In recent months, a network of communications has been woven between right-wing parties in Europe and “Land of Israel Faithful”, the “The Land of Israel is Ours” movement and the Shomron liaison Office. It began with the visit of a parliamentary delegation of Representatives who visited the Shomron and the Gush Katif Museum during Hanuka, the outcome of initiatives by Haim Milstein, a prominent member of the Berlin Jewish community.
The party representatives are convinced that the persistent struggle against Islam, which is taking over Europe, passes by way of the Land of Israel and that support for Jewish sovereignty in Judea, Samaria, Gaza and Jerusalem is a condition for the success of the struggle against Islam. In light of this recognition, a delegation consisting of Prof. Hillel Weiss of “Land of Israel Faithful”; David Ha'ivri, the Shomron Liaison Office; and Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpe, the Chairman of “The Land of Israel is Ours” was invited to visit. The trip was arranged by invitation of Mr. Philip Dewinter, the head of the “ Vlaams Belang” of Belgium, which represents 10% of all Belgian voters and 34% of Antwerp voters.
One of the party’s main activists, Mr. Patrik Brinkman, handled payment for the airfare, housing and glatt kosher meals, and even drove the guests in his own car from city to city.
The delegation arrived on Sunday April 3 in Berlin, where they visited the Chabad House’s emissary, Rabbi Teichtel, and the Holocaust Museum in the city. From there they traveled about 600 km. to the city of Gelsenkirchen, and on Monday they spoke in English in the ancient palace there before approx. 200 residents of the area, among them members of the municipality and Parliament. All of the speeches dealt with the terrible danger that the rise of a Palestinian state would constitute and the absolute necessity of settling all of Judea and Samaria with Jews. At the same time the guests were there, the liberal mayor of the town held a demonstration of hundreds of participants across from the palace, against the “racist” guests (the local newspaper also carried a protest against the visit, saying that it’s a lie that there is any such area called Judea and Samaria, that it’s really just the “West Bank” of Palestine).
On Tuesday April 5 (Rosh Chodesh Nisan), they arrived in Cologne’s old city, visited Chabad House with the emissary Rabbi Shtrecks, and an official reception at the municipal building was arranged for them, where they spoke of the indivisibility of the Land. All this was in spite of the fact that the leftist mayor of Cologne declared the delegation “unwanted guests”. The guests also visited the archaeological excavations where ancient homes of Jews and an ancient mikve were unearthed.
The delegation members pointed out to their hosts that Jews have lived in Cologne since the year 325 C.E., i.e., before the existence of Germany as it is known today, and that the entire community was slaughtered in 1096 during the first Crusade, the same time period that the Cologne excavations so prominently point out. Prof. Weiss showed them a “lamentation” written in the same year by Rabbi Yoel of Cologne, whose family and community were murdered. This was in addition to the expulsion of the Jews from Cologne in the 15th century and their extermination during the Holocaust.
On Wednesday they arrived in Brussels, Belgium, where they spoke to the Flemish parliament before tens of MPs (Belgium, Flemish and Federal) as well as to members of the Senate, among them the head of the country’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
Prof. Hillel Weiss spoke, among other things, of the significance of the settlements in Judea and Samaria, the cradle of the Jewish nation, about the ownership of Jews throughout the generations of these territories we inherited from our forefathers, and about our standing in international law and the nations’ decision at the “San Remo” conference (in 1922) that included the “West Bank” as part of the Land of Israel that belongs to Jews. He determined that giving Islam a hold over Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem would give dreadful encouragement to the takeover of Europe by Muslims, and called on the listeners to put forth their best efforts to do everything possible to prevent the rise of a Palestinian state.
David Ha'ivri lectured extensively on the history of settlement in Judea and Samaria, on the wonderful accomplishments of the residents and on the Shomron’s value from a security and historical standpoint. His fluent English, as well as the way he analyzed the situation, captured the hearts of the MKs. In addition, he was equipped with a great video about the Shomron.
Rabbi Wolpe related the murderous nature of Arabs who attacked his family over several generations: how his grandfather, an elder of Hebron, was murdered in 1897, how many family members were murdered in the riots of 1929, and his in-laws in 1952, all of this long before the beginning of the problem called “the territories”. He asked the audience whether they were willing to establish a Moslem state in Brussels in order to bring peace between them and the Arabs in Europe, and explained that the Israeli government cannot give parts of our holy Land to the enemy, also for the simple reason that they don’t belong to it (the government), but to the Jewish people throughout all of their generations.
The subject of the position of “Land of Israel Faithful” also came up, as they are about to set up a “Jewish Authority” in Judea and Samaria, to ward off the evil. After the speeches, there was a series of questions and answers in a special atmosphere of cooperation and mutual understanding.
The senior members of the party and MKs hosted the delegation at a luncheon in the Parliament’s official guest house, where all of the meals were hermetically sealed with the Brussels Chabad kashrut certification. In the evening, the guests were treated to a meal at the home of the Chabad emissary, Rabbi Shmuel Mandel Finson, who gave them a very warm welcome.
On Thursday a reception was held in Antwerp’s city hall, as well as a formal dinner in a glatt kosher restaurant, with the participation of the local emissary, Rabbi Shabtai Slavtitzky, who spoke to all of the participants and forged ties of friendship with them.
The climax of the visit was when party head Mr. Philip Dewinter signed a document calling for Jewish settlement all over Judea and Samaria, and against a Palestinian state. He took it upon himself to get the signatures of many more heads of right-wing parties in Europe on this document.
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