Thursday evening accepted an offer of help from the Palestinian Authority (PA), which sent four fire-trucks to help extinguish the fires that broke out throughout Israel.

The PA’s civil defense director, Maj. Gen. Yousef Nassar, said that fire crews were making final preparations before joining the firefighting efforts. The operation is being coordinated through the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT).

PA sends firetrucks to assist Israel

5.Fire breaks out near Beit Meir & Shorashim & Neve Ilan & Kiryat Gat &&&

A fire broke out on Thursday night near the towns of Beit Meir and Shorashim, [Neve Ilan, Kiryat Gat &&& from Gail] located near Jerusalem. Residents are being evacuated from their homes in these communities due to fears that the fires could reach their homes.

Fire breaks out near Beit Meir & Shorashim

6. EIGHT arrested for arsons in northern Israel

Police nab 8 suspects believed responsible for setting fires in northern Israel. By Uzi Baruch, 24/11/16 22:16

Illustration – Fire Department

Police arrested eight individuals believed to be responsible for some of the hundreds of fires sparked across the country over the past three days.

The eight are suspected of operating across northern Israel, setting multiple fires in the midst of a long dry spell, that, along with strong winds, has made for rapid spreading of blazes around the country.

Prior to the series of fires which broke out in Haifa on Thursday – and are also believed to be the result of Arab arson – buildings across the Galilee and in Atlit and Zichron Yaakov were damaged.

In Haifa, more than 85,000 residents have fled their homes, with eight neighborhoods fully evacuated.

Of some 200 fires recorded over the past three days, Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan said it was estimated that roughly one half were deliberately set by Arab arsonists.

Police Chief Roni Alsheich announced during a press briefing Thursday afternoon that a number of arrests had already been made in connection with the wave of arsons across the country.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu declared the arsons acts of terrorism, and vowed to bring the perpetrators to justice.

“Every fire caused by arson, or incitement to commit arson, is terrorism for all intents and purposes, and we will bring them to justice.”

8 arrested for arsons in northern Israel

7.Netanyahu faced terrorism lighters

“All fire caused by arson or inciting arson is terrorism. We’ll treat it accordingly”, said the Prime Minister. More than 100 casualties in Haifa. By Hezki Welcome , Kaf Cheshvan Tsa”z 24/11/16 18:18

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this evening (Thursday) that “any fire caused by arson or inciting arson is terrorism. We’ll treat it accordingly.”

“Facing the elements, countries join hands. We also proposed to Cyprus. Not long ago our squadron asked for more help. Thank G-d, countries answered,” he said.

“We brought in the past firefighting planes and set up a pilot shut-down after the Carmel fire, is doing an excellent job preventing log-in communities” .

Minister Gilad Erdan said in assessing the situation, “We must prepare for a new type of terrorism, terrorist perpetrators – that is preventing incitement of social networks,” he said.

“We opened a special unit for the study of events. We decided to bring participation Supertankers firefighting effort. We are dealing with terrorist perpetrators”.

Against the background of a wave of fires IDF announced tonight (Thursday) on port stops. “Depending on the situation, it was decided to stop training system ports & IDF’s combat system for the purpose of maintaining readiness to assist the efforts of the security forces against the wave of fires around the country, until new guidelines are available, ” the army statement said.

Haifa firefighting service said tonight that dozens of buildings in the city were damaged and burned. Haifa University also announced that there will be no school tomorrow and the campus will be closed. Technion will also not be taught tomorrow. Studies on the campus of the port continue as normal at this stage.

Haifa Municipality opened centers for the benefit of residents who were evacuated. The centers were opened in the IDF Street 16 Kiryat Eliezer, Frankincense Street 5, a white hand on Hayarkon Street 48, Bat Galim Community Center, 45 Street rise, but Sports Dinur, President Avenue 127 and another evacuation center in junior high school.

Haifa Municipality, the municipality indicated the available number of call center 106 or phone 04-8356860.

Photo: Fire and Rescue spokesperson Beach

Firefighting efforts – Photo: Doron Horowitz / Flash90

The fire in Neve Ilan – Photo: Yonatan Sindel / Flash90

Plane shutdown action – Photo: Yonatan Sindel / Flash90

Fire crews Nataf – Photo: Firefighters speaking at Beit Shemesh

Lit Talmon – Photo: Fire and Rescue in the Territories

Fire in the Latrun area – Photo: Fire & Rescue spokesperson Jerusalem District

Fire in the Latrun area – Photo: Fire and Rescue spokesperson Jerusalem District

The fire in Nahariya – Photo: Firefighting speaking North

Firefighters working inside the plane last night – Photo: Baruch Hashem in the provinces of Judea and Samaria

Fire damage Nataf – Photo: Police Spokesperson

Firefighters at Nataf – Photo: Firefighting Beit Shemesh

Firefighting planes from abroad – Photo: Police Spokesperson

The fire Talmon – Spokesman Fire -io”s

The fire in Haifa – Photo: Fire and Rescue spokesperson Beach

The fire in Haifa – Spokesman shutdown – Coast Province

The fire in Haifa – Photo: Fire and Rescue spokesperson Beach

Netanyahu faced terrorism lighters

8.Fire breaks out in the Galilee

A fire broke out on Thursday night between the Arab towns of Kabul and Tamra in the Galilee.

Firefighters are at the scene.

9.The real mother By Tzvi Fishman

The answer to the question of ownership of the Land of Israel has been answered without turning to the Bible, the UN or the Balfour Declaration in the conflagrations that rage across Israel., 25/11/16 07:57

Tzvi Fishman was awarded the Israel Ministry of Education Prize for Jewish Culture and Creativity. Before making Aliyah to Israel in 1984, he was a successful Hollywood screenwriter. He has co-authored 4 books with Rabbi David Samson, based on the teachings of Rabbis A. Y. Kook and T. Y. Kook. His other books include: “The Kuzari For Young Readers” and “Tuvia in the Promised Land”. His books are available on Amazon. Recently, he directed the movie, “Stories of Rebbe Nachman.”

If anyone needs more proof that the Land of Israel belongs to the Jews, here it is. Everyone knows the story of King Solomon and the two women who appeared before him with a baby. Each woman claimed that the child belonged to her. Solomon decreed that the baby be cut in half and divided between the two, and while one woman protested, the other woman was ready to have the baby sliced in half with a sword as long as the other woman didn’t get him, and thus, clearly, wasn’t the child’s real mother.

So too with the fires raging all over Israel. What person would purposely burn his own land, its verdant mountains, woods, trees and stones, kill its helpless forest creatures? The Arabs who are setting fires across the country don’t have any qualms. Why should they? It isn’t their land. What do they care? They aren’t the real mother.

A baby has one mother, not two. Just as France belongs to the French, and Spain to the Spanish, the Land of Israel belongs to the Jews. The idea that Arabs would be happy citizens in the Jewish State was a fallacy from its inception. They want the whole state, with their own language, holidays, and culture, and they want it Judenrein.

Sharing the baby doesn’t work. No matter how much you suppress the violence, no matter how much economic incentive you offer, how much you see to equal opportunities, the Arabs in Israel will always want their own country. Haifa, the so-called city of “co-existence,” is the perfect example.

The Arab problem in Israel will not go away. The very existence of the Jewish State creates it. They will continue to use knives and guns, fires and bombs, to try to chase us from our Land.

It is either their Land or ours. Dividing the baby in half is not the solution. Nor will peace come by cutting off an arm here, a leg there. A neighboring “Palestinian” state is no solution either. Its residents will continue to try to reach the Mediterranean Sea by violent means, soon launching rockets and missiles as Hamas does from Gaza.

It is time to lay down the law. Every Arab, including those in the Knesset, who will not pledge allegiance to the State of Israel, should find another place to live. Those who want to live in peace within the Jewish State, are welcome as they have always been. Just note the number of Israeli Arab MKs, university students, doctors, nurses, lawyers, businessmen and every other field.But for those who don’t like the way things are run in the State of Israel, then, by all means, there are fifteen Arab countries to choose from. Just leave our beloved baby alone.

The real mother By Tzvi Fishman

Caroline Glick – Photo: Eliran Aharon

10Trump’s approach will be derived from our bold actions by Caroline Glick Jerusalem Post senior editor believes to be a significant change in relation to the new administration in Israel. “This opportunity was not available since ’67.” By Eliran Aharon , 22 Cheshvan Tsa”z 23/11/16 Caroline Glick, a senior editor at The Jerusalem Post in an interview with Channel 7 evaluates the diplomatic conference initiated by the newspaper, that the new administration of Donald Trump will work much better from the Obama administration – with Israel.

“I think Trump is ready to keep his word when it comes to Israel – but the main barrier is our response. Are we sufficiently bold to go out on a new path after the relationship with the previous administration, or are we afraid of the unknown, or do we prefer the two-state solution they seem to be sending us. I hope we can grasp this opportunity with both hands. This is an opportunity not to miss since ’67 “.

Is Netanyahu willing to take advantage of the situation to build Jewish homes?

“It could be. The President-elect said he didn’t see construction of Jewish homes an obstacle to peace & Netanyahu can operate under this understanding. Most importantly, even when it comes to Amona & the new chief rabbis, it might be time to change the judiciary’s aggressiveness & dominance which is trying to take control of Democracy in Israel “.

Eight years were not easy for Israel.

“Now it would be different. American attempts will not hurt us, that’s what we suffered from over 8 years. Obama acted to harm us. Once it stops, we’ll be on another planet.”

Glick believes the government should take as a working hypothesis that President Obama will take some action against Israel at the last minute. “There is a very high probability that it will work against us in the Security Council,” she says.

Glick won a Nobel Prize “The Golden Pen” for Journalism in 2003 on behalf of Americans & Canadians in Israel & recipient of the award named for Ben Hecht releases for 2005, on behalf of the Zionist Organization of America.

In 2005, Glick won an award in memory of the Israeli media criticism Abramovich of “Israel’s Media Watch” “Thanks to its ambition to achieve a fair and professional communication and thanks to sharp criticism the country’s largest media systems”.

11.French retailers ordered to label ‘settlement’ products

France instructs importers & retail chains to label products from Judea, Samaria, eastern Jerusalem & the Golan. Israel outraged. By Nitsan Keidar, 25/11/16

Eiffel Tower in Paris, France – Flash 90

Israel reacted angrily on Thursday after France issued a directive to all importers & retail chains in the country that they must now label products originating in Judea, Samaria, eastern Jerusalem & the Golan Heights.

The directive is an application of the guidelines issued last year by the European Commission.

According to the new provision, “The Golan Heights, eastern Jerusalem and Judea & Samaria are occupied territories and are not considered part of Israel. Therefore, in order to avoid misleading consumers, please mark products from those places and make it clear where they came from – and refrain from indicating they were made in Israel.”

Local retail chains and importers are required to clearly indicate that these products were produced in “occupied areas” to avoid confusion with Palestinian Authority-based products.

Diplomatic officials in Jerusalem said they were puzzled as to why France chose this present moment in time to publish the directive, since the EU guidelines have existed for over a year but so far have not been implemented.

The Foreign Ministry issued a strong response to the decision, stating, “The Israeli government condemns the French government’s decision to implement the guidelines of the European Commission in relation to marking Israeli products originating beyond the ’67 borders.”

“We regret that France, at a time when there are anti-boycott laws, promotes such measures, which can be interpreted as a boost to radical elements and to the boycott movement against Israel. Moreover, it is puzzling and disturbing that France adopts a double standard in relation to Israel, while ignoring 200 territorial conflicts currently taking place around the world, including those taking place right on its doorstep,” added the Foreign Ministry’s statement.

Following last year’s EU decision with regards to the labeling, PM Binyamin Netanyahu, who is also foreign minister, ordered a freeze in discussions with EU on the peace process.

Several months later, however, Netanyahu and EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini agreed to end the freeze on talks on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Mogherini told Netanyahu at the time that the labeling decision “does not prejudge the outcome” of the conflict.

EU officials have insisted that the guidelines do not constitute a boycott of Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria.

To that end, EU Ambassador to Israel Lars Faaborg-Andersen said in March that the European Union is opposed to the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and that the body’s decision to label products from Judea and Samaria did not constitute a boycott.

While Faaborg-Andersen reiterated the EU’s stance that Israeli “settlements” are “illegal under international law” -“a hindrance to the peace process”, he stressed the EU was not boycotting Israel.

“Our policy is engagement with Israel. We are Israel’s largest trade partner. We are Israel’s most important international partner in science, technology. The list goes on,” he said.

[Gail Sez: Why did we let this EU Ambassador to Israel Lars Faaborg-Anderson into Israel & to speak as the head of a panel at the Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference this past Wednesday? He’s no diplomat & he is not nice!!]

12.France on the Verge of Total Collapse by Guy Millière
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9363/france-collapse November 24, 2016 at 6:30 am

France is in turmoil. “Migrants” arriving from Africa and the Middle East sow disorder and insecurity in many cities. The huge slum commonly known as the “jungle of Calais” has just been dismantled, but other slums are being created each day. In eastern Paris, streets have been covered with corrugated sheets, oilcloth and disjointed boards. Violence is commonplace. France’s 572 “no-go zones“ officially defined as “sensitive urban areas”, continue to grow, and police officers who approach them often suffer the consequences. Recently, a police car drove into an ambush and was torched while the police were prevented from getting out. If attacked, police officers are told by their superiors to flee rather than retaliate. Many police officers, angry at having to behave like cowards, have organized demonstrations. No terrorist attacks have taken place since the slaughter of a priest in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray July 26, 2016, but intelligence services see that jihadists have returned from the MidEast & are ready to act & riots may break out anywhere, any time, on any pretext.

Although overwhelmed by a domestic situation it barely controls, the French government still intervenes in the world affairs: a “Palestinian state” is still its favorite cause, Israel its favorite scapegoat.

Last Spring, even though both France and the Palestinian territories were in terrible shape, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault anyway declared that it was “urgent” to re-launch the “peace process” & create a Palestinian state. France therefore convened an international conference, held in Paris on June 3. Neither Israel nor the Palestinians were invited to it. The conference was a flop. It concluded with a vapid statement about the “imperative necessity” to go “forward.”

France did not stop there. The government then decided to organize a new conference in December. This time, with Israel and the Palestinians. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, noting that Israel does not need intermediaries, refused the invitation. Palestinian leaders accepted. Saeb Erekat, the Palestinian Authority spokesman congratulated France, adding, not surprisingly, that the Palestinian Authority had “suggested” the idea to the French.

Now Donald Trump is the U.S. president-elect & Newt Gingrich is likely to play a key role in the Trump Administration. Gingrich said a few years ago that there is no such a thing as a Palestinian people & added last week that settlements are in no way an obstacle to peace. So, the December conference looks as if it might be another failure.

French diplomats nevertheless are working with Palestinian officials on a UN resolution to recognize a Palestinian State inside the “1967 borders” (the 1949 armistice lines), but without any peace treaty. They are apparently hoping that outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama will not use the American veto at the Security Council, allowing the passage of the resolution. It is not certain at all that Barack Obama will want to end his presidency on a gesture so openly subversive. It is almost certain that France will fail there too. Again.

For many years, France seems to have built its entire foreign policy on aligning itself with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC): 56 Islamic countries plus the Palestinians. Originally, France’s dreams might have been of displacing America as a world power, accessing inexpensive oil, business deals with oil-rich Islamic states, and the prayer of no domestic terrorism. All four have been washouts. It is also obvious that France has more urgent problems to solve.

France persists because it is desperately trying to limit problems that probably cannot be solved.

In the 1950s, France was different from what it is now. It was a friend of Israel. The “Palestinian cause” did not exist. The war in Algeria was raging, and a large majority of French politicians would not even have shaken hands with unrepentant terrorists.

Everything changed with the end of the Algerian war. Charles de Gaulle handed Algeria over to a terrorist movement called the National Liberation Front. He then proceeded to create a strategic reorientation of the France’s foreign policy, unveiling what he called the “Arab policy of France.”

France signed trade and military agreements with various Arab dictatorships. To seduce its new friends, it eagerly adopted an anti-Israel policy.

When, in the 1970s, terrorism in the form of airplane hijackings was invented by the Palestinians. With the murder of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, “the Palestinians” all at once became a “sacred cause” and a useful tool for leverage in the Arab world, France, adopting the “cause,” became rigidly pro-Palestinian.

Palestinians began to use international terrorism & France chose to accept this terrorism so long as France was not affected. At the same time, France welcomed mass-immigration from the Arab-Muslim world, evidently as part of a Muslim wish to expand Islam. The Muslim population has since grown in numbers, while failing to assimilate.

France did not perceive it at the time, but it placed itself in a trap, and the trap is now closing.

France’s Muslim population seems anti-French in terms of Judeo-Christian, Enlightenment values, and pro-French only to the extent that France submits to the demands of Islam. As France’s Muslims are also pro-Palestinian, theoretically there should have been no problem. But France underestimated the effects of the rise of extremist Islam in the Muslim world and beyond.

More and more, French Muslims consider themselves Muslim first. Many claim that the West is at war with Islam; they see France and Israel as part of the West, so they are at war with them both. They see that France is anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian, but they also see that several French politicians maintain ties with Israel, so they likely think that France is not anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian enough.

They see that France tolerates Palestinian terrorism, and seem not to understand why France would fight Islamic terrorism in other places.

To please its Muslims, the French government may believe it has no choice other than to be as pro-Palestinian and as anti-Israel as possible — even though it looks as if this policy is failing badly in the polls.

The French government undoubtedly sees that it cannot prevent what increasingly looks like a looming disaster. This disaster is already taking place.

Perhaps France’s current government is hoping that it might delay the disaster a bit and avoid a civil war. Perhaps, they might hope, the “no go zones” will not explode — at least on their watch.

France today has six million Muslims, 10% of its population, and the percentage is growing. Polls show that one-third of French Muslims want the full application of Islamic Shari’a law. They also show that the overwhelming majority of French Muslims support jihad, and especially jihad against Israel, a country they would like to see erased from the face of earth.

The leading French Muslim organization, the Union of Islamic Organizations of France, is the French branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, a movement that should be listed as a terrorist organization for its open wishes to overthrow Western governments.

The Muslim Brotherhood is primarily financed by Qatar, a country that invests heavily in France — and that has the comfort of its very own U.S. airbase.

Jews are leaving France in record numbers, and these departures do not stop. Sammy Ghozlan, President of the National Bureau of Vigilance against Anti-Semitism, repeated for many years that, “It is better to leave than flee.” He was mugged. His car was torched. He left, and now lives in Israel.

The rest of the French population clearly sees the extreme seriousness of what is happening. Some of them are angry and in a state of revolt; others seem resigned to the worst: an Islamist takeover of Europe.

The next French elections will take place May 2017. French President François Hollande has lost all credibility & has no chance of being reelected. Whoever comes to power will have a difficult task.

The French seem to have lost confidence in Nicolas Sarkozy, so they will probably choose between Marine Le Pen, Alain Juppé or François Fillon.

Marine Le Pen is the candidate of the far-right National Front.

Alain Juppé is the mayor of Bordeaux, and often campaigns in the company of Tareq Oubrou, imam of the city. Until recently, Tareq Oubrou was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Alain Juppé seems to believe that the present disorder will calm down if France fully submits.

François Fillon will probably be the moderate-right candidate. He recently said that “Islamic sectarianism” creates “problems in France.” He also said that if a Palestinian State is not created very soon, Israel will be “the main threat to world peace.”

Three years ago, the French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut published a book, The Unhappy Identity (L’identité malheureuse), describing the dangers inherent in the Islamization of France and the major disorders that stem from it. Juppé chose a campaign slogan intended to contradict Finkielkraut: “The Happy Identity“.

Since the publication of Alain Finkielkraut’s book, other pessimistic books have been published that became best-sellers in France. In October 2014, columnist Eric Zemmour published The French Suicide (Le suicide français). A few weeks ago, he published another book, A Five-Year Term for Nothing (Un quinquennat pour rien). He describes what he sees happening to France: “invasion, colonization, explosion.”

Zemmour defines the arrival of millions of Muslims in France during the last five decades as an invasion, and the recent arrival of hordes of migrants as the continuation of that invasion. He depicts the creation of “no-go zones” as the creation of Islamic territories on French soil and an integral part of a colonization process.

He writes that the eruptions of violence that spread are signs of an imminent explosion; that sooner or later, revolt will gain ground.

Another book, Will the Church Bells Ring Tomorrow? (Les cloches sonneront-elles encore demain?), was recently published by a former member of the French government, Philippe de Villiers.

Villiers notes the disappearance of churches in France, and their replacement by mosques. He also mentions the presence in “no-go zones” of thousands of weapons of war (AK-47 assault rifles, Tokarev pistols, M80 Zolja anti-tank weapons, etc). He adds that weapons will probably not even have to be used — the Islamists have already won.

On November 13, 2016, France marked the first anniversary of the Paris attacks. Plaques were unveiled every place where people were killed. The plaques read: “In memory of the injured and murdered victims of the attacks.” No mention was made of jihadist barbarity. In the evening, the Bataclan Theater reopened with a concert by Sting.

The last song of the concert was “Insh’ Allah”: “if Allah wills.” The Bataclan management prevented two members of the US band Eagles of Death Metal — who were on stage when the attack started — from entering the concert. A few weeks after the attack, Jesse Hughes, lead singer of the group, had dared to criticize the Muslims involved. The Bataclan’s director said about Hughes, “There are things you cannot forgive.”

Dr. Guy Millière, a professor at the University of Paris, is the author of 27 books on France and Europe.