Why would Al Qaeda, ISIS and whatever other groups if they were real attack Europe or North America when right in their backyard is their major enemy whose insertion into the middle east caused so much destabilization there?
Israel has been through several wars with neighboring countries. They have been through vicious attacks with rockets, and several suicide bombers in crowded markets. It's just a matter of googling these things.
Are the security precautions of the west so ineffective?
The Paris shooters were fully-documented foreign nationals. They did not use fake psuedonyms or sneak into France in the dark of night. In short, they were 'homegrown' terrorists. They were more like Timothy McVeigh, than "ISIS terror cells".
Is all of Israel surrounded by triple rows of razor wire fences and machine gun posts every 50 yards?
Yes.
Is every plane that flies over Israel escorted by F16s?
Yes. Also Israel is a small area , and so its easy to police it in this manner.
Why does Israel seem barely troubled by some occasional rockets from Gaza or WB but nothing ever on the scale of Paris, London or New York?
Rockets are more deadly than you give them credit. Also, Israel has been through several wars in recent decades. Since you are comparing and contrasting, you should know that Bin Laden's number 1 enemy was not the USA, it was the so-called "House of Saud", a k a The Saudi Royal Family. The attacks on Saudi princes around the time of 9/11 were equally if not more ferocious than what happened in New York City. Again, google to confirm for yourself.
How can it be that Muslim fighters with ties to the US who hate Israel sneak into PARIS and launch a series of attacks?
Again, your facts are just wrong here. The Nov13 Paris terrorists did NOT SNEAK IN. (see above)
Are they trying to cut off the flow of refugees leaving Syria so they control more people as these refugees will be demonized and mistrusted by the west?
No. What they are trying to do is force France and its allies into a giant world war. An apocalyptic battle between secular Westerners and Islamic arabs. How do we know this? Because they wrote it themselves. ISIS even used the word "mulhamal" to refer to this epic battle.
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Israel has been through several wars with neighboring countries. They have been through vicious attacks with rockets, and several suicide bombers in crowded markets. It's just a matter of googling these things.
The Paris shooters were fully-documented foreign nationals. They did not use fake psuedonyms or sneak into France in the dark of night. In short, they were 'homegrown' terrorists. They were more like Timothy McVeigh, than "ISIS terror cells".
Yes.
Yes. Also Israel is a small area , and so its easy to police it in this manner.
Rockets are more deadly than you give them credit. Also, Israel has been through several wars in recent decades. Since you are comparing and contrasting, you should know that Bin Laden's number 1 enemy was not the USA, it was the so-called "House of Saud", a k a The Saudi Royal Family. The attacks on Saudi princes around the time of 9/11 were equally if not more ferocious than what happened in New York City. Again, google to confirm for yourself.
Again, your facts are just wrong here. The Nov13 Paris terrorists did NOT SNEAK IN. (see above)
No. What they are trying to do is force France and its allies into a giant world war. An apocalyptic battle between secular Westerners and Islamic arabs. How do we know this? Because they wrote it themselves. ISIS even used the word "mulhamal" to refer to this epic battle.
You are in the business of comparing the relative severity of terrorist attacks. Make sure that you also take note of the 2007 car bombings in northern Iraq. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Yazidi_communities_bombings
That killed over 500 and wounded 1500 more. The exact numbers are not known. That was far worse than what happened in Paris.