“It is time to pay for the terrible mistakes of the left and the liberals regarding open borders and the multicultural religion,” wrote Janez Janša in response to a video showing Palestinians in the Netherlands celebrating kidnappings and other war crimes against civilians in Israel. This raises the question of where this situation is taking us. What has gone wrong in the field of migration and security policy, and what will Slovenia, Europe and the world look like in ten- or twenty years’ time?
After the Palestinian terrorist organisation Hamas carried out a brutal attack on Israeli territory, kidnapping many civilians and committing other war crimes against them (murders, maiming of corpses, etc.), we have now arrived at a point where we have to look at the situation in which we are living. In light of these atrocities, and in light of the many celebrations by Palestinians and their supporters around the world (the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Greece, Canada, Austria, Portugal, Australia, the USA and even India, etc.), the question arises as to what went wrong in the area of security and migration policy. We can also worry about what will happen to Western societies in ten-, twenty- or thirty-years’ time. The glorification of murder and war crimes is not exactly a reflection of European or Western values.
According to the media outlet Breitbart, radicals and Muslim migrants have gathered in many Western countries to celebrate Hamas’s attack on Israel, shouting anti-Jewish and pro-Hamas slogans. Protests are taking place in the countries to which the authorities have brought millions of impoverished but devout Muslims to artificially stimulate the economy, including in Australia. Protesters showed pride and enthusiasm for the bloody events that took place in Israel and shouted “Allahu Akbar”. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has strongly condemned the events, but his left-wing Labour government continues to accelerate the flow of migrants into the country. The massacre was also defended by anti-American and Muslim students in the USA, in Massachusetts – at Harvard University, as they published a public letter in support of the massacre. Hamas supporters even protested in New York, where they met supporters of Israel. Protests are also taking place in Washington and San Francisco. Even some Indian Muslims are celebrating!
The conflict is moving to Europe
How dangerous is the situation in Europe, are these people who celebrate the terrorist acts of Hamas also potential terrorists themselves? Andrej Rupnik, a security expert, commented: “All people who come from a country where there is conflict and who flee to the West for various reasons bring part of that conflict with them.” Rupnik pointed to the example of the Turkish-Kurdish conflict in Germany and other countries, where there are frequent recriminations between members of the diaspora of both nationalities. In the current case, the situation is similar. On the one hand, there are relatively large numbers of Palestinians and their supporters living in Europe. They, too, bring a part of the conflict into the society in which they now live, which is undoubtedly problematic. In this case, too, physical tensions can arise, where lives, property, etc., can be threatened. The conflict between Israel and Palestine is so deep that hatred is ingrained among a large number of members of one or the other nation.
The average Palestinian and the average Israeli deeply hate each other, Rupnik explains, adding that more and more of this conflict is now migrating to Europe. This is why it would be crucial to control the flow of migration into each country, to make certain selections in terms of what profile of immigrants is economically necessary and viable, and what is especially important is the willingness of immigrants to integrate peacefully and constructively into society. The fact is that not every individual or social group will be able to be integrated into the host society for various cultural, social, religious, traditional, and other similar reasons. “Immigrants must be prevented at all costs from ghettoising themselves, because they then form a subculture, a virtual ‘state within a state’, and their children sooner or later begin to realise that they are not equal to other citizens, which generates conflict, both intergenerational and transnational. We can see this in Belgium and France, in Denmark,” Rupnik explained. And if migrants/refugees of two nationalities who have been in conflict before then settle in the same country, this conflict will continue in the host country. While there are not many Israelis in Europe, virtually the entire Arab world is on the Palestinian side.
We are also threatened by an incompetent government
University professor Boštjan M. Turk, who is very familiar with the security and migration situation in France, also commented on the situation. “The elections in Poland on Sunday, the 15th of October, will have a huge impact on where Europe turns (the subsequent European elections will also be decisive, as they will affect the composition of the European Commission, which has now taken powers that are not in line with the Maastricht Treaty). Europe has two options: either it goes back to its roots (we are talking about the Europe of the Angela Merkel era, 2005-2021, when there was a dismantling of the basic mechanisms that culminated in the migrant wave, which gave all countries a “headache”) …” Turk believes that the root of the problem is linked to the 180,000 migrants who came to Europe in 2015 and who failed to integrate. “Europe needs its strength back”, he believes.
“It is just a question of power. This Europe is doing something that no one has ever done before – it is giving up the power on which everything is based. Other big communities are going in the opposite direction (e.g. China, India, probably the US with Donald Trump, etc.). This is the only logical direction. It is the difference between self-destruction and life.” If Europe does not put in place mechanisms to control the influx of migrants and send back or dislocate all those who do not meet the conditions for asylum to an area outside Europe, then we are in a very bad situation. As Turk notes, Slovenia is particularly at risk because it currently has “the most incompetent government of all time” in power, which has opened the door wide to the flow of illegal migrants from the southern border to (thankfully still) the north-west (to Austria and Italy).
Will we allow the “self-destructive instinct” peddled by Brussels and Berlin to finally bury us?!
But the fact is that we can expect from this government only “the most incompetent solutions and the most incompetent people to implement those incompetent solutions,” and one is right to be afraid. In recent days, we have witnessed a number of uncivilised patterns in the Israeli territory (kidnapping of civilians, etc.). It is also essential to note (as Turk also points out in his book War for Peace) that both the reception of migrants, the pan-hysteria about CO2 emissions and the protection of LGBTQ+ minorities have no basis whatsoever in any valid European Union document. The latest relevant document is the Treaty of Lisbon, which does not mention these things at all.
According to Turk, we need to ask ourselves what our political representatives are doing, because what they are doing (regarding migrants, CO2, “sexual minorities”, etc.) is illegal and illegitimate. “If a referendum were held in Europe and people were asked whether they should continue to accept migrants ‘blindly’, I am sure that 75% of people would be against it.” But there is also the question of why a majority electorate elects representatives who enable such policies. The election of Emmanuel Macron in France is a typical example. It was not young people who voted for him, but pensioners, who still see Macron as providing them with “a certain elementary security and see him as a guarantor of welfare.” The fact is that young people do not like it. Migrants bring lower labour costs, and things are only going to get worse. That is why young people are voting for Marine Le Pen‘s National Rally.
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