Jerusalem News
JN-1211. Jerusalem News
(7 November, 2019, 9 Cheshvan, 5780)
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Winston Churchill:
"There is a great truth in the saying that the
LORD treats nations as those nations treat the Jews."
Contents:
1. "Nearly Half of British Jews Say They Would 'Seriously Consider' Fleeing the Country If Corbyn Is Elected PM"
2. One in Four Germans Believe Jews 'Have Too Much Power,' New Survey Reveals
by Ben Cohen
3. How Could the Turks Not Know Where Baghdadi Was Hiding?
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1. "Nearly Half of British Jews Say They Would 'Seriously Consider' Fleeing the Country If Corbyn Is Elected PM"
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/poll-nearly-half-of-british-jews-say-they-would-seriously-consider-fleeing-the-country-if-corbyn-is-elected-pm/?utm_source=quora&utm_medium=referral
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2. One in Four Germans Believe Jews 'Have Too Much Power,' New Survey Reveals
by Ben Cohen
https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/10/24/one-in-four-germans-believe-jews-have-too-much-power-new-survey-reveals/?utm_content=news1&utm_medium=daily_email&utm_campaign=email&utm_source=internal/
Extracts:
A World Jewish Congress survey published on Thursday dramatically underlined the continuing rise of antisemitism in Germany, with more than one in four respondents expressing agreement with statements that were based upon classic anti-Jewish tropes.
The claim that 'Jews talk too much about the Holocaust' was agreed with by 41 percent of respondents, with the same proportion also believing that 'Jews are more loyal to Israel than to Germany.' Asked whether Jews had 'too much power in international financial markets,' 26 percent said that was the case.
The statement that 'Jews have too much power in global affairs' drew 24 percent agreement, with 16 percent believing that 'Jews have too much control over the German government. Nearly one in four respondents, 24 percent , agreed with the statement, 'A lot of the people I know have negative feelings about Jews.'
The survey also probed German attitudes toward Israel and how these might impact on perceptions of Jews. Asked whether 'actions taken by the State of Israel influence your opinions about Jews,' 38 percent answered that this was either partly or fully true, while 42 percent agreed that 'supporters of Israel use accusations of antisemitism to shut down criticism.' Thirty-four percent said that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict had left them with a 'worse opinion about Jews.'
Asked whether Israel had the right to exist as Jewish state, 66 percent agreed, 11 percent disagreed and 23 percent said they were not sure. Meanwhile, a plurality of respondents, 44 percent , said they disagreed with the assertion, 'Germany has a special responsibility to look out for the welfare of Israel because of what happened during the Holocaust.'
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3. How Could the Turks Not Know Where Baghdadi Was Hiding?
by Seth Frantzman
The Jerusalem Post
November 3, 2019
https://www.meforum.org/59727/did-turkey-know-where-baghdadi-was-hiding
Originally published under the title "Why Did Turkish Intelligence Fail at Finding Baghdadi?"
Turkish intelligence claims to have been unaware of Bagdadi
Extracts:
When US special forces disembarked from eight helicopters to raid a compound where ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was holed up, they had good intelligence from various sources in Iraq and Syria that confirmed the terror leader's location. They were also just a few kilometers from the Turkish border. They were so close that their flight path took them into Turkish airspace and they had to tell Turkey and Russia about their request to raid the area. They didn't tell them all the details of the operation.
How did Turkish intelligence not know what was going on within shouting distance of its border? How did a NATO ally as sophisticated as Turkey, with UAVs, signals intelligence and observation posts throughout Idlib where Baghdadi was living, not know he was there?
Eli Lake at Bloomberg wonders: "How was the Islamic State leader able to find refuge in a Syrian province secured by the Turkish military and its proxy forces?
See Also:
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Westerners-think-Turkeys-Erdogan-is-bad-What-is-the-source-of-their-thoughts/answer/Yair-Davidiy