A record 4 percent of all deaths in Belgium were by assisted suicide in 2025, a sharp increase from the previous year.
In 2025, 4,486 people died via assisted suicide, representing 4 percent of the population of Belgium and a 12.4 percent increase from the previous year. Almost a quarter of these people were not expected to die in the short term from natural causes.
Right to Life UK summarized the government data, which shows 2025 was the year with the most euthanasia deaths since the practice was legalized in 2003. In the first year after it was made legal, 235 deaths by assisted suicide were recorded. Those numbers have steadily increased over the years, reaching almost 4,500 in 2025.
Around 24.9 percent who died by assisted suicide were not expected to die by natural causes in the short term, i.e., in the coming months. These individuals suffered from depression, PTSD, blindness, and other ailments, but were not terminally ill. There were 151 assisted suicide deaths among those with “cognitive disorders” or “psychiatric disorders” as their underlying condition in 2025, representing a 36 percent increase from the previous year. Over 92 percent of those people with cognitive or psychiatric disorders were not expected to die in the coming months, i.e., they were not terminally ill. Every year since 2018 over 90 percent of people with these disorders who were killed by assisted suicide were not terminally ill.
Since legalization in 2003, over 42,000 people in Belgium have died by assisted suicide.
The Belgian law does not require those seeking “assisted dying” to be near the end of their lives. Since 2014, age restrictions have been removed, allowing minors “with capacity of discernment” to legally end their lives as well. One minor died in this way in 2025.
Catherine Robinson, spokesperson for Right to Life UK, commented on the figures:
It is heartbreaking to hear of the increasing number of people who are ending their lives in Belgium as a result of assisted suicide or euthanasia.
It is particularly distressing to hear that so many of these people did not have deaths that were to be reasonably expected to occur in the short term, and that a number of these individuals ended their lives due to cognitive disorders or psychiatric conditions.
People with physical or psychological suffering deserve to receive the care and support necessary to reduce their suffering while allowing them to continue living. The state should not be enabling their suicide.
A Syria’s minister has rejected calls for large-scale repatriations of Syrians living in Germany, calling the community a “strategic asset” for his country.
Foreign minister Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani said the Syrian Government prefers working to create conditions for voluntary repatriation, describing engagement with the diaspora as central to national reconstruction efforts.
He said Damascus has proven it is a reliable political partner and is building genuine strategic partnerships with other countries.
Crucially he added: “The issue concerning our people abroad was strongly present in all our discussions. We reaffirm once again: Syrians in exile are strategic national assets, not burdens.
“We categorically reject any attempts at forced deportation, and we are working diligently with our partners to prepare the infrastructure and provide a safe environment befitting those who choose a dignified and voluntary return,” he added.
Al-Shaibani said the presence of Syrians in other countries “is a message to the world that Syrians are one people undivided by distances, and building the Syria of the future is a national project par excellence”.
The remarks come days after German Chancellor Friedrich Merz claimed that around 80 per cent of the approximately 900,000 Syrians in Germany were expected to return home within three years to aid reconstruction.
Merz initially attributed the figure to Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa before appearing to backtrack, telling German media that the Syrian leader had cited it as a wish.
Al-Sharaa has since denied using the 80 per cent figure.
Germany, which hosts the largest Syrian diaspora in the European Union, has signalled a tougher stance on migration under Merz’s government, citing improved conditions in post-Assad Syria.
NGOs and parts of the German administration, though, have warned against hasty deportations, citing ongoing instability.
Political sociologist Professor Ruud Koopmans in Berlin said Syria sees its diaspora as a “source of remittances, a bridge for chain marriage migration across generations, and political capital gained through voter blocs”.
He called for a resolute halt to naturalisation and the possibility of family reunification.
The Syrian President has been on tour in Europe, which included high-level talks in Berlin with Merz and in London with King Charles III and the British Prime Minister Kier Starmer, focused on lifting sanctions, economic partnerships and reconstruction.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has been forced to row back on an ambitious pledge that 80 per cent of Syrians currently living in Germany could return home within three years. https://t.co/NFPwic4uhv
France joined the UK and other European ‘Islam First’ governments in condemning Israel for passing a bill calling for the death penalty for terrorists. Along with the rest of the EU, France condemned the death penalty as unacceptable. Here’s a flashback to when France not only used the death penalty, but implemented it with a guillotine.
Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian Muslim migrant, had decided to set up his own sex grooming gang in France. Using fairly typical Islamic tactics, he befriended young women and girls, and then forced them into prostitution.
But after multiple abuses of young girls, he ran into trouble when he tried to force Élisabeth Bousquet, an order nurse, into prostitution. She defied him and went to the police, so he kidnapped her, brutally tortured her and then killed her.
After his arrest and eventual release from custody during the spring of 1973, Djandoubi drew two other young girls into his confidence and then forced them to “work” for him.
The idea of taking revenge on his accuser never left his mind, however, and in July 1974 he kidnapped Bousquet and took her into his home where, in full view of the terrified girls, he beat the unfortunate woman mercilessly before stubbing a lit cigarette all over her breasts and genital area. Despite this Bousquet survived the ordeal, so Djandoubi took her by car to an outskirt of Marseille and there strangled her.
On his return Djandoubi warned the two girls to say nothing of what they had seen, and it was not until Bousquet’s body was identified one month after its discovery in a shed by two children on 7 July 1974 that the girls finally found the courage to take their story to the authorities.
Imagine if the UK and France still had the courage to put down monsters like this and make an example out of them. How many thousands of young girls were raped in the UK because of the cowardice and appeasement of European leaders?
William Clouston, Leader of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) outlines his party’s “Red List” policy on migration, which would see the UK ban migration from specific countries.
Only 11 days remain until Hungary’s decisive parliamentary elections on April 12—and the liberal public sphere is already in full spin: inflated polls are being used to portray Péter Magyar and his Tisza Party as inevitable winners, while simultaneously laying the groundwork to explain away a potential defeat.
Liberal pollsters and international media present this as fact: the Brussels- and Kyiv-backed opposition challenger is unstoppable, leading by double digits—as if no votes were left for anyone else. The same ecosystem produces these numbers and then amplifies them across liberal and global media, each reinforcing the other’s claims. Echo chamber at its finest.
Yet reality has a habit of intervening—and it will on election day.
Reality check: turnout vs. polling fiction
In the 2022 parliamentary election, official data from Hungary’s National Election Office recorded turnout at exactly 69.59%—5,717,182 citizens cast their ballots. Only twice since the first free elections in 1990 has participation exceeded that level.
Today, however, widely circulated ‘independent’ polls present a very different picture. The Medián survey—heavily cited in international media—projects an astonishing 89% turnout. This is difficult to take seriously, as it ignores a basic political reality: elections are decided by committed voters who actually show up, not by hypothetical enthusiasm measured in surveys.
And in Hungary, the governing parties possess precisely that advantage: a stable, disciplined, and highly mobilised voter base.
How elections are actually won in Hungary
Hungary’s electoral system is straightforward for international observers: 106 single-member constituencies decided by first-past-the-post, complemented by proportional party-list mandates in a 199-seat National Assembly. This structure rewards real local support and effective mobilisation—areas where the governing patriotic forces consistently outperform.
Fidesz–KDNP has built a nationwide, battle-tested base that turns out reliably, election after election.
The latest constituency projection by the Nézőpont Institute (published March 31, 2026) cuts through the noise. Using a combination of electoral history, nationally adjusted polling, and fresh local surveys in 30 districts, it estimates:
66 districts likely to go to the patriotic Fidesz-KDNP candidates led by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán
39 districts for the Tisza Party led by opposition leader Péter Magyar
1 district for a Tisza-linked independent
Of these, 44 districts are firmly pro-government, while only 27 are safely in opposition.
A separate nationwide, representative poll by the Alapjogokért Központ reinforces this picture. Among committed voters, Fidesz–KDNP stands at 50%, compared to 42% for Tisza, with turnout willingness rising to 74%. This suggests that the governing parties are approaching their 2.8 million voter base from 2022.
The trend reflects consistent growth over recent months, while Tisza has stabilised without breakthrough. Voters have also shown clear resistance to narratives of foreign interference and to policy proposals that would increase energy costs, while Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s nationwide campaign continues to strengthen mobilisation.
In Hungary’s electoral system, such high and disciplined turnout has historically favoured the most stable political force—a dynamic clearly reflected in current data.
Source: Center for Fundamental Rights
What the narrative ignores
While Prime Minister Viktor Orbán draws large crowds across the country, Péter Magyar’s countryside appearances reveal a different reality. In many provincial towns, his message simply does not resonate. It appears to travel more effectively in Brussels—or Kyiv—than among Hungarian voters facing the direct consequences of war in neighbouring Ukraine, rising energy prices, and questions of national sovereignty.
This is clearly reflected in the Nézőpont Institute’s latest data: Fidesz dominance is strongest in rural, small-town, and village-based constituencies across multiple counties, while Tisza performs better in Budapest and a handful of larger cities. Even so, the broader electoral map remains decisively tilted toward the governing side.
Pre-packaged loser’s alibi
As the final days of the campaign unfold, Péter Magyar and the pro-Ukraine, Brussels-aligned network backing him are already internationalising doubts about Hungary’s elections. Key allies in this ecosystem—including Radosław Sikorski and Anne Applebaum—have openly raised the prospect of “unfair” elections, signalling that the narrative is ready. Even Brussels-based outlets like Politico now run daily pieces suggesting that while Péter Magyar is supposedly far ahead, victory somehow remains uncertain—a contradiction that speaks for itself.
The same Brussels- and Kyiv-aligned ecosystem that produces inflated polling numbers and amplifies them through legacy media is now preparing the next step: if Péter Magyar wins, it is democracy; if he loses, it must be fraud or ‘foreign interference.’ We have seen this playbook before.
At its core are networks that blur the line between journalism and political operations. Figures such as Szabolcs Panyi—linked to the George Soros network and previously to USAID-funded media structures—have played a central role in constructing and circulating intelligence-style narratives about alleged Russian operations in Hungary. As seen in the case of Donald Trump and virtually every patriotic political force resisting external pressure, the same ‘Russia hoax’ pattern emerges: constructed claims built on anonymous sourcing, designed to frame and weaken sovereign governments, then rapidly amplified by international legacy media as established fact.
From there, the echo chamber does the rest.
The objective is clear: not to protect electoral integrity, but to shape the narrative in advance—questioning the integrity of the 2026 elections and internationalising that claim in order to minimise the political costs of a potential defeat.
This is precisely why these narratives are being constructed now.
Hungarians have consistently demonstrated a clear sense of responsibility in decisive moments—and there is every reason to believe they will not disappoint the sane part of the international community.
And when the patriotic forces led by Viktor Orbán prevail on April 12—as every reality-based poll clearly indicates—this carefully constructed narrative will inevitably give way to the facts, making clear once again: Hungary’s future is decided by its citizens, not by external interests or international media campaigns.
French far Left MP Raphaël Arnault accused the country’s Right of exploiting the killing of right-wing activist Quentin Deranque for political gain, in an hour-long interview with French outlet Blast.
“They couldn’t care less about political violence; their aim is to wipe out the Left,” said Arnault, who belongs to the National Assembly’s hard-left La France Insoumise bloc.
Deranque was killed two months ago by hard-left militants from the group La Jeune Garde.
Arnault cited subsequent “attacks on LFI’s party offices” as well as “a knife attack on a female candidate in Strasbourg”.
He said he had kept silent until now, doubting that “speaking out more would have helped to calm the situation in the country”.
During the interview, the MP highlighted a long history of “far-right violence in Lyon”.
He also condemned a “reversal of values” that seeks to “make people believe that the enemy is anti-fascism”.
France Interior Minister has been “utterly indecent” in placing blame on La France Insoumise, he said.
“The only fault of La France Insoumise is that it has stuck to its principles and refused to back down on issues that should command unanimous support on the Left,” he said.
In a press conference, Mathilde Panot, President of LFI in the French National Assembly, confirmed that Arnault would be returning to the legislature, without giving further details.
During his interview, Arnault emphasised that anti-fascism is alive and well in the country.
“I am one of the faces of antifascism, but in my absence, others took the lead. This isn’t about me, it’s a much broader struggle.”
“If some people think that by destroying an organisation like La Jeune Garde there would be no more anti-fascism, they are seriously mistaken,” insisted Arnault.
In Germany, a teenager who shot dead a police officer after firing at him multiple times has been acquitted of murder and will avoid prison — after telling a court he was often in a “bad mood” due to a lack of prospects.
The Saarbrücken Regional Court ruled that the 19-year-old gunman, Ahmet Gürsel, bore diminished responsibility at the time of the killing of Police Chief Inspector Simon Bohr, 34, and instead convicted him only of aggravated robbery, ordering his placement in a secure psychiatric facility.
The shooting took place in August 2025 in Völklingen, Saarland, after the defendant carried out an armed robbery at a gas station, stealing around €600 before attempting to flee. During the police response, he attacked officers with a knife, seized a service weapon from a trainee, and opened fire. Bohr was struck multiple times and died at the scene.
Pathology reports showed the police officer and father was shot in the head, face, neck, shoulder, abdomen, and back, and eventually died from “internal and external hemorrhage.”
Although the teenager admitted to the shooting during the trial, the court accepted psychiatric evidence that he was suffering from a schizophrenic disorder and severe anxiety, which was used to suggest he had significantly impaired his ability to control his actions.
“Fear had taken over his thinking,” presiding judge Jennifer Klingelhöfer said in delivering the verdict, adding that the defendant believed his life was under immediate threat when he fired the shots.
As reported by Berliner Zeitung on Wednesday, medical experts told the court the teenager experienced hallucinations and delusions. He had been under neurological care since 2023 and was taking a combination of prescribed medications at the time of the killing, which he said he had been provided to him by a doctor while he was in Turkey.
During proceedings, the defendant described a background of bullying, self-doubt, and social withdrawal, telling the court, “I was often in a bad mood.” He also cited a fear of sirens and crowds and said he struggled with a lack of direction in life.
During the trial, Bild reported on the testimony of Dr. Roland Gib, a psychiatric expert, who gave evidence from his assessment of Ahmet G. in which he said the defendant had “wanted to prove that he is a man” by robbing the gas station, but was soon “overcome with great fear of being shot by the police, like in the USA.” So, instead, he shot at the police officers seeking to arrest him.
Prosecutors had insisted that the killing amounted to murder driven by extreme violence and sought a 13-year sentence under juvenile law, but the court rejected their argument in light of the psychiatric evidence.
The victim’s widow, Selina Bohr, attended the trial as a co-plaintiff and sat opposite the man who killed her husband. She later left her seat before the psychiatric report was presented, but remained in the public gallery.
Under the ruling, the teenager will not serve a prison sentence but will instead be detained in a high-security psychiatric institution.
After today’s verdict, Rainer Wendt, federal chairman of the German Police Union (DPolG), released a statement criticising the decision to acquit on the murder charge.
“I am speechless at such a verdict, and my thoughts are with the bereaved family of our colleague. They will feel abandoned by the justice system, and I can well understand that. To commit the robbery while fully conscious, and then to ruthlessly shoot his way out and kill someone, and then suddenly claim mental illness – that, in turn, is incomprehensible,” he said.
Piazza Duca d’Aosta, in front of Milan’s central station, crowded with people at the end of the protest, just minutes before the riots began. Wikimedia Commons, Paluello17, CC-BY-SA-4.0
Young radicals accused of attacking dozens of Milan police officers during an anti-Israel demonstration in September will avoid punishment after a judge ruled it may interfere with their studies.
Upwards of 60 police officers were injured in the Italian city during clashes with far-left Antifa and pro-Palestine activists at the September 22 protest against the Gaza war.
The local Corriere della Sera newspaper reported at the time that the militants attacked officers with stones, glass bottles, dug up cobblestones, trash cans and bicycles.
The protesters also did significant damage to public property, including Milan’s Central, Porta Garibaldi, and Rogoredo train stations.
However, despite the seriousness of the charges against the eight agitators accused of involvement in the mayhem, Milan Judge Giulia D’Antoni ruled this week that none of the defendants should face jail time, or even be ordered to remain under house arrest, as requested by prosecutor Francesca Crupi, Il Temporeports.
Judge D’Antoni said that she made the decision “taking into account the young age of the suspects” — all of whom were between the ages of 20 and 30-years-old.
She further said that house arrest would be an “excessive” punishment, given that it would prevent the defendants from pursuing their “training and study paths”.
Indegne le immagini che arrivano da Milano: sedicenti “pro-pal”, sedicenti “antifa”, sedicenti “pacifisti” che devastano la stazione e generano scontri con le Forze dell’Ordine.
Violenze e distruzioni che nulla hanno a che vedere con la solidarietà e che non cambieranno di una… pic.twitter.com/dpurnN5CBM
The judge went on to say that “despite the gravity of the facts having emerged and been underlined”, the actions on the day of the protest should not define their persons, arguing that it was not the “habit” of the protesters to commit violence, but that they merely were swept up in the heat of the moment.
“The excitement of the moment, the enthralling tumult of the crowd, the pursuit of a deeply felt motivation” would have “led them to consider even violent reactions justifiable” against the police, the judge wrote in her decision.
Judge D’Antoni said that the eight suspects had “exceeded the limits for the protection of public order and safety” as they engaged in an “expression of violence and rebellion” to fulfil their “desire to affirm ideals”.
The decision not to impose jailtime or house arrest came despite the judge admitting that the defendants were likely to re-offend, given that they often take part in protests involving “geopolitical issues” such as “the Palestinian cause”.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni previously condemned those involved in the Milan unrest, denouncing the “self-proclaimed ‘pro-Pal’ individuals, self-proclaimed ‘Antifa’ members, self-proclaimed ‘pacifists’ who wreak havoc on the train station and provoke clashes with law enforcement.”
“Violence and destruction that have nothing to do with solidarity and that will not change a single thing in the lives of people in Gaza, but will have concrete consequences for Italian citizens, who will end up suffering and paying for the damages caused by these thugs.”
Milan Madness: Over 60 Police Officers Injured as Antifa and Anti-Israel Protestors Riot in Italyhttps://t.co/i0i2oLU1dD
A Dutch professional volleyball player, who is also an LGBT activist, has been accused of sexually abusing boys.
According to the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad (AD), the suspect is believed to be 35-year-old Ramon Martinez Gion, who is famous for being the first openly homosexual volleyball professional in the Netherlands.
The Dynamo Apeldoorn player, who also played for the Dutch national team last summer, has reportedly been in custody since December 9. According to the Dutch Public Prosecution Service (OM), Martinez is accused of abusing a 10-year-old boy in Hoogkerk, Groningen, in 2024. The OM also believes that he approached hundreds of boys online with sexually explicit messages between 2019 and 2024 as well as physically approached a nine-year-old boy in Kollum, Friesland, with sexual messages. The suspect is also said to possess a large collection of child pornography that he solicited from minors.
The case was brought to the Dutch judiciary due to a report from one of the alleged victims’ parents. The Public Prosecution Service referred to it as a “mega case,” with new victims of “sex chatting” still being found.
According to Dagblad van het Noorden, the OM has not yet identified all victims but is currently looking at about 150 conversations with minors in which photos were shared.
“The research is in its early stages. In total, about 500 individual, possibly criminal, online conversations with minors have now been found,” a public prosecution officer told the newspaper.
The official said that the professional athlete frequently sent messages to boys age 8 to 17, including attempts to persuade them to engage in sexual acts.
The public prosecutor explained that there is no capacity to assess all of the conversations given how many there are.
“First of all, we select those conversations in which images are shared by the minor, images that are child pornographic in nature. Those are conversations with about 150 minors,” he stated.
According to AD, the suspect’s lawyer declined to respond to the questions due to the “state of the investigation.” The Dutch volleyball association also declined to comment on the abuse case.
Martinez has played for several clubs across Europe, including in Germany, Belgium, Turkey, France, and Greece as well as the Netherlands.
Zero political outrage, zero clerical mobilization, and zero digital uproar for the Christians killed in Nigeria on Palm Sunday. Where are the fiery sermons, the hashtags, and the worldwide denunciations?
The Kotel, holiest place for Jews in Jerusalem, the closest point to what remains of the Temple, always crowded, day and night, has been empty for a month. Empty because of the war and Iranian missiles. But it seems that an antisemitic missile is not a missile, but a message of peace.
Thus, Israel closing the Church of Sepulchre to Cardinal Pizzaballa out of fear of Iranian attacks caused more noise and scandal than the Iranian missile that fell near the Sepulchre a few days earlier.
Antisemitism truly seems to be the socialism of fools (including Christian ones).
In the end, Prime Minister Netanyahu intervened to guarantee Pizzaballa safe passage to the Sepulchre for prayer and Mass. Case closed? Not so fast.
350,000 posts in 10 hours about the cardinal’s access to the Holy Sepulchre for security reasons, compared to 9,100 posts two weeks earlier, when a fragment of an Iranian missile had struck the same church.
This is called antisemitism, and we will pay dearly for it, as we all do every time. Because if left-wing and Islamic antisemitism have their own twisted “logic” (Jews as a symbol of the West and dhimmis to be erased), Christian antisemitism in 2026 is both pathological and masochistic.
Christians who today revel in antisemitism-whether from the nostalgic right or the third-worldist left-will discover too late that the Islamist enemy makes no fine theological distinctions. It wants to uproot Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and then come for Peter and Paul.
There is only one place in the Middle East where Christians are growing rather than declining: Israel. They are 185,000 out of 10 million, whereas in 1948 they were 34,000.
In Syria, out of 25 million? 300,000 remain. In Jordan, out of 12 million? 200,000. In Iraq, out of 48 million? 250,000. Algeria? Fewer than 100,000 out of 48 million. And we are talking about countries that were historically cradles of Christianity: the Syria of Paul, the Jordan where Jesus was baptized, the Iraq of the Chaldeans, the Algeria of Augustine.
Within a decade, Israel will have the largest Christian population in the Middle East.
Not a single Israeli church in nearly 80 years has been attacked, as regularly occurs in every surrounding country.
Israeli Christians sit in Parliament and serve as judges on the Supreme Court. In which other Islamic country are there Christians in the highest court?
Haifa is the most multicultural city in the Middle East. There are Jews, Christians, Sunnis and Shiites, Druze, Arameans, and Baha’i, the community originally from Iran that has its headquarters in Israel. The syncretic Baha’i minority, persecuted by Iranian ayatollahs, has found refuge in that small state-smaller than Tuscany-with its twenty thousand square kilometers, compared to the 13 million square kilometers of the surrounding Arab-Islamic countries. The splendor of the Baha’i temple in Haifa testifies to this.
The great Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal defined Israel as “the vector of a terrible contradiction: that of the uniqueness of Islam. Israel is like the Gallic village that resists in a land that prevents it from being Islamic from beginning to end. It goes beyond politics and religion. It is ontological.”
As the independent intellectual Michel Onfray put it: “Since, ten years ago, I began going to Israel, I have had the intimate conviction that those who have not been there reason only in the realm of ideas. My first awakening in Tel Aviv, with the call of the muezzin broadcast over loudspeakers, also heard in East Jerusalem, shows in practice that the two peoples already coexist in Israel. I am not aware that in Palestinian territories synagogues are open and safe.”
In the so called “Palestinian West Bank” and Gaza there is not a single open and safe synagogue. Not one in Bethlehem, Nablus, Jenin, or Ramallah. The only ones are in the Israeli part of Hevron, the city of David, Rachel’s tomb and the grave of the biblical patriarchs, but only thanks to a strong Israeli military presence.
By contrast, there are 400 mosques in Israel, all open and all safe, including 73 in Jerusalem.
Israel is not on the list of the 50 countries that persecute Christians.
In 1964, when Pope Paul VI arrived in Jerusalem for the first historic visit of a pontiff, the city was divided by barbed wire. Jordanian snipers were stationed on rooftops, landmines everywhere in the “no man’s land,” seven kilometers long. The only passage between the two parts of the city, Israeli and Jordanian, was Mandelbaum Gate, named after the couple Esther and Simcha Mandelbaum, owners of the house where the border passed.
There were neighborhoods, like Abu Tor, with houses that had one entrance in the Jordanian section and one in the Israeli section. But while Paul VI and his entourage could move freely through Jerusalem to pray in holy sites, Israelis and Jews could only look across the barbed wire at the walls of the Old City and dream of the Kotel.
When three other pontiffs (John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis) later visited Jerusalem, they found an Israeli city open to all three religions. A city where anyone can come to pray and honor their God-even many Wahhabi Muslims arriving from Saudi Arabia to visit the Mosque Esplanade.
The holy city has been conquered by Jebusites, Jews, Babylonians, Assyrians, Persians, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Crusaders, Mamluks, Ottomans, British, and Jordanians. But in thousands of years, Jerusalem was divided only for nineteen years, from 1948 to 1967-and it was a nightmare.
During the years under Jordanian rule, every vestige of Jewish presence in the Jordanian part of the city was erased. Jews were never allowed to visit their holy sites in the occupied part of the city, in violation of international law and armistice agreements. The ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives was systematically desecrated; ancient synagogues, such as the famous Hurva, and most buildings in the old Jewish quarter were deliberately destroyed.
For the first time in a thousand years, not a single Jew or synagogue remained in the Old City. It was a kind of ISIS before its time.
In 1947, Christians in Bethlehem-the birthplace of Jesus-made up 85 percent of the population; today they are less than 15 percent. In 2002 Palestinian Arab terrorists besieged the Church of the Nativity, held dozens of parishioners hostage, looted, and set fires.
When Barack Obama visited Bethlehem in 2013, even the ultra-liberal NBC reported on the “Islamization” of the city.
Only a fool, an ignoramus, or a useful idiot could suppose that the current wave of hatred against Israel and the West will stop with the Jews.
As Fabrice Hadjadj writes in Le Figaro:
“The ‘Al-Aqsa flood’ takes place in this alignment of stars, giving voice to a famous jihadist cry: ‘After Saturday comes Sunday,’ in other words: after the Jews, the Christians. The hour is decisive. It had to come. Israel could only end up producing a Dreyfus Affair on a global scale, in which everyone is called to take part. If the Hebrew Scriptures are our source, the Jewish state is our estuary. If Israel falls, Europe can only fall.”
That is why I despise an antisemitic Christian more than a progressive or Quranic antisemite.
Also because, as it is said in “Submission” by Houellebecq, “there is no Israel for us”.
