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Op-Ed: “Our Homeland”: Speech Before the European Parliament
The dynamic and intrepid head of the Shomron Regional Council, Gershon Mesika, gave a stirring speech at the official meeting of the EU Parliament in Brussels. It was well received.
I, Gershon Mesika, son of Yosef and Gita, whose two older brothers were murdered by the damned Nazis in the Jado Concentration Camp in Libya, stand before you and hereby declare, for the world to hear, that the Jewish people now possess our own state, and not only are we not selling it – we are redeeming it again and again with our blood, and paying for the right to maintain it, safeguard it and settle in it.
Gershon Mesika, Shomron Regional Council Head
The writer is the head of the Samaria (Shomron) Regional Council.
Editor’s Note: The speech was delivered in Hebrew and translated simultanously to the languages of the listeners. English translation by A7 writer Gil Ronen.
Heads of the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs,
Members of Parliament from European countries,
Distinguished guests,
The prophets of Israel predicted that before the Messiah comes there will be a time of confusion, when good is turned into evil and evil is turned into good.
We see this clearly today.
The Shomron, or Samaria, which I am honored to represent in this distinguished place, the European Parliament, is a region that is in the center of international attention, since it is a sizable part of the territory that is in dispute between the Jewish nation and its neighbors in the Middle East.
But this area, which for many in the world is nothing but “disputed land,” is a homeland for us, the place that characterizes and determines our national and religious identity, the scene of the great events described in the Book of Books, the Bible.
