ISIS, al-Qaeda and Hamas are also present at the Serbian-Hungarian border, in short, the situation is more than disturbing. Analysis.

Following the Israel-Hamas war that broke out on October 7, 2023, the number of anti-Semitic atrocities in the Western world increased drastically, and

Israel also claims that Hamas or other Iranian proxies planned several terrorist attacks in Europe, which were foiled with the help of Israeli countermeasures.

According to a statement by the Mossad in January of this year, evidence was uncovered that indicates that the alleged Hamas network wanted to attack the Israeli embassy in Sweden on the instructions of a command center in Lebanon, and in December Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke about Iran ordering the attack. against Israelis in Cyprus. In the same month, German authorities arrested Hamas operatives for planning to attack a German synagogue.

Established agents

Israel has long warned that

Hamas and Hezbollah planted agents in Europe.

Although Germany banned Hezbollah in 2020, the Shiite terror group still has around 1,250 members there. Israel has also warned that there are more than 450 Hamas operatives in Germany alone. Of course, the constant monitoring of so many people takes a lot of resources and manpower away from Homeland Security. In 2018, the German police could only keep 774 radical Islamists under constant surveillance.

Not to mention that not only these groups are active. In 2017, there were more than 50,000 Salafists (radical Sunnis) in France, and in 2022, 11,000 in Germany. Not all Salafists are jihadists, but many are, or have sympathies, and most European countries treat extremist Salafists as a security problem. But they are not the only dangerous group in Europe. According to the Dutch national anti-terrorism and security coordination body, ISIS is also growing in the country.

Previous attacks

The laxity of Western authorities is also strange because

 in the past there were examples of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict "snapping" on the Jews of the Diaspora.

Hezbollah tried to blow up the Israeli consul in Turkey in 2011, and in 2012 planned an attack against Israeli tourists in Cyprus. In 2012, they carried out a successful assassination attempt against Israeli tourists in Bulgaria, killing five Israeli civilians and a Bulgarian bus driver.

However, its main field of activity is South America. The Arab diaspora is strong on the continent anyway, after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war and the 1985 Lebanese civil war, many people emigrated. Hezbollah had a proven role in the 1992 bombing of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, which killed four Israelis and 25 Argentine civilians. The latter is also important because it was one of the largest attacks carried out by the Shia terrorist organization abroad, and because Hezbollah's ties are strong in South America.

Expanding Shiites

Hezbollah is far from active only in Lebanon. In 2013, their American agent was arrested and put on trial for helping the Shia terrorist group select targets. According to this year's Reuters news, they are also present in Yemen, actively helping the activities of Houthi terrorists, which is of course not surprising, since both are clients of Iran. Hezbollah appears to be expanding where Iran appears with its investments. In South America, for example, Iran maintains good relations with Nicaragua, Bolivia and Ecuador, but its main partner in the region is the far-left-led Venezuela.

Under the leadership of Nicolás Maduro, the far-left country that has become a pariah state and the homeland of the Islamic revolution have entered into an even closer alliance.

Iran's crude oil exports reached a new high in early 2023 due to increased shipments to Venezuela and China. Iran supported Venezuela's oil exports and its navy appeared in the Panama Canal during the year. The two countries announced that direct flights between Tehran and Caracas will start in August 2023. Venezuela also supports Hezbollah's participation in South American drug production, distribution and trafficking through non-state actors.

 The drug is an "unlimited source of cheap and easy income to carry out potential terrorist attacks"

- was stated at a US congressional hearing on Hezbollah's expansion in South America, which was held at the counter-terrorism subcommittee.

The role of drugs

The drug mafia and terrorists have met each other for a long time, violent criminals working in illegality have established fruitful cooperation in many countries of the world in human trafficking, trade in drugs, weapons, and other stolen goods, as well as in the movement of terrorists. Here, the line between religious extremists, criminals and terrorists is blurred in communities with a European and American migration background. Meanwhile, in the case of Iranian clients, the activity between individual terrorist groups and criminal activities is increasingly being coordinated, according to some assumptions, it is organized by Iran at the state level.

According to the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Hezbollah can earn up to one billion dollars a year in the South American drug trade and is also involved in the distribution of illegal drugs in North America. In the past, the terrorist group maintained a base in Paraguay and Colombia, but its agents were also arrested in Argentina. According to the Dutch secret service

Not only did Iran use Moroccan-Dutch thugs to liquidate two Iranian opposition forces abroad, it also actively protects and shelters mafia bosses.

The Dutch Ministry of Justice even suspects that the leader of one of the largest Arab crime clans in the Netherlands enjoyed the protection of the Iranian secret service for a while.

The emergence of an open society

It is also clear from the above that mass immigration

it can mean not only social and economic difficulties and burdens, but also a serious security risk.

The only reflection of this is that since the attack on October 7, a new wave of anti-Semitism has reached the Western world. The authorities have strengthened the protection of the Jewish communities in Western countries, and there was good reason for this, since, as we indicated at the beginning of the article, the Islamists are attempting more and more attacks. It is a peculiar fact that, meanwhile, a significant part of the Western press is busy accusing Israel of "genocide", and there is currently a trial against Israel in The Hague, which is bleeding from many wounds, while it seems that time and energy should be devoted to migration, terrorism, drug trafficking, also to explore the connections between the arms trade and anti-Semitism.

Meanwhile, illegal migration continues.

Last September alone, around 7,000 migrants arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa in just 48 hours. The permanent population of the island is normally 6,000 people. According to Frontex's report at the end of last year, illegal migration reached peaks not seen since 2016 in 2023.

The Hungarian situation

As you may remember, according to the report made public by the Hungarian secret services last November, ISIS, al-Qaeda and Hamas are also present at the Serbian-Hungarian border.

In the past few days, a man from Budapest was also preparing to detonate himself in the name of Hamas. MTI writes that, according to information from the Pest County Police Headquarters, the letters sent by the man contained expressions such as "I will set the city on fire tonight", "I have a firearm and ammunition", "I will blow up the whole city - Allahu Akbar" or " I am planning a terrorist attack in the name of Hamas". Of course, it is questionable whether he really had a connection with the mentioned group. We can only hope that the phenomena described above, which are already commonplace in the West and other countries of the world, will avoid our country in the future.

Bernát László Veszprémy / Mandiner

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