Week in Review: Violence in Israel, War in Syria, Far-Right Extremism in Germany, and More

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Jerusalem awakening and the division of Jerusalem

• While the United States will have you believe that Palestinians are declaring a “Day of Rage” and stabbing Jews because they are frustrated and merely want a two-state solution and to make peace with Israel, the Palestinians themselves understand that they are waging a religious war. They are calling the current spate in violence “hibat al-Quds”—or the “Jerusalem awakening.”
• One imam brazenly declared in a sermon: “[W]e realize why the Jews build walls. They do not do this to stop missiles but to prevent the slitting of their throats.” He then brandished a six-inch knife and added “My brother in the West Bank: Stab!”

Unexpected outcomes of Russian airstrikes in Syria

• The Islamic State can no longer steal Iraqi and Syrian oil.
• Europe now sees the light—that Moscow’s decisive action works better than Washington’s irresolute skirmishes.
• Meanwhile, thousands of Russian-backed Iranian troops arrived in Syria to prepare for an all-out assault on Aleppo.

German Islamophobe movement returns with a vengeance

• The far-right pegida movement—Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the Occident—drew thousands of anti-Islamist Germans late last year.
• After about four months, pegida support petered out—until now.
• Spiegel Online reports Germany’s immigrant crisis has inspired the movement to return—“with a vengeance.”

Corporate America’s $119 billion debt binge

• “It’s more expensive for even the most creditworthy companies to borrow or refinance even as the Fed has kept its benchmark at near-zero the last seven years,” writes Bloomberg.
• “Companies have loaded up on debt. They owe more in interest than they ever have, while their ability to service what they owe, a metric called interest coverage, is at its lowest since 2009.”

Other news:

• “It seems to be a foregone conclusion,” writes Deutsche Welle. “[T]he German armed forces, the Bundeswehr, are to expand their area of operations to northern Mali.”
• China and India are conducting counterterror drills in China’s Yunnan province intended to “develop joint operating capability, share useful experience in counterterrorism operations, and to promote friendly exchanges between the armies of India and China,” as the Indian Ministry of Defense explained.
• Remember the scandal of the nsa spying on Germany and hacking Chancellor Angela Merkel’s phone? The bnd—Germany’s intelligence agency—was found guilty of essentially the same thing: spying on Americans, Frenchmen and their embassies.
• According to a recent survey by researchers at Chapman University, Americans’ number one fear is corruption of government officials.

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