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2016-01-13 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Israel Struggles to Combat Homegrown Islamic State Threat

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Posted by Besoeker 2016-01-13 07:56|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 That first paragraph conflates two different issues. Arab Israelis -- both the cotizentry and the politicians, have for a while been asking for better policing and an active program to confiscate illegal guns in their communities. They want the level of safety that Jewish Israeli and mixed Jewish-Arab communities have -- more police, and a good deal less celebratory gunfire and people shooting at each other when they lose their tempers. Despite in actuality generally refusing to betray their "brothers" when witnesses are needed in real life to solve actual crimes. And in fact, after the Tel Aviv cafe shooting, Prime Minister Netanyahu has made this a priority.

Separately, the Salafist organization in Israel split recently. (I'm not sure exactly when, but it's clear in the past it wasn't a problem, or not much of one. Possibly resulting from the rise of ISIS.) The southern part seems interested in quietly living purely, as far as I can tell. But the northern part, based in the Galilee, has been agitating and working toward a) sending believers to ISIS in Syria, and b) preparing for conquering Israel from within. They've been very vocal since last September about protecting the Temple Mount from incursions by those dirty Jews, among other things, and their leader was recently arrested and jailed again, as I recall. We had that report at the time, though I can't find it to link -- sorry.

Finally, while Israel is very concerned about their Muslims going to ISIS and then coming back, it must be noted that 50 out of 1.5 million Arab Israelis is not actually very many, and even if we add those who were arrested while they were preparing to leave, and those who were arrested while plotting attacks at home in the name of ISIS, it still isn't a very high percentage of Israel's Muslim population.

Then too, at least one of those Arab Israelis who snuck off to ISIS in Syria was tortured and killed on the belief that the idiot was a Mossad spy.

Posted by trailing wife 2016-01-13 10:16|| 2016-01-13 10:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Off topic but it's amazing how close Trailing Wife's first paragraph dove-tails with certain African American groups in the USA.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-01-13 10:53|| 2016-01-13 10:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Not at all 'off topic.'

Posted by Don Vito Cromotle9106 2016-01-13 11:12|| 2016-01-13 11:12|| Front Page Top

#4 it's amazing how close Trailing Wife's first paragraph dove-tails with certain African American groups in the USA.

It's an underclass thing. In Britain it's the multi-generation Welfare yobs who behave the same way in all particulars.

Posted by trailing wife 2016-01-13 23:15|| 2016-01-13 23:15|| Front Page Top

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