WILDERS: NO LAND FOR PEACE

Below is a magnificent op-ed from De Volkskrant, written by
Geert Wilders and Martin Bosma, who are both PVV members of the Dutch
Parliament. The translation is by our indefatigable Flemish correspondent
VH:

Land for peace doesn’t work
by Geert Wilders and Martin
Bosma

It is one of the central doctrines of the Leftists’ church:
“land for peace.”

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That was supposed to put an end to the conflict in the
Middle East. These days we encounter the definite end of that dream. The Israeli
army last Sunday returned to Netzarim. Three years ago, Netzarim and other
so-called ‘settlements’ were abandoned as a part of the framework of
disengagement. This withdrawal should have then led to peace. But 5,000
arguments for a different reality rained down in the form of Kassam rockets on
the residents of the Negev.

“Land for Peace” is a medicine based on the
wrong diagnosis. The war against Israel is not a territorial conflict and thus
can not be solved with territorial concessions. Giving away an area does not
help. Hamas cum suis are not fighting for pieces of land but for the total final
victory of Islam, to which the rapid destruction of Israel is only a
transitional stage. The conflict is jihad, the violent duty of every Muslim.
Israel is located on the fault line of the dar-al-Islam and dar-al-Harb. To
Islam, all of Israel is occupied territory and Tel Aviv is as much a
“settlement” as was Netzarim. The Hamas charter doesn’t know the word ‘polder
model’.

Encouragement

The withdrawal from Gaza in 2005
was a huge encouragement to aggressive Islam. What the West convulsively tried
to view as a step towards peace is translated by true Muslims as a sign of
weakness. The 5,000 rockets from Gaza were therefore the logical consequence of
an ideology that seeks to destroy the West. Samuel Huntington, who ironically
enough died in the week before the first bombing of Hamas, already wrote it:
“Islam has bloody borders”. You can move those bloody borders of Islam, but with
that you only shift the jihad. What does it show? “Settlements” are no barrier
to peace, but a barrier against terror.

Muslims view the conflict as an
Islam-related conflict. It is not without reason that during pro-Hamas
demonstrations over the whole world “Allahu akhbar” is prominently chanted.
Saturday this was illustrated when Muslim colonizers demonstrated in Amsterdam,
together with the extreme Left. The SP (Harry van Bommel), the Olive Trees
Campaign/ICCO (from Doekle Terpstra), and the inevitable Gretta Duisenberg
showed how much the Left in the Netherlands has merged with Islam and hatred of
Israel.

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My colleague Van Bommel showed without the slightest embarrassment his true
extreme face by publicly and loudly calling for another intifada against Israel.
The Left demonstrates with flags of Hamas and Hezbollah, along with portraits of
Khomeini and the Hezbollah leader Nasrallah.

The fight against Israel
is a fight against Europe and the Netherlands

Seventy years after Auschwitz, in the streets of Amsterdam, partly at the
expense of the taxpayer, sounds the cry “Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas.” This is
what Doekle the Dhimmi [Doekle Terpstra, Christian Democrat] apparently means
with his “benoemen en bouwen” [“naming and building”]. Would he view the Jew
Haters of Saturday as moderate Muslims?

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Therefore, never give away any more land to the Arabs. But what
then? To begin with, there is already a Palestinian state, and that is Jordan.
This land covers nearly eighty percent of the historic Palestine. Most residents
of Jordan are Palestinians, for instance queen Rania. Those who are looking for
a territorial solution have thus found it. An eventual second Palestinian state
is no improvement, but rather an encouragement for more jihad and thus more
bloodshed. Judea and Samaria, the heart of Israel, must therefore remain in the
hands of Israel whatever the cost, with Jerusalem as the undivided capital of
the Jewish state.

Deterrence

The war against Israel is
permanent because it is jihad. However, the conflict can be made manageable and
the Netherlands can play a role in this. To begin with, deterrence should again
be the cornerstone of the Israeli security policy. That used to be so until
Israel in 1992 surrendered to the Oslo wishing dream. The Netherlands must help
to press forward the notion that Israel is fighting for the West and therefore
must not give in to the Arabs. Not an inch. If Israel falls, Europe is next.
Israel is our first defensive frontline. The fight against Israel is a fight
against Europe and the Netherlands.

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The billions that the EU and the UN
in past years dumped down the endless drain in Gaza must be reversed. The
Palestinians have done nothing positive with the money, apart from making it
serve the madly popular Hamas terror. It would be good to invest that money in
masterful Israeli science and high-tech. The tiny state of Israel has grown to
become a global center where the brightest minds in the world are creating
inventions on a daily basis that have been a blessing for all mankind. Such a
change will provide a boost to the Israeli economy. This success shows the whole
world that Israel is not of transitory nature, but a persistent source of
progress.

Would it not be great if the money that now goes to the
terrorist infrastructure of Hamas, might be used by, for example, the Weizman Institute in
Rechovot to find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease or multiple sclerosis?
International aid money, not for death and destruction but for a future to our
sick and elderly. A more beautiful beginning of the new year is cannot be
imagined.

And to the Israeli army: kol hakawod, all success! You fight
for us too.

 

Read it all here.