T. Belman. Hollande insults Bibi and honours Abbas.

Nothing shows the West’s lack of seriousness about terrorism more than the shameful presence of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas at the mass demo in Paris. If the Charlie Hebdo massacre had taken place in Israel, Abbas would have named a square after the killers

THE COMMENTATOR

What on Earth was Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas doing at Sunday’s mass demonstration in Paris against terrorism in general and the twin massacres by Islamists of the Charlie Hebdo journalists and the Jews at the Kosher supermarket last week?

If you don’t get the point instantaneously you’re part of the problem, or at least you’ve probably spent too much time watching, reading and listening to the BBC… which may, of course, amount to the same thing.

It beggars belief. Abbas’s Palestinian Authority glorifies terrorism as a matter of policy. Countless squares and streets in the areas that he controls have been named after terrorists who have slaughtered men, women and children.
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T. Belman. Perle disappoints, both in his diagnoses and his prescription. He minimizes this Islamist sub-group to maybe hundreds of thousands rather than tens of millions and he doesn’t identify the root problem as Islam and those Islamic governments that promote them and their ideology. He fails to acknowledge that a large majority of Muslims support Sharia law and Jihad. As for solutions, he offers none.

By Bill Hoffman, NEWSMAX

As France struggles to restore calm after three days of attacks by Islamic extremists, the world seems clueless as to how to end the scourge of terrorism, former Assistant Defense Secretary Richard Perle tells Newsmax TV.

“This act of terror will be followed by other acts of terror because we do not have in place now, and are unlikely anytime to put in place, policies up to the task of dealing with the scourge of terrorism, which appears in many countries, in many forms,” Perle said Friday on Newsmax’s “The Steve Malzberg Show.”

“Somehow the governments of the world don’t seem to have a clue about how to deal with it.”
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— but Watch What the Station Played Next to Her to Undermine Her Words

By Sharona Schwartz, THE BLAZE

A Muslim doctor who is a vocal opponent of radical Islam and an ardent supporter of Israel is blasting an Australian television program for plastering an interview segment in which she appeared with images depicting Israeli military strikes on Gaza even though the subject of her interview was not about the summer conflict.

This, as one of the interviewers compared radical Islamism to what he called “extreme fundamentalist Christianity” in southern U.S. states which he alleged seeks to “stamp out Judaism and other forms of religion.”
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The author left out the most egregious of all attacks.
‘Gang of barbarians’ go on trial for Paris torture and murder of Jewish man
A gang of 28 Muslims known as ‘the barbarians’ go on trial today accused of the 24-day torture and murder of a young Jewish man, Ilan Halimi, in 2006, that appalled France due to it’s brutality and apparent anti-Semitism.

By Eliana Benador, THE BLAZE January 9, 2015

A few days ago, Muslim terrorists targeted Charlie Hebdo, the French weekly publication, and massacred 12; among them five leading cartoonists who had the audacity to publish some satirical cartoons of Prophet Mohammed.

The next day there was another attack, in Montrouge, a suburb at the south of Paris, where a policewoman was murdered by terrorists.

Friday, the orgiastic violence continued as Muslim terrorists turned their attention to another soft target, a Jewish kosher supermarket, where they immediately killed three and held hostage a number not yet known of Jews, at the time of this writing.

In 2010 four Jews, including two children, were killed in front of a Jewish school in Toulouse. They were gun downed by a Muslim terrorist at the cries of “Allah hu Aqbar!” It was, until this week, considered the most traumatic Islamic terrorist attack on French territory.
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How the US and the EU are to blame for its failure.

A critical analysis; Res 242, Oslo Accords, RoadMap, Kerry Framework

What Netanyahu has agreed to.

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The latest moves by Qatar against Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood are the product of a series of setbacks the emirate has suffered.

By Jonathan Spyer, JPOST

It is still not clear whether reports in Turkish newspaper Aydinlik concerning the expulsion by Qatar of Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal are accurate. Hamas officials have indignantly denied that their leader is shortly set to quit his Doha home.

But certainly, Mashaal’s expulsion would fit with the broader pattern of recent events.

Recent months have witnessed a number of acts by Qatar suggesting it is seeking to repair relations with its fellow Gulf monarchies, and with Egypt. Hamas, the enemy of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and the Saudis, can have no part in this.

The expulsion of Mashaal, if it takes place, will be the latest concession by Doha to the wishes of Cairo and Riyadh.

Qatar’s latest moves are the fruit of partial defeat for Doha in its regional agenda; Saudi Arabia and Egypt are the winners. Lets take a look.
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Violence fuels debate among Muslims over interpreting faith

Saudi Arabia’s top body of Muslim clerics quickly condemned Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris but only days later young Saudi whipped for insulting Islam; contradiction points to difficulties of debate on how to reject radical Islamists.

Associated Press, YNET

After gunmen in Paris killed 12 people, Saudi Arabia’s top body of Muslim clerics quickly condemned the attack and said it could have no acceptable justification. It was a signal from some of the Islamic world’s strictest voices that cartoons lampooning the Prophet Muhammad in the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo were not a reason to kill the artists.

However, only days later, Saudi Arabia sent an opposing message: On Friday, a young Saudi was whipped 50 times in a public square in the city of Jiddah, the first of what will be 20 such weekly rounds of lashes. That, along with 10 years in prison, is his sentence from the kingdom’s religious-based courts for insulting Islam, based on posts on his blog criticizing prominent clerics close to the monarchy.

The contradiction points to the difficulties at a time of a growing debate within Islam about whether and how to reject a radical minority that some fear is dragging them into conflict and wrecking the faith.
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By Bret Stephens, WSJ  Updated Jan. 9, 2015 6:55 p.m. ET

It’s election season in Israel, and so far the most talked-about campaign ad features an Orthodox politician in an unorthodox role. In a YouTube video that quickly went viral, Naftali Bennett plays a fashionably bearded Tel Aviv hipster with a compulsion to say sorry—especially when he’s the one being wronged.

A waitress spills coffee on him: He begs her forgiveness. His car gets rear-ended: He steps out to tell the offending driver how sorry he is. He sits on a park bench and reads an editorial in a left-wing newspaper calling on Israel to apologize to Turkey for the 2010 flotilla incident, in which nine pro-Palestinian militants were killed aboard a ship after violently assaulting Israeli naval commandos. “They’re right!” he says of the editorial.
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I do not recall such international support when Israel has been the subject of mass murder by terrorists. I don’t recall any world leader visiting.

All Israel Ministers are calling for massive emigration of Jews from Europe and particularly France and are willing to provide generous assistance..

Netanyahu Calls on French Jews: Come Home to Israel

JPOST 

PM Benjamin Netanyahu was prepared to fly to Paris Sunday to participate in a rally for unity against Islamic extremism, his staff said Saturday night.

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman and Economy Minister Naftali Bennett were also set to attend the march along with various other world leaders in the wake of the terror attack that claimed the lives of 17 victims in the French capital this week. Read more…

By Martin Sherman, JPOST

One out six people all over the world is a Muslim… trying to say anything in general about this huge community – 1.5 billion people – will be wrong… The vast majority of these populations are not involved with all what’s happening with violence and terror all over the world…. I don’t think there is anything essential that connects between this huge and historically important religion and all the terrorism that’s going on
– Sami Abu Shehadeh, secretary-general of Balad, Tel Aviv-Jaffa

With these words, Sami Abu Shehadeh, of the anti-Zionist Arab party Balad, commenced a debate with me on “The rise of anti-Muslim sentiment in the West,” which took place in the i24 News studios last month.

Clearly, the events in Paris on Wednesday, in which 12 people were brutally gunned down, gave the topic new and urgent relevance.

Islam is to terror as rainfall is to flooding

Of course, there is much truth in Abu Shehadeh claim that most Muslims are not actively involved in terrorism. While this claim is factually correct, substantively it is meaningless.

For anyone with an iota of intellectual integrity and reasonably informed of world affairs, the answer to whether Islam and violence and terrorism are causally connected should be unequivocally clear. To ask whether Islam is associated with terrorism is a little like asking if rainfall is associated with flooding. Of course it is – as can be irrefutably deduced from Abu Shehadeh’s attempt to exonerate it. Read more…

For those who read this earlier, I want you to know that I left off the second page of the English translation which has no2w been added.

By Ted Belman

A person I deal with in Paris and who follows events closely and runs a major blog outing the truth about Islam, phoned me twice today in a panic for fear of what is happening to Jews in France. I asked him to send me an email in French.

I will continue to get his impressions of what is going on there and will post them

What follows is Salomon Benzimra’s translation of his remarks and then the original French.:

I just listened to the French Jewish TV. “The criminal killed people immediately upon arrival at the store.”
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On Thursday, White House press secretary Josh Earnest announced that the Obama administration would prioritize fighting Islamophobia in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo in France. Never mind that most Westerners aren’t Islamophobic, but rather GettingShotInTheFaceForExpressingMyOpinion-Phobic.

By Ben Shapiro, BREITBART

The real problem, according to the Obama administration, is lack of leadership in defending Islam:

There are some individuals that are using a peaceful religion and grossly distorting it, and trying to use its tenets to inspire people around the globe to carry out acts of violence. And we have enjoyed significant success in enlisting leaders in the Muslim community, like I said, both in the United States and around the world to condemn that kind of messaging, to condemn those efforts to radicalize individuals, and to be clear about what the tenets of Islam actually are.  And we’re going to redouble those efforts in the days and weeks ahead.

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Terror Outrages Deepen Fear Among French Jews, ‘Fanatical Islamism Always Targets the Jewish Community,’ Says Jewish Leader

Responding to Paris Terror Outrages, US Jews Highlight Centrality of Anti-Semitism to Islamist Ideology

Double hostage siege in Paris ends with 3 male Al Qaeda terrorists dead and at least 15 hostages free; four were killed in the kosher grocery attack.

By Hana Levi Julian, JP

Hyper Kacher kosher supermarket in Paris.
Photo Credit: Screenshot

As many as 15 to 20 hostages taken captive at the Hyper Kacher kosher grocery by a member of a homegrown Al Qaeda terror cell were freed, just as the sun was setting Friday evening at the start of the holy Jewish Sabbath. Tragically, four were murdered at the start of the terror attack before police were able to rescue them.

Although the terrible saga has now ended, the Association of Paris Rabbis warned members of the Jewish community to remain home and stay off the streets this Shabbat (Sabbath) because the streets are not safe in this “city still on edge.” Shops in La Marais have been ordered shut for now.   Read more…

I received this email:

“This attack only underscores the need for France to immediately engage in negotiations with French Muslims that will result in the creation of two states for two peoples, living side by side in peace and security, with Paris as a shared capital…”

If France isn’t willing or builds housing in the part the Muslims want, we will have to start a BDS movement against them.

French losing control over their country
Op-ed: France is paying the price for failing to act against a large minority taking advantage of authorities’ helpless.
CONTINUE

THE DAILY BEAST

‘Killing went on and on and on’

By Terrance McCoy, WaPo

For months, fear of Boko Haram has gripped Nigeria’s northeast. The goals of the Islamic militant group, which captured international attention through a relentless campaign of brutality, have long been about killing. But last summer, something changed. Its aspirations became as much about territory as terrorism. It no longer wants to just cripple a government. It wants to become one.

In August, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau announced the establishment of his “Islamic Caliphate,” quickly taking over every corner of Borno State in northeast Nigeria. But one town called Baga, populated by thousands of Nigerians along the western shores of Lake Chad, held out. Anchored by a multinational military base manned by troops from Niger to Chad, it was the last place in Borno under the national government’s control. Over the weekend, that changed.
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By Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative”
“Israel Hayom,” January 9, 2015,

Notwithstanding the conventional claim that Israel is increasingly isolated, the multinational accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers determined that 2014 was a record year of overseas investments in Israel’s high-tech industries: $15bn in acquisitions of 52 Israeli startups  (compared to $7.6bn in 2013), in addition to $9.8bn raised by 18 Israeli companies in overseas stock exchanges (compared to $1.2bn in 2013).  Once again, Israel’s impact on global medicine, health, agriculture, irrigation, energy alternatives, science, cyber, homeland security and defense, as well as Wall Street, supersedes the impact of Gaza Strip.

But, Israel is increasingly isolated…

Since 1948, a recycled assumption has maintained (e.g., the 1975 “Zionism is racism” UN resolution) that an anti-Israel global Tsunami is about to smother the Jewish State, triggering unprecedented isolation, the collapse of its international standing and the breakdown of its ties with the US, unless it committed itself – in the unpredictable, unstable, violent Middle East – to re-dividing Jerusalem, uprooting over 500,000 Jewish settlers, and retreating to a 9-15 mile sliver along the Mediterranean, which is dominated by the mountain ridges of Judea and Samaria.

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Op-ed: Journalists murdered in Paris were not victims of a battle over freedom of press; they were victims of a war between radical Islam’s world view and Western liberalism’s world view.

This is a clash of civilizations, not a gang’s intimidation campaign.
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