100-year-old senior diplomat Henry Kissinger has said the quiet part out loud.
Hamas’ attack against Israel being celebrated on the streets of Berlin indicates that Germany has let too many foreigners into the country, according to former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
“It was a grave mistake to let in so many people of totally different culture and religion and concepts, because it creates a pressure group inside each country that does that,” the 100-year-old ex-top American diplomat said in an interview with Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner for Germany’s Welt TV. Axel Springer is POLITICO’s parent company.
German-born Kissinger — who fled Nazi Germany with his family in 1938, and went on to become the architect of American foreign policy during the Vietnam War — said that it was “painful,” in response to a question about seeing Arabs in Berlin celebrating last weekend’s assault on Israel.
This statement, coming from someone whose (Jewish) family escaped from Nazi Germany in 1938, is especially prescient today. Europe, especially now following the attacks on Israel by Hamas, is reaping the results of unchecked immigration without assimilation. Dr. Kissinger also warns that the conflict could spread to engulf more of the Middle East:
“The Middle East conflict has the danger of escalating and bringing in other Arab countries under the pressure of their public opinion,” Kissinger warned, while pointing to the lessons learned from the 1973 Yom Kippur War, during which an Arab coalition led by Egypt and Syria attacked Israel.
The real goal of Hamas and its supporters “can only be to mobilize the Arab world against Israel and to get off the track of peaceful negotiations,” Kissinger said.
It is also “possible” that Israel could take action against Iran, if it considers Tehran to have had a hand in perpetrating the attack, the former top diplomat added.
France and the United Kingdom are among those nations seeing the results of their immigration policies come to the fore this week, as pro-Hamas protests, bordering on riots, have taken place in both countries. France is pushing back. The UK's response has been tepid, but they appear to be listening to the call of reality. We can hope, but if Europe does not do a turnabout, especially in the demographics area, then the various European cultures are in danger of extinction through apathy by the end of the century.
Here in the United States, we have our own issues. America was once a melting pot; immigrants came here legally, learned English, studied the Constitution, and became citizens. In short, they became Americans, and their children and grandchildren were Americans, regardless of their families' origins.
That isn't the case now. We see racial, ethnic, and cultural enclaves in too many of our major cities. In some places, those embedded but not assimilated enclaves are rising up to celebrate the atrocious invasion of Israel by Hamas. My colleague Bonchie has documented one such uprising in New York:
Apparently, chopping up civilians and raping women is simply called "resistance" when it comes to the Palestinian cause. It's astonishing what people will excuse as if their nonsensical rantings about "settlers" justify mass murders.
And to be sure, there were open calls for genocide at this rally.
Did you get that? Calls for genocide. In the United States. Jeff Charles has another example, this time from Michigan:
In Dearborn, Michigan, a city with a high Arab population, activists held a pro-Palestine rally in which speakers lashed out at Israel while defending Hamas. Emotions ran high during the event. Many expressed grief about the toll the violence was taking on the Palestinians. Others gave a defiant defense of Hamas, the terrorist organization that governs the Gaza Strip.
Meanwhile, in the nation's capital, journalists — American journalists — are demanding to know what steps the government is taking to protect Palestinians in the United States. The proper reply, of course, would be: "Let them assimilate, learn English and the Constitution, and live with American values, and they won't need protection." Instead, the White House Press Secretary gave a mushy reply about the White House deploring violence in any form, which is essentially a content-free reply.
That is one of several reasons the immigration and assimilation issue will, along with the expanding Middle East conflict, be one of the major issues in our 2024 elections.
The multicultural model has failed. Immigrants to the United States, and indeed any nation, should be expected to assimilate. They don't necessarily have to give up their religions (unless their religious beliefs openly call for violence and genocide) or other cultural aspects, such as traditional foods. Those cultural add-ons have become a vital part of the American landscape; any time you dine in a Chinese, Greek, or Italian restaurant, or have a beer in an Irish pub, you realize one of the benefits of that. But immigrants to the United States should be here because they want to be Americans. Immigrants to Germany should be there because they want to become Germans. The same applies to Canada, Australia, or Belize; any country in the world has the right to expect immigrants to assimilate. That we have not done so is today the cause of much of the unrest in our major cities over the last few days.
Dr. Kissinger, in this case, is quite right; the policies of uncontrolled immigration and multiculturalism have failed. We are, right now, daily presented with examples of why this is the case.