{"id":90717,"date":"2016-03-22T10:38:03","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T18:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=90717"},"modified":"2016-03-22T10:41:05","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T18:41:05","slug":"jewish-group-on-brussels-attacks-shots-at-the-heart-of-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=90717","title":{"rendered":"Jewish group on Brussels attacks: \u2018Shots at the heart of Europe\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Has any group<\/a> done<\/a> more<\/a> than Jews<\/a> to bring<\/a> more muslims into the West<\/a>?<\/p>\n

If you find snakes in your bedroom, do you hate the snakes or do you hate those who put them there?<\/p>\n

From JTA<\/a>: Jewish groups expressed shock and anger following a series of attacks that left at least 34 dead in the Belgian capital.
\nKenneth Bandler, director of media relations for the American Jewish Committee, linked the attacks to the slaying of four people at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in May 2014.
\n\u201cWhat began with the jihadist fatal attack on the Jewish Museum nearly two years ago has now reached the airport and metro,\u201d he wrote in an email about the Tuesday morning attacks in Brussels.
\nTwo explosions at Zaventem Airport, including one by a suicide bomber, killed at least 14 people, and was followed by an explosion at the Maelbeek metro station, where another at least 20 died, the Het Laatste Nieuws daily reported on its online edition.
\nMehdi Nemmouche, a French national in his 30s who is said to have fought with jihadists in Syria, is currently on trial in Brussels for the May 2014 museum shooting.
\n\u201cThis is yet another shocking, appalling and deadly attack on innocent Europeans by radical terrorists,\u201d European Jewish Congress President Moshe Kantor said in a statement. Kantor called the attacks \u201cshots at the heart of Europe\u201d that he said should galvanize counterterrorist actions.
\nIslamic State has claimed responsibility for the attacks, in response to Belgium\u2019s participation in the U.S.-led coalition fighting against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
\nRabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, president of the Conference of European Rabbis, said his organization is \u201cunited in prayers at this hour with the families of the victims and the injured.\u201d
\nGoldschmidt called the attacks, whose perpetrators have not yet been publicly identified, the \u201clatest act of war of Islamic fascism against the capital of Europe,\u201d adding: \u201cAs in the biblical story of Esther, which will be read in all the synagogues later this week, evil can and will be destroyed only by recognizing it and fighting it.\u201d
\nSources from a Belgian intelligence agency said the attacks may have been carried out as revenge for the arrest Friday in Belgium of Salah Abdeslam, a 26-year-old French Islamist whom authorities suspect had a key role in a series of deadly attacks that killed 130 people in Paris in November. An unnamed intelligence source told the Het Laatste Nieuws daily that the attacks must have been planned a long time ago but may have been carried out earlier than planned to retaliate for the arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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