The Times of Israel reports:
The Jews of France should prepare plans to leave the country, a prominent American Jewish leader said.
“They shouldn’t flee. But they should have
orderly plans in place,” said Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice
president of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish
Organizations.
“People who want to leave, should be able to
leave,” he said of the half-million-strong community. “Things here (in
Israel) should be prepared. The licensing process for lawyers, doctors,
etc., should be facilitated in order to integrate them quickly.”
There are “whole areas in France” today,
Hoenelin noted bleakly in a wide-ranging interview, “where the police
don’t venture, and where Jews and Christians don’t go.”
While the French government has allocated
considerable resources to the fight against Islamist terrorism there,
Hoenlein elaborated, the head of France’s main security agency recently
told him he lacked the manpower to adequately monitor the threat posed
by French citizens returning from fighting with the Islamic State and
other Islamist groups in the Middle East. This security chief, who
Hoenlein did not name, told him that Cherif and Said Kouachi [pictured], the
Paris-born brothers who received military training in Yemen and who
killed 12 people in an attack on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine on
Wednesday, January 7, 2015, had been closely monitored by French
security until days before the killings.
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