Despite
my disdain for the government, I continue to feel great love for my Italian
friends, and for Italy herself, which, like all states that observe the rule of
law, is like a second homeland for me. Nowhere do I hear talk of
anti-Italianism; nowhere do I hear it said that Italy must be wiped off the map.
So, when it comes to
Israel, obviously, one can criticize the policy of the Israeli government, but
one also hears talk of wiping Israel off the map. This reflects a bias that
shows how unwise we were to have put up so long with the term anti-Zionism,
which was clearly a form of anti-Semitism, just as anti-Italianism would be a
form of racism. I now believe that, all doubt having been removed, anti-Zionism
is modern jargon that stands in for anti-Semitism.
The state of Israel is
threatened on its borders; it is menaced by most terrorist organisations. It
has a duty to protect its citizens. That cannot be forgotten. And now I would
like to say that there are two types of votes to condemn Israel within the UN
organization: there are votes by dictatorships and votes by states governed by
the rule of law.
What do the votes and
condemnations of the dictatorships reveal? These dictatorships, which are
unable to run their own countries properly, which prefer corruption and
personal enrichment over progress for their people, over building hospitals,
over working for the public good, enrich themselves.
To be able to continue
to exert their dictatorship, they rely on tricks that are as old as humanity:
they find a common enemy that they can all hate, and Israel fills the bill.
Israel is appointed to serve as an alibi, to create cohesion among the
dictatorships, as well as popular cohesion, cohesion among people who have been
duped and robbed by their leaders.
And I would like to say
one thing very quickly, which is that as long as hatred for Israel is exploited
by the leaders of these countries, Muslim countries will enjoy neither
progress, justice, prosperity, or freedom. Anti-Semitism is the trap in which
their dictators confine them. That’s what is revealed by the votes from the
dictatorships.
Now, what is revealed
when democracies condemn Israel at the UN? Most of the condemnations come from
countries with large numbers of citizens of Muslim origin. And the politicians
and shapers of opinion, acting out of demagogy and electoral calculation, are
seeking to capture the votes of these Muslim-origin populations, whom they
assume hate Israel.
They are unconcerned
about the fairness of their condemnations of Israel, and even less so about
living up to the ethical foundations of the United Nations. Such condemnations
are political acts taken for domestic consumption—demagogy pure and simple.
The combination of these
two betrayals—dictatorships betraying their people and democratic politicians
betraying their voters—the confluence of these two betrayals has consequences
that are very serious indeed. Simply put, the two types of condemnation are a
catalyst for anti-Semitism.
The UN, set up after
World War II to preserve peace among nations, is in the process of reigniting
one of the major pieces of propaganda that triggered that tragic war—namely,
anti-Semitism.
The struggle against
anti-Semitism is a question of life or death for all states ruled by laws. That
is why we will fight to end; that is why we will never surrender; and that is
why we will prevail.
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