The only country ISIS fears in the Middle East is Israel - http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/ISIS-Threat/The-only-country-ISIS-fears-in-the-Middle-East-is-Israel-438576
A German journalist who spent 10 days with Islamic State says that the radical jihadist group that has captured wide swaths of Syria and Iraq is deterred by only one Middle Eastern country - Israel.
In an interview with the British Jewish News, Jurgen Todenhofer recalls his brief time behind enemy lines during which he spoke with ISIS fighters.
"The only country ISIS fears is Israel," Todenhofer, a former member of the German parliament, told Jewish News. "They told me they know the Israeli army is too strong for them."
The writer said that ISIS wants to lure British and American forces into Syria and Iraq, areas where it thinks it has an advantage.
"They think they can defeat US and UK ground troops, who they say they have no experience in city guerrilla or terrorist strategies," he told Jewish News. "But they know the Israelis are very tough as far as fighting against guerrillas and terrorists."
Todenhofer said that ISIS was "preparing the largest religious cleansing in history" and that he was "pessimistic" that the threat it poses could be neutralized. He added that the Paris attacks was just the first of "a storm" that is coming to Western cities.
"They are not scared of the British and the Americans, they are scared of the Israelis and told me the Israeli army is the real danger. We can't defeat them with our current strategy. These people [the IDF] can fight a guerrilla war."
"In Mosul there are 10,000 fighters living among 1.5 million people in 2,000 apartments, not in one place - so it would be difficult [for western soldiers] to fight them. ISIS fighters are ready to die in a war against a western soldiers."
Todenhofer said that ISIS plans to topple local governments while at the same time carry out terrorist atrocities abroad.
"They are a very strong danger for Iraq, Syria, Jordan and Libya, while the West will be subjected to big acts of terrorism instead of a full blown ISIS war because they say they don't want too many battles at the same time," he said.
The Islamic State released a taped message on Saturday with a purported speech by it's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in which he threatened the Jewish state.
"We are getting closer to you day by day," said the message. "Do not think that we have forgotten about you."
"God caused the Jews of the world to gather in Israel, and the war against them has become easy. It is the obligation of every Muslim to carry out Jihad,"
"Jews, you will not enjoy in Palestine. God has gathered you in Palestine so that the Mujahadeen can reach you soon and you will hide by the rock and the tree. Palestine will be your graveyard," he said.
The audio message said air strikes by Russia and by a US-led coalition had failed to weaken the group.
"Be confident that God will grant victory to those who worship him, and hear the good news that our state is doing well. The more intense the war against it, the purer it becomes and the tougher it gets," Baghdadi added.
The authenticity of the message, posted on Saturday on Twitter accounts that have published Islamic State statements in the past, could not be verified.
It slammed Saudi Arabia's efforts to set up a coalition of Muslim nations to fight his group.
"If it was an Islamic coalition, it would have declared itself free from its Jewish and Crusader lords and made the killing the Jews and the liberation of Palestine its goal," the message said.
Has the gunman who brought ISIS terror to Tel Aviv fled to Syria? - http://www.debka.com/article/25129/Has-the-gunman-who-brought-ISIS-terror-to-Tel-Aviv-fled-to-Syria-
Saturday night Jan. 2, Israeli police and security services knew everything about the gunman who Friday sprayed automatic bullets on passersby on Tel Aviv's favorite recreation street, killing two people and injuring eight - except where to find him. They gave his name as Nashat Melhem, 29, from the Israeli Arab village of Ar'arah in the eastern Wadi Ara district.
He was actually filmed in the act of shooting into a milling street crowd outside a Dizengoff café, before getting clean away. The clips were sported by all the media. The Shin Bet internal security service obtained a court gag order for controlling the release of information about the investigation and the related probe into the murder of an Israeli Arab taxi driver, Amin Shaaban, aged 42, an hour before after the Dizengoff shooting. His body was found outside the beachside Mandarin hotel in North Tel Aviv.
This led to the inference that Melhem's murder spree was planned with accomplices and that they or Melhem murdered the cab driver to cover their escape route - possibly to the Palestinian territories by a car parked near the hotel, or even by sea aboard a boat waiting off the nearby beach.
Judging from the information and images released, debkafile's analysts have reached the following conclusions:
1. Melhem was not a random killer, but a terrorist who planned his attack in detail including his escape..
2. This was no solo operation. This type of modus operandi requires accomplices.
3. Their identities and whereabouts are as deeply mystifying as his.
4. His family's attempts to depict the gunman as disturbed and unstable don't detract from the stark fact that he was responsible for the first undoubted Islamic State terror attack on the most popular high street in Israel, trendy Dizengoff. Like the jihadist killers in Tunis, France and San Bernardino, California, Melhem did not wait for direct orders from Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to kill Jews: He was inspired by al-Baghdadi's ideology.
5. The Tel Aviv attack had all the hallmarks of the outrages the Islamic State perpetrated in France in recent years - e.g., the 2012 murder by Mohammed Merah of four Jews in Toulouse; the atrocity of Yassin Salhi who displayed his boss's severed head on the fence of an American gas factory (and this week took his own life in a French prison); and the Nov. 13 massacre of 130 victims in Paris.
French intelligence and security services had all these perpetrators on their watch lists at some time before they committed their acts of terror, but found their hands tied for apprehending the killers in time to stop them.
6. Israeli security and intelligence services appear to be in a similar situation to their French counterparts. They too knew enough about Nashat Melhem to appreciate that he needed holding in check, but did nothing about it.
7. For his escape, Melhem or his backers may have studied the tricks of the notorious female terrorist Hayat Boumeddiene, who helped plan the deadly attacks at the Charlie Hebdo Paris office and the kosher market before escaping to Syria via Turkey and announcing she had reached her destination with the Islamic State forces.
8. Israeli authorities come up against the first almost certain ISIS attack in Tel Aviv, while yet unable to figure out how to extinguish the wave of Palestinian terror, which has surged since September - with daily stabbings, motor, shooting and other attacks - but dates back in fact to June 2014, when Hamas terrorists murdered the three Israeli teens, Gil-ad Shaar, Naftali Frenkel and Eyal Yifrah, after snatching them at the Gush Etzion intersection.
9. The panicky response to the Tel Aviv shooting was evidence of bewilderment. Instead of a disciplined pursuit of the killer, a disorderly pack of hundreds of security officers with drawn guns raced through Dizengoff, Raines and Spinoza streets with their weapons drawn, followed by crowds of photographers and onlookers.
It took much too long for authority to take charge, and meanwhile the shooter made good his escape.
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