GUY MILLIERE: BACK FROM ISRAEL
Back from Israel – by Guy Milliere
Google translation; original article in French is at:
http://leblogdrzz.over-blog.com/article-retour-d-israel-par-guy-milliere-74698084.html
“I returned to Europe, and I feel like returning to a vast insane asylum. I will return to Israel to find the truth. I can also be found in America, those who are neither Semitic nor useless idiots, volunteers nor blind, nor anti-Arab racist. There are, fortunately. In Europe they are an endangered species.”
I just spent a week in Israel. It was a very short stay, and it will give me a good reason to come back but I need reasons to come back? The answer is no, because I love being in Israel, and I love the Israeli people.
This trip was an opportunity for me to give several lectures and meet hundreds of people. I know many of those who wanted to come hear me talk with me and could not for lack of space. I tell them this: it will only be postponed. Other conferences will be organized in the coming months, further meetings, in larger rooms and, as I did this time, I will take all the time required to be available. My only goal is to understand and provide the intellectual means to decrypt the world.
Being in Israel gave me the opportunity to meet friends, many, but also to immerse myself in places full of meaning. I can not be in Jerusalem without thinking about all the spiritual past of which this town is loaded and without feeling that the harmonious beauty that is his is a much more harmonious beauty: the pervasive and palpable trace of more than two millennia of history.
I can not take the road from Tel Aviv and not feel embraced by emotion at the thought of those who fought in the valley and the mountains to the rebirth the country, sixty three years here. Looking at the roads, houses, high buildings, beside Ayalon, give the city the look of downtown Manhattan or Los Angeles, I can only ponder the immensity of the progress in so little time . Six decades ago, and one of the most modern, most innovative in the world.
I wanted to cross the desert, and I took the road down to Eilat along the border with Jordan. I went back along the Sinai and then veering Mitzpe Ramon and the tomb of David Ben Gurion, on which I went to collect. The proximity of so many hostile countries around I could not leave the mind. The edge of the Red Sea in Eilat, there are three countries: Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The population lives, quietly, as if there was no threat, and one feels a force in her quiet and determined, far removed from the inept and vile speech we can hear about it in France and Europe.
Being with my daughter, I wanted to take him to the Dead Sea to Masada and then, explaining the significance of place: eighteen centuries before the American Revolution, and the words of Patrick Henry, “Give me liberty or give me death “of Jews standing up against the Roman invaders have uttered similar words. In the ruins of Masada, on rocky hills, often means that the currency in Israel, “Masada will not fall a second time” makes sense.
The road passes near Jericho: I have not been there, because Jericho is in the territories of Judea and Samaria were occupied by the Palestinian Authority, and wait for the PA disappears to make the trip. I have no doubt that the Palestinian Authority will disappear one day, maybe not so distant.
At the height of the Dead Sea, the road goes back between the Kingdom of Jordan and the Palestinian West Bank. It crosses Jewish villages and Arab villages. We believe, as elsewhere in Israel, very few police and a few soldiers. Again, the reality is far removed from the silly and ignoble speeches you hear in France and Europe. Arabs who sell jewelry and offer camel ride along the road say they are Israelis, and to designate the place of origin of semi-precious stones used to decorate the rings and necklaces set in their stalls, saying that they come from northern Israel.
Arriving at Lake Tiberias, Galilee and browsing, I decided to go through Nazareth, and I see that the Christian church in downtown is surrounded by speakers spouting verses from the Koran and promising signs bearing registration Worst punishment for those who do not join the Muslim faith: traces of proselytism, the spirit of conquest and Islamic intolerance.
Along the road to Haifa, I cross the seats of various companies that remind Israel is not only a modern and innovative, but the first country in the world, per capita, in terms of technological innovations in several critical areas ranging from biotechnology to medical artificial intelligence. Discernible in Israel, as in Silicon Valley in the United States, wealth is created, and only creation.
On the coast, cities like Netanya and Ashdod evoke in me their equivalent in California, and I say to my interlocutors: the difference is that California is now bankrupt while Israel was not affected by the crisis economic and financial crisis since 2008.
The time to go through the trays Guysen Television for a debate, and meet my friend David Sebban, and I must go. Another of my friends, Jacques Kupfer gives me the book he just published and I will comment soon.
I spend an hour at Yad Vashem: I’m already gone. I come back every time. Because it should never be forgotten. Strictly ever.
I owe a very special moment for my friend Florence who I am going to Ofra, a Jewish town in Judea and Samaria. The first Jewish town in Judea and Samaria have been rebuilt after the Judea and Samaria was liberated from Jordanian occupation. Itamar was murdered when the family is just not Fogel. Ramallah is also within walking distance, but I will not go more than I went to Jericho. It is, as we know, the headquarters of the Palestinian Authority. I will wait, again, that the PA disappears to make the trip. I do not frequent the killers. The people I meet are nice to Ofra, intelligent, lucid, very different from what you said about them in the speeches we hear callous and despicable in France and Europe. One of them is a historian and wrote several books on Eretz Israel. On ascending a hill, one sees throughout the region: there is land to cultivate, build villages, huge blank spaces. Jewish villages to protect themselves.
If the Arabs were impregnated with hatred and fanaticism, they could live in peace and cooperation with the Jewish villages, and they would not have to protect themselves. I cross several times the security fence, and I write it here: it is aptly named. It is a barrier erected for safety. Hatred and fanaticism involve barrier and security measures.
I have read and listened to the inadmissible statements referring to Barack Obama “1967 borders”, I am mindful of the news: these statements do not surprise me at all. I know, since the time of the 2008 election campaign, Obama is an enemy of Israel and a friend of the Islamists. I know he is an enemy of freedom and dignity of human beings. Responses and Netanyahu’s speech seem to be the least, and a legitimate reaction against the absolute impropriety of a man who should never have been President of the United States. In France and Europe, Obama is being cheered and booed that Netanyahu. This is terrifyingly logical: it is consistent with the logic that I expose in “As if preparing a second Holocaust *”.
I returned to Europe, and hearing what I hear about Israel, I hear about a country I’ve never been and where I can not go, because it exists only in the head those who speak ill of.
There is hatred and fanaticism that instills in the occupied territories by the Palestinian Authority, and the hatred and fanaticism are two victims: Israel must protect itself, and Arabs who are taught hatred and fanaticism which, rather than live their lives are transformed into wild animals and barbarians.
There is also, in Europe, the United States, to the White House, accomplices of hatred and fanaticism.
I consider those describing Israel as a militaristic police state as forgers and those who, since then demonize Israel and intend to strangle Israel in terms of “1967 borders” as anti-Semites: some of them are Jews. It may, unfortunately, being Jewish and anti-Semitic. There are even anti-Semitic Jews in Israel.
I consider those who speak of “Palestinian people” as forgers, too.
I consider those who speak of the Palestinian Authority as a “partner for peace” and a blind eye to hatred and fanaticism as useless idiots, the blind volunteers and racist anti-Arab because they think Arabs are just good to have sordid and corrupt leaders, and by supporting or accepting that is funded by Europe and the United States to inject hatred and fanaticism, the Arabs use as tools of hatred and fanaticism.
I feel we can be racist anti-Arab and anti-Semitic: it’s what all the “pro-Palestinian” in the world because they support the sordid and corrupt leaders aforementioned, the Arabs because they use as tools of hatred and fanaticism, or consent to such use, and because they use the tools, or consent to the use of tools, provided that they are killing Jews, and undermine Israeli democracy, and prosperity of wider.
I returned to Europe, and I feel like returning to a vast insane asylum. I will return to Israel to find the truth. I can also be found in America, those who are neither Semitic nor useless idiots, volunteers nor blind, nor anti-Arab racist. There are, fortunately. In Europe they are an endangered species.
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PS I will come back very quickly on the recent speech by Barack Obama and Binyamin Netanyahu, of course.
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