GEERT WILDERS: REVOLUTIONARY AND HERO
Israel Commentary: July 2010 Archives
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Geert Wilders: a Dutch “Revolutionary” and neglected American and Israeli Hero
Redacted from a combination of Web sources and personal experience
By Jerome S. Kaufman
July 1, 2010
June 10, 2010
After 16 hours of manually counting the 9 million cast votes, the 9th of June 2010 Dutch general elections were finally no longer “too close to call”. For the first time the Liberal Party (WD), lead by Mark Rutte did win 31 seats against 30 seats for Job Cohen’s Social Democrats (PvdA). Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom (PVV) added an unprecedented 15 seats and became third with 24 seats, wrong footing every analyst – domestic and abroad.
The local elections in March showed that the Dutch were going for a further fragmentation of the political landscape and a sharp turn to the right with Wilders’ victories in Almere (5th city) and The Hague (seat of Crown and Government) and the Liberal’s mushrooming in nearly every other city.
The Hague was besieged by international media covering Rutte’s predicted victory and Wilders’ meteoric rise. Almost unanimously they concluded that Wilders’ program, expressly his uncompromising Islam critique and rejection of mass immigration, was radically different and extremely challenging to Dutch politics – a true revolution.
…In the European Union the PW (Party for Freedom) of Wilders is actually outstripped in its reaction to the concerted Muslim attack. In Catalonia (Spain), curbing legislation against Islamic expressions such as the the burka and niqab and the building of mosques are currently implemented in cities such as Lleida and Reus (Tarragona). The same goes for Arhus in Denmark, which undid the obligation of serving halal food in schools and hospitals. In Flanders (Belgium), Paris (France), Hungary, Austria, Switzerland and Italy curbing legislation against the building of minnarets and the publicly wearing of burka and niqab are implemented.
… Geert Wilders is backed by groups such as the Tea Party and orthodox Christians in the US, and orthodox Jews around the globe. The hunch of the foreign media is that an alteration, something revolutionary, had suddenly happened in the Netherlands with the 9th of June 2010 Dutch election. Wilders’ PVV probably, was correct. But it’s not his party program that causes a revolution. Wilders causes the Dutch revolution. He is the revolution.
…Wrongfully or rightfully accused of nearly every evil imaginable, Geert Wilders, single handedly, caused a fundamental alteration in Dutch politics and society, which fits the definition of a revolution. What did he do? … Wilders in person and expression is not nice but certainly charismatic. He doesn’t care whether he’s liked or not; he doesn’t care about the unsettling effect of his critique. Clearly, like every politician in every nation and time he spins his facts, but unlike a great many Dutch politicians his facts are correct.
Other commentary concerning Geert Wilder’s found on the Internet proves him to be a true friend of Israel and the United States when it finally wakes up to the threat of Islam:
21 juni 2010
Geert Wilders: ‘If Jerusalem falls, Athens and Rome are next’
Geert Wilders, who leads the right-wing Party for Freedom (PVV) in Holland, said last week, he believes Jordan should be renamed “Palestine”. The Jordanian government responded by saying Wilders’ speech brought to mind the Israeli right wing, according to a report on Ynet. “There has been an independent Palestinian state since 1946, and it is the kingdom of Jordan,†said Wilder. He also called on the Dutch government to refer to Jordan as Palestine and move its embassy from Ramat Gan to Jerusalem.
Wilders Triumphs
14 juni 2010
Holland – long seen as a liberal, pot-smoking hippie hang-out – seems keen to defend the culture that’s made it so free, to judge from this week’s election:
Geert Wilders, the controversial anti-Islamic Dutch politician, came third behind tied Liberal and Labour parties after elections in the Netherlands left no obvious winner or combination for a coalition government. Wilders could thus be kingmaker in the Dutch parliament after coming third with his Freedom Party (PVV) jumping from 9 to 24 seats thus becoming the swing vote between the two other parties in the Dutch Parliament.
Finally:
It so happens, I (jsk) personally heard Wilders speak at my synagogue in Palm Beach Florida a few months ago and was delighted with his outspoken honesty. The article I wrote relative to the experience can be found in Israel Commentary simply by typing Geert Wilders into the Search engine.
Jerome S. Kaufman
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