THE RESURGENCE OF NATIONAL PRIDE
AND THE FUTURE OF EUROPE
Dear People,
I
have been following the courageous battle of Geert Wilders of the Netherlands
for a number of years in his attempt to awaken the consciousness of the Western
World to the dangers posed by Islam in the West. He has been viciously attacked for his
efforts as being an Islamophobe in the Netherlands and the Muslims have placed a
price on his head, a fatwah. Because of this he is forced to have security
around him twenty-hours a day where ever he travels in the world. The speech that follows was presented in Los
Angeles, CA on June 9, 2013. It is one
of the most comprehensive exposes of the EU that I have ever read. It talks about the destructive nature of a
united Europe and the consequences it will have on the world community. I especially direct these remarks of his to
my fellow Greeks in Greece for they have suffered the most since joining the
EU. I call upon all the freedom-loving
peoples of Europe to throw off the tyranny of the EU before it is too late for
Christian Europe.
Άγαπητοί πατριώτες τής Έλλάδος,
Παρακολουθώ
τώρα διά πολλά χρόνια τήν προσπάθειαν τού κου Geert Wilders άπό τήν Όλλανδίαν νά ξυπνίση τούς δυτικούς Χριστιανούς τής Εύρώπης διά τόν
μεγάλον κύνδινον πού διατρέχουν μέ τούς Μουσουλμάνους μετανεστάτας. Οί Μουσουλμάνοι έχουν διακηρύξει φάτουα στό
κεγάλι του Wilders διά τήν στάσιν του άπέναντι τών Μουσουλμάνων. Ό κος Wilders λέγει ότι ή Ήνωμένη Εύρώπη (The EU) σιγά-σιγά φέρνει τήν καταστροφήν τής Δυτικής Χριστιανικής Εύρώπης. Ή Έλλάδα ίδίως μέχρι σήμερον έχει πάθει
μεγάλη ζημιά άπό τό EU. Διά τό καλό τής Εύρώπης καί τής
Χριστιανοσύνης πρέπει νά διαλυθή τό EU. Είναι ό μόνος τρόπος πού μπορεί νά ξεπεράση
τήν κρίσιν είς τήν όποίαν εύρίσκεται σήμερον.
+Πρεσβ. Κωνσταντίνος Δ. Σιμώνης, 14
Ίουνίου, 2013 ΗΠΑ
+Fr. Constantine (Charles) Simones,
June 14, 2013 USA
Dear Friends,
Thank
you for inviting me to Los Angeles. I
always like coming to the United States.
There are many things that I admire Americans for. One of them is that they are unashamedly patriotic. The American Freedom Association has asked me
to speak to you today about the future of Europe. Europe is in a terrible state. Bit by bit, European countries are losing
their national sovereignty. The economy
is in shambles. Islamic militants riot
and terrorize the many locals. And when
people’s throats are slit in the streets, while the murderers shout “Allahu
Akbar,” the authorities appease the killers and declare that Islam has nothing
to do with it. Europeans feel that the
gap between them and those who rule them is growing. Many no longer feel represented by their
politicians. There is a complete
disconnect between the people that truly rule Europe and the people that live
in it.
The
blame lies to a large extent with the European Union and the weak leadership
within the European countries which have signed away their national
sovereignty. The EU cannot be compared
to the United States. Europe is a continent of many different nations with
their own identities, traditions and languages.
The EU is a supranational organization, but its leaders aim to turn it
into a state. To this end they are destroying the wealth, identity and freedoms
of the existing nation-states of Europe.
Before I elaborate, let us take a closer look at the terrible mistake
that Europe made.
Following
the Second World War, Europe’s leaders mistakenly thought that patriotism was
the cause of war. All over Europe, not
just in Germany, but everywhere, they equated the defense of national identity
with extremism. Politicians told the
electorate that the nation state was dangerous.
On the rooftops of Europe’s parliaments and official buildings, they
flew the EU flag next to the national flag, as if the nation is nothing but a
province of a Pan-European empire. On
the number plates of European cars, they put EU flags instead of the national
flag, thereby forcing people to drive around with the symbol of their
subjection. They signed away their
national interests for the goal of so-called Europeanization. Such policies
could never have been possible if the ruling elite had not fallen for the
ideology of cultural and moral relativism. Patriotism, which is a virtue, came
to be seen as a vice.
Today,
the citizens of Europe are reaping the bitter harvest of this arrogance, this
refusal to stand by the ancient nations of Europe, the mothers of modern
democracy, the guardians of our liberty.
*The
EU stands for everything that is wrong in Europe.
*It
is a gigantic undemocratic transnational monster.
*It
issues legislation permeated with cultural relativism.
*It
meddles in the everyday lives of millions of people.
*It
has opened Europe’s borders to uncontrolled mass immigration, mostly from
Islamic countries.
*And
it has deprived Europe’s parliaments of a huge amount of their legislative
powers.
The European Union has brought
one-size-fits-none policies that have resulted in economic disaster. It has led to growing tension between the
nations of Europe. It has led to the
loss of democracy and liberty. Because
the premise on which it was built, was false. Robert Schuman, one of the EU’s founding
fathers, said that the EU’s aim was—I
quote—“to make war not only unthinkable but materially impossible.”. But the idea that Germany, France, Britain
and other nations in the past went to war because they were sovereign nations
is simply ridiculous. As I tell my audience whenever and wherever I speak in
Germany, it was not German patriotism that started the Second World War; it was
Hitler’s vicious totalitarian ideology of Nazism. It was not patriotism that caused the
holocaust. German patriots, such as Count Stauffenberg, fought Hitler. “Let the
world see that not all Germans are like Hitler; that not all Germans are
Nazis,” he wrote in his diary the evening before Hitler’s hounds executed him.
Likewise,
it was not Russian patriotism that sent people to the Gulag; it was the
Soviets’ vicious totalitarian ideology of Communism. Russian patriots, such as Alexander
Solzhenitsyn, stood up against the Soviets.
Nevertheless, the proponents of EU keep pretending that without the EU,
the Germans, the French, the British, the Dutch and the other nations of Europe
would go to war again. The European
Union has even been given the Nobel Peace Prize for the achievement of
preserving peace in Europe—an achievement that is according to me NATO’s rather
than the EU’s.
My
friends, no one knows this better than American patriots such as you: True
patriots are always democrats because true patriots love their people and their
country. You do not want your nation to
be invaded by other countries. But
neither do you want a totalitarian ideology, such as Communism or Nazism or
Islam, to rob you of your own identity and enslave you. Patriots want their country to be free. But people only care about the freedom of
their country if they love it first.
That is why one of my heroes Ronald Reagan said in his Farewell Address
that we have to teach our children what our country is, what it stand for, what
it represents in the long history of the world. Reagan said that Americans
need—I quote—“a love of country and an appreciation of its institutions.”
Patriotism
is not a totalitarian ideology aiming for world control; it is love of one’s
own country and identity—and as such it is the strongest force against
totalitarian ideology aiming for world domination. Love your country,
appreciate its national institutions. As long as you do this, your country will
remain the land of the free. But if you
fail to do so, you will lose your freedoms.
That is the lesson that we, Europeans, have learned the hard way after
the past six decades of experimenting with EU trans nationalism. And the worst thing, my friends, the worst
thing is that we could and should have known better. In her last book, Statecraft, Margaret Thatcher wrote—I
quote: “That such an unnecessary and irrational project as building a European
super state was ever embarked on will seem in future years to be perhaps the
greatest folly of the modern era.”
My
friends let me tell you about the terrible consequences of this folly. The
Europeans set out to build a political tower of Babel. In 1957, six European nations, including my
own, the Netherlands, signed the Rome Treaty.
They committed themselves to the formation – I quote from the Treaty’s
preamble—“and ever closer union among the peoples of Europe.” From the original
six, the European Union’s member states expanded to 27 nations today. Nations
as diverse as Finland and Portugal, Ireland and Bulgaria, with their entirely
different languages, cultures, traditions, habits and mentalities, were forced
by their political leaders to adopt the same economic, fiscal, social,
security, and foreign policies. These policies are drawn up by the enormous,
ever expanding bureaucracy of the so-called European Commission in
Brussels. It issues laws—so-called
“directives”—that the member-states are forced to implement in their national
legislation.
As
a national legislator in the Netherlands I daily experience how little we still
have to say about our own fate. We are
expected to rubberstamp legislation made behind closed doors in Brussels. Both the EU Council of Ministers and the
European Commission negotiate in secret and then emerge to announce their
agreement and present it. That is how
the system works. And we are not allowed
to ask questions. Those who dare think
differently are labeled enemies of European integration. They are so-called Europhobes. The former
Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky calls the EU the EUSSR, because of its
striking similarities to the former Soviet Union. He compares the European Commission to the
former Soviet Politburo and Brussels to Moscow before the fall of the Iron
Curtain.
Two
weeks ago, I went to Prague and met with Vaclav Klaus, the former President of
the Czech Republic. President Klaus
speaks of Europeanism as one of the new and dangerous ideologies that have
supplanted Socialism. During his ten
years in office, President Klaus refused to fly the EU flag over the Czech
presidential palace. He points out that
the EU is—quote—“based on big and patronizing government, extensive regulating
of human behavior and large-scale income redistribution. It shifts government upwards, which means to
the level where there is not democratic accountability and where the decisions
are made by bureaucrats appointed by politicians, not elected by citizens in
free elections.”
The
EU supra nationalism has brought the once prosperous, sovereign and free
nations of Europe economic misery, a loss of national identity, the demise of
freedom and independence. Seventeen of
the twenty-seven EU member states have even been so foolish as to dump their
national currency. By adopting the euro,
the common EU currency, they joined the so-called euro zone. Strong
and solid currencies that were the pride of their nations, such as the Dutch
Guilder and the German Deutschmark, was sacrificed on the altar of European
unification. The then German Chancellor
Helmut Kohl sold this project to his people as—I quote—“a matter of war or
peace.” The Euro was presented as –I quote again—“an angel of peace.” But what did this angel do for us? All the countries that joined the euro lost
the power to adjust their currency to their own economic needs. They have destroyed their economies and have
doomed their people to rising poverty and unemployment. They all suffered as a consequence. They all have to share the burden of other
countries, even if the latter are suffering from self-inflicted policies,
corruption or fraud, like in Greece.
Last
year, my party, the Dutch Party for Freedom, commissioned a study by the
renowned independent bureau, Lombard Street Research, into the cost for the
Netherlands of the Euro so far. The
study found that, since the Dutch introduced the Euro, the growth of
consumption spending no longer matches the growth of GDP, as it did before we
joined the Euro and as it still does in all the countries that kept out of the Euro
zone. The cost was a huge loss in consumer spending. The study showed that continuing to uphold
the Euro would cost the Netherlands billions of Euros. The Euro zone is a huge transfer zone,
whereby taxpayers in our country are forced to subsidize other countries. The rising taxes have pushed our country, the
Netherlands, into economic recession.
Unemployment has grown to over 8%--the highest in decades. And the countries that receive our taxes have
no chance of recovery. They have no
chance of economic growth within a monetary union where the currency is too
strong for them. Millions of people are
losing their jobs as a consequence.
Countries such as Spain are doomed with unemployment figures reaching
almost up to 30% today.
EU
countries have also lost sovereignty over their own national budgets. The
European Commission—not our national government—decides how big their deficits
and national debts are allowed to be. It
imposes austerity measures. But at the
same time it demands ever larger sums to be transferred to Brussels or to so-called
rescue operations for the Euro and to bail out countries, like Greece, Ireland,
Portugal, Spain and Cyprus. Last month,
the EU decided to raise its budget. My country
and the Dutch government opposed this decision, but we were simply
overruled. We have no veto right. Now we are forced to pay even more to
Brussels. While government expenditure
cannot be slashed by cutting the sums demanded by the EU, the Dutch Government
has raised taxes dramatically. The
impact has been devastating. Higher
taxes have resulted in less government income and have led to a contraction of
the economy and a rise in unemployment. The same phenomenon can be seen all
over Europe. The growth of expenses and taxes, the inability to create a
competitive environment, the overregulation of the economy, the stifling
bureaucratization—all this is leading straight to economic collapse.
But
there is worse. EU member-states no
longer control their own borders.
Immigration policies are decided by the European Commission and the
cultural relativists who are in charge there.
The current European Commissioner overseeing immigration policy is
Cecilia Malmstrom, formerly a left-wing kind of hippy politician from
Sweden. Third-World immigration has
turned Sweden into a nightmare, with immigrants frequently rioting in major
Swedish cities such as Stockholm and Malmo.
Mrs. Malstrom is forcing all EU member states to follow the Swedish
example. Last year, I wrote her a
letter. “Not a single Dutchman has voted
for you,” I told her. “We do not know
who you are. We do not want to know who
you are, but you force your ideas on our people. We are suffering from your absurd refusal to
allow us even the slightest restriction to our immigration policy. You do not even want to limit the number of
partners that one is allowed to bring into the Netherlands. We urge you to cease your activities and give
us our sovereignty back,” I wrote.
Needless to say I am still waiting for an answer from her, despite the
fact that I am an elected politician, accountable to the voters, while she is
not. That is why she can afford not to
answer a parliamentarian.
Millions
of non-Western immigrants are flooding into Europe, predominantly people from
Islamic countries. The Pew Research
Center estimated the number of Muslims in Western European countries at 18.2
million in 2010. It expects that this
number will rise to almost 30 million by 2030.
The Netherlands will see its Islamic population grow from 5.5 to almost
8%, Britain from 5 to 8%, Sweden will even see it double from 5 to 10%, and
France will see a rise from over 7 to 10%.
A demographic catastrophe is about to happen. During the past three decades, so many people
rooted in a culture entirely different from Europe’s own Judeo-Christian and
humanist tradition have entered Europe that its heritage, its freedoms, its
prosperity, and its culture are in danger.
The signs are there for all to see.
Look at the names people give to their children. The Mohammed today is the
most popular name among newborn boys in many French, Belgian, and Dutch
cities. Mohammed is even the most
popular name among all newborns in England and Wales.
Look
at Europe’s inner cities. Visit Europe
and you will see that they have come to resemble Northern Africa and the Middle
East. They have become areas ruled by
Islamic Sharia law. Only last month, a
Dutch newspaper reported that a neighborhood barely two miles from our
parliament building in The Hague is now a Sharia zone. Islamic areas also border the EU headquarters
in Brussels. And less than 10 miles from
Westminster, the mother of all parliaments, a British soldier’s throat was slit
by Islamic murderers. Paris, the capital
of France, is surrounded by largely Islamic suburbs. And so are other cities. The authorities have even drawn up a list of
751 so-called “sensible urban areas,” where it is dangerous to go, especially
for native Frenchmen. These are the lost
territories of the French Republic, even though a staggering 5 million people,
or 8 percent of the total French population lives in them. Even soldiers are no
longer safe in Europe’s streets, as the recent horrible events in Britain and
France have shown. But neither are
Jews. Anti-Semitism has risen, and keeps
rising the more Islamic immigration we get.
Indeed, my friends, after Nazism and Communism, another totalitarian
ideology is threatening Europe: the evil ideology called Islam.
In
Europe, we are experiencing that the more Islamic a society becomes—even when
the majority of Muslims are moderates—the less free and tolerant it will
be. Atrocities, similar to the recent
bombing in Boston, where Islamic immigrants massacred innocent onlookers at the
marathon, occur in Europe as well. In my
own country a few years ago, Theo van Gogh, a film maker critical of Islam, was
butchered in the streets of Amsterdam.
Today, hundreds of young Islamic inhabitants of our countries have
flocked to Syria to wage jihad there.
They will return as experienced jihadists, trained in urban guerilla
warfare. But while you in America are
still able to do something about it, while you can control and close your
borders, while Congress can vote legislation to protect American citizens, we
in Europe have been robbed of this possibility by the European Union. And there is not only the threat of terrorism
or violence; there is also the phenomenon of non-violent jihad. The rise of Islam means the rise of Islamic
sharia law in our judicial systems. In Europe, we have sharia wills, sharia
schools, and sharia banks. In Britain,
they even have official sharia courts.
Europe
is gradually Islamizing. People, who criticize Islam, such as me, are
threatened by Al Qaeda and dragged to court by Islamic and leftist groups.
There is not just me, there is the journalist Lars Hedegaard, the author Salman
Rushdie, the cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, and many others. We criticize Islam and we will keep on doing
so, because it is a dangerous ideology.
It is intolerant, it is violent.
And, worst of all, it cannot be reformed. It cannot because it believes that the Koran
is a book written directly by Allah himself.
And it cannot because it calls on Muslims to follow Muhammad as the role
model for their personal life. There could not be a worse model than this man,
who was a warlord, a terrorist and a pedophile.
While most Muslims are moderate people, those who think that they have
to follow Muhammad’s example are not.
That is exactly the reason why the more Islamic a country becomes, freedom
is lost and violence increases.
Europe
needs to be protected against this new totalitarian threat. That is why I say: No more immigrants from
the Islamic world! My party wants to
close our borders to immigration from Islamic countries. And ever more people support us. A poll, which was commissioned ten days ago,
shows that 77% of the Dutch do not see Islam as enrichment for our country, 68%
say there is more than enough Islam in the Netherlands already. A majority of the voters of all the major
parties in my country—even the voters from leftist parties—agree with these two
principles. The poll also showed that
55% of the Dutch want to stop on immigration from Islamic countries, 63% want
no more mosques, and 72% want a constitutional ban on Islamic sharia law. Ordinary people in Europe want three
things. One—they want their politicians
to tackle the problem of Islamization and mass immigration. They want to control their own borders.
Two—they want to restore their national sovereignty. They do not want their countries to become
provinces of a pan-European super state.
Three—they do not want their money to be used to pay for mistakes made
elsewhere. They do not want a transfer
union where they have to pay higher taxes to bail out other countries, whose
leaders were either corrupt or incompetent.
Poll
after poll shows that ordinary Europeans do not want their democracy to be
subverted. Last April, a pan-European
poll showed that a clear majority of the population in the major EU member
states no longer trusts the EU as an institution. Even in Germany the number has reached almost
60%. This week the Gallup poll showed
that for the first time in history in the Netherlands as many people want to
leave the EU as stay in. A few years
ago, this was unthinkable. The strength
of Europe is its diversity. Europe is
not a nation. It is a cluster of nations bound by a common Judeo-Christian and
humanist culture, but with different national identities. Last January, British Prime Minister David
Cameron delivered a speech in which he said that the EU needed to change. He spoke about “the lack of democratic
accountability,” “the excessive regulation,” and everything that is wrong in
the EU. And there are many things I
agree with, but I do not share his belief that the EU’s nature can be
changed. Mr. Cameron believes that the
EU can be transformed into—I quote—“a more flexible, adaptable and open
European Union.” I do not believe this.
If an organization has as its explicit goal that it strives for “an ever
closer union,” it simply cannot start moving in the opposite direction and
relinquish the powers it has already acquired.
We
can see how the mechanism works in the way in which the EU deals with the euro
zone crisis. Rather than turning away
from the destructive path that has so far been followed, Brussels is using this
crisis to enforce an even tighter control over the member states. The European Union simply cannot be
democratized because the whole structure is built on a negation of democracy. As President Klaus pointed out, there can be
no European democracy because there is no European demos—no European
people. There can only be various
European democracies—plural!—in the various European nations. What the EU does is destroy these various
democracies. And, hence, my party’s
position is very clear. We opt for an
exit from the European Union. We want the
Netherlands not just out of the Euro zone, but out of the EU
altogether—including the so-called Schengen area, the group of 26 European
countries that have abolished passport and immigration controls at their common
borders. We reserve the right to
reinstall random border controls.
We
want to retain our independence. We must
have home rule. We want to be the master
in our own house! We want to be the
masters over our own borders. We want to
be the masters of our own money. The
Party for Freedom wants the Netherlands to leave the EU and join the European
Free Trade Association EFTA. But here is
the good news, my friends. As I have
already indicated, public support of the EU is growing thin by the day. For months now, my party has been the biggest
in the polls. And we are not the only
one. In Britain, UKIP, the United
Kingdom Independence Party, which wants to lead Britain out of the EU, has come
second in many by-elections and local and county elections during the past two
years. It is polling an average of a
quarter of the votes. And it is growing.
In France last year, Marine Le Pen
scored 18% in the presidential elections.
She has now overtaken President Francois Hollande. She opposes the EU. And her popularity is growing. In Germany, it is still considered far too
politically-incorrect to reject the EU.
Nevertheless a new party, the Alternative for Germany, wants to take the
country out of the euro zone. And its appeal is growing.
In
Italy, both the country’s largest party, Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement, and
the Lega Nord, the largest party in the North, want a referendum on a return to
the Lira, while the Lega Nord has called the EU a failed project. In Portugal a book advocating quitting the
euro has become an instant bestseller. A
proposal that was taboo until recently is now discussed openly, with the
country’s Chief Justice personally coming out in support of euro zone
exit. All over Europe, anti-EU feelings
are growing. All over Europe there are
patriot parties that reflect the resurgence of nation pride in their countries,
whether it be the Netherlands, Britain, France, Sweden, Finland, Denmark,
Austria, Italy, Flanders, the Czech Republic, Germany, and the other nations
currently trapped in the European Union.
As
I said, here is the good news. Europe
might be on the verge of a fundamental change for the better. We seem to be on the eve of as major and
truly historic event. In Europe, the
time is ripe for a glorious democratic and non-violent revolution to preserve
our national freedoms and restore our sovereignty. Exactly one year from now, the 27 member
states of the European Union will be holding elections for the European
Parliament. People are finally ready all
over Europe to rebel in the ballot box.
They reject the transfer union.
They no longer want to pay for corrupt states. They reject the supranational experiment of
the European Union. They are ready to
cast their votes for a restoration of nation sovereignty. They are ready to defend their own cultural
identity. All they need is decent
political leadership able to lead their nations out of the EU and towards a
better future. America’s first president
George Washington has shown that when courageous and democratic politicians are
available to lead their country, they can lay the groundwork for a lasting
democratic framework that guarantees freedom and prosperity for centuries to
come.
My
friends, my party in the Netherlands and several other parties in other
European countries are preparing themselves for next year’s electoral
landslide. We can feel the heartbeat of
the New Patriotism in Europe. Winter is
over. Spring is coming. The European
Spring is upon us. And we are getting
ready for it. We are aware of our
historical task. That is why I am especially happy to be here in California
today because the great inspirer of our upcoming democratic revolution is one
of yours. Your hero, my hero, Ronald
Reagan!—who in his presidential Farewell Address said that the achievement he
was most proud of in his entire presidency was “the resurgence of national
pride.” He called it “The New Patriotism.”
Next year’s European elections offer a unique opportunity to liberate
the nations of Europe. Next Spring’s
European elections offer a unique chance to correct the fatal error made by
previous politicians who sold away their taxpayer’s money and their national
sovereignty to Brussels and delivered their countries to the evils of mass
immigration and Islamization.
As
a European politician, I am fully aware of my duty to grab this chance. The European elections next May must deal a
blow to the parties that sold us out to the EU.
Not just in the Netherlands but everywhere in Europe. That is why I do what is in my power to forge
an alliance of democratic parties standing for the restoration of the
sovereignty and freedom of their nation.
I want to bring these parties together in a common endeavor to defend
our identity and our values. I do not
know whether I will succeed, but I am trying.
It is my conviction that we have to work together because we are all in
the same boat.
My
friends, it is easy to despair. Time is
running out for Britain, for France, for Germany, for the Netherlands, for all
the other great nations of Europe. The
present situation in Europe is bleak. If
we do nothing, it will become even bleaker. If we do nothing we will be swept
away by economic and demographic disaster.
But it is wrong to despair. The
present is bleak, but the future looks bright because the future depends on our
actions. We are the actors on the stage
of history. That, too, is a lesson from
Ronald Reagan, who said: “We need to act today, to preserve tomorrow.”
I
went to Paris recently to talk to Marine Le Pen and see for myself who she is
and what she stands for. She is not her
father. She is not Anti-Semitic. She cares about France, its identity and its
sovereignty. I went to Prague to talk to
President Klaus. In the coming weeks and
months, I will try to see as many patriot leaders in Europe as possible. And I always ask them for their views on
Israel because Israel is the litmus proof.
The Jewish people did exactly the opposite of what the Europeans did
after the Second World War. They drew
the right conclusion. They realized that
without a nation-state of their own there could be no safety for their
people. Without a nation-state, without
self-governance, without self-determination there can be no security for a
people or preservation of its identity.
This was the insight that led to the Zionists to strive for the
re-establishment of the State of Israel. Theodore Herzl said that there had to
be a Jewish State in order to encourage—I quote—“a new blossoming of the Jewish
spirit.” Indeed, a soul needs a
body. The spirit of a people cannot
flourish outside the body of the nation-state. The nation-state is the
political body in which we live. We must
preserve and cherish it so that we can pass on to our children our national
identity, our democracy, out liberty.
My
friends, what we need today is a Zionism for the nations of Europe. The Europeans need to follow the example of
the Jewish people and re-establish their nation-state. And that, my dear friends, is why every
patriot, apart from being a democrat, by definition also has to be a true
friend of Israel. A patriot cannot be
Anti-Semitic. My friends, the great Zionist
leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky said about the Jewish people: “We do not have to
apologize for anything. We are a people
as all other peoples; we do not have any intentions to be better than the rest.
We do not have to account for anybody.
We are what we are, we are good for ourselves, we will not change, nor
do we want to.” And so it is for all the
peoples. We do not have to apologize for
being good to ourselves. We do not have
to change if we do not want to change.
The peoples of Europe resent the permanent alienation of power from
their nation-states. They care about
their nations because they care about democracy and freedom and the wellbeing
of their children. They see their
democratic rights and their ancient liberties symbolized in their national
flags. They are proud of their flag. And
as long as their pride lasts they will have a future.
Let
us emphasize this commitment to the resurgence of our national pride with a
symbolic gesture. Let us do so by endorsing the Jewish nation-state and move
the embassies of our countries from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Let us fly the flags of all the free and
proud nations of the world over embassies in Jerusalem, the only true capital
of Israel and the cradle of our Judeo-Christian civilization. Israel deserves our support. Not only because
it is the frontline against the totalitarian threat of Islam, but also because
it shows how important it is for a people to have its own homeland.
My
friends, today a new threat is confronting us but history shows that we can
withstand it if we stand together. We
need an alliance, not only of patriots of Europe, but also an alliance between
America and Europe. We need the help and
support of American patriots such as you.
Such an alliance brings out the best in us, and allows us to beat the
totalitarian menace. This was proven by
the alliance between Roosevelt and Church in the 1940’s. It defeated Nazism. It was proven by the
alliance between Reagan and Thatcher in the 1980’s. It defeated Communism. Today, Islam is a threat to all of us, to Israel,
to Europe, and to America but together we can withstand it. And we have to stand together or we will be
defeated. We have no other choice. As the great Margaret Thatcher said:
“Defeat—I do not recognize the meaning of the world” and neither should we!
