Rabbi Abraham Cooper and Harold Brackman write:
The promise of Tahrir Square is but a distant memory as the largest Arab nation is now led by a president whose goal is economic growth and stable security. Otherwise, the region is a total mess.
There is:
– The virtual collapse of the “post-Petraeus” Surge, precarious Iraqi State, concomitant with the rise of ISIS. Will a unified Iraq survive? Not if the Kurds are given a say. As for Christians, they no longer have a say, as the world stood by as historic Christian communities were ethnically cleansed.
– The unraveling of our alliance with Afghanistan’s Karzai regime.
– The emboldening of Iran-backed terrorists along a “Shiite arc” stretching from Iraq to Yemen.
– The panic of the Gulf States, directly adjacent to Iran with weakening U.S. support, and the rise of the Houthi insurgency on Saudi Arabia’s border with Yemen, the very country the Obama Administration once touted as an anti-terrorist success story.
– The collapse of Libya into chaos following the U.S. “leading from behind” anti-Qaddafi coup. That move was largely engineered by Europeans who, ironically, sought to prevent the refugee exodus that they ultimately made much worse.
– A feckless U.S. policy in the Horn of Africa that has brought no peace to Ethiopia-Eritrea or Somalia, with terrorist atrocities spilling over into Kenya and Nigeria.
And now, Europe finds itself confronting a tsunami of refugees that evokes memories of the millions of displaced persons at the end of World War II. The crisis in Europe is caused, not only by people seeking a better economic future as on our southern border, but by masses fleeing failed states, internecine violence, civil war and terrorism; people so desperate that parents are literally casting their children onto the waters with the protection of little more than bulrushes.
Refugees from Afghanistan flowing into Pakistan and Iraq, refugees from Syria (some 2 million) flowing into Turkey, Jordan and beyond, refugees from Lebanon fleeing Beirut’s fetid streets, refugees from Libya becoming Mediterranean “boat people,” refugees from Somalia and Eritrea adding to the outflow. You can read their faces and body language: these are people who see no future nor hope of change.
If they survive the stormy crossing, their reception is barbed wire or trains to nowhere in Hungary or Slovakia where neo-fascist politicians promise to give refuge only to “Christians.” Germany is their new promised land, with Chancellor Merkel desperately trying to piece together a continent-wide response.
This is a seminal moment for the European Union. It needs to show real leadership, vision and cohesiveness—but don’t hold your breath.
I don’t see why any of these developments should terribly trouble people in the West so long as our borders are secure and illegal immigrants are not allowed to pass. The West does not need more Muslims and it does not need unskilled low-IQ laborers. As for the tragedies the Arabs create, thus it has always been. You can’t have a prosperous society when your average IQ is 85.
I agree this is a “seminal moment for the European Union.” It needs to protect its borders and its heritage. The goy should not lose heart. He should not be discouraged by slurs of fascism. Just as Israel primarily gives refuge to immigrants who are Jewish, so too Europe should primarily select immigrants who fit in with its heritage.
