Speech by
Geert Wilders
Los Angeles, June 9, 2013
Los Angeles, June 9, 2013
Dear friends,
thank you for inviting me to Los Angeles. I always like coming to the United
States. There are many things that I admire Americans for. One of them is that
they are unashamedly patriotic.
The American
Freedom Association has asked me to speak to you about the future of Europe.
Europe is in
a terrible state. Bit by bit, European countries are losing their national
sovereignty. The economy is in shambles. Islamic immigrants riot and terrorize
the many locals. And when people’s throats are slit in the streets, while the
murderers shout “Allahu Akbar,” the authorities appease the killers and declare
that Islam has nothing to do with it.
Europeans
feel that the gap between them and those who rule them is growing. Many no
longer feel represented by their politicians. There is a complete disconnect
between the people that truly rule Europe and the people that live in it.
The blame
lies to a large extent with the European Union and the weak leadership within
the European countries which have signed away their national sovereignty. The EU
cannot be compared to the United States. Europe is a continent of many different
nations with their own identities, traditions and languages. The EU is a
supranational organization, but its leaders aim to turn it into a state. To this
end they are destroying the wealth, identity and freedoms of the existing
nation-states of Europe.
Before I
elaborate, let us take a closer look at the terrible mistake that Europe
made.
Following the
Second World War, Europe’s leaders mistakenly thought that patriotism was the
cause of the war.
All over
Europe, not just in Germany, but everywhere, they equated the defense of
national identity with extremism.
Politicians
told the electorate that the nation state was dangerous.
On the
rooftops of Europe’s parliaments and official buildings, they flew the EU flag
next to the national flag, as if the nation is nothing but a province of a
Pan-European empire.
On the number
plates of European cars, they put the EU flag instead of the national flag,
thereby forcing people to drive around with the symbol of their subjection.
They signed
away their national interests for the goal of so-called Europeanization.
Such policies
could never have been possible if the ruling elite had not fallen for the
ideology of cultural and moral relativism. Patriotism, which is a virtue, came
to be seen as a vice.
Today, the
citizens of Europe are reaping the bitter harvest of this arrogance, this
refusal to stand by the ancient nations of Europe, the mothers of modern
democracy, the guardians of our liberty.
- The EU stands for everything that is wrong in Europe.
- It is a gigantic undemocratic transnational monster.
- It issues legislation permeated with cultural relativism.
- It meddles in the everyday lives of millions of people.
- It has opened Europe’s borders to uncontrolled mass immigration, mostly from Islamic countries.
- And it has deprived Europe’s parliaments of a huge amount of their legislative powers.
The European
Union has brought one-size-fits-none policies that have resulted in economic
disaster. It has led to growing tensions between the nations of Europe. It has
led to the loss of democracy and liberty. Because the premise on which it was
built, was false.
Robert
Schuman, one of the EU’s founding fathers, said that the EU’s aim was — I quote
— “to make war not only unthinkable but materially impossible.” — end of quote.
But the idea that Germany, France, Britain and other nations in the past went to
war because they were sovereign nations is simply ridiculous.
As I tell my
audience whenever and wherever I speak in Germany, it was not German patriotism
that started the Second World War; it was Hitler’s vicious totalitarian ideology
of Nazism.
It was not
German patriotism that caused the holocaust. German patriots, such as Count
Stauffenberg, fought Hitler. “Let the world see that not all Germans are like
Hitler; that not all Germans are Nazis,” he wrote in his diary the evening
before Hitler’s hounds executed him.
Likewise, it
was not Russian patriotism that sent people to the Gulag; it was the Soviets’
vicious totalitarian ideology of Communism. Russian patriots, such as Alexander
Solzhenitsyn, stood up against the Soviets.
Nevertheless,
the proponents of the EU keep pretending that without the EU, the Germans, the
French, the British, the Dutch and the other nations of Europe would go to war
again. The European Union has even been given the Nobel Peace Prize for the
achievement of preserving peace in Europe — an achievement that is according to
me NATO’s rather than the EU’s.
My friends,
no-one knows this better than American patriots such as you: True patriots are
always democrats. Because true patriots love their people and their country. You
do not want your nation to be invaded by other countries. But neither do you
want a totalitarian ideology, such as Communism or Nazism or Islam, to rob you
of your own identity and enslave you.
Patriots want
their country to be free. But people only care about the freedom of their
country if they love it first. That is why one of my heroes Ronald Reagan said
in his Farewell Address that we have to teach our children what our country is,
what it stands for, what it represents in the long history of the world. Reagan
said that Americans need — I quote — “a love of country and an appreciation of
its institutions.” — end of quote.
Patriotism is
not a totalitarian ideology aiming for world control; it is love of one’s own
country and identity — and as such it is the strongest force against
totalitarian ideologies aiming for world domination.
Love your
country, appreciate its national institutions. As long as you do this, your
country will remain the land of the free. But if you fail to do so, you will
lose your freedoms. That is the lesson that we, Europeans, have learned the hard
way after the past six decades of experimenting with EU transnationalism.
And the worst
thing, my friends, the worst thing is that we could and should have known
better.
In her last
book, Statecraft, Margaret Thatcher wrote — I quote: “That such an
unnecessary and irrational project as building a European superstate was ever
embarked on will seem in future years to be perhaps the greatest folly of the
modern era.” — end of quote.
My friends,
let me tell you about the terrible consequences of this folly.
The Europeans
set out to build a political tower of Babel.
In 1957, six
European nations, including my own, the Netherlands, signed the Rome Treaty.
They committed themselves to the formation of — I quote from the Treaty’s
preamble — “an ever closer union among the peoples of Europe.” — end of
quote.
From the
original six, the European Union’s member states expanded to 27 nations today.
Nations as diverse as Finland and Portugal, Ireland and Bulgaria, with their
entirely different languages, cultures, traditions, habits and mentalities, were
forced by their political leaders to adopt the same economic, fiscal, social,
security, and foreign policies.
These
policies are drawn up by the enormous, ever expanding bureaucracy of the
so-called European Commission in Brussels. It issues laws — so-called
“directives” — that the member-states are forced to implement in their national
legislation.
As a national
legislator in the Netherlands I daily experience how little we still have to say
about our own fate. We are expected to rubberstamp legislation made behind
closed doors in Brussels.
Both the EU
Council of Ministers and the European Commission negotiate in secret and then
emerge to announce their agreement and present it. That is how the system works.
And we are not allowed to ask questions.
Those who
dare think differently are labeled enemies of European integration. They are the
so-called Europhobes.
The former
Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky calls the EU the EUSSR, because of its
striking similarities to the former Soviet Union. He compares the European
Commission to the former Soviet Politburo and Brussels to Moscow before the fall
of the Iron Curtain.
Two weeks
ago, I went to Prague and met with Vaclav Klaus, the former President of the
Czech Republic. President Klaus speaks of Europeanism as one of the new and
dangerous ideologies that have supplanted Socialism.
During his
ten years in office, President Klaus refused to fly the EU flag over the Czech
presidential palace. He points out that the EU is — I quote — “based on big and
patronizing government, extensive regulating of human behavior and large-scale
income redistribution. It shifts government upwards, which means to the level
where there is no democratic accountability and where the decisions are made by
bureaucrats appointed by politicians, not elected by citizens in free
elections.” — end of quote. Mr. Klaus.
The EU
supranationalism has brought the once prosperous, sovereign and free nations of
Europe economic misery, a loss of national identity, the demise of freedom and
independence.
17 of the 27
EU member states have even been so foolish as to dump their national currency.
By adopting the euro, the common EU currency, they joined the so-called
eurozone.
Strong and
solid currencies that were the pride of their nations, such as the Dutch Guilder
and the German Deutschmark, were sacrificed on the altar of European
unification. The then German Chancellor Helmut Kohl sold this project to his
people as — I quote — “a matter of war or peace.” — end of quote. The euro was
presented as — I quote again — “an angel of peace.”
But what did
this angel do to us?
All the
countries that joined the euro lost the power to adjust their currency to their
own economic needs. They have destroyed their economies and have doomed their
people to rising poverty and unemployment.
They all
suffered as a consequence. They all have to share the burden of other countries,
even if the latter are suffering from self-inflicted policies, corruption or
fraud, like in Greece.
Last year, my
party, the Dutch Party for Freedom, commissioned a study by the renowned
independent British bureau, Lombard Street Research, into the cost for the
Netherlands of the euro so far.
The study
found that, since the Dutch introduced the euro, the growth of consumption
spending no longer matches the growth of GDP, as it did before we joined the
euro and as it still does in all the countries that kept out of the eurozone.
The cost was a huge loss in consumer spending.
The study
showed that continuing to uphold the euro would cost the Netherlands billions of
euros. The Eurozone is a huge transfer zone, whereby taxpayers in our country
are forced to subsidize other countries. The rising taxes have pushed our
country, the Netherlands, into economic recession. Unemployment has grown to
over 8% — the highest in decades.
And the
countries that receive our taxes have no chance of recovery. They have no chance
of economic growth within a monetary union where the currency is too strong for
them. Millions of people are losing their jobs as a consequence. Countries such
as Spain are doomed with unemployment figures reaching almost up to 30%
today.
EU countries
have also lost sovereignty over their own national budgets. The European
Commission — not our national government — decides how big their deficits and
national debts are allowed to be. It imposes austerity measures. But at the same
time it demands ever larger sums to be transferred to Brussels or to so-called
rescue operations for the euro and to bail out countries, like Greece, Ireland,
Portugal, Spain and Cyprus.
Last month,
the EU decided to raise its budget. My country and the Dutch government opposed
this decision, but we were simply overruled. We have no veto right. Now we are
forced to pay even more to Brussels. While government expenditure cannot be
slashed by cutting the sums demanded by the EU, the Dutch government has raised
taxes dramatically. The impact has been devastating. Higher taxes have resulted
in less government income and have led to a contraction of the economy and a
rise in unemployment.
The same
phenomenon can be seen all over Europe. The growth of expenses and taxes, the
inability to create a competitive environment, the overregulation of the
economy, the stifling bureaucratization — all this is leading straight to
economic collapse.
But there is
worse. EU member-states no longer control their own borders.
Immigration
policies are decided by the European Commission and the cultural relativists who
are in charge there. The current European Commissioner overseeing immigration
policy is Cecilia Malmström, formerly a left-wing kind of hippy politician from
Sweden. Third-World immigration has turned Sweden into a nightmare, with
immigrants frequently rioting in major Swedish cities such as Stockholm and
Malmö.
Mrs.
Malmström is forcing all EU member states to follow the Swedish example.
Last year, I
wrote her a letter. “Not one single Dutchman has voted for you,” I told her. “We
do not know who you are. We do not want to know who you are, but you force your
ideas on our people. We are suffering from your absurd refusal to allow us even
the slightest restriction to our immigration policy. You do not even want to
limit the number of partners that one is allowed to bring into the Netherlands!
We urge you to cease your activities and give us our sovereignty back,” I
wrote.
Needless to
say that I am still waiting for an answer from her, despite the fact that I am
an elected politician, accountable to the voters, while she is not. That is why
she can afford not to answer a parliamentarian.
Millions of
non-Western immigrants are flooding into Europe, predominantly people from
Islamic countries. The Pew Research Center estimated the number of Muslims in
Western European countries at 18.2 million in 2010. It expects that this number
will rise to almost 30 million by 2030. The Netherlands will see its Islamic
population grow from 5.5 to almost 8%, Britain from 5 to 8%, Sweden will even
see it double from 5 to 10%, and France will see a rise from over 7 to over
10%.
A demographic
catastrophe is about to happen.
During the
past three decades, so many people rooted in a culture entirely different from
Europe’s own Judeo-Christian and humanist tradition have entered Europe that its
heritage, its freedoms, its prosperity, and its culture are in danger.
The signs are
there for all to see.
Look at the
names people give to their children. Mohammed is today the most popular name
among newborn boys in many French, Belgian and Dutch cities. Mohammed is even
the most popular name among all newborns in England and Wales.
Look at
Europe’s inner cities. Visit Europe and you will see that they have come to
resemble Northern Africa and the Middle East. They have become areas ruled by
Islamic Sharia law. Only last month, a Dutch newspaper reported that a
neighborhood barely two miles from our parliament building in The Hague is now a
Sharia zone.
Islamic areas
also border the EU headquarters in Brussels. And less than 10 miles from
Westminster, the mother of all parliaments, a British soldier’s throat was slit
by Islamic murderers.
Paris, the
capital of France, is surrounded by largely Islamic suburbs. And so are other
cities. The French authorities have even drawn up a list of 751 so-called
“sensible urban areas,” where it is dangerous to go, especially for native
Frenchmen. These are the lost territories of the French Republic, even though a
staggering 5 million people, or 8 percent of the total French population, live
in them.
Even soldiers
are no longer safe in Europe’s streets, as the recent horrible events in Britain
and France have shown. But neither are Jews. Anti-Semitism has risen, and keeps
rising the more Islamic immigration we get.
Indeed, my
friends, after Nazism and Communism, another totalitarian ideology is
threatening Europe: the evil ideology called Islam.
In Europe, we
are experiencing that the more Islamic a society becomes — even when the
majority of Muslims are moderates — the less free and tolerant it will be.
Atrocities,
similar to the recent bombing in Boston, where Islamic immigrants massacred
innocent onlookers at the marathon, occur in Europe as well. In my own country a
few years ago, Theo van Gogh, a film maker critical of Islam, was butchered in
the streets of Amsterdam.
Today,
hundreds of young Islamic inhabitants of our countries have flocked to Syria to
wage jihad there. They will return as experienced jihadists, trained in urban
guerrilla warfare. But while you in America are still able to do something about
it, while you can control and close your borders, while Congress can vote
legislation to protect American citizens, we in Europe have been robbed of this
possibility by the European Union.
And there is
not only the threat of terrorism or violence; there is also the phenomenon of
non-violent jihad. The rise of Islam means the rise of Islamic sharia law in our
judicial systems. In Europe, we have sharia wills, sharia schools, sharia banks.
In Britain, they even have official sharia courts.
Europe is
gradually Islamizing. People who criticize Islam, such as myself, are threatened
by Al Qaeda and dragged to court by Islamic and leftist groups. There is not
just me, there is the journalist Lars Hedegaard, the author Salman Rushdie, the
cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, and many others.
We criticize
Islam and we will keep on doing so, because it is a dangerous ideology. It is
intolerant, it is violent. And, worst of all, it cannot be reformed. It cannot
because it believes that the Koran is a book written directly by Allah himself.
And it cannot because it calls on Muslims to follow Muhammad as the role model
for their personal life. There could not be a worse model than this man, who was
a warlord, a terrorist, and a pedophile.
While most
Muslims are moderate people, those who think that they have to follow Muhammad’s
example are not. That is exactly the reason why the more Islamic a country
becomes, the more unfree and violent it will be.
Europe needs
to be protected against this new totalitarian threat.
That is why I
say: No more immigrants from the Islamic world! My party wants to close our
borders to immigration from Islamic countries.
And ever more
people support us.
A poll, which
we commissioned ten days ago, shows that 77% of the Dutch do not see Islam as an
enrichment for our country, 68% say there is more than enough Islam in the
Netherlands already. A majority of the voters of all the major parties in my
country — even the voters from leftist parties — agree with these two
principles.
The poll also
showed that 55% of the Dutch want a stop on immigration from Islamic countries,
63% want no more mosques, 72% see a relationship between Islam and the recent
terror attacks in Boston, London and Paris, 72% want a constitutional ban on
Islamic Sharia law.
Ordinary
people in Europe want three things.
One — They
want their politicians to tackle the problem of Islamization and mass
immigration. They want to control their own borders.
Two — They
want to restore their national sovereignty. They do not want their countries to
become provinces of a pan-European superstate.
Three — They
do not want their money to be used to pay for mistakes made elsewhere. They do
not want a transfer union where they have to pay higher taxes to bail out other
countries, whose leaders were either corrupt or incompetent.
Poll after
poll show that ordinary Europeans do not want their democracy to be subverted.
Last April, a pan-European poll showed that a clear majority of the population
in the major EU member states no longer trust the EU as an institution. Even in
Germany the number has reached almost 60%.
This week a
Gallup poll showed that for the first time in history in the Netherlands as many
people want to leave the EU as stay in. A few years ago, this was
unthinkable.
The strength
of Europe is its diversity. Europe is not a nation; it is a cluster of nations,
bound by a common Judeo-Christian and humanist culture, but with different
national identities.
Last January,
British Prime Minister David Cameron delivered a speech in which he said that
the EU needed to change.
He spoke
about “the lack of democratic accountability,” “the excessive regulation,” and
everything that is wrong in the EU. And there are many things I agree with, but
I do not share his belief that the EU’s nature can be changed. Mr. Cameron
believes that the EU can be transformed into — I quote — “a more flexible,
adaptable and open European Union.” — end of quote. I do not believe this. If an
organization has as its explicit goal that it strives for “an ever closer
union,” it simply cannot start moving in the opposite direction and relinquish
the powers it has already acquired.
We can see
how the mechanism works in the way in which the EU deals with the eurozone
crisis. Rather than turning away from the destructive path that has so far been
followed, Brussels is using this crisis to enforce an even tighter control over
the member states.
The European
Union simply cannot be democratized because the whole structure is built on a
negation of democracy. As President Klaus pointed out, there can be no European
democracy because there is no European demos — no European people. There
can only be various European democracies — plural! — in the various European
nations. What the EU does is destroy these various democracies.
And, hence,
my party’s position is very clear. We opt for an exit from the European Union.
We want the Netherlands not just out of the Eurozone, but out of the EU
altogether — including the so-called Schengen area, the group of 26 European
countries that have abolished passport and immigration controls at their common
borders. We reserve the right to reinstall random border controls.
We want to
retain our independence. We want home rule! We want to be the masters in our own
house! We want to be the masters over our own borders. We want to be the masters
of our own money. The Party for Freedom wants the Netherlands to leave the EU
and join the European Free Trade Association EFTA.
But here is
the good news, my friends. As I have already indicated, public support for the
EU is growing thin by the day.
For months
now, my party has been the biggest in the polls.
And we are
not the only one.
In Britain,
UKIP, the United Kingdom Independence Party, which wants to lead Britain out of
the EU, has come second in many by-elections and local and county elections
during the past two years. It is polling an average of a quarter of the votes.
And it is growing.
In France
last year, Marine Le Pen scored 18% in the presidential elections. She has now
overtaken President François Hollande. She opposes the EU. And her popularity is
growing.
In Germany,
it is still considered far too politically-incorrect to reject the EU.
Nevertheless a new party, the Alternative for Germany, wants to take the country
out of the eurozone. And its appeal is growing.
In Italy,
both the country’s largest party, Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement, and the
Lega Nord, the largest party in the North, want a referendum on a return to the
Lira, while the Lega Nord has called the EU a failed project.
In Portugal a
book advocating quitting the euro has become an instant bestseller. A proposal
that was taboo until recently is now discussed openly, with the country’s Chief
Justice personally coming out in support of eurozone exit.
All over
Europe, anti-EU feelings are growing. All over Europe there are patriot parties
that reflect the resurgence of national pride in their countries, whether it be
the Netherlands, Britain, France, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Austria, Italy,
Flanders, the Czech Republic, Germany, and the other nations currently trapped
in the European Union.
As I said,
here is the good news.
Europe might
be on the verge of a fundamental change for the better. We seem to be on the eve
of a major and truly historic event. In Europe, the time is ripe for a glorious
democratic and non-violent revolution to preserve our national freedoms and
restore our sovereignty.
Exactly one
year from now, the 27 member states of the European Union will be holding
elections for the European Parliament.
People are
finally ready all over Europe to rebel in the ballot box.
They reject
the transfer union. They no longer want to pay for corrupt states.
They reject
the supranational experiment of the European Union.
They are
ready to cast their votes for a restoration of national sovereignty.
They are
ready to defend their own cultural identity.
All they need
is decent political leadership able to lead their nations out of the EU and
towards a better future.
America’s
first president George Washington has shown that when courageous and democratic
politicians are available to lead their country, they can lay the groundwork for
a lasting democratic framework that guarantees freedom and prosperity for
centuries to come.
My friends,
my party in the Netherlands and several other parties in other European
countries are preparing themselves for next year’s electoral landslide.
We can feel
the heartbeat of the New Patriotism in Europe.
Winter is
over.
Spring is
coming.
The European
Spring is upon us.
And we are
getting ready for it.
We are aware
of our historic task.
That is why I
am especially happy to be here in California today. Because the great inspirer
of our upcoming democratic revolution, is one of yours. Your hero, my hero,
Ronald Reagan! — who in his presidential Farewell Address said that the
achievement he was most proud of in his entire presidency was “the resurgence of
national pride.” “The New Patriotism,” as he called it.
Next year’s
European elections offer a unique opportunity to liberate the nations of
Europe.
Next Spring’s
European elections offer a unique chance to correct the fatal error made by
previous politicians who sold away their taxpayers’ money and their national
sovereignty to Brussels and delivered their countries to the evils of mass
immigration and Islamization.
As a European
politician, I am fully aware of my duty to grab this chance. The European
elections next May must deal a blow to the parties that sold us out to the EU.
Not just in the Netherlands. But everywhere in Europe.
That is why I
do what is in my power to forge an alliance of democratic parties standing for
the restoration of the sovereignty and freedom of their nation. I want to bring
these parties together in a common endeavor to defend our identity and our
values. I do not know whether I will succeed, but I am trying. It is my
conviction that we have to work together. Because we are all in the same
boat.
My friends,
it is easy to despair. Time is running out for Britain, for France, for Germany,
for the Netherlands, for all the other great nations of Europe. The present
situation in Europe is bleak. If we do nothing, it will become even bleaker. If
we do nothing we will be swept away by economic and demographic disaster.
But it is
wrong to despair. The present is bleak, but the future looks bright. Because the
future depends on our actions. We are the actors on the stage of history. That,
too, is a lesson from Ronald Reagan, who said: “We need to act today, to
preserve tomorrow”.
I went to
Paris recently to talk to Marine Le Pen and see for myself who she is and what
she stands for. She is not her father. She is not anti-Semitic. She cares about
France, its identity and its sovereignty.
I went to
Prague to talk to President Klaus.
In the coming
weeks and months, I will try to see as many patriot leaders in Europe as
possible. And I always ask them for their views on Israel. Because Israel is the
litmus proof.
The Jewish
people did exactly the opposite of what the Europeans did after the Second World
War. They drew the right conclusion. They realized that without a nation-state
of their own there could be no safety for their people.
Without a
nation-state, without self-governance, without self-determination there can be
no security for a people nor preservation of its identity. This was the insight
that led the Zionists to strive for the re-establishment of the state of Israel.
Theodore Herzl said that there had to be a Jewish state in order to ensure — I
quote — “a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit.” — end of quote.
Indeed, a
soul needs a body. The spirit of a people cannot flourish outside the body of
the nation-state. The nation-state is the political body in which we live. We
must preserve and cherish it. So that we can pass on to our children our
national identity, our democracy, our liberty.
My friends,
what we need today is Zionism for the nations of Europe. The Europeans need to
follow the example of the Jewish people and re-establish their nation-state.
And that, my
dear friends, is why every patriot, apart from being a democrat, by definition
also has to be a true friend of Israel. A patriot cannot be anti-Semitic.
My friends,
the great Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky said about the Jewish people: “We do
not have to apologize for anything. We are a people as all other peoples; we do
not have any intentions to be better than the rest. We do not have to account to
anybody. We are what we are, we are good for ourselves, we will not change, nor
do we want to.” — end of quote.
And so it is.
For all the peoples. We do not have to apologize for being good to ourselves. We
do not have to change if we do not want to change.
The peoples
of Europe resent the permanent alienation of power from their nation-states.
They care about their nations because they care about democracy and freedom and
the wellbeing of their children. They see their democratic rights and their
ancient liberties symbolized in their national flags. They are proud of their
flag. And as long as their pride lasts, they will have a future.
Let us
emphasize this commitment to the resurgence of our national pride with a
symbolic gesture. Let us do so by endorsing the Jewish nation-state and move the
embassies of our countries from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Let us fly the flags of
all the free and proud nations of the world over embassies in Jerusalem, the
only true capital of Israel and the cradle of our Judeo-Christian
civilization.
Israel
deserves our support. Not only because it is the frontline against the
totalitarian threat of Islam, but also because it shows how important it is for
a people to have its own homeland.
My
friends,
Today, a new
threat is confronting us. But history shows that we can withstand it if we stand
together.
We need an
alliance, not only of patriots in Europe, but also an alliance between America
and Europe.
We need the
help and support of American patriots such as you. Such an alliance brings out
the best in us, and allows us to beat the totalitarian menace.
This was
proven by the alliance between Roosevelt and Churchill in the 1940s.
It defeated
Nazism.
It was proven
by the alliance between Reagan and Thatcher in the 1980s.
It defeated
Communism.
Today, Islam
is a threat to all of us, to Israel, to Europe, to America. But together we can
withstand it.
And we have
to stand together or we will be defeated. We have no other choice.
As the great
Margaret Thatcher said:
“Defeat — I
do not recognize the meaning of the word.”
And neither
should we!
Thank
you.
Let me start with
the basics
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