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ZOA President
Klein addresses Knesset about the importance of language in fighting BDS
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Transcript of
ZOA President Morton Klein addressing Knesset:
First of all, I want to say many things
have been said about Mike Huckabee. I want to say that I'm honored to be his
friend and I would argue that Mike Huckabee is the greatest friend of Israel
of any of the major political figures of America and I'll go further and say
if Mike Huckabee was a member of the Knesset, he'd be the Knesset's greatest
friend in Israel.
I hear this nonsense about, "Well, I
have nothing against Jews, it's just the Jewish state that I have something
against." What I would like to say, could I ever possibly say, "I
have nothing against the Italians, but I think that Italy should be
destroyed." Do you think, maybe, I have hostility toward Italians
because I'm calling for Italy to be destroyed? Well, of course, I do. This is
the type of rubbish that we need to endure.
I want to say a couple of quick things.
First of all, words matter [inaudible 00:01:23] of delegitimization. We
should be using the right words, the accurate words, that tell the truth as
opposed to the words that the media and our enemies want us to use. We should
not say "Arab/Israeli conflict". There is none. The Jews would have
peace with the Arabs in a minute simply [inaudible 00:01:41]. We should say
the Arab war against Israel because that is what it is. And, please, stop
using the word "peace process", "negotiating process"
maybe. We know this isn't leading the peace. Don't give it that legitimacy by
using that term.
We shouldn't say "We don't have a
partner." That gives some legitimacy, that he's just a partner and not a
[inaudible 00:02:09]. We should say that Abbas is an enemy who doesn't want
peace. We're dealing with an enemy, not someone who isn't a partner. He's a
man who supported the kidnapping of Shalit. He named schools and streets and
sports teams after Jew-killing terrorists. He doesn't outlaw terrorist
groups. He has parades glorifying terrorists. He's a holocaust denier, a
terrorist praiser. This is a horrible man. This is not some man in a suit who's
a decent moderate at all. We have to demonize this holocaust denying hater of
Israel and Jews, Mahmoud Abbas.
And please, please for God's sake, stop
using the term "two-state solution". Israel is already a state. By
using that term, it's as if east side is getting something. You want to say
the "fraud Palestinian state solution", at least you're not acting
as if Israel is not a state yet and we know, of course, a Palestinian state
is not a solution because every time the Arabs have been offered a state
requiring them to support Israel, they've said "No" forever. In
1937, the Peel Commission, they offered the Arabs a state on 95% the rest of
Palestine, they said "No". In 1981, they offered the Palestinians a
state, essentially half or the rest of Palestine, they said "No"
and invaded Israel. In 2000, Ehud Barak, and in 2008, Ehud Olmert offered
them states on virtually all of the disputed territories and half of
Jerusalem and they said "No". Between '48 to '67, when the Arabs
controlled Judea and Sumeria, they controlled Gaza and half of Jerusalem, did
they establish a state? No, because their goal is not statehood. Let's stop
this myth saying that what they need is a state. That is not what they want.
That's not what their desire is. So, let's stop using Palestinian state
solution or two-state solution when, in fact, this is simply an Arab war to
destroy Israel and nothing will work until they realize that it's hopeless to
try and destroy the state and that time hasn't come yet.
Also, stop using the word "West
Bank". Menachem Begin came to America. He came to America. He begged the
Jewish leaders to stop using the work "West Bank". That was a term
made up by the Arabs to de-Judeaize the area of Yehuda VeShomron and we
should be using "Judea Sumeria. Never use the term "West
Bank". Never use the term "settlements", for God's sake. These
are Jewish communities in Yehuda VeShomron. They are not settlements, which
makes it look like there are a bunch of tents all on top of a hill somewhere.
And let's call it racism. When people are saying that the 350,000 Jews in
Judea Sumeria should not be allowed to live there, why on earth can't 350,000
Jews live among the million Arabs, when 1.5 million Arabs live among 6
million Jews in Israel. Anyone that says Jews can't live there, it's racism
and anti-Semitism, and we should call it that.
And stop saying that Jerusalem is holy to
Muslims. That is a propaganda lie. The word Jerusalem doesn't appear in the
Koran ever. It appears 700 times in our Jewish holy books. No Arab leader
visited eastern Jerusalem when they controlled it from '48 to '67. They
allowed it to remain a slum. It's not in the [inaudible 00:05:18] Charter.
Let's stop acting as if they have some right to Jerusalem. They have no
religious, historic, or political right to Jerusalem and stop acting like we
have to make a deal about Jerusalem. I'm sick and tired of their lies about
Jerusalem.
You know, when I gave a speech about this
at a major synagogue in LA, the Rabbi became very angry and said "The
Arabs will decide what's holy for them, not you, Mort Klein." And I
said, "Well, suppose, tomorrow," to this Rabbi, "they decide
LA is holy to them. We have to give them half of LA?" If there's no
basis, if there's no basis for their arguments, they have no right to make
their arguments.
And, please, let's stop helping BBS by
using the word occupation. For God sakes, there is no occupation. Israel has
given away almost half of Judea Sumeria. That's where 99% of the Arabs live.
They are running their own lives there, except for security. If they weren't
constantly developing terror cells to murder Jews, Israelis wouldn't even
half to be in Judea Sumeria and the areas that Israel has given away. And
let's make it clear to the world that only of all the Jewish communities in
Judea Sumeria, they comprise only 3% of Judea Sumeria, 3%. The images, they
are all over the place. I wish it were true, but it's not true and we should
make that clear. There hasn't been a single new Jewish community built since
Oslo began in 1993. Not a single one. There has been Jewish homes built
within the boundaries of the legal, existing communities and Israel captured
this land in a defensive war in 1967. Jordan, illegally, occupied this from
'48 to '67. The UN never recognized it and King Hussein, himself, in 1988,
probably relinquished all claims to Judea Sumeria. This is unallocated,
international land. Of course, there is no occupation. The Jews have a
greater legal, political, historic and religious claim to this than any Arab
or Muslim ever did. And, by the way, polls, recent polls, show that
Americans, not Jews, Americans support the right of Jews to live in Judea
Sumeria by 3 to 1. So, we have the support of the American people on this
issue.
What I'm saying are all facts. This is
not editorializing. Let me just end by saying we should condemn, with all of
our hearts and souls, this new alliance by Hamas and Fatah, which is an
alliance with a Nazi group, whose Charter in Article 7 calls for the murder
of every single Jew and what America, the European Union and the world has
done is nothing short of diplomatic Kristallnacht. It is a diplomatic
Kristallnacht. Not only have they not criticized it, they have embraced this
alliance. They said they will negotiate with this alliance and they said they
will fund this alliance. So, let's use the right term for this. It is nothing
less than diplomatic Kistallnacht. I've had Democrats calling me and Obama
supporters screaming at me for using this term, but it's the right term. It
not Kristallnacht in that that Jews are being killed directly, but it's a
diplomatic Kristallnacht.
And let me, finally, end and say, and I
will end, we should make it clear that this is called the Promised Land and
we should ask everyone, "Who promised this land and to whom did he
promise it?" God promised this land to the Jews and God does not break
his promises.
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