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Netanyahu: ‘The Malignancy of Militant Islam Is Growing and Spreading’
October 5, 2014Netanyahu: ‘The Malignancy of Militant Islam Is Growing and Spreading’ You Tube, October 5, 2014
(Disregarding the obligatory kind words for the Obama Administration and the multicultural nation it has spawned, PM Netanyahu’s words ring true. — DM)
IDF Ups Presence Near Sinai Border Amid Heightened Tensions
October 5, 2014IDF Ups Presence Near Sinai Border Amid Heightened Tensions, Israel National News, Tova Dvorin, October 5, 2014
(Beheadings? They must not be Islamic. — DM)
Egyptian security personnel Reuters
An additional reason behind the deployment is the number of ISIS ‘copycat’ attacks in the peninsula, he added – noting that beheaded bodies have been found ‘continually’ in the Al-Arish area over the past several weeks.
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Southern Command deployed in response to heightened tensions between Egypt, Sinai terror groups. ‘We don’t take risks,’ officer explains.
The IDF’s Southern Command has reinforced its forces along Israel’s southern border, a senior IDF officer revealed Sunday, due to rising unrest in the Sinai Peninsula.
On Thursday, the Egyptian Army eliminated a major terror leader in the peninsula, the head of the ISIS-linked Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis group.
Mohamed Abu Shatiya, who took part in the kidnapping of seven Egyptian soldiers in Sinai last year, died during fighting with the army south of Rafah, on the border with Gaza.
Terror attacks in Egypt have eased over the past month as the military squeezes their hideouts in the sparsely inhabited peninsula, analysts have noted – and could ease even further with the elimination – but IDF officials told Walla! News Sunday that the extra deployment is a necessary precaution.
“The Egyptian Army has raised the volume on its terror crackdown, and they in turn have increased their efforts to harm Egypt,” the officer stated.
An additional reason behind the deployment is the number of ISIS ‘copycat’ attacks in the peninsula, he added – noting that beheaded bodies have been found ‘continually’ in the Al-Arish area over the past several weeks.
Thus, the IDF has “decided not to take unnecessary risks,” he said, for fear that members of Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis will turn to attacking Israeli targets in an attempt to destabilize the region. The group has claimed responsibility in the past for several rocket attacks that targeted the Israeli resort city of Eilat.
The Southern Command has increased its posts along the Gaza-Egypt border near Rafah, commanders in the field said, adding that the Egyptian Army “faces significant challenges.”
But more than just the regional threat of Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, the source added, the deployment is also to fend off an increase in infiltrations from Gaza.
Last week, two separate infiltration attempts were apprehended along the same border. One suspect was armed; the other was not.
“Palestinians who have despaired of the situation in Gaza are jumping across the border with a knife, hoping to be arrested by the IDF,” the source said. “We do not take a risks; in our view, such intrusion is taken as an attempted attack.”
The rules of war need to change
October 5, 2014The rules of war need to change, Israel Hayom, Dan Margalit, October 5, 2014
(Could the U.S. and her allies put effective boots on the ground, or have the boots and the nation become too multiculturally damaged to do what needs to be done? More than the rules of war needs to change.
When the U.S. responded to the Russian supplied, trained and initially led North Korean invasion on June 25, 1950, we had been at peace for only five years. We were tired and wanted peace to continue but war came to us unexpectedly; it should have been expected. Our peacetime boots were badly supplied, trained and, more often than not, led. Some but not enough officers and senior noncoms had experienced war and knew what to do. Very few in the lower enlisted ranks had or did and “bug out” became a much used phrase. The NK troops had been hardened in combat, were adequately supplied, well trained and well led. Those who did not fight were executed. They pushed us back nearly to Pusan. By mid-September, we had more better led and trained troops; they had also become very angry at the NK troops, and intense anger is a powerful force multiplier. The NK tide was reversed, for a couple of years.
Were we now to try to put green boots on the ground to do what is necessary against well trained, led and financed Islamic troops, a majority of the public would oppose it and it would be politically unpopular. Were we to put boots on the ground anyway, they would likely need to undergo lengthy and deadly immersion-style baptism by fire. There would be substantial casualties and the opposition would increase.
Should we do it anyway if only the rules of engagement change? Can we, or is that now a fantasy? — DM)
The enlightened world must pummel Islamic State into a pulp. This cancer needs to be excised, leaving no metastases behind. If the world is soft, the way most greasy, petit-bourgeois masses tend to be, it will soon learn that these horrifying decapitations are in fact prompting thousands of new volunteers to join the ranks of Islamic State. A toothless war will come back to bite us like a boomerang. It will weaken the good guys.
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It was clear from the very beginning that the cruelest most terrible terror organization since the Khmer Rouge would not fold in the face of a flimsy, ill-timed attack by a few American, British and French jets. The possible addition of Australia, Canada and some Arab states — it is not yet clear where Turkey stands — to the coalition will not scare them either. On the contrary — Islamic State group draws its power from its image of extremist outlaws who will never compromise. At this point, refusing to surrender, the Islamic State group had no choice but to decapitate another innocent British national — Alan Henning — who only wanted to do good in this world.
The same fate awaits the next Westerner in line — an American by the name of Peter Kassig, who even converted to Islam to try to save his own life. But the murderers will not let up. Jihadi John is already sharpening his knife.
All this is happening because Islamic State is not an organization that can be defeated with slow, uncertain, limited action. It cannot be defeated without “boots on the ground.” It is imperative to hit them with force; with waves of growing intensity. They must be attacked continuously, without breaks, without cease-fires and with the utmost determination.
The day of Yom Kippur, regardless of the Jewish holiday, was a turning point in the war against Islamic State. They were bombed, yet immediately resumed decapitating prisoners. The reality has become one of walking on the edge; of all or nothing-style fighting. There can be no compromise; there can be no cease-fire. You are either with us or against us.
The enlightened world must pummel Islamic State into a pulp. This cancer needs to be excised, leaving no metastases behind. If the world is soft, the way most greasy, petit-bourgeois masses tend to be, it will soon learn that these horrifying decapitations are in fact prompting thousands of new volunteers to join the ranks of Islamic State. A toothless war will come back to bite us like a boomerang. It will weaken the good guys.
It will not be an easy victory. In the West, there are those who are afraid and who prefer to shut their eyes tight as part of a head-in-the-sand policy. There are those who are truly indifferent. There are bleeding hearts who find partial justification for the Islamist decapitations. One of them wrote an article blaming the Western violence for the rise of Islamic State. Others, at the U.N. of course, wondered whether bombing Islamic State targets would be in line with international law, or whether it could be a violation of Syrian sovereignty.
The hypocrisy is still benefiting the terrorists’ side. In our regional conflict, Hamas fires rockets indiscriminately at Jewish populations without prior warning, and the IDF, before retaliating (with much more force, granted), warns every Gazan to leave their homes to avoid getting hurt. Who gets blamed by the U.N.? Of course it is Israel, which warns the enemy, and not Hamas which fires in every civilian direction.
If, however, the familiar indifference doesn’t trip up the West, Islamic State will be vanquished and forever disgraced. Furthermore, the rules of war and international law will be amended in order to allow democracies to effectively defend themselves. The existing rules are good for guiding conflicts between enlightened nations. But these days, with Islamic State and its ilk dominating the scene, the enlightened world will have to allow itself to fight in a more resolute, effective manner if it doesn’t want to be defeated by Islamic terror.
At the end of the tunnel, a significant overhaul of the rules of war awaits.
Dutch Military Retreats Before… Tweets!
October 5, 2014Dutch Military Retreats Before… Tweets!, Gatestone Institute, Timon Dias, October 5, 2014
A country that has to hide its soldiers on its own soil and protect its Jewish schools with Military Police cannot possibly maintain that its social cohesion is intact and that it has no real problems with elements of its Muslim minority. Sadly, just like the punch-line that “IS has nothing to do with Islam,” most top government officials and politicians are still in full blown denial about the scale and deep seriousness of this social and cultural problem.
By ordering Dutch soldiers to be “invisible” in The Netherlands, what message is the government sending to it enemies, let alone its own citizens?
Jihadists now know that a few tweets from a single Dutch jihadist can fundamentally alter Dutch defense policy. It will order the personnel tasked with keeping The Netherlands safe to hide.
A country that has to hide its soldiers on its own soil and protect its Jewish schools with Military Police cannot possibly maintain that it has no real problems with elements of its Muslim minority.
The Dutch Ministry of Defense has advised its soldiers not wear their uniforms in public. Dutch vice Prime Minister Lodewijk Asscher of the Labour Party emphasized that the proposal was merely advice.
The Dutch military, however, clearly ordered — instead of advised — its personnel to hide their military professions in public.
Dutch customs officials, whose uniforms could be mistaken as military, received the same advice.
The reason for this display of woefully misplaced ‘conscientiousness’ was a series of threats by the Dutch jihadist known as Muhajiri Shaam, a member of the al-Qaeda-affiliated group Jahbat-al Nusra.
Shaam tweeted: “So, now Dutch F-16’s. Dutch people: your government just made you a target”.
In a more elaborate threat, Shaam stated: “The West offered more than 90 million lives during the first and second World War for their self-glorified democracy. So the Ummah must be prepared to sacrifice even more lives for a righteous State which rules under the laws of Allah. The world has suffered the oppressive darkness of Western capitalism for long enough. It’s time they get a taste of divine justice.”
Threats tweeted by the jihadist known as Muhajiri Shaam, pictured above, have caused the Dutch military to order its soldiers not to wear uniforms in public.
Shaam’s warnings followed in the wake of Dutch support for the military campaign against the new so-called “Islamic State” [IS].
The Dutch government last week pledged six F-16 fighter jets, two spare F-16’s, and a maximum of 130 military advisors to train forces opposing IS.
These threats are being taken very seriously. The Dutch government fears attacks on its military personnel; more specific threats against Dutch soldiers have now been voiced by Dutch jihadists. This is not the first time Dutch soldiers have been ordered to become unrecognizable as members of the military. The same order was issued during the beginning of the Iraq war in 2003 and during the release of Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders’ movie Fitna.
By ordering Dutch soldiers to become “invisible” in The Netherlands, what message is the government sending to its enemies, let alone its own citizens? Dutch-Iranian law professor Afshin Ellian rightfully asks: if Dutch soldiers aren’t safe anymore, than who is? Jihadists now know that a few tweets from a single Dutch jihadist can fundamentally alter Dutch defense policy. Dutch citizens now know that a few tweets from a single Dutch jihadist will send shivers down their government’s spine and that — instead of making sure all threats are neutralized — it will order the personnel tasked with keeping them safe, to hide.
The Dutch-Israeli psychotherapist and author Martin van Vliet voices his concern: “Are we supposed to be protected by a military that orders its soldiers to start wearing the invisibility cloak as soon as they find out combating Jihad is not a video game without risks? The Dutch would be right not to place their trust in their military.”
Such an operational transformation — due to a tweet — can only embolden Islamists to become more audacious and violent. At the same time, it can also prompt Dutch citizens to take more drastic measures to secure their own safety. Although the government was likely trying to deescalate the situation and safeguard its military personnel, its action can only work as a catalyst for further social unrest, inter-cultural tensions and overall escalation.
Fortunately, some soldiers are refusing the order. Lieutenant Colonel Willem Schoonebeek, for instance, stated: “I will not be led by the dictatorship of a loud minority. This uniform represents the organization that our Defense Department is. We provide safety in The Netherlands and beyond. It would be strange to participate in a mission in Iraq, while being too scared to advertise your profession in The Netherlands.”
In parallel to Dutch soldiers “disappearing” from the street scene, Amsterdam’s Jewish schools now have to be protected by the Royal Military Police [RMP] at the request of the City Council, the Justice Department and the police. As the RMP is a police unit, it is still allowed to be recognizable as such.
A country that has to hide its soldiers on its own soil and protect its Jewish schools with Military Police cannot possibly maintain that its social cohesion is intact and that it has no real problems with elements of its Muslim minority. Sadly, just like the punch-line that “IS has nothing to do with Islam,” most top government officials and politicians are still in full blown denial about the scale and deep seriousness of this social and cultural problem.
Army chiefs tell Government: stop Gulf states funding terrorism
October 5, 2014Army chiefs tell Government: stop Gulf states funding terrorism
Government urged to put pressure on Gulf leaders into tackling extremism by strangling the funding of terrorist networks and the religious ideology that fuels them
via Army chiefs tell Government: stop Gulf states funding terrorism – Telegraph.
By Robert Mendick, Tim Ross and Patrick Sawer
9:17PM BST 04 Oct 2014
Pressure is mounting on the Government to take action against wealthy Gulf states accused of funding Islamist terrorism after the beheading of Alan Henning, the British aid worker kidnapped in Syria.
Two retired generals and a former defence secretary claimed that nations such as Qatar and Saudi Arabia were helping the rise of violent extremism by channelling cash to terrorist groups such as Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isil), which carried out Mr Henning’s murder.
The trio of senior military figures said air strikes against Isil were insufficient to defeat the terrorist threat. Instead, they called on the Government to pressure Gulf leaders into tackling extremism by strangling the funding of terrorist networks and the religious ideology that fuels them.
Investigations by The Telegraph suggest that tens of millions of pounds have been raised for Isil — and al-Qaeda — by wealthy individuals in the Gulf region while its leaders have “turned a blind eye” to the problem or been complicit in funding certain groups.
In a series of exposés, The Telegraph has highlighted the links between a network of Qatari moneymen and terrorist fighters on the ground in Syria and Iraq.
Lord Dannatt, a former Chief of the General Staff, said: “It is completely unacceptable that some individuals in Qatar, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere see advantage in channelling large sums of money to the so-called Islamic State.”
Lord Dannatt called on the Government to insist that Gulf regimes dismantle terror fundraising networks before being allowed to buy further stakes in major UK projects. Qatar, for example, already owns a number of landmarks such as Harrods and The Shard skyscraper, as well as having large shareholdings in major British companies.
“It is not just governments in Doha or Riyadh that need to take action, but those in London and elsewhere have a responsibility to act too,” said Lord Dannatt.
It is not acceptable, for example, to welcome large capital injections into prestige projects like The Shard in London while not exerting the strongest pressure on the Qatari Government to crack down on some of their own citizens. Such potential hypocrisy runs the risk of undermining many of the other political and military actions being taken to discredit and destroy the caliphate ambitions of the jihadists.”
General Jonathan Shaw, a former assistant chief of the Defence Staff who oversaw Britain’s withdrawal from Basra in southern Iraq, said the current military campaign was “futile” unless the underlying ideology was also tackled head on. “It [this ideology] is funded by Saudi and Qatari money and that must stop,” said Gen Shaw. “I would far rather see a much stronger handle on the ideological battle rather than the physical battle.”
Liam Fox, the former defence secretary, also writing for the Telegraph, accused the Gulf governments themselves of financing terrorists.
“Isil is well-funded,” said Dr Fox. “Money has been flowing from rich individuals in the Gulf states, if not their governments, to finance them and their Sunni allies in their battle against the Assad regime.” The calls by the trio of former defence chiefs echo growing consternation over the failure to act. Last week, Sir Malcolm Rifkind, the chairman of Parliament’s intelligence and security committee, singled out Qatar for tougher international action — including possible sanctions — if it continued to allow fundraising for terrorist groups.
In a recent speech, Sir Richard Dearlove, a former head of MI6, accused Qatar and Saudi Arabia of, at the very least, “turning a blind eye” to terror fundraising.
“For Isil to be able to surge into the Sunni areas of Iraq in the way that it has done recently has to be the consequence of substantial and sustained funding,” said Sir Richard. “Such things simply do not happen spontaneously.”
Last month, however, in the first interview he has given, Qatar’s emir flatly denied the connection to terrorism. “We don’t fund extremists,” said Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani. “If you talk about certain movements, especially in Syria and Iraq, we all consider them terrorist movements.”
The murder of Mr Henning, 47, a father of two who was on a voluntary aid convoy to Syria when he was taken hostage, has caused widespread revulsion and anger.
In a statement issued yesterday, his wife, Barbara, said: “As a family we are devastated by the news of his death. There are few words to describe how we feel at this moment. Myself, Lucy and Adam, (his teenage children) and all of Alan’s family and friends are numb with grief.
“On behalf of the entire family, I want to thank everyone who campaigned for Alan’s release, who held vigils to pray for his safe return, and who condemned those who took him. Your efforts were a great support to us, and we take comfort in knowing how many people stood beside us in hoping for the best.”
She added: “Alan was a decent, caring human being. His interest was in the welfare of others. He will be remembered for this and we as a family are extremely proud of him and what he achieved and the people he helped.”
Colin Livesey, Mr Henning’s brother-in-law, suggested more should have been done to secure his release. “They could have done more months and months ago,” he said.
Yesterday Britain’s Muslim community voiced its despair at Mr Henning’s murder.
Dr Shuja Shafi, the Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain, said: “Alan was a friend of Muslims, and he will be mourned by Muslims.” Dr Shameela Islam-Zulfiqar, who accompanied Henning on his final trip to Syria, spoke of her “disbelief, shock and horror”. On behalf of the Manchester Central Mosque, she said: “We cannot comprehend that something so terrible can happen to such a wonderful and compassionate human being. News of his murder has left us all enraged and distraught.” But her statement was heavily critical of the Government for failing to secure his release.
“By joining the US Air Strikes, we handed Alan and many other Western hostages a death sentence,” it added.
David Cameron yesterday met officials from the intelligence agencies, the Foreign Office, Home Office, police and the military at Chequers to discuss the Government’s response to Mr Henning’s murder. The Prime Minister said: “We will be doing everything we can do to defeat this organisation which is ruthless, senseless and barbaric in the way it treats people.”
Security services are studying the video of the murder, released on Friday night, for further clues to the identity of “Jihadi John”, the British terrorist responsible for Mr Henning’s death and those of three other Western hostages, including David Haines. A second video posted by another British jihadist — Omar Hussain, 27, a former supermarket worker from High Wycombe — is now subject to a police investigation. In it, he challenges Mr Cameron to send ground troops to Iraq.
This week, Theresa May, the Home Secretary, and European interior ministers will discuss plans to try to stop Islamist extremists who are EU citizens from returning.
Netanyahu: Talking to Hamas Means How Israel Should Commit Suicide
October 5, 2014Hamas’ ‘cease-fire’ rocket launch Sunday is more ammo for Netanyahu.
By: Tzvi Ben-GedalyahuPublished: October 5th, 2014
via The Jewish Press » » Netanyahu: Talking to Hamas Means How Israel Should Commit Suicide.
Tell us, Mr. Prime minister, how would you like to commit suicide – a shot in the head or off with your head?
Photo Credit: Asher Schwartz
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu declared that negotiating with Hamas means nothing except how to commit suicide, and Hamas proved his point this morning with another “cease-fire” rocket explosion that was heard by Gaza Belt residents but denied by the IDF.
He said in an interview to be aired Sunday by CNN, “As long as Hamas remains committed to our destruction, what’s there to negotiate with? The method of my suicide or what?”
The Jewish Press reported here earlier this morning that a rocket was launched but did not land in Israel, prompting the IDF to declare it was a “false alarm” and leading the public to think that there was no rocket launch. IDF spokesmen insisted there was no rocket fire, but residents in the Gaza Belt reported they heard an explosion.
The military’s definition of a “false alarm” is a bit fuzzy.
Spokesman told The Jewish Press Sunday, “The term means that an alarm was activated, though without any launch from Gaza. It is important for me to emphasize that each incident is a case of its own and any more information about a ‘false alarm’ is not connected to the use of the term itself.”
In clearer language, “false alarm” means there was no rocket launch – unless there was a rocket launch.
Nearly half a dozen rockets have been launched since the end of the recent cease-fire, and all of them fell in Gaza or in the sea. Several times, the IDF confirmed the launch along with stating that the Color Red siren was a”false alarm.” It appears the IDF spokesmen’s response depends on the political atmosphere.
The last cease-fire may or may remain the last one in a war that was escalated in 2005, immediately after the Sharon government expelled all Jews and withdrew all IDF personnel from to ensure safety for southern Israel.
In return, Hamas placed all of Israel within range of missile attacks until the temporary “cease-fire” two months ago that was to be followed by negotiations for a long-term halt in violence.
No one, except for perhaps Catherine Ashton and John Kerry, believes that will ever happen. Israel’s demand that Hamas dis arm makes great headlines for the vast majority of Israeli who are fed up with Hamas’ countless cease-fires that have proven to be nothing more than an opportunity for its terrorists to prepare to attack deeper into Israel in the next round.
Whether Hamas is testing rockets or simply is trying to prove its point that it can attack Israel if it wants, Sunday morning’s launch is a reminder that the cease-fire will last only as Hamas does not see any political, diplomatic or military gain in attacking again and suffering a devastating response from the IDF.
A stronger but less vocal reminder is Hamas’ continued attempts to smuggle by sea material for manufacturing weapons.
The Israeli Navy has foiled several maritime smuggling attempts in August, according to a Navy commander quoted by The Jerusalem Post Sunday. He told the newspaper, “We continue to see attempts to smuggle weapons or material to build them. The sea is a very convenient platform for smuggling. The terrorists still have one big smuggling tunnel, and it’s called the Mediterranean.”
An IDF Intelligence Unit Lieutenant Colonel told the Times of Israel, “Hamas will not relinquish its military capabilities or its military wing. The demand that it subordinate its military wing to the PA is unrealizable. For now, the talk of ‘one weapon,’ or ‘one authority’ is just talk.”
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