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- Geert Wilders: Time to Drain the
Swamp - Also in Europe
- Amir Taheri: Lebanon: Is
Cheat-and-Retreat Back on the Menu?
by Geert Wilders • November 26,
2017 at 5:00 am
- Our democracies in
the Western half of Europe have been subverted. Their goal is
no longer to do what the people want. On the contrary, our
political elites often do exactly the opposite. Our
parliaments promote open-door policies that the majority of
the people reject. Our governments sell out sovereignty to the
EU against the will of the people. Our rulers welcome ever
more Islam, although the majority of the people oppose it.
- Our democracies have
become fake democracies. They are multi-party dictatorships,
ruled by groups of establishment parties.... The establishment
parties control everything, not just the politicians in their
pay, but also the top brass of the civil service, the
mainstream media, even the courts.... They call us
"populists" because we stand for what the people
want. They even drag us to court.
- We need to show that
Europe's streets are our streets, that we want to stay who and
what we are, and do not want to be colonized by Islam. Europe
belongs to us!
Geert
Wilders, leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV), casts his vote in
The Hague during the Dutch general election that made his the
second-largest party in the Netherlands, on March 15, 2017. (Photo
by Carl Court/Getty Images)
Next month, I will be visiting Prague, the capital
of the Czech Republic. I have been invited to speak to a group of
Czech patriots. The Czechs are a freedom loving people. In 2011, on
the occasion of the 100th birthday of Ronald Reagan,
they named a street in Prague after this great American president
and freedom fighter.
This fact reminded me of a shameful event in my home
town of The Hague, the seat of the Dutch Parliament and the
government of the Netherlands. Look for a Ronald Reagan Street in
The Hague and you will find none. A proposal in 2011 to name a
street in The Hague after Reagan ran into fierce political
opposition. Leftist parties, such as Labor, the Greens and the
liberal D66 party, argued that naming a street in honor of Reagan
would "do the image of the city no good." The whole
affair ended in a disgraceful political compromise. Last year, a
short stretch of a local bicycle path was named the "Reagan
and Gorbachev Lane".
by Amir Taheri • November 26,
2017 at 4:00 am
Hezbollah
leader Hassan Nasrallah (right) meets with then Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during Ahmadinejad's visit to Lebanon, on
October 14, 2010. (Photo by Hezbollah Media Office via Getty
Images)
The Arab League holds an emergency meeting on
Lebanon. France and the United States agree to work together to
contain the Lebanese Hezbollah. Russia indicates support for
compromise. Iran's official government invites everyone to
"joint diplomatic efforts" while the unofficial
government promises fire and brimstone against attempts at curbing
Hezbollah.
These recent Middle East headlines remind me of
"The Adventures of Emir Arsalan The Famous", a popular
Persian picaresque novel written in the 19th century.
At one point the eponymic hero, searching the world
for the great beauty Farrokh-Laqa who may be nothing but a fantasy,
feels as if his life has become a constant repetition of exactly
the same events and images.
The novel's conceit echoes the Pythagorean theory of
"eternal recurrence," according to which whatever is going
to happen has already happened again and again.
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