Nice Terror: First they came for the Jews - July 16, 2016

Israel, the target the world didn't care about, was a laboratory for Islamist terror.

As I write this the terrorist who used a truck to kill dozens in Nice, France has not been identified. Chances are he, or she, is the usual Muslim extremist. Even if that is not the case, the result is the same. It is fanatical Islam that has got the entire civilized world in retreat and it all began in Israel.

From one Palestinian Arab terrorist attack to another, going back decades, the “international community” kept telling the Israelis that they must not answer with force, but rather they must respond with appeasement. Go forth, said the UN and the US State Department and all Liberals in between – go reason with those people who have so many complaints.

Yet every peace gesture was met with more demands and more terror and the world refused to figure it out, that it has nothing to do with land, only to commit bloodshed for the sake of bloodshed. There is no reasoning with people who have grievances against EVERYBODY. There is no reasoning with savages.

The civilized world sat back comfortably thinking that the problem was Israel’s problem, so let the Jews worry.

But now the French are worried. The Germans are worried. The British are worried. The entire planet is worried upon one final realization:

That the problem was never about Israel, after all. Israel was merely a laboratory for Radical Islam.

Israel was where Radical Islam tested the world’s resolve, and by proving itself weak-kneed, passive and irresolute – today it’s Nice.

Before that it was nearly every other country on the map.

From the hands of Hamas or Fatah or Hezbollah or whatever they call themselves, they are Radical Muslims and over the years they murdered thousands of Israeli civilians by use of the gun, the knife, the suicide belt; any explosive would do, and now it’s the automobile.

Will Hollande be willing to divide France after what just happened? Has he figured out how to reason with savages?

Before Nice, where was this tested? It was tested in Israel. Radical Palestinian Arabs found the car to be the latest means to convey murder.

At the moment French President Hollande is addressing the nation and the world. He says something must be done about the borders.

Something must be done to keep the savages (my term) from coming in. (Trump’s message from the start.)

Yet it was this same French President who last week called for a summit that would bring Israel and the Palestinians Arabs to the “peace table.”

Is he calling for a peace summit with whoever came to Nice to mow down hundreds of celebrants?

Hollande and the rest of the EU (minus the UK) keep insisting on a two-state solution – for Israel and only Israel.

Will Hollande be willing to divide France after what just happened? Has he figured out how to reason with savages? 

Has Merkel who keeps bringing in more migrants – by the millions? Has Sweden’s Margot Wallstrom got the answer?

Has she even got a clue?

Does Obama have a clue as he opens the door to 10,000 more migrants, probably some of whom will be radicalized, but nearly all of whom will surely bring in their anti-Semitism? Have we forgotten everything from 9/11 to San Bernardino? Hillary sure has.

She wants 10 times more.

After 9/11 here and the Passover Massacre in Netanya (30 murdered), I traveled to Israel and then wrote a book (“The Bathsheba Deadline”) to warn that this is just a start. I warned that “The Koran has arrived and it has come to devour the Bible.” The book finally got published, but at first 14 publishers turned it down for being too “alarmist.”

“This is only about Israel,” they told me. “It’s got nothing to do with Europe or the rest of the world.”

Nice is in France, last time I checked.

New York-based bestselling American novelist Jack Engelhard writes a regular column for Arutz Sheva. New fiction from the novelist: “News Anchor Sweetheart.” Engelhard is the author of the international bestseller “Indecent Proposal.” He is the recipient of the Ben Hecht Award for Literary Excellence. Website: www.jackengelhard.com

  

DIVORCING ANGELA MERKEL - JULY 4, 2016

The UK' forty-year itch.

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Published: Monday, July 04, 2016 9:23 AM

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In an act of petulance that often happens after a split, European leaders, stung by the rebuff, warned the British people that they are on their own and to expect “no special favors.” That scolding, and more, came right after Britain voted itself out of the European Union.


Or, to put it bluntly, the British made it clear that they were divorcing Angela Merkel, Europe’s most powerful leader who used her power to boss around an entire continent, beginning with her insistence that nothing must stop the tsunami flow of migrants.


Millions kept coming, bringing with them a strange culture; people who can’t play well with others.



Abbas...received standing ovations for the kind of talk once heard by their parents in German and now spoken in Arabic by obnoxious Islamist brutes.
They came from such places as Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Somalia, mostly men, and if many of them were decent and upstanding, the rest brought with them different habits and the inability or the refusal to assimilate. They imported the intolerance of Sharia.


They came bearing anti-Semitism. Wherever they gathered, from one country to the next, the rape index zoomed.


Even if it’s only the few, that’s all it takes to ignite terror, as we saw just the other day in Turkey, or any day anywhere, certainly Israel – and it has become much too simple and convenient to frame all acts of Islamic barbarism into the catch-all term ISIS.


Murderous jihadists, like Mahmoud Abbas, come from a thousand different radicalized tribes and mosques. A few days ago in Kiryat Arba, a Palestinian Arab terrorist broke into a Jewish home and stabbed to death a 13-year-old girl sleeping in her bed. Days later a rabbinic leader and father of 10 was murdered, also by Radical Palestinian Arab Islamists.


Go, make peace with such savages who walk among us. Though, alas, many here in the U.S. are still gagging at the red carpet extended by the EU to blood-thirsty arch-terrorist Abbas, who received standing ovationsfor the kind of talk once heard by their parents in German and now spoken in Arabic by obnoxious Islamist brutes.


Eastern European countries began building walls to keep them out. Western European countries, taking instruction from the European Union headquartered in Brussels, were far too politically correct to even approach any such measure. Only Britain declared we’ve had enough, this has to stop.


The English were already chafing from the 40-year itch; tired of taking orders from other capitals at the expense of their thousand-year rule by independence.


Here is how the UK voted, according to the BBC:


England voted strongly for Brexit, by 53.4% to 46.6%, as did Wales, with “Leave” getting 52.5% of the vote and “Remain” 47.5%. Scotland and Northern Ireland both backed staying in the EU. Scotland backed “Remain” by 62% to 38%, while 55.8% in Northern Ireland voted “Remain” and 44.2% “Leave.”


So while certainly not unanimous, the majority announced themselves tired of being pushed around, namely by Angela Merkel.


This was a protest against the German chancellor (and perhaps it’s time to drop that title) who still does not get it!


The influx began with her. She extended the invitation. She remains stubborn and defiant and blind to the migrant chaos she has provoked.


The New York Times has her blaming immigration for the split, but as she sees it, the fault is not hers.


The fault goes to people who fail to love her for opening Europe to the multitudes who have no knowledge or respect for Judeo/Christian values.


That’s her logic. That’s her story and she is sticking to it no matter the cost.


The British returned the defiance by proclaiming themselves free from Merkel-style globalism.


“We want our country back.” That was their battle cry.


That mirrors Donald Trump’s message here in America. We also want our country back. Why is that a problem?


New York-based bestselling American novelist Jack Engelhard writes a regular column for Arutz Sheva. New fiction from the novelist: “News Anchor Sweetheart.” Engelhard is the author of the international bestseller “Indecent Proposal” He is the recipient of the Ben Hecht Award for Literary Excellence. Website: www.jackengelhard.com

DEPORT THEM - JUNE 30, 2016

Let's get rid of them and their leaders. Now.

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Published: Thursday, June 30, 2016 11:03 PM

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Clearly, no rational voice would ask for an entire population to be removed. But this is no time to be rational.


Look to the Wisdom of Solomon to find: “A time to love and a time to hate.”


Along with our sorrow at the murder of a 13-year Israeli girl at the hands of yet another fanatical Palestinian Arab named after their prophet, can we at least be allowed the comfort of anger – I mean howling through the roof anger at the barbarity and the injustice of it all?


Will the world give us this much?


Be certain that Israel will take no such action, for reasons too obvious to mention except to note that Israel is a nation of laws, that’s one reason.


Tolerance and justice for all is another reason.



Everywhere they go they cause bloodshed. Yesterday, Turkey. Before that, Orlando.
More than a million and a half Arabs reside in Israel as full-fledged citizens. (Surely plenty of good among them, we must be quick to say.)


So forget deportation except for the fact that at this hour of outrage, we turn to our impulses, and this is the first reflex – get them the hell out of here!


But to where? Who wants them? Everywhere they go they cause bloodshed. Yesterday, Turkey. Before that, Orlando.


Do you need me to list all the places where they’ve gone to commit murder? Every airport is now walled up to keep them as far away as possible.

No place is safe.


But there was no wall in Kiryat Arba, where they came for Hallel-Yaffa Ariel, a beautiful Israeli teen sleeping in her bed.


That is where the killer found her, and knifed her to death.


Yes, the killer has been identified as Mohammed Nasser Tarayra. But it is also time to identify Mahmoud Abbas. Let’s remember where he was last week. He was in Europe speaking to the EU Parliament where for an hour he spewed hatred against the Jewish State – and provoked the kind of incitement that led to Kiryat Arba.


Let us also identify the EU leaders who rather than scorn and rebuke Mahmoud Abbas, instead gave him a standing ovation and kissed his ring.


How much blood is on their hands!


Shouldn’t this man…at least this man be deported…along with his crew of Fatah gangsters?


Let us also identify The New York Times where in today’s paper it cheers Canada for welcoming Syrian migrants with a helping hand and a smiley face, yet can find no headline to tell what really happened in Kiryat Arba – and perhaps it is better that the paper stay out of this because somehow Israel will be placed at fault.


Surely there will be talk about “the occupation.” Who is occupying Turkey? Who occupied San Bernardino? Who occupied Fort Hood?


Who occupied the Twin Towers in New York except for 3,000 innocents busy at work?


In his powerful essay on Kiryat Arba, Ari Soffer addresses American Jews for our failures to be there for our Israeli brothers and sisters – so let’s identify American Jewish author Michael Chabon who made news around the world by declaring “the occupation” as “the most grievous injustice I have seen in my life.”


Not satisfied with that, and in company with “Breaking the Silence,” he’s gathered around him a group of likeminded writers to keep up the bashing.


How much blood is on his hands and when will “Breaking the Silence” be identified?


The burial has been done for the girl who had more than 100 years still to live. The grieving continues.


So does the indignation. This is no time to love your neighbor, when your neighbor is a killer from a confederacy of savages.


New York-based bestselling American novelist Jack Engelhard writes a regular column for Arutz Sheva. He is the author of the international classic “Indecent Proposal” now followed by the prophetic newsroom thriller “The Bathsheba Deadline.” Engelhard is the recipient of the Ben Hecht Award for Literary Excellence. Website: www.jackengelhard.com

ALL WE NEED IS LOVE TO DEFEAT ISIS (AND BALDNESS) - JUNE 24, 2016

We have been sedated, duped and deceived.

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Published: Friday, June 24, 2016 7:56 AM

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Who ever imagined it could be so easy?


But it is, according to our attorney
general Loretta Lynch who, through the UN, once threatened to prosecute any American speaking unkindly against Islam. This time, only a few days ago, addressing Obama’s fan club, the news media, she announced that the only response to ISIS and Radical Islam is LOVE.


In her own words: “Our most effective response to terrorism is compassion; it’s unity and it’s love.”


This came too late for the 49 Americans in Orlando who were murdered by a man who swore allegiance to ISIS, and in the name of Allah.


We can’t help wondering what Ms. Lynch is talking about. Are we on the same planet? Or is she talking about a galaxy far away?


She must have some utopia in mind and if she knows where it is, please, she must clue us in right away before it’s too late.


Because right here on earth, where angels fear to tread, the message of love isn’t getting across – at least not to the right people.



Who are these people running our country? Do they think we’re stupid? Well, yes. Absolutely.
At the moment, not counting ISIS, there are an estimated 62 hot wars in progress where we might find Tina Turner singing, “What’s love got to do with it?”


Who are these people running our country? Do they think we’re stupid?

Well, yes. Absolutely.


Turn the page to a couple of years ago and listen to Obama adviser Jonathan Gruber reveal how Obama’s healthcare law was passed: "Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage, and basically, you know, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical to getting the thing to pass.”


More recently, listen to another Obama adviser, Ben Rhodes, explain how the Iran Nuke Deal was sneaked through, by hoodwinking the press. “The average reporter we talk to is 27 years-old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns.”


He added: “They literally know nothing.”


He means the rest of us, too. The entire administration thinks we’re fools – and maybe we are, given that we keep voting for these people.


Hillary is only waiting her turn to snooker us with her own bagful of slogans and lies.


“Love” is what you tell children who get to scuffling in the schoolyard. “Compassion” is not a sale for the headhunters of Radical Islam who have declared war upon the entire universe. Bumper stickers won’t make them stop. Lullabies won’t put them to sleep.


No, we are the ones who have been sedated, soothed, tranquilized and duped into swallowing every pill of deception.


Ms. Lynch’s message is fit for people suffering “the heartbreak of psoriasis,” or for men hurt by the pain of baldness.


Only Fox News had the chutzpah to ask her why her office tried to cover-up the fact that the Orlando killer was a radicalized Muslim.


After the “love and compassion” mumbo jumbo, she went ahead and averred that nothing means more to her than “transparency.” Huh?


Turning truth on its head and speaking down to us as if we are a nation of dunces – that’s how it’s been for the past seven and a half years.


For all that time we’ve been the victims of a con. Can we last the next seven months?


New York-based bestselling American novelist Jack Engelhard writes a regular column for Arutz Sheva. He is the author of the international classic “Indecent Proposal” now followed by the prophetic newsroom thriller “The Bathsheba Deadline.” Engelhard is the recipient of the Ben Hecht Award for Literary Excellence. Website: www.jackengelhard.com

THE UNLUCKY PRESIDENT - JUNE 17, 2016

Trump is right – “we don’t win anymore.” Would Trump be luckier than Obama?

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Published: Friday, June 17, 2016 7:52 AM

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Over the past couple of weeks we’ve had a gorilla shot to death in Cincinnati to save a child.


Then in Orlando an alligator snatched and drowned a child and again America wept.


Still in Orlando, entertainer Christina Grimmie was shot to death after closing out a performance.


Between all that, Orlando again, a man devoted to Radical Islam shot 49 Americans to death.


One damned thing after another and who’s to blame, fate, coincidence? Something’s going on… something very wrong.


None of these events can be attributed to a single source, except, perhaps, bad luck. We are no longer a lucky country. No more are we blessed.


Home of the brave? Tell that to the millions of Americans who have to be searched from head to toe before they can get on a plane.


All that for fear of the next attack from Islam…okay, Radical Islam.


Not at the moment at least are we a strong, confident people. We are still the greatest big nation on earth, but our heads are bowed.


Some blame Obama and his fellow Liberals for setting a mood of smallness, retreat and defeat. Include me among those who fault the President and his crowd of Blame America First Liberals for bringing the curse of bad vibes upon all our heads, as I’ve been prophesying since thisbook went to print.


Like every cause and effect, bad vibrations attract more bad vibrations. So if there is no direct source, there is, however, a particular mood that grips a household when the head of the family turns sullen and hateful and runs the family through the whip of a bad temper.


Then there’s bad blood and bad blood leads to bad luck. The leader of a country, like the head of a family, sets the tone.


Obama seems to forever have a claim against us. What does that do? It makes us feel awful, battered and awful. How low can we get?


On the happiness index, we rank 105 against the 151 countries surveyed. Israel ranks 11th; some have it among the Top Five.


When did it start? It started at the beginning, when Obama took office and rushed to beg the Muslim world for indulgence. (Did no good.)


Then he begged the rest of the world for forgiveness. We were no party to this.


He spoke for himself but as President he spoke for all of us – and all of us were put to shame.


The shame lingers -- especially since he keeps apologizing from one act of Islamic barbarity to the next, even last week’s.


For Obama and the Liberals behind him, it’s never about them; it’s always about us.


Any wonder America is down in the dumps? Any surprise that we keep running out of luck?


Conspiracy nuts – who may not be so crazy – will tell you that every time the United States acts against Israel, something terrible happens. They have statistics to prove all that, how tornadoes happen and rivers overflow their banks each time Obama or the State Dept. blame Israel for retaliating against Arab terrorism.


I won’t buy that, necessarily, but nothing really good has come our way ever since Obama made a separate peace with the murderous rulers of Iran.


As Trump has it, “We don’t win anymore,” and he’s got it right.


Call it what you will, and let’s be quick to say that our Muslim neighbors are as law-abiding as the rest of us, but altogether Islam has done us no favors, and when Obama and Hillary protest, they protest too much. Here is a list of the 100 Muslim-related atrocities before and since 9/11…so many of them under Obama’s watch.


What’s next – and who cares if it’s foreign-grown or homegrown, they keep coming and they keep us jittery.


Their terrorism may be unrelated to the atrocities and the tragedies that have nothing to do with Islam, but this much is for sure:


Obama has not been a lucky president. Let’s hope our next president (never Hillary) is smart and more important – lucky!


New York-based bestselling American novelist Jack Engelhard writes a regular column for Arutz Sheva. He is the author of the international bestseller “Indecent Proposal.” NEW: “News Anchor Sweetheart.,” fiction that reflects on Fox News and Megyn Kelly. Engelhard is the recipient of the Ben Hecht Award for Literary Excellence. Website:

OCCUPIED ORLANDO (AND SHAME ON DAVID REMNICK) - JUNE 14, 2016

To them, we are all infidels, but our president keeps inviting them in. And Trump is getting it right.

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Published: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 6:18 AM

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Last Wednesday it was Tel Aviv, and only a few days later it was Orlando when Muslim hotheads came to kill.


Everything about it was the same, except that in one place, Israel, the world blamed it on the victims.


“It’s the occupation.” Thus spoke voices from among the Palestinian Arabs beginning with Mahmoud Abbas.


No wait. He also said that “both sides” share the blame.


The Left agreed. From CNN, from the BBC, from The New York Times, from The Washington Post, from the leftist mayor of Tel Aviv and others, we heard that the Tel Aviv killer was “enraged” because of the “occupation” -- to have us believe that this particular Muslim Arab murderer was NOT under the influence of mandatory Jihad.


He was not crazed by calls from the mosques to slaughter nonbelievers.

Nope. He got up one morning and said to himself, what troubles me today? Ah, yes. The occupation.

So who is occupying Orlando, U.S.A?


Must be the same reason that caused the atrocity in Orlando, the occupation…the good old convenient occupation.


Therefore, at any moment we should be hearing about a “peace process” to “bring both sides together.”


From that logic, the United States must be prepared to make “painful concessions” for the sake of peace and security. Orlando must be divided.


After all, what’s good for Tel Aviv must be just as good for Orlando. In their eyes we are all equal, equally guilty for occupying Muslim territory.


We are all infidels, only under different skies.


To Jihadist Islam everything belongs to them and we are all targets. BDS thinks so and on nearly every campus they won’t let anyone forget.


They use every beer hall tactic available to stomp home the message.


The FBI is on the job and the rest of our law enforcement officers are likewise on alert for more of the same. They are monitoring Jihadist terror cells in every state throughout the U.S.A. We are not at the end of this war against Islamic terrorism, which is not “workplace violence,” Mr. President.


We are at the beginning as I’ve been prophesying since this book went to print.


It’s Islamic Terrorism and the 72 virgins awaiting a job well done.


Nor is it generic terrorism, like the kind that keeps killing people in Chicago. No, it’s Islamic Terrorism and the 72 virgins awaiting a job well done.

That’s the imperative that’s got these people “enraged.”


Our cops can’t keep up with them because as soon as they’ve got the ones in the house squared and tabulated, here’s what happens: Obama brings more of them into our homes, and by the boatload from Syria and elsewhere. Hillary keeps asking for more. There are not enough minarets to satisfy her.


She likewise won’t say what IS is. Nor will Bernie, and from a leading spokesman on the Radical Left, something else is bothering him. Immediately after the event, The New Yorker’s David Remnick took to the pages of his own magazine to express his outrage…not against Radical Islam, but against Donald Trump.


Radical Islam is too hot to handle. For Radical Leftists like Remnick, Trump is a far more convenient target. He barks, but he won’t bite.


In a tempter tantrum that shames the esteemed weekly previously known for high literature, Remnick went ballistic, accusing Trump of “exploiting the horror.”


The horror itself? The killer and the Islamic extremism and intolerance that sent him? That did not get nearly as much spit from Remnick as did Trump.


Apparently, Trump is to be faulted and scorned – and for what? For getting it right! Trump wants a halt to the influx.


Anything can happen when we let these people in, and it happened all right.


How typical of the cowardly Left to aim in the wrong direction, even tilting at windmills. How sickening!


New York-based bestselling American novelist Jack Engelhard writes a regular column for Arutz Sheva. He is the author of the international bestseller “Indecent Proposal.” NEW:  Fiction that reflects on Fox News and Megyn Kelly, “News Anchor Sweetheart.” Engelhard is the recipient of the Ben Hecht Award for Literary Excellence. Website:www.jackengelhard.com

ROUNDUP THE USUAL SUSPECT, MAHMOUD ABBAS - JUNE 9, 2016

He is the head of the snake.

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Published: Thursday, June 09, 2016 8:03 AM

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There will be the usual roundups after Wednesday’s bloodshed in Tel Aviv – four dead, more wounded from the hands of Palestinian Arab terrorists.


Two men are said to be responsible for this act of savagery against innocent civilians enjoying a day at the Sarona Market in the heart of town.



This was Israel’s mistake. The mistake was to grant respectability to a group of thugs.
They were captured. They are in custody and Israel’s law enforcement and security services are in the process of finding out who they are, where they came from and who sent them.


Let’s not kid ourselves. Mahmoud Abbas sent them.

Whether they do or do not have direct ties to Abbas’s PA (Palestinian Authority), makes no difference. He gave the order.


He gives the orders every day through schoolbooks and cartoons that teach toddlers to hate Jews and through broadcasts that incite Arabs to kill Jews.


Roundup all the suspects, but the stabbings and the shootings will continue until Israel sends a message truly forceful and dramatic.


Arrest Mahmoud Abbas. He’s the head of the snake.


Put him in handcuffs. Make it a public display that Israel means business and will have no more of Islamic terror.


Israel will surely be condemned from the usual sources, but at the same time it will earn the kind of respect it once achieved after the devil-may-care 1976 Entebbe rescue, for which it eventually won applause. Again Israel was condemned in 1981 when its forces bombed to smithereens Baghdad’s nuclear reactor at Osirak.


Later, the world saw the wisdom, and the chutzpah, and the heroism of that action.


The same kind of chutzpah is demanded of Israel today. Abbas must go. He must be shackled and sent to prison – him and his lieutenants, -- for the safety of Israel and as a sign to the world that here is one nation that will tolerate Islamic terror no more.


Reflexively, the nations will jump at the chance to denounce Israel (which it does no matter what) but this time there may also be some cheering.


Nearly every country suffers from Islamic terror. We are all in this together. Let the country free from jihad be the first to complain.


Who is Mahmoud Abbas anyway? He earned his title courtesy of the Oslo Accords, which created he PA.


This was Israel’s mistake. The mistake was to grant respectability to a group of thugs.


This bum, Abbas, was given the rights to a huge slice of Judea and Samaria (the 'West Bank'), which he controls only because Israel provides him the muscle. But he had no muscle when he was given Gaza and Hamas took it from him with barely a fight.


This goon is called President, but remaining in office more than 10 years after his term has expired makes him a President like Al Capone was a President.


His Fatah gangsters are no better than Hamas and ISIS.


The time has come to end this farce that grants him any sort of respect. He is a mobster and it is time to treat him like one.


Responding to the Tel Aviv attack, an emotional Benjamin Netanyahu is quoted as saying, “We will have an answer.”


Cut off the head of the snake, Bibi. That is the answer.