That’s at least what Benjamin Netanyahu believes and what Benjamin Netanyahu openly said in one of his recent addresses. He meant every word he said, for the Israeli Prime Minister also equated Hamas with Nazis. His precise words were: “For these neo-Nazis ‘Free Palestine’ is just today’s version of ‘Heil Hitler!’ They don’t want a Palestinian state – they want to destroy the Jewish state, they want to annihilate the Jewish people.”

Why so harsh words? Why equating Hamas with the NSDAP? Israel’s prime minister as well as Israel’s authorities must have been living in distress for the last several months watching the anti-Israeli resentment unfold across the Western world. American students, Western governments, the Western press have become anti-Israeli – an unthinkable phenomenon heretofore. Tel Aviv could always rely on the support of the Western world in Israel’s conflicts with the Arab world and all of a sudden such a bitter surprise. The American Christian Zionists were (and these continue to be) pro-Israeli; the intellectuals (many of them of Jewish extraction) were pro-Israeli; the common people were pro-Israeli as they were imbued with the compassion for the Jews because of the latter’s suffering during World War Two. The very few who did not dare to comply with the pro-Israeli trend were swiftly and effectively silenced with accusations of anti-Semitism and the resultant consequences like social ostracism. Something, however, has changed. Neither the intellectuals nor even the governments are unconditionally supporting Israel’s policies.

Since the Western world’s historical awareness has been raised on the holocaust narrative, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saw it fit to resort to the same narrative also this time. It has worked for so many years, it ought to work also now. But will it?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may have also been tempted to draw the comparison between Hamas and the NSDAP as he – along with other Israeli politicians and journalists – has learnt that it was the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Israel’s government that began to be accused of making use of methods of pacification of Palestinians that Germans applied against Jews during World War Two. That must have come as a kind of shock: the tables of historical interpretation have been turned on the State of Israel. The historical narrative so skillfully used as a very effective tool of blaming and shaming Western nations and thus eliciting from them the readiness to approve every item of the policy of the State of Israel has lost its spell. A psychological backlash to Tel Aviv.

Though in the same speech Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu enumerated the heinous atrocities that Hamas fighters committed – like beheading men, raping women and burning babies alive – it all seems to have fallen on deaf ears in the West, even though it is not the first time that Israel’s prime minister showcases to the world the many crimes perpetrated by Hamas. Or maybe precisely because of it.

The international political mood seems to have changed in favour of Palestinians. No amount of evidence revealing the atrocities perpetrated by Hamas appears to carry weight. Maybe because in war no side to the conflict is to be trusted: each side is innocent in its own eyes while the opponent is guilty of everything. Maybe because the evidence of journalistic footage exonerated Hamas and incriminated IDF. Maybe because the Israelis have eventually overplayed their hand with the ceaseless narrative of them being always innocent of the conflicts occurring in the Middle East.

Equating “Free Palestine” with “Heil Hitler” is this kind of hyperbole that produces an effect that is other than the desired one. People have grown tired of the Hitler-epithet. Whoever is disliked by the media or the authorities or the powers that be, the Hitler-epithet or the Hitler-argument is a default epithet or default argument. If you want to win a debate, use the Hitler-card before your interlocutor or opponent rolls it out. If you want to make people hate a leader, necessarily equate him with Hitler. (Russia’s president comes to mind immediately, doesn’t he?) This tactic worked for a long time, but now it seems to have lost its forcefulness. You can play the same trick only so many times.

The end of history announced in 1992 by Francis Fukuyama did not last long: say, between 1992 and 2022. The end of history was understood as the global victory of liberalism and capitalism and the preponderance of the United States of America. Indeed, during the first half of the said period it looked like the world was moving in this particular direction, with all the players submitting themselves to the scenario. China was not yet recognized as a threat to the Western world, while a weakened Russia under Yeltsin and during the first years under Putin seemed a dead man walking. Yes, Russia, the heir to the once feared Soviet Union, did all she could to fit in with the Western world and become a partner among partners. Alas, the countries that emerged as victors from the Cold War – especially the United States – decided to make a big killing and do away with Russia altogether. Fate had it that Russia was blessed with a strong patriotic leader who – at first by no means anit-Western – challenged the new world order in which his country was to be kept in subjection (the 2007 Munich speech). The Western leaders kind of woke up to the possibility of the rebirth of a strong Russia and so they began carrying out their favourite operations inside Russia (Navalny, the Yabloko Party)and close to its borders (political upheaval in the Caucasus, in Belarus and Ukraine). Slowly, when push came to shove, Moscow decided that enough was enough and launched a pre-emptive military campaign in Ukraine (historically known as Little Russia). The world was shattered and new political and economic alliances emerged.

Though the liberals of all shades and hues kept Europe and the United States under their control and were in the process of transforming traditional societies into futuristic unisex – unsexed – transsex – you name it – nationless, raceless, classless, sexless and faithless homogeneous communities bragging about their – yes! – diversity and inclusion and equity, strong resistance began to grow at the grass roots and also among some of the self-styled elites. People decided that enough was enough and began to give more and more support to parties that were aligned with the wishes and dreams of common men and women. Such parties were of course denounced by the managers of the Western world as far-right, which in their parlance is supposed to be a strong political slur marking the opponents as pariahs. This must have added fuel to the fire: common people who unlike their elites did not lose most of their common sense responded by voting for “right-wing” parties with an ever greater desire. The managers of the Western world felt compelled to resort to cancelling or invalidating some of the elections in particular countries or fining and imprisoning political leaders who enjoyed popular support. Ideas were raised to delegalize a couple of parties, like the German AfD. Well, you can make a party illegal and you can even throw into a dungeon top “far-right” politicians, but what are you going to do with the tens of millions of the supporters of those parties? Are you going to imprison them all? to send them to… concentration camps? to delegalize them all?

To make things worse for the liberals, a backlash occurred in the United States: Donald Trump was elected president, and he immediately made null and void many of his predecessors decisions. Among them was his revolutionary assignment of only two sexes to people under his presidency! What a reverse!

It appears that history has no intention of coming to an end, as Francis Fukuyama predicted. History is history precisely because it continues to turn the future into the present, and the present into the past, layer after layer after another layer, with each layer remaining distinctive just as growth rings in a tree trunk, each telling its own story.

 

President Donald Trump – as is known – has imposed tariffs on European and south-east Asian countries. What is peculiar about those tariffs is the fact that the United States has imposed different levels of tariffs on particular EU countries. That’s something. If there were one approach in this respect to the European Union, this uniform approach would strengthen the Union, its entirety or its – to use the fashionable word – integrity. Now since the tariffs differ from member-state to member-state, the unity is being weakened. Brussels will either have to accept this American policy as is or the EU government (known as Commission so that the gullible continue to think that there is no superstate) will have to counteract it. How? The EU government will need to implement and impose tariff agreements between particular member-states so as to distribute the tariff burden equally or at least more or less equally. Whatever policy will be adopted, the pretentious grandeur of the European Union will have received a dent. The famed tariff-free transfer of goods and services is about to be shattered.

That’s how pretentious declarations usually end. Man has always been tempted to shape future and please himself with the thought of being capable of arranging life for himself as he sees fit. In this effort man has always been unsuccessful. Why? Because vivimus non ut volumus, sed ut possumus – We live, not as we want, but as we can. The European elites have been wanting to shape life to suit their ideals that were born in their heads or the heads of the philosophers and magicians of the word who conjure up social and psychological constructs and are somehow miraculously regarded as social scientists. Reality, however, obstinately refuses to comply with human wishes. Europe is in decline and this decline is being denied. Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron behave like they were leaders of imperial Britain and imperial France. The fact is that today’s France is not the France of Louis XIV or Napoleon I; nor is today’s Britain the Britain of Queen Elizabeth I or Queen Victoria.

In the 19th century the United Kingdom and France had colonies around the globe; today they themselves are being colonized by the people from around the globe. In the 19th century the French and the British believed in their civilizational mission; today neither the French nor the British believe they have anything to offer to the world. Rather, they believe they ought to apologize to the once suppressed and exploited peoples and they ought to adore and worship men and women of different skin colour. In the 19th century England and France would bring culture and education to Africa and Asia; today the two nations obliterate and cancel their own historical and cultural heritage, playing down its importance and re-interpreting or de-constructing it.

Europe is becoming an unimportant corner of the world: Europe’s industry is dying, Europe’s culture is deteriorating, Europe’s political leverage is becoming irrelevant, Europe’s military proves to be weak and ineffective. The Old Continent’s industry is dying because the European elites have turned into worshippers of the Mother Earth and they themselves have deliberately destroyed the industrial potential of their own countries. Europe’s culture is deteriorating because its artists have given in to ugliness and repulsiveness, to cultural experimentation and cultural nihilism. Europe’s politicians – saturated with ambitious and inept women selected to the high posts on the basis of women empowerment quotas – have stopped playing any considerable role in world affairs. Significantly, talks over Ukraine are conducted between the United States and the Russian Federation, bypassing London, Paris and Berlin. Europe’s military is a joke: weak industry translates into little armament, while armies saturated with effeminate males, rainbow recruits, and women “soldiers” are armies in name only. Yet, industry, which is the basis for the military, is frowned upon by the advocates of green economy. The result? Some of our readers will have known that Poland, a NATO member, has bought hundreds of tanks from… Korea. Whether the decision was dictated by the fact that no European country can produce sufficient numbers of tanks anymore or by the fact that German tanks have proved to be mostly useless in Ukraine is also an interesting question.

All this havoc was wrought by ideology – pernicious ideology – that has been born in the minds of leftist intellectuals and has been reigning supreme for a few decades now and is about to reign further on in the foreseeable future. The pernicious ideology of equality and uniformity, a mutiny against reality, a satanic non serviam: I will not serve. I will not obey even the laws of nature! I’ve been born a man, but I want to be a woman, and I will! I’ve been born a woman, but I want to be a man, and I will! Nonsensical, detrimental, childish, downright foolish.

All of which is compounded by the ideology of struggle or – better put – setting one social group against another, playing off one political system against another. In the 19th century it used to be the workers and the peasants against the “owners of the means of production” and the landlords; now it is women against men, blacks against whites, homosexuals against heterosexuals, political left against political right, democracy against autocracy – you name it. It is a never-ending story. There must always be fascists and antifa, far-right and far-left, climate-change deniers and climate-change advocates, those who doubt the notorious pandemics and those who exaggerate its dangers, anti-Putin and pro-Zelensky, racists and anti-racists, misogynists or supporters of patriarchy and feminists, followers of the CNN and BBC on the one hand and followers of conspiracy theories on the other, adorers of Palestinians or adorers of Israel – the list is really endless.

Individuals identifying with one group or another hurl at their opponents labels without noticing that the labels are most of the time misleading. Why, Communist China is developing a capitalist model of economy, while the European Union, which never ceases to talk about human rights and liberties, is censoring free speech and meting out penalties to those who dare drop a word of dissent on social media or to those who dare pray in the vicinity of an abortion clinic.

The Western world is divided within itself, the Western world is denying its own identity at the ideological level (as described above) and virtually by means of saturating its populations with arrivals from non-western countries, by means of assigning individuals of non-European descent to the highest positions and by means of casting non-whites in historical typically European roles in the movies.

There are three hallmarks of the European Union: ① ethnic replacement, ② rainbow sexuality, and ③ green economy. Nominally Christian Europe is ① anti-Christian (though not anti-Muslim!), ② anti-Russian, and ③ anti political right (which is always viciously and misleadingly referred to as far-right). Europe’s identity is thus dying because it is not going to remain either Christian or white. Europe’s influence in the world is dying as well: rather than developing its industry, its is turning itself into a tourist resort. In the near future affluent visitors from China and India will spend their holidays by touring Italy and Spain, France and the United Kingdom, and admire the remnants of their past glory: castles and palaces, churches and cathedrals, old towns and 19th century factories turned into shopping malls or residential apartments. China and India will have their political and economic outposts in Europe while Europeans will look up to the Chinese and Indians the way their predecessors from the 19th and 20th centuries were looked up to by the Chinese and the Indians. What a reversal of roles! What a reversal of fortune!

It was fashionable among the 19th century gentry and aristocracy from the United Kingdom and France, from Russia and the German states to go south and visit the ruins of the Roman Empire in Italy and the ancient architectural remnants in Greece. The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece – wrote George Gordon Byron inspired by the sights of the glorious past of the Athenians and Spartans – where burning Sappho loved and sung, where grew the arts of war and peace, where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, but all, except their sun, is set.

Ancient Greece used to be full of entrepreneurial, military, cultural and economic stamina. It was not the biggest political entity or rather a cluster of entities, but it was proud and prosperous, and it expanded, colonizing the littoral regions of the the Mediterranean and the Black Seas. When a power from outside Europe – Persia – attempted to suppress it, to subjugate it, to dominate it, proud Greeks put up a fight rather than importing the Persians to their cities, rather than squeamishly making room for newcomers under the noble pretext of helping the poor. And bear in mind: ancient Greek towns did not form a political union like the EU. Just the opposite: they waged wars among themselves. Yet, ancient Greece was at its best when it was divided, just as Europe was at its best when it was divided.

Then came decay. Comfort, deteriorating morals, and the fratricidal senseless Peloponnesian War, which lasted almost thirty years (431-404 BC), and which weakened Greece the way Europe was weakened by its fratricidal thirty-year conflict of 1914-1945. The result? Greece fell prey to Romans and then to Turks. For centuries never to regain their glory.

Nowadays, United Europe becomes weaker and weaker in a similar fashion. United Europe looks for salvation in ecology and rainbow sexuality, in censorship and ethnic replacement, in the cancellation of its identity and in feminism. Europe is sawing off the branch on which it is sitting, Europe is despising itself in that Europe is cancelling its culture and its God. Europe is finishing off what the two fratricidal wars did not manage to destroy: Europe is virtually aborting itself out of existence. In the not distant future a Chinese or an Indian Byron will come to the Old Continent and reflecting on its past glory he will write:

• Cradle of culture long deceased!
  Here Shakespeare wrote and Goethe sung,
  here grew the arts of war and peace,
  here Paris rose, and London sprung!
  Eternal summer gilds thee yet,
  but all, except thy sun, is set.