Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Jewish Europe

From Yahoo:
"After attacks, Europe fights call for mass migration of Jews"

 Despite desecrated Jewish graves in France and a deadly attack at a synagogue in Denmark, European leaders on Monday rejected calls from Israel's leader for a mass migration of the continent's Jews to Israel, urging unity instead. Hundreds of Jewish tombstones were found vandalized in eastern France on Sunday, hours after a Danish Jew guarding a synagogue in Copenhagen was shot to death. Frenchmen have been accused of three deadly attacks on Jewish sites since 2012: one at a school in the southern city of Toulouse, another at a museum in Brussels and finally one at a kosher market in Paris last month. Twelve people died in total. "We know there are doubts, questions across the community," French President Francois Hollande said Monday. "I will not just let what was said in Israel pass, leading people to believe that Jews no longer have a place in Europe and in France in particular." French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Monday the government would defend French Jews against what he described as "Islamo-fascism." "A Jew who leaves France is a piece of France that is gone," Valls told RTL radio. Hollande was to visit the desecrated Jewish cemetery in the small town of Sarre-Union on Tuesday, his office said. Of the 400 tombs in the Sarre-Union cemetery, 250 had been vandalized.  In 2014, more than 7,000 French Jews in a community estimated at around 500,000 left for Israel, more than double the number for 2013. And the Israeli Cabinet on Sunday approved a $46 million plan to encourage still more Jewish immigration from France, Belgium and Ukraine. The exodus from France accelerated after the March 2012 attacks by Mohammed Merah, who stormed a Jewish school in Toulouse, killing three children and a rabbi. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that at a time of rising anti-Semitism in Europe, Israel is the only place where Jews can truly feel safe.  "This wave of attacks is expected to continue," Netanyahu told his Cabinet. "Jews deserve security in every country, but we say to our Jewish brothers and sisters, Israel is your home." France's top security official noted that thousands of police and security forces are now protecting Jewish sites in France after the Paris terror attacks in January, and indicated Netanyahu could be taking advantage of the issue amid a tight election campaign. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday that her government will do everything possible to make sure Jewish sites are secure. "We are glad and thankful that there is Jewish life in Germany again," Merkel said in Berlin. "And we would like to continue living well together with the Jews who are in Germany today."


^ Officials tend to only talk big and do little (regardless of what the issue is.) If Jews leave Europe en masse then it would be a big political (ie the elected leaders can't protect their citizens) as well as a big social blow (ie nothing has changed in Europe from the Inquisition to the Holocaust to today.) There needs to be less talk and more real action. The whole world knows which group of people has become more radicalized, anti-Western and flocked to terrorist groups like IS and Al-Qaeda. More needs to be done to stop overlooking the real threat in the hope that we can all hold hands and sing "Kumbaya." The radical Islamist movement has grown in epic ways in the last 14 years and now it's Europe's turn to stand-up to the terrorists and actually do something about it. You would think they would have after the attacks in: London, Madrid, Moscow, Paris and now Copenhagen but they really haven't. The writing was on the wall long ago and now innocent Jewish  men, women and children are being attacked and killed in Europe (seems like history repeating itself.) ^

http://news.yahoo.com/attacks-france-fights-call-mass-migration-jews-092103030.html
 

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