| 03:36 | | I think they’re going to do that ‘en masse’. I have to disappoint you, Mr. Timmermans. |
| 03:39 | | Maybe more than they trust you. But I’ll come back to that congress again. |
| 03:44 | | First, who are you to teach me where and with whom I may speak? |
| 03:48 | | But you really can’t keep up with the fact that those were anti-Semites on that stage, |
| 03:52 | | standing together with Israeli authorities. I know that your aversion to Israel and to democracy |
| 03:59 | | is growing day by day. But believe me, those Israelis never stood on the stage with fascists. |
| 04:06 | | They never would. It’s a shame that you’re only suggesting that. |
| 04:09 | | It’s an insult to members of the Israeli government |
| 04:12 | | that they would actually collaborate with fascists. |
| 04:17 | | You’re out of your mind if you’re suggesting that, I say via the chairman, |
| 04:20 | | I’m not going to justify myself to him. It is completely besides the truth. |
| 04:26 | | I know that your colleague, Mrs. Piri, even made a collage on Twitter in which she indicated |
| 04:32 | | who all spoke. I have to tell you, she has forgotten the most important people. |
| 04:37 | | They’re just people who, like you and me, |
| 04:42 | | stood there for the normal topics, namely immigration and asylum, |
| 04:47 | | but with a healthier point of view than you have. —Speaker, I’m grateful to Mr. Wilders |
| 04:51 | | that he’s advertising Mrs. Piri’s beautiful collage. |
| 04:54 | | Now everyone in the Netherlands can see who Mr. Wilders is dealing with in Europe. |
| 04:59 | | They’re not respectable people. They’re people with ideas about other people |
| 05:05 | | that I want to keep far away from me. |
| 05:08 | | I’ve always had a warm place in my heart for the state of Israel. |
| 05:12 | | I have great contempt for Netanyahu’s extreme right-wing government |
| 05:16 | | that is guilty of very serious war crimes, that uses genocidal violence, |
| 05:21 | | and that is willing to ethnically displace |
| 05:25 | | an entire population from the country where they’ve always lived. |
| 05:28 | | And the fact that Mr. Wilders defends all of that to the last detail is a shame on your reputation, |
| 05:33 | | Mr. Wilders, that you don’t want to clearly see that this conflict |
| 05:37 | | clashes with the fundamental values of Dutch society. |
| 05:41 | | You always talk about the Netherlands. We believe in justice in the Netherlands. |
| 05:46 | | We believe in democracy in the Netherlands. We believe in human rights in the Netherlands. |
| 05:49 | | We believe in equality of all people in the Netherlands. |
| 05:52 | | Against all these principles, you sin. |
| 05:57 | | I really hope that you will never, but never again, gain any influence on the national government. |
| 06:00 | | You are a disgrace to this country. |
| 06:07 | | The result is that Mr. Baudet is again at the interruption microphone, now that |
| 06:12 | | you’re talking about Israel. But apart from that, I’m proud as a peacock that I support Israel. |
| 06:17 | | I’m proud of that. It’s not a disgrace; you’re a disgrace, |
| 06:21 | | that you make almost anti-Semitic statements about a country that fights for its existence. |
| 06:25 | | Because that’s what it is. Israel is fighting an existential battle. |
| 06:30 | | It’s not about a few people, a few terrorists in a country. |
| 06:34 | | It’s not about an economy that’s not doing well. |
| 06:37 | | It’s not about any other subject. It’s about the existence of the Jewish State of Israel. |
| 06:45 | | And now there are terrorists in Gaza, who are in power there. |
| 06:50 | | Who have been elected or have taken power, who have one goal there, |
| 06:54 | | and that is to destroy Israel and the Jewish people. |
| 06:58 | | Wipe them off the map. And of course you have to defend yourself. |
| 07:01 | | And of course, in every war, there are also deaths. |
| 07:04 | | And I regret every death. I regret every child, mother, innocent citizen, who has to die, or |
| 07:12 | | who dies in a battle. But I think, and I’m proud of it, that Israel must fight for its existence. |
| 07:17 | | And I’m telling you, Mr. Timmermans, via you Mr. Chairman: Israel is fighting our battle. |
| 07:22 | | If Israel falls, if the Jewish State, |
| 07:25 | | the Jewish-Christian culture we have in common, |
| 07:28 | | if we let it fall, if Jerusalem falls, then Athens, |
| 07:32 | | Paris and Amsterdam are next. They are fighting our battle. |
| 07:36 | | And the fact that our mothers, |
| 07:44 | | in the West, can sleep peacefully, is because the mothers |
| 07:48 | | of Israeli soldiers are awake, wondering whether their child will come out of the battle alive — |
| 07:52 | | it is a battle; they fight for freedom. |
| 07:57 | | Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East that has to fight the terror |
| 08:01 | | of Iran, of Hezbollah, of Hamas, of Islamic jihad. |
| 08:07 | | And they do that for themselves, but they also do that for us. |
| 08:10 | | To maintain freedom and democracy. And that you resist that, and act like a semi-anti-Semite; |
| 08:17 | | you are the disgrace to this house. |
| 08:26 | | Chairman, Mr. Wilders is shouting himself hoarse, |
| 08:29 | | because he can’t accept that we are dealing with genocidal violence, |
| 08:35 | | and that we are dealing with ethnic cleansing, but let’s leave that aside. |
| 08:39 | | We don’t agree on this. But I do think that you, as chairman, |
| 08:44 | | should be careful if someone calls me an anti-Semite. |
| 08:48 | | If there is something that I am not, then it is being anti-Semitic. |
| 08:53 | | And I expect you to correct it. That’s an accusation that Mr. Wilders can’t just say in this house. |
| 08:58 | | Yes, I also heard words like disgrace and extreme-right coming from you. |
| 09:05 | | Left and right, ‘the pies are flying around my ears’. |
| 09:09 | | You can respond to that, and then we’ll continue. —Chairman, I called the people |
| 09:14 | | that Wilders was with in Budapest ‘extreme right’. But that’s what they are. |
| 09:17 | | It has even been officially established that they are extreme right. |
| 09:21 | | Are you going to accuse me of that? And that’s a bit different |
| 09:25 | | than someone accusing a colleague of being anti-Semitic. |
| 09:29 | | I don’t accept that insult, and I hope that Mr. Wilders |
| 09:32 | | wants to retract that, otherwise I hope that you wish to correct him. |
| 09:35 | | Noted for the record. I really hope we’re not going to have a Gaza debate about it. |
| 09:39 | | That is allowed, but this is a debate about the fall of the cabinet today. |
| 09:42 | | So I hope we can go back to that, and that we have now had all the comments about Gaza.
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