Posted on 12/03/2018 6:54:16 AM PST by Kaslin
Wildfires have devastated California and killed 88 people, with the number of casualties continuously rising. Californians lost their homes, farms, and pets. Americans throughout the nation have offered assistance and contributed financially. Our hearts broke from news of the devastation.
These California fires were not started intentionally. But what if we lived in fear that park fires would be started maliciously? What if we were threatened daily with arson terrorism?
Arson terrorism has been a daily and agonizing reality in Israel.
Israel has spent this past year under unyielding bombardment of terroristic arson. For over seven months, on a daily basis, Israeli farms, homes, schools, national parks, and wildlife sanctuaries have been burned by malicious fires, fires started as intentional acts of terrorism.
Palestinian Hamas and Islamic Jihad members and supporters, who desire to overtake Israel and “kill Jews,” have been attempting to weaken the Israeli borders by overwhelming the border towns with unremitting fires. The fires are started by terrorists launching burning kites and incendiary balloons from Gaza into Israel. The fires rage and firefighters struggle to put them out.
Children, schools, and kindergartens have been under attack. This heinously destructive form of ecological terrorism has killed thousands of native wildlife, engulfed public parks, damaged irrigation systems, inflicted harm on livestock, and burned down nature sanctuaries. Arson terrorism has produced an average of 11 fires a day in Israel over the past year, with a total of almost 1,000 fires.
Soldiers have remained at the border with Gaza and have helped the firefighters and the locals at the Israeli-Gaza border control these fires, but Israel was limited in its ability to reduce the magnitude of the ecological disaster.
While the United States has yet to experience arson terrorism on mass levels, the devastation that crippled California is a sure sign that we would have a difficult time recovering from the aftermath of terroristic arson in the U.S.
To date, American news has largely ignored the challenges that the Israelis have faced in their fight against arson terrorism. But we cannot afford to do so after experiencing our own weakness and unpreparedness for large-scale fires. Lest we forget, Israel is akin to an innovation lab of Islamic terrorism: whatever succeeds in Israel is eventually brought to the rest of the world. The terrorist fires, unfortunately, have accomplished their purpose in the Holy Land. This must serve as a red flag for us.
We must learn from the Israeli and California response successes and failures. We need to equip our federal and local governments with resources and knowledge on how to most effectively combat arson terrorism. Understand this: if arson terrorism happens in the United States, it won’t just be contained to the border as it is in Israel; it will likely come from the inside and target our home communities. Joseph W. Pfeifer testified before the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security on Counterterrorism and Intelligence on June 12, 2013, warning us about the dangers and complexity of battling arson terrorism in the United States. It is time to start listening to him.
We need to increase our vigilance and adequately prepare ourselves to battle the evil that our ally has been living through.
Such acts will eventually fizzle out.
Proper forest management will deter or eliminate most of thsat kind of stuff. Healthy forests, with the underbrush removed and dead trees harvested are very hard to set on fire.
California politicians have been allowing the worst conditions so they can blame it on somebody and keep more control of their people.
They are FINALLY figuring this out?!?!?!
It is not just forest management. That is only a part of it. IT is the fact that many of these houses were actually built in the forest with large existing trees within 10’ of their house. In many cases overhanging the structures. The Santa Anna winds blow every year. Fire has been burning parts of California for hundreds if not thousands of years.
Maybe that state of California should change the building codes so that houses have to be more fire proof.
This is no different than building a beach house in FL and not building it up on pilings 12’ above high tide. You are just waiting for disaster. It is just a matter of time before the next hurricane comes and wipes you out.
A family member was with the USFS for 30 years in the west. When they stopped managing the forests he retired. They predicted these devastating fires 25 years or more ago. It will take more than decade of work to minimize the risks.
First and foremost, rid the nation of those most probable, the mohammedans.
Thanks for giving them ideas!!!
Will this keep all houses from burning? NO But it will drastically lower the amount of damage and the number of homes burned.
“They are FINALLY figuring this out?!?!?!”
Wait til they figure put what a 100 or 1000 Muzzys with a simple 308 can do to our GRID ! Specifically if they time all the shots across in a pattern to overload the BIGGY Transformers..
To be honest I have been thinking about this since 911. Easy way to cause untold economic damage with very little effort.
Coming soon to a substation near you.
We are unprepared for most forms of terroism. I read today that ISIS is calling for US residents to use sniper tactics.
A 19 y.o. was sentenced recently here in Fed. Court after he pled guilty to planning to bomb a mall near my house. He went to high school around the corner and lived with his parents about a mile away. If this can go on in PLano Texas, a suburb of Dallas, it can happen anywhere.
Ping.
Does anyone remember the fires in the Gatlinburg TN area? They were found to have been started in different areas all at once, and on purpose. Last I heard they were started by some muslims yoots. Just say’n.
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