Angela Merkel’s open-door migrant policy will come slamming shut and Germany will become a Big Brother state after the Berlin Christmas market terror attack, a leading political commentator has warned.
The Berlin truck attack follows a series of other “lone wolf” attacks that some experts try to diminish in importance; however, the “Berlin bloodbath” appears to be a tipping point. Josef Joffe, professor at two Ivy League universities and publisher-editor of a weekly German newspaper, predicts that:
border controls, which have only this year been reinstated after 1.1million migrants entered in 2015, will be tightened and domestic surveillance will be upped after Monday’s “Berlin bloodbath”.
In September, it was announced that German police and the military were teaming up for joint drills as a preventative measure against an Islamic State attack, prompting concern that Germany was descending into martial law. A constitutional court ruling four years ago “paved the way for the deployment of the Bundeswehr on German streets in the aftermath of an attack.” Prior to that, Germany’s constitution allowed for domestic military missions “only under special circumstances — such as natural disaster relief. The restrictive legal framework was instituted as a result of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s abuse of state powers.”
Joffe also stated that “German troops stayed out of Iraq” and that “Germany has worked hard not to become a target for retaliation.” This ignores what the Islamic State revealed in its jihadi periodical Dabiq: six reasons why they hate the West. In it, they wrote a clear message to Western countries:
“Even if you were to stop bombing us, imprisoning us, torturing us, vilifying us, and usurping our lands, we would continue to hate you because our primary reason for hating you will not cease to exist until you embrace Islam.”
Germany has been battered with a rash of migrant crime; Merkel has no one to blame but herself in facing political ruin due to her indiscriminate and reckless open door policies. Pundits are now declaring that it is over for her; and that is despite her political backpedaling a couple of weeks ago, when she called for a burqa ban and declared that the refugee crisis “must never be repeated.” Now after Berlin’s truck attack, protests have erupted outside Merkel’s office, with demonstrators hollering “Merkel has blood on her hands.” We can only hope that her political infamy will serve to give other Western politicians an example of what not to do.
“MERKEL FACING RUIN: Everything has changed for Germany after Berlin terror, says expert,” by Alix Culbertson, Express, December 22, 2016:
ANGELA Merkel’s open-door migrant policy will come slamming shut and Germany will become a Big Brother state after the Berlin Christmas market terror attack, a leading political commentator has warned.
Josef Joffe said Germany has only had to deal with no or low victim lone-wolf attacks, unlike many other Western countries, until this year but after a spate of seven in 2016 the government will be forced to change the way the country is run.
The publisher-editor of Die Zeit, a weekly German newspaper, and professor at two Ivy League universities, said border controls, which have only this year been reinstated after 1.1million migrants entered in 2015, will be tightened and domestic surveillance will be upped after Monday’s “Berlin bloodbath”.
A total of 12 people were killed and 48 injured, with 14 still in critical condition, after a large lorry was driven about 60 metres through a Christmas market in Breitscheidplatz, central Berlin.
Moments after the Berlin terror attack a 23-year-old Pakistani migrant was arrested but was yesterday released due to lack of evidence.
ISIS last night claimed responsibility for the attack as anti-terror squads desperately searched for the Berlin attacker.
Mr Joffe, writing in The Guardian, said: “In general, Germany has been lucky – and smart in ways that did not always please its allies.
“German troops stayed out of Iraq. Where fealty to an alliance left no other choice, as in Afghanistan, they picked areas where combat appeared unlikely.
“In the Middle East, the German air force flies reconnaissance only – no bombing. Germany has worked hard not to become a target for retaliation.
“But now the cocoon has burst for good.”
Mrs Merkel promised the culprits will be punished “as hard as our laws demand” as the nation reacted in shock.
Mr Joffe, added: “This was not supposed to happen in a country that has been able to foil more terror attacks than have actually occurred.
“And this, it must be said, with the help of the much-maligned NSA, plus the British GCHQ and the French DGSE.”
The Stanford and Harvard professor said Germans are “ever protective of our privacy laws” but will have to get used to increased surveillance by national intelligence services as well as by their allies.
Data gathering and cyber warfare capabilities have already been strengthened in Germany in response to threats from Russia.
He added: “Now, Germany will invest even more in security – and perhaps show a bit more gratitude to the NSA, GCHQ and DGSE.
“Pacifism, the nation’s traditional posture since the Second World War, is losing its lustre as Putinist expansionism encroaches on Nato’s eastern borders, while Donald Trump dismisses the alliance as “obsolete”….

Stephanie says
to hater no. 1 cornerstone, ‘… hatred forever until you believe in Allah alone’ http://corpus.quran.com/translation.jsp?chapter=60&verse=4
Phil Copson says
“open door…..slamming shut……a commentator has warned” Warned ? “Warned” you say ???
I think any sane person in the Western world would regard that as a long overdue promise…..
jayell says
Perhaps ‘open door’ should become ‘revolving door’ (i.e., in, then straight OUT), because they’ll keep trying to get in. And those already in should head straight back to the exit, and helped on their way if they seem a little reluctant. To say that this lot of ‘poor, ill-teated, unfortunate, musunderstood victims’ have somewhat blotted their copy-book would be the understatement of the millenium. Their track record wherever they have turned up in Europe has been absolutely appalling in every respect, if not downright disgusting. It is very, very obvious that they are not victims of a problem at all, they ARE part of the problem, just as becomes apparent to the well-intentioned ‘good samaritan’ who intervenes to assist an apparent ‘victim’ in a violent squabble only to discover that all involved are as bad as each other and probably getting their just deserts. Merkel should be dumped asap, and all her precious imported proteges with her – they are NOT Germany’s problem.
PRCS says
Time to remember that refugees are supposed to return home when the time is appropriate. The host country has no obligation to keep them longer than that.
Refugees are also supposed to end their travel at the first safe country…not continue on to the best welfare state.
Asylum seekers are asking to remain in a country, and that country has no obligation to grant that.
Keith Gilbert says
They will have to be ‘cleaned’ in place for rounding them up is just not worth the bother, islam must perish, all of it, indeed; islam is the evil face of evil and nothing more…I have seldom read such vile filth as is found in their so called “holy” books. KDG, Esq.
andra says
The murderer of Berlin has been condemned to jail in Tunesia in 2010, but he “fled” to Italy. There he was sent to jail for four years in 2011 for burning down an asylum shelter. After his release he “fled” again, this time to Germany. Here he was known for several minor crimes and observed by the police. The police knew that he offered himself as a suicide terrorist.
Merkel and her government let him in this country. They are guilty for complicity in murder.This is a crime other people go to jail for. And there they belong.
Mirren10 says
Hear, hear, andra.
Merkel belongs in jail. To paraphrase Geert Wilders, her hands reek with the blood of Germans.
andra says
An AfD-leader – Markus Pretzell – has said the same thing and posted a Picture with Merkel´s bloody hands. Now the state security investigate against him.
Dave says
Yes
Lock Her Up!
More Ham Ed says
Murky Merkel.
eur says
Do not deceive us, there are hundreds of jihadists in the prisons of every European country and thousands who are collaborating actively or passively. The same thing happened in the past in times of Islamic conquest only now that the police are arresting Muslim soldiers (a few). If it were not for the police the attacks would be daily and Europe would be Islamic right now. If Islam does not dominate Europe is because it has not been left, but they are trying. Terrorism is a tool of Islam, not the problem. It is happening exactly the same as we can read in the history books and we are living it.
Achmed says
In a way, I disagree. Without the police, there would have been massive retaliation against the mohammedans a very long time ago. Many Germans, that have acted in self-defense .. or in defense of a child have found that they are the ones placed under arrest, charged, convicted and imprisoned.
The police are either mohammedan or islamophiliac. Sad, very, very sad.
gravenimage says
German political analyst: After Berlin jihad attack, Merkel is ruined, open door will close
………………
God, I hope so.
dumbledoresarmy says
Yes, seconding that.
And I hope that many, many ordinary Germans – especially Berliners! – will be communicating with their elected representatives, saying loud and clear – SHUT THE DOORS!
And along with that… “Evict the unwanted guests who are trashing the house and spitting in the face of their hosts”.
KrazyKafir says
Closed?? Isn’t that nice, but, it’s far far far far too late now. The destruction of Germany is inevitable now. Nothing can stop it. Who will be Europe’s next Serbia first? France or Germany.
eowyn von rohan says
!… Moments after the Berlin terror attack a 23-year-old Pakistani migrant was arrested but was yesterday released due to lack of evidence….!
This guy never went back to his asylumcentre. He is off and nobody knows, where he is right now.
I do not understand, why police let him go after this short time. Was it sure, he wasn´t just one of Amirs several identities? What if he wasn´t the driver but nevertheless involved in the attack? Maybe it was the plan to put all attention on him, to help Amir get away?
Anyway. this guy used more thän one identities. He surely is no refugee, as there is no war in Pakistan. He has a criminal file at german police and was accused in a sexual assault. To my opinion he should never be allowed to leave the policestation – unless he was brought to a plane to take him to Pakistan.
Neil Ross says
Throughout the Middle East there is a genocide against non Muslims. Europe’s response to this has been to suppress the news, ignore the victims, and then to import the perpetrators by the million. Just closing the door is not enough. There needs to be a reverse migration, forced if necessary. Detention centres, removal of financial benefits, withdrawal of work permits. Islamic ideology is incompatible with our cultures.
Guy Jones says
Does anyone else want to cry/laugh at the abject folly that Germany (and, in fairness, the U.S. and other countries) are engaged in, here, with this absolutely insane policy of letting in millions of Muslims from war-torn lands, bringing their fascist, supremacist ideology of hate with them, and then having domestic security forces engaging in these frantic, often fruitless attempts to keep tabs on them and prevent the next violent outburst? The stupidity inherent in this policy is akin to a farmer letting the foxes in the henhouse and then rushing around in a mad frenzy, attempting to prevent the foxes from doing what nature and instinct command them to do.
It should be obvious at this point in time that stopping Muslims at the border — yes, keeping them out of western countries entirely — is the only way to preserve secular democracies and freedoms and to keep people safe from the inevitable Islamic tantrums that arise wherever infantile Muslims and their jackboot ideology are found en masse.
Eric Jones says
Here. Here.
Eric
aDhimmiSaysWhat? says
Victor Orban gets it.
Guy Jones says
Further, we can state that, in addition to evincing total arrogance with her dim-witted, ill-conceived and utterly self-destructive immigration policis, Merkel and her ilk lack a basic, rudimentary understanding of Islamic doctrine, theology and history. The Islam that they base their policy decisions on is the “fantasy Islam” that the Left promotes at every opportunity, the so-called “religion of peace” and all that.
Merkel fails to appreciate what 1,400 years of history and the explicit tenets of the Koran and Hadith make clear — Islam is, by its own tenets, a supremacist, fascist and totalitarian ideology of hate and violence, incompatible with secular democracy and individual freedoms, antithetical to the values of the Enlightenment, of course, openly subversive and hostile to secular, democratic states and institutions.
RichardL says
Die Zeit is a hard-left newspaper. The AfD is centrist and is much closer to Democrat than GOP positions.
Germany will be the European ground zero in the coming war. And Joffe now sees this. 2 years late…
IQ al Rassooli says
Christine Williams
You are regurgitating what all the leftist clueless media and politicians have been doing their utmost to malign Putin and Russians
Let me put the record straight:
1. The Communist Soviets were the ENEMY of the USA
2. After their collapse and the agreements reached between R Reagan & Gorbachev that NATO will not encroach on Russia’s borders, Russia was the LEAST dangerous enemy of the USA
3. It has been NATO and its political leaders who have been aggressively ENCROACHING upon Russia’s borders and it is Putin’s primary responsibility to protect Russia from this
4. Both the Crimea and the eastern part of the Ukraine harbour a MAJORITY of Russians and the Crimea was always part of Russia until Nikita (Ukrainian) decided without any authorization to incorporate it in the Ukraine not ever expecting the Soviet Union would collapse
5. Russia has a serious and on going terror problem with Muslims just as the USA, Europe and every other country on the planet
6. Trump has more SAGACITY than all of the other Western leaders combined because the most dastardly enemy of none Muslim humanity (80% of the world) is Fundamentalist Islam with or without Weapons of Mass Destruction
7. Neither the USA alone nor any other superpower can face of Islam and wins. Trump and Putin need each other as well as China, India and all other nations who are suffering from Muslim TERROR
In a NUTSHELL~
Every Muslim is the enemy of every none Muslim Infidel/ Kafir on planet Earth. 80% of humanity
Every Muslim is a potential Mass Murderer the instant he/ she decides that he/she is NOT Sharia compliant enough
Every Muslim is therefore a Time Bomb primed to go off
All other explanations are unnecessary and redundant
IQ al Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
Eric Jones says
Complete Agreement.
Eric
Michael Copeland says
All those wolves…….
Can the media notice they are not “lone” any more?
They belong to a 1.6 billion pack.
Peter says
The reality of Islam as a predatory and violent faith aimed at the destruction of “other systems of belief” and making Islam and Muslims “superior” (Quran 9:33) will keep smashing away at the delusional, naïve, ignorant, projectionist, and wishful thinking mindsets of those who deem it (or want the rest of us to deem it) a “religion of peace, justice and tolerance” (and Obama’s fanciful “fairness”). That reality has to be in the form of non-Muslim blood and shattered bodies, since the facts and evidence in Islamic texts, doctrines, beliefs, and historical behavior are ignored, falsified, distorted, or papered over.
Heil Muhammad?
Sieg Islam?
Nein Danke!
Keith Gilbert says
islam is islam, always the evil face of evil!
It matters not what color or stripe represents itself, the submission is the same, nuking Mecca and Medina would only be a ‘cleansing’ start…it is but a ‘self motivating’ death cult…in man like hydrophobia in dogs…and dogs are a higher creature!
dumbledoresarmy says
Well put.
There’s another word for this sort of tactic. It’s called “goodcop/ badcop”, and it’s long been used as a way of messing with people’s heads.
It’s similar to the technique used by domestic abusers – the guy screams insults, rages, bashes his wife half to death, then spins around, pretends to be sooo sorry, flatters and charms her and buys her flowers and tells her he loves her … but she never knows when he’ll explode, again. And he usually manages to fool her into thinking that his explosion was somehow caused by something *she* did… so that she walks on eggshells, tiptoeing round his exquisitely delicate sensibilties and doing whatever he demands…
The Ummah, considered as a gestalt, has this whole tactic down pat.
Phil Copson says
To be even more brief – this mentality in which the bully pretends ( or even persuades themselves ) that they are the true victim, can be summed up as “Now-see-what-you-made-me-do Syndrome”
(Any listeners to the British BBC Radio 4 serial “The Archers” (the world’s longest-running radio serial) will recognise these traits in the all-too-convincing character of Rob Titchener – a psychological and physical bully who dominates and controls two successive wives and manipulates all around him, using any means from charm and lies, to intimidation and violence, whilst still being firmly convinced that he personally is an admirable and blameless person.)
As for the reference to the battered wives “walking on eggshells” in a demeaning attempt always to placate the bully for fear of further violence at any moment – well, we can all see the success of this approach all around for ourselves,can’t we ? as the cowed and submissive “authorities” hurry to please their ungrateful guests, cancelling Christmas festivities in schools and towns, removing crosses from churches and public buildings, taking helpless little white Christian children to mosques and forcing them to grovel in submission to Islam, refusing to act when Western women are assaulted and raped, and turn the police and courts on the indigenous population instead.
Mirren10 says
Excellent posts from Phil Copson and dda.
John A. Marre says
Kinda late now. The fox is already in the hen house, and is roaming about targeting innocents.
Walter Sieruk says
What a totally incompetent head of State that woman is. Her folly led to disaster. Merkel is as guilty as sin regarding taking part of the blame for that Islamic terror truck attack in Berlin last Sunday. For her PC politics and polices led to that murderous jihad murder disaster. Furthermore, is should be made clear that the “holy book” of Islam, the Quran, [the Koran] gives instruction in the ways of the violent and deadly jihad. To give only one out of many examples of this from the Koran is Sura 47:4. Which teaches “Whenever you encounter the unbelievers strike off their heads until you make a great slaughter among them…” Let’s face it, using a large truck as a weapon, as the Muslim /jihadist did, can sure make a greater “slaughter among them” than a sword can.
Tom Thumb says
Mrs Merkel promised the culprits will be punished “as hard as our laws demand” as the nation reacted in shock
Which means they will be given a stern scolding and will be grounded in their refugee camp for a week. They will of course, be allowed back onto the streets for some hardy sexual molestation on New Year’s Eve. Don’t want to be TOO mean to the poor darlings.
brigitte says
You’ve got that spot on.Mrs Merkel is committed to keeping serious illegal acts,infractions by foreign tresspassers,asylum seekes,migrants etc.,down!
She favours by the most expedient means. That of minimizing: arrests, following through with charges of a serious level and hence the crime stats for these and crimes are kept down. So therefore there can’t be much serious crimes happening by her foreigners via her invitation. What has no official action or mechanisms to deal with isn’t recorded, acknowledged so no one can say nasty things are happening that much by the nastier of the new folk.Problem solved via Merkel logic!
I’m sre prvately Angela believes she ought to be awarded a medal for dissisting from saying:
the number of lives taken, destroyed by our recent chaps is minor compared to what our autoban roadways and speeds take annually, so stop whining until they outdo that!
As for the sex attacks, our incest and pedophiles are still way ahead too!*’
I’m sure that’s how her disant beurocratical mechnical distant brain works and lets her sleep well at night. The fact these awful crimes didn’t need to happen above the German collateral is a minor fact for Machine Merkel!
Marlies Mertsch Geer says
Good, the traitor should be shot!
Janeatte says
Merkel is the twin of Hillary,both they should be in jail for treason.
Nuruodo says
The keywords here are “domestic surveillance will be upped” this is what all this is about, to get a grip over us, “1984” is on its way!
Angemon says
Politically ruined she may be, but she’ll live the rest of her live without having to deal on her daily life with what she unleashed on her population – the closest she’ll to a “Syrian” “refugee” is a photo-op during campaign.
davej says
A rational approach to Muslim refugees would have been:
We have examined the Islamic ideology as laid out in the Quran and studied the history of conquests and attempted conquests over the past 1400 years. The combination of the ideology and the history have convinced us that your intentions are hostile and the goal is not to assimilate into our society. Therefore, for the protection of that society, we must refuse entry to those who have not rejected this religion. We suggest that they apply to one of the Islamic countries that shares these beliefs.
Instead the government chose the irrational path and the country got bowled over.
Ade says
It sounds bad I know .. but this kind of atrocity may help us in the long term
Too many ignorant people, islamophiles and idiot liberals with shit for brains
are distorting public opinion about islam
Whenever there is an attack like this, surely thousands of people wake up to what’s going down
Indeed if it was not to the research I did after the November 2015 attacks in Paris I would still be
among the clueless hoards .. These jihadi retards are shooting themselves in the foot
Bloodshed is bad enough, but it is the stealth jihadis that are the real problem
dumbledoresarmy says
Greetings, Ade. You are German? If so: may I first of all offer my deepest condolences to your country and your people – who are my kin, my cousins, for I (an Aussie) have German immigrant forebears – in the wake of the latest outrageous and mass-murderous Muslim jihad assault that murdered people at the Christmas Market in Berlin.
You write – “Indeed if it was not to the research I did after the November 2015 attacks in Paris I would still be
among the clueless hoards [hordes]”.
Welcome to the de facto ad hoc “Order of the Phoenix” – the company of all those in many, many Infdiel lands who have come to recognise that there is a Global Jihad going on, that began 1400 years ago and has never stopped since, though it has had periods of semi-quiescence when Infidels were stronger and the Ummah, here or there or even generally, was weak and therefore retired to regroup and rearm.
I invite you to read this classic article by Mr Spencer’s good friend and colleague, “Hugh Fitzgerald”, entitled “the unsung history boys”.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/06/fitzgerald-the-unsung-history-boys
This is how it begins – “The keenest and most aware, in every part of the Western world, are now engaged in one vast, but not collective, History Lesson.
“Those in this class are necessarily a class of autodidacts, given the failure of our governments to instruct us, and given the near-total monopoly over academic departments and courses on Islam by those engaged not so much in instruction as in apologetics…”
”
“…Here we are, all over the world, the unsung History Boys.
And we are learning a lot. And passing it on. And we no longer accept the false authority of those whom, we realize, have been falsely instructing us on the nature of Islam…”.
Peggy says
Unfortunately it’s taken too many lives for people to wake up.
At least you have and probably many, many more but it’s a real tragedy that so much blood was spilled for it to happen.
Please educate people around you as much as you can so that this blood was not shed in vain.
You know the saying, ‘ too late to shut the gate after the horse has bolted’. Too late to shut borders now. Too many of them let in, in addition to millions already there already and they have bred.
Shutting the gate is not enough. Deportation of most of them even if you have to defy the UN and come up with new laws enabling you do deport as many as possible.
Eric Jones says
How could Merkel have got it so wrong? A well educated women from a midle class background ( for east germany). She was raised in church. Her father was a Lutheran minister. Apperently she is locked into the belief that other persons are as well meaning and shares similiar values as hers. Surely these migrants would be glad to be in a safe place, be greatful for benefits and further persue education and work just as she would. But she refuses to understand that other people may have completely diffferent intents and frames of referennce than what she grew up with.
I see the same thing here in the USA. I to grew up in the Methodist, UCC, Lutheran church environment; educationally and professionally motivated. But I learned by Gods grace that other people may not share my intentions; and face life as it actually is.
Now is the time for Merkel to resign for the sake of the German people and herself.
Eric
John says
The one door that should close on her is a jail cell door. Permanently.
mortimer says
Lock her up!
Rufolino says
The idea that Merkel is finished, and will not be re-elected next year, is a false deduction revealing a fundamental misunderstanding of what ordinary Germans feel.
Most are happy with the “politically correct” principles she enacts. What to most of us looks like criminal folly with disastrous consequences, to most Germans appears admirable.
Merkel’s policies are in such profound contrast to Germany’s own notorious history.
Merkel will most certainly be re-elected and the back of Germany will be broken by Islam.