TIMES OF ISRAEL
What France Can Learn from Israel in Confronting Islamist Terror
by Gregg Roman
November 16, 2015

As my French friends, colleagues, and acquaintances agonize over what is to be done in the aftermath of the Paris attacks, the best advice I can think of is to look at Israel. This tragedy was not “France’s 9/11.”  Al-Qaeda effectively depleted its stateside human assets in that attack and never regained the ability to strike the American heartland.  This is France’s Al-Aqsa Intifada – unfortunately, more of the same is absolutely going to follow. Whatever one’s political predisposition to Israeli counterterrorism policies may be, its success fighting Islamist terror over the past two decades is the only real-world model for overcoming the specific challenges France now faces. Here are some of the main takeaways. First, it’s time to sacrifice some freedoms of convenience. Most Israelis don’t know what it’s like to walk into a mid-size concert venue of the kind targeted in France without passing through a metal detector and their government intends to keep it that way. READ MORE