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Lesson from the Paris terror attacks: Europe needs to join forces with Israel

Greetings from somewhere over eastern Kentucky - my next stop (which is not my final stop today) is Dallas, Texas.

David Harris of the AJC (not necessarily a source from which I would expect it) has some very wise advice for Europe.

And finally, when will Europe finally wake up and realize that democratic Israel is part of the solution, not the problem?

At the end of the day, the terrorism faced by France - or Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Spain, the U.K., etc. - is a kissing cousin of that confronted by Israel. Some European leaders go to great lengths to deny that obvious truth, seeking instead to draw distinctions that are, in fact, largely non-existent, or suggesting that Israel somehow "deserves" what it gets, while implying that Europe does not.

Let's get real.

The authors of 9/11 detested who and what America is. They didn't give a darn what political party was in power, because they attacked the Twin Towers when Clinton was president and again when Bush was in the Oval Office.

The same with Europe. The target is Europe's value system - its democracy, openness, freedom, and secularism.

And, yes, the same with Israel. The terrorists of Hamas (with which the Palestinian Authority made a pact), Iranian-backed Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and ISIS don't want Israel to exist, period. They're not interested in who's in power in Jerusalem or how to get to a two-state accord, but rather establishing their rule over the entire land.

Read the whole thing.

One would hope that this would at least awaken Europe enough to get them to cancel the 'settlement product' labeling. Don't hold your breath. It won't. Anti-Semitism trumps all.

Labels: 9/11, BDS, Eurabia, Europe, European anti-Semitism, Islamic terrorism, Jew hatred, Paris, Paris terror attacks, settlement product boycott

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:21 PM