Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme (2008)
"We must be wakeful for a new anti-Semitism, sometimes too easy
trivialized. We must be wakeful for a new anti-Zionism that is a hidden
anti-Semitism that in reality has not accepted the existence of the state
of Israel, even sixty years after its foundation. Europe cannot turn its
back on Israel. For Israel is linked to the history of Europe, for more
than one reason. We cannot speak about the foundation of the Jewish State
without mentioning the Holocaust. There is more, the dream of a new Eretz
Yisrael was born in Europe, in the hearts and minds of Theodor Herzl and
his followers in the 19th century. And since many centuries, in many
thousands of European Jewish households, Pesach, the Jewish feast of
Easter, ends with the wish: "Next year in Jerusalem!""
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