Posted on 03/23/2016 4:45:39 AM PDT by SJackson
Unlike the suicide-bombing in Istanbul last week, in which three Israelis were killed, the triple attacks in Brussels on Tuesday morning were not connected to Israel or the Palestinians, Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky told The Algemeiner. However, he said, they were directly related to the phenomenon of “a minority who does not believe in the values of democracy confronting a majority who has given up on demanding those values.”
Sharansky – speaking at an event hosted by the Gatestone Institute, a New York-based think tank specializing in strategy and defense issues – was putting the recent terrorist attacks into the broader context of the distinction between “free societies” and “fear societies.”
The “geography” of the latter “is growing larger and larger,” said Sharansky, who immigrated to the Jewish state after spending nine years in Soviet prisons for trumped-up espionage charges lodged when he requested to emigrate to Israel.
Addressing the 2015 aliyah figures, Sharansky both welcomed the fact that 31,000 Jews immigrated to Israel – mainly from France, Ukraine and Russia – and pointed to its less-than-encouraging significance.
“Since 1948, there has never been such aliyah from western Europe,” he said, going on to explain that the rise in antisemitism from radical Muslims and the Christian Right is only part of the reason. Equally, if not more, important, he explained, is that “while Jews have always been prominent among the builders of liberal societies, as soon as post-modernism and multiculturalism took over, Israel became the symbol of a remnant of colonialism.”
Basically, Sharansky said, Jews in Europe are finding themselves without a natural cultural home.
He said that he is often asked whether there is a future for Jews in Europe. “My answer to them is to ask whether there is a future for Europe in Europe,” he said. “When society is afraid to defend freedom, others step into the vacuum.” And that, he said, is what is happening today.
Sharansky addressed the Gatestone event at the Four Seasons restaurant in Manhattan, mere hours after three explosions — two at the Brussels airport and one in a centrally located subway station — rocked the Belgian capital. In the attacks, two of which are suspected to have been suicide-bombings, at least 30 people were killed and another 230 wounded.
According to CNN, ISIS claimed responsibility for the attacks, and the “working assumption” of the Belgian authorities is that the terrorists belonged to the same network that was behind the Paris massacres in November, which left 130 dead.
Tuesday’s carnage comes on the heels of last week’s suicide-bombing in Istanbul – purportedly perpetrated by ISIS terrorists – in which four people were killed, among them three Israelis. Surveillance footage from the venue has led to the suspicion that the Israelis had been marked as targets for the attack.
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They had better shift to an At War Society if they want to live.
WHAT Christian Right does this???
Just journ-0-lists window-dressing Islam.
“Christian anti-Semitism”?
Whatever it is, it sure ain’t “Christian”.
I was going to suggest a Secure Society, but you’re right. It has escalated to an At War Society.
Maybe they need to shift to a “not letting their ideals get beyond their resources” type state.
How surprising !
And Sharansky shoud try to explain that in a consistant and sensible way ....Some liberal jews in Europe have a great part of responsability since they tried hard to trash the european legacy and civilization ....
Immigration is a tool for globalists and UN worshippers
Post-Jihad Gesture Theater: Je Suis Sick of It
They've been a 'Fear Society' forever.
It's just that before, they used to fear the United States.
Shifting to? I’d say when you are instructing women to not leave their homes in the evening, you’re already there.
I wish they’d shift to an AWAKE society!
Western Europe hasn’t been free since the collapse of the USSR. The EU is just socialism in a tuxedo.
This strike was a blow to the heart of Europe. Brussels is home to the EU, European Parliament, etc. The terrorists were only a few hundred yards away from their headquarters.
0bama’s reaction, or lack or it, is totally predictable; he has no connection to, or value for Western Euopean civilization and culture. Now, if this had been an attack in Africa or Asia, he would have (crocodile ) tears and an emotional response.
He no longer cares about hiding who he really is, and his true belief system from the Anerican people.
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