On US President Donald Trump’s eight-day visit abroad this week
he will touch down in four countries, discussing global politics and religion. Will
he be met in Brussels with confusion on defense, security, culture and religion?
In Saudi Arabia on Sunday he met with King Salman and Crown
Prince Muhammed to inaugurate the Global Center for Combating Extremist
Ideology. He
issued a challenge against “radicalization", "Islamic extremism", "Islamists",
and "Islamist terror of all kinds”. (And media worldwide, like a conspiracy chorus, simultaneously
criticized him for not using the words "radical Islamic terrorism"!) Such extremism, he said,
was a "battle between good and evil." He urged Arab leaders to
"drive out the terrorists from your places of worship! Drive them out your countries! Drive them out
out of the earth!"
Saudi Arabia has disbursed trillions
of oil dollars since 1973 on promoting worldwide its immoderate Wahabism, a
potent mixture of politics and religion.Trump's 110 billion arms deal is less than small change.
President Trump flew direct to Israel a small democracy in
a war zone, surrounded by many hostile forces. His agenda had meetings with President
Rivlin and PM Netanyahu, a visit the Yad Vashem exhibition of the Holocaust and a
speech at the Israel Museum.
US policy with Israel is in a ferment of change. The US
Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, in her first press
conference denounced the inordinate bias of the UN in being blind to almost
every violation of human rights around the world except real or imagined events
in Israel. She said the USA believes that the Western
Wall is firmly part of Israel and the embassy should be moved to Jerusalem.
The US State Department is still following a pro-oil and anti-Israel policy. It
insists that no Israeli officials should accompany Mr Trump to the Wall as “it
is disputed territory”. Really? Who built it?
Trump has spoken optimistically about a bigger and better plan
for peace than generally understood.
President Trump’s next stop is to see pope Francis in Rome
and meet with Italian government officials. The Catholic Knights of Columbus and
In Defense of Christians recently sent a report to the US State Department on
the “Genocide
against Christians in the Middle East.” The Islamic State, it warned,
says:
“We will conquer your Rome, break your crosses, and
enslave your women.” It is a strategic threat. “If we do not reach that time,
then our children and grandchildren will reach it, and they will sell your sons
as slaves at the slave market.”
In Belgium President Trump has meetings
with the Belgian King, NATO and a stop at the European Council.
What is Europe’s attitude to these global challenges? At
NATO Mr Trump will try to convince Europeans they should take their own defense
and security seriously. They should spend at least two percent of their money
on this type of insurance. But Europe, which is richer and more populous than
the USA, wastes its present meager military resources by non- standardization
of its systems.
What of the terrorism and aggressive ideologies aimed at Europe’s
downfall? The European External Action Service takes a secretive and passive
attitude to the Islamic assault on the roots of its Judeo-Christian
civilization. It seems incapable even of defending itself, even with Trumpian words.
The UNESCO Decision on Jerusalem in
October last year attacked the whole basis of Judeo-Christian civilization. It
was a warning of an ideological assault. The EEAS was silent. The resolution
tried to maintain that only Arabic/Muslim names were valid for Jerusalem. It
simply wrote out any mention of any previous civilizations that attached their
names to the Holy City. Nothing was relevant except the Arabic/ Muslim
history.
This undermines not only culture, civilization but the bases
of law and jurisprudence. The League of Nations and the UN recognized this area
as Jewish Homeland. The site had been temporarily conquered by Greek, Roman, Arab,
then Turkish and the British in WW1. Have the British better rights because
their conquest was more recent? The only lasting solution is on the basis of
the rule of law and property or other rights.
On the 1st
of May 2017 UNESCO’s Executive Board voted on the Decision under agenda item 30
on “Occupied
Palestine”. Bizarre turn of
history! Before 1947 the Jews were known as Palestinians. Arabs refused to be called by this
name. That changed only in the 1960s when the USSR helped place Egyptian-born terrorist
Yasser Arafat as head of the “revolutionary movement”, the PLO. He called the “Two State Solution” a “truce”.
Italy changed
its previous UNESCO abstention to a vote against. On the other hand, Sweden
voted in favour of this Islamic-biased Resolution. So why did so few
European States, who owe their very civilization to the Book, vote against the
Resolution? Why did so many simply abstain? That gave tacit support for
undermining Western civilization.
Only five States voted against the Resolution in October. Why did countries
like France and Spain just abstain on such a serious matter? What on earth
possessed Sweden to vote for it, after a violent terrorist attack in central Stockholm? A truck was
aimed especially at children. It left
five people dead and many injured.
Europeans should ask: Who came up with this Resolution, an attempt
to obliterate Europe’s science and history? It was drafted by Algeria, Egypt,
Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, and Sudan, at the behest of the PA’s policy of
cultural nihilism. This turns UNESCO’s role on its head. Irina Bokova, the
Director General of UNESCO in a speech transmitted to the European Parliament
on 30 March said:
“Jerusalem puts us in front of a radical choice. … To deny,
conceal or erase any of the Jewish, Christian or Muslim traditions undermines
the integrity of the site, and runs counter to the reasons that justified its
inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage list.”
She added: “The protection and better understanding of the
Heritage of Jerusalem is part of a broader vision for peace. It is part of a
wider vision to fight against all forms of denial of Jewish history,
de-legitimization of Israel, and anti-Semitism. This work is essential, as European know too
well the ravages of war and anti-Semitism.”
Both Europeans and Israelis should be made well aware at
this affront to their history and culture. Especially omitted from last year’s
resolution were any place names evoking the ancient Israelite and continuous
Jewish heritage of the City. These should be well-known to all educators,
scientists and all cultures familiar with the People of the Book.
UNESCO prefers to mention a fabulous Muslim winged animal Barak,
‘smaller than a mule’ allegedly seen in a dream. It omits all mention of real
Hebrew artifacts containing names of kings and their ministers showing
continuous cultural achievements over three thousand years.
On the same day as the UNESCO resolution, the Israeli
Antiquities Department announced the identity of a Hebrew language document
dating from the seventh century BCE. It mentions ‘Jerusalem’ as the place of
shipment for wine from a female merchant.
Factual history and culture is Europeans’ most precious
heritage. So is the Rule of Law.
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