In a major conservative political shift for the Netherlands, a coalition of right-wing parties will form a government that will transform Dutch positioning for the better, with how Europe and the Middle East are dealt with going forward. This is a monumental achievement that provides optimism and hope for Dutch nationalist interests going forward, now that Geert Wilders has agreed the basis of his first right-wing coalition government. As leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV), he achieved a shock win of a quarter of parliamentary seats six months ago culminating in this coalition being finalised over the past week.
The Guardian Newspaper reported that “the coalition partners of Wilders’ Party for Freedom are the center-right People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy of caretaker prime minister Mark Rutte; the New Social Contract center-right party and the Farmer–Citizen Movement, a conservative party that was born out of protest against climate-relate policies.”
Predictably, the mainstream media are portraying Wilders as a volatile and unpredictable leader who will push the Netherlands into the dark wilderness of isolationism. However, his supporters would argue that Wilders will preserve Dutch identity and national pride and put their country’s interests before anything else, including the collectivist, socialist-type initiatives of the European Union (EU).
Wilders has also been making a point of weighing in on the Israel-Hamas conflict with great passion, as evidenced by his tweet:
However, the rapid political rise of Wilders in recent times is predominantly due to a number of domestic factors. On a policy positioning level, this equates to taking a strong stance against the permeation of Islamic faith and culture through traditional Dutch society, implementing more stringent entry measures for asylum, and taking action to reverse the trend of asylum seekers getting more state support than Dutch people who’ve fallen on hard times.
Access to affordable and reasonable housing is another major concern which Wilders has capitalised on politically. According to Politico, “despite being one of the EU’s wealthiest countries, the Netherlands’ shortage of affordable housing has become a key concern. Amid rising prices, many have an increasingly cynical outlook on life.” This has resulted in a shift of mindset towards political leaders who unashamdely represent the best interests of the Dutch people – at all costs.
“There are so many people who live on the streets,” said a recent Dutch voter. “The Netherlands is simply full. We have housing needs, we have needs for everything, but we’re letting them in, and asylum seekers get their turn [for support] before the people who live here,” she argued. When Wilders says this, she stated, “he isn’t racist, he’s simply right.”
In the current world of woke, left-wing political correctness, Wilders is a polarising figure in international politics, given his outspoken stance on these hotly debated domestic social issues. However, when considering his policies and ideals through a Jewish lense, one can not help but be excited and optimistic about his support for not only the Jewish people but the State of Israel as well.
A vocal supporter of Israel, Wilders lived in Israel for two years during his youth and has visited the country more than 40 times. After he graduated from secondary school, he spent a year as a volunteer at Moshav Tomer in the Jordan Valley. He views the recent spate of university violence, and the rise in antisemitic incidents in the Netherlands triggered by Israel’s war with Hamas, as the result of a failed domestic immigration policy and far-left indoctrination.
Here are some current examples of specific policy shifts in Wilders’ draft coalition agreement, and supporting comments, to prove my point:
- Referred to as the “Jerusalem Clause”, Wilders will prioritise moving the Dutch Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, thus providing recognition of this being the eternal Jewish capital. Wilders is on record saying that he will consider “the appropriate time in which the move of the embassy to Jerusalem can occur.”
- Reinforcing the validity of Jerusalem’s place at the core of Judaism, Wilders said “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.”
- Wilders will amend the integration examination for asylum seekers to ensure that the Holocaust is a topic for assessment, which anyone seeking Dutch citizenship needs to pass. This will prioritise Holocaust awareness and education to drive pro-Jewish sentiment throughout the Netherlands.
- In March this year, Wilders met with Israeli President Herzog when he visited the Netherlands, and pledged his full support to Israel in fighting terrorism. “I told him I am proud that he visits the Netherlands and that Israel has, and always will have, my full support in its fight against terror” Wilders said.
- When Dutch Police arrested 18 anti-Israel activists who staged a sit-in in the lobby of the Dutch parliament in The Hague in March this year, Wilders pulled no punches in response during a debate following the incidents, by stating that “I’ve been working here, in this parliament, for about 25 years, and what I have heard and seen today, (not only) here in this room, but certainly also downstairs in the building, is pure hatred of Jews. It’s hatred of Israel. It’s antisemitism.” In his typically outspoken style, Wilders described the protesters as “leftist antisemitic scum” in a tweet.
Regardless of your political ideology and inclination, it would be hard for you to argue that Geert Wilders is anything but a staunch ally of the Jewish people and the State of Israel. Placing Dutch support for Israel at the forefront of his political legacy, the proof is in the pudding. Wilders has provided nothing but consistent, unwavering support and advocacy for pro-Jewish interests throughout his life. Wilders is putting his money where his mouth is by instigating the movement of the Dutch Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. We will see this happening in the coming months. This will go some way to stemming the tide of anti-Israel fervour spreading across Europe and long may it continue under Wilders’ guidance.
The Jewish people need all the allies they can get right now. I, for one, will be watching with interest, excitement and optimism at what a Wilders-led Dutch Coalition Government can achieve on both a domestic and international level. This is a sensible step forward for the Netherlands and an exciting pathway for stronger European-Israeli geopolotical relations.
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“Predictably, the mainstream media are portraying Wilders as a volatile and unpredictable leader, who will push the Netherlands into the dark wilderness of isolationism.” ~~~ This is almost exactly what was said of him, in the Leftie international media, when he first came to prominence in Europe – before his recent and to some astonishing, comeback. Except they used to say “volatile and dangerous.” 🙂 ~~~ In the past few years, there have been increasing articles being written & published on the topic of “Shall Dutch Society be Preserved?” This has been due to the Muslim penetration-factor in Western Europe, which has burgeoned in Sweden and also in Belgium/Nederlands.
Wilders pulled no punches in response during a debate following the incidents, by stating that “I’ve been working here, in this parliament, for about 25 years and what I have heard and seen today, not only here in this room but certainly also downstairs in the building, is pure hatred of Jews. It’s hatred of Israel. It’s anti-semitism.” ” ~~~ It is great that he ‘can tell it like it is’ in Holland, without being stomped on like an ant by a country-wide Leftist jackboot. Plenty of international Leftist buns are going to be pelted at the Netherlands government, when they move their embassy to Yeru, as the Americans did. Think of how long it took for the dust to settle, when the USA did the latter!
Wilders: “Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria are all Israel.” ~~~ “The homeland of the Palestinian people, is the kingdom of Jordan.”
I’ve always found the assertion that Jerusalem is not a Jewish city, very strange. A French uncle of mine, always said you just had to go to the Temple Mount and not be blind, to see who was there first. When Arabic speaking members of my family were in Yeru from 1870 until 1948, they never encountered an Arab who was not proudly indigenous to ha Hijaz, the Arabian Peninsula. They would say “we drifted over into Jordan, which in reality is just Western Saudi, then my grandparents came over to Ramallah and Nablus in search of better grazing for their sheep and goats because so much of Jordan is desert and waterless.” The Jordanian Arabs of Judea Samaria didn’t like the wadis, or the steep little valleys [they would only graze the top of the valleys] and overall, given how arid and rocky JSam is, would have preferred the irrigation of the Tigris Euphrates in Babylonia, which is doubtless why so many of our ancestors were happy to stay in Babylonia.
It is pretty obvious why Arafat back in 1974, said that there had never been a Jewish temple in Yeru, something which our grandparents and gr grandparents’ generations all through the Western world, would have found utterly ridiculous. Non Jewish Westerners of those eras, were far closer to the Old Testament/Tanach. It would have been hard work to convince them that Dovid’s kingdom of Judea never existed, that Solomon never lived + that the Samarian Kingdom of Israel erased by the Assyrians in the 700s BC, had never existed.
While the Arabs may not have been strictly speaking, indigenous to Jordan, they were from what is now Saudi, right next door.
The whole tragedy and catastrophe of the Jordanian Arabs up on Judea Samaria, right now, is that when Israel was formed in 1948 and 400,000 were dislocated, they needed to get back into Jordan which their ancestors had moved through. Some were persuaded by the Arab worthies, to hang about, “for when the Arab armies had crushed this new country Israel, they would have a Judenfrei country and the dislocated Jordanian Arabs of 1948 as much land as they wanted.” An ancestor of mine watched this – he was a French surgeon. Jordan took some of these refugees in but 400,000 didn’t make it and were told if they entered Jordan they would be gaoled or executed and so wound up stuck where they now are. Perhaps it can be argued that once the British had formed the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan for the Husseins, post WW1 [who had been kicked out of Mecca], Jordan ceased to be a homeland for the Jordanian Arabs of Judea Samaria?
So many in the international protest movement, romanticise Ottoman Palestine and Jordan as “Arab and civilised territories.” In truth they were very neglected southern outposts of the Ottoman empire, containing Jews, some diminishing Christians and some Arabs. They were under the Ottomans for 400 years, not 40. Once the Ottomans lost WW1, they handed them to the League of Nations, who handed them to Britain to rule under mandate and to a degree, manage as they pleased. The Jordanian-Arabs up on Judea Samaria are there because they have nowhere else to go and tragically, have been trapped by history which cannot be rolled back. Their current 3 million is partly due to Islamic precepts, re. birth control.
My family’s understanding always was that some Arabs came over into Judea, when the Prophet conquered Jerusalem in the 600s AD. It took another 60 years for the city to be declared holy to Islam. Then in the 1700s AD, more came over because travelling had become a bit safer. This does not sit with our current protestors’ claims, vis-a-vis the Contested Territories of Judea/Samaria, that “the Arabs have been in Judea Samaria for thousands of years.”
Rahman “Yasir” Arafat, in 1955: “We are a people without a country and so we face an uncertain future.”
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