While the Europeans and the United States are busy denying that there even is a global jihad threat, Israel — at least in this particular — is much more realistic. “Global Jihad forum to be established,” from the Jerusalem Post, September 25 (thanks to James):
The government has decided to establish a special forum that will deal with threats posed by international Jihad organizations to Israelis, in the country and abroad, Army Radio reported Thursday.
The Defense Ministry’s Anti-Terror Bureau chief is expected to head the forum, which will have members from the Mossad, Shin Bet, IDF and other relevant security apparatuses.
The forum will convene at least once every two months, according to the number of threats, with the goal of assisting the collaboration of all the security forces in face of the growing warnings.
The security cabinet ministers approved the forum’s establishment in the hopes that institutionalization of the cooperation and coordination between security and intelligence apparatuses would improve Israel’s management of the global Jihad threat….