Posted on 04/17/2019 5:04:24 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Imagine three Pittsburghs, simultaneously — a multi-pronged murderous attack at Jewish institutions across the country.
The Jewish community’s top security arm did just that last week at an exercise joining community leaders from across the country with senior U.S. law enforcement officials.
Six months after the massacre of 11 Jewish worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue complex in Pittsburgh, several dozen officials met in a conference room overlooking the National Mall here and reviewed the lessons of that awful day as a means of dealing with future attacks.
The most surprising and poignant recommendations came from survivors of the Pittsburgh shooting — for better or worse. They recalled practices that already were in place and probably saved lives, among them persuading otherwise Shabbat-observant rabbis to carry cellphones strictly for emergency use and urging people to flee a shooting rather than hide in place.
The tabletop exercise was organized by Secure Community Network, an arm of the Jewish Federations of North America and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency was invited to cover the session on condition that it not quote officials on the record describing details of security procedures.
The three-city scenario imagined a car-ramming and shooting attack on the Jewish Community Center in Memphis, including surveillance by a mysterious drone, and almost simultaneous shooting attacks on a Jewish student barbecue at the University of Michigan and a Boston-area synagogue.
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The “next” Pittsburgh? What’s that mean? It’s one thing for religious congregations in general, as well as schools and other public venues, to do what they can to mitigate vulnerability to mass shooters. But if the implication is that Jews in America are especially at risk, that’s absurd and offensive. The USA is the most philo-semitic country in the world. Jews might be safer here than in Israel.
Israel is safer because we are better prepared than America. And America will not remain philosemitic for long, so long as this big Islamic influx keeps going. Jews are at risk all over the world, and leftards have long wanted to catch up with Europe on many things. They lost the election of 2016, and only got a partial victory in 2018, which they are squandering. If they win in 2020 and reopen the border, they’ll be catching up with Europeans in Jew hatred, because the haters that have made life misery over there will be moving in next door to you.
And the Islamic Jew hatred spreads where they are established.
At any rate, Trump is the likely winner in 2020, because he has infected them with TDS and they’re going into a leftardian tail spin. GOP will likely take back the House and strengthen its hold on the Senate. And the wall will be built.
But even so, it’s good to prepare for the eventuality of further anti-Jewish attacks on synagogues, not because America is especially prone to such things, but because it can always happen, even in America, and has happened. One pogrom in Crown Heights. One lynching in Georgia way back when. And one synagogue shoot-up in Pittsburgh. Country music lovers were attacked for unknown reasons in Vegas. Jews can always be attacked, anytime anywhere, for all the usual reasons. The stories I could tell you about my own experiences would give you pause. It’s part of being us. High time American Jews realized that and planned ahead.
Peduto wants illegals sent there.What will the Jews think of that?
Yeah, well there were hundreds — hundreds — of attacks on Catholic churches in France over the past year, so you’re not so special, my friend.
You think I’m interested in being “special”? There is no competition here. Catholic churches getting attacked in France is a direct attack on French culture and tradition on their own territory. It’s guests welcomed in the front door trying to take over your home, rape your wife and kids, make off with the furniture. It’s an act of insolence that the French should not tolerate, but do.
Attacks on Jews, however, occur the world over, and there’s no point in pretending that it will not happen again in America, even though it has been a very welcoming place overall. Best to prepare for the inevitable, and have plans of defense in place. That’s not putting on airs or claiming we’re “special,” but being realistic.
I hope the French have enough of a sense of self-preservation to do the same in their own country. I moved to Israel when Obama took office, because it’s our only real home, and I no longer recognized an America where this creep got elected President just by looking good in a suit and being black at the same time. Over here, we get to fight back and anticipate the attacks before they come. In America, when I left, the Jewish community at large would not do that. Now they are ‘shaked’.
Sent where? To Pittsburgh?
Good luck in your new home. A lot more Jews have died from terrorism there than in America. Just saying.
As for Israel being the only real home for Jews, that leads to some awkward questions for Jews who don’t live there, doesn’t it? Is it fair of you to hang that label on them: not real Americans, British, etc? Look, I recognize the utterly unique historical position of the Jews, and acknowledge that full assimilation may come at a price many don’t want to pay. But putting it as you do has led to real hardships over the centuries for Jews not in a position to make the choice you did.
Peduto just said he would welcome illegal immigrants to the Burgh!
Peduto’s what? The mayor of Pittsburgh? Good luck with getting rid of him. What a moron. But he’s importing voters to replace those that will be fleeing. What do the Jews think of that, you asked? I don’t know. The Grand Poobah of Jooo!ness hasn’t given me my orders yet, so I can’t think anything without his permission./s
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