LETTER TO THOSE WHO HAVE NOT MOURNED FOR THE TRUTH

Ladies and Gentlemen,

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In gratitude for the fraternity you do not deny, may I, dear sisters and brothers in humanity, express my concern for our rightful glory and tell you that our star, so often tarnished, is once again threatened by those who shame our common condition?

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We have not emerged unscathed from base calumnies: La Libre Parole found its continuation in Der Stürmer, the crowds' vociferations led to pogroms and then industrial extermination; the Dreyfus Affair did not end accusations against the Jewish people; the al-Dura Affair echoes allegations of ritual murder and finds its counterpart in the Al-Ahli Arabi Hospital case in Gaza. The same slogans are hammered by the bewildered masses.

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"Never again!" was the cry after the Holocaust. To this end, the qualification of crimes against humanity was engraved in the conscience of humanity, in the laws humanity wished to adopt, and an organization, the United Nations, was established to prevent wars and genocides. But what a stain on the concept of humanity this abominable Palestinian cause has become, formulated in terms that now leave no room for doubt: "From the River to the Sea!" It is simply about making the historic land of the Judeans judenrein! The entities supposed to speak morality and justice have been hijacked by despicable beings, the ultimate slap in the face to all truth and justice. And it's over; the UN has this stain on its cheek; history will record that it was under its auspices that such a crime could be committed.

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Since they dared, I will dare too. I will speak the truth because I promised to do so if the press, regularly seized, does not present it in full. I have to speak. I will speak for those who do not want to be accomplices. "For Zion, I will not be silent; for Jerusalem, I will not rest until its salvation appears, like the dawn (L’Aurore), and its deliverance like a blazing torch." My nights would be haunted by the spectre of the innocents who, in Europe and America, expiate, tortured by calumny, crimes they did not commit.

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And it is to you, sisters and brothers in humanity, that I will shout this truth with all the strength of my honest man's revolt. For your honour, I am convinced that in the era of social media, you can no longer ignore it. And to whom will I denounce the vicious mob of the real culprits if not to you, who have kept clean the conscience that these villains daily defile?

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First, the truth about the rebirth of Israel on its land. The people of Israel lived on this land and cultivated it. David made Jerusalem the capital of his state, and never during the years of exile did it prosper as much as since its children returned. Let's establish the facts. I won't insult you by detailing Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as the Bible has been translated and disseminated worldwide. Solomon built the Temple in Jerusalem, which Nebuchadnezzar later destroyed. In the time of Ezra and Nehemiah, a second Temple was built. The Hasmonean kings purified it from Hellenised profaners before the Roman legions set it ablaze, forcing the Jewish people into exile. Never during this terrible exile did the Jews, wherever they were, forget the promise of return to the land of their ancestors.

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From the 19th century, their return became massive, accompanied by the unprecedented development of a fallen-low territory. In parallel, Arab nationalism emerged, quickly appealing to Jihad, constitutive of Islam.

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In the second half of the 20th century, the idea of an Arab Palestinian nation emerged so the Palestinian cause could perfectly fit into the post-colonial reading grid. It was forged in terrorism and hatred, bringing only tears and blood. When territories were granted to them through negotiated agreements or unilateral withdrawals, as in Gaza, they quickly became centres of terror. Violent autocracies were established based on the education of hatred and the repression of any internal opposition.

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In the conflict in Israel between the descendants of the Hebrews and the Arab conquerors, for whom these lands, like Andalusia or southern France, are part of the House of Islam, and the rest of the world, yet to be conquered, bearing the name of the House of the Sword. When these people talk about peace, they refer to a wholly Islamized world in which certain groups would be tolerated as second-class citizens. When the Jews talk about peace, they refer to the pacified and diverse world called for by the Prophets of Israel.

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However, these people dare to lie; their morality does not coincide with what bears that name among men and women of goodwill. What they call taqiya finds an unexpectedly favourable reception among the intellectual elites of a tired West, whose post-modernity prefers narrative to truth. Their worldview, based on conspiracy theories and binary thinking, finds fertile ground where facts have lost their substance to fake news, incantatory accusations, and the discomfort of imagining that there might exist on earth a people that preserves the memory of a pre-Islamic past, before the Enlightenment turned into obscurantism in woke discourse, forcing progressive thought into painful aporias.

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So, dear sisters and brothers, this ideological context explains how error prospers. The moral evidence, the situation in Arab countries, the freedom enjoyed by all Israeli citizens, and the continuous cry of innocence rising from Israel against its many detractors ultimately show the people of Israel as a victim of the extraordinary imaginations of a malevolent clique, of the moral confusion where the West found itself after the death of ideologies, of the witch hunt against "dirty Zionists" that dishonours our time.

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And we come to the events of October 7, 2023. I will not recount the massacres' history or describe their unfolding in detail. I will not dwell on the multiple war crimes, on the crimes against humanity committed by the genocidal organization Hamas, whose charter is easily accessible. I will not say here how the Israeli army tries to avoid collateral damage when, by essence and vocation, the Palestinian Cause, invented in its current form in Moscow in the 1960s but whose ideological foundations can be traced back to Amin al-Husseini, targets the Jew as a Jew, proudly assassinating infants as well as the elderly.

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So here you are, those who have not lost faith in humanity, the Palestinian affair: an inelegant way of continuing the Holocaust. For almost a century, we have been able to follow the beautiful work hour by hour. I'll shorten it because this is roughly the summary of a story whose burning pages have already been written throughout. And so we have seen the little propagandists who call themselves journalists conduct their scurrilous pseudo-investigations, from which scoundrels emerge transfigured and honest people tarnished. Then came the so-called humanitarian organizations.

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Meanwhile, while Arab dictators rejoiced in allowing their "Palestinian brothers" to rot in refugee camps, sometimes exterminating them in silence, crushing their own population, and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), organization specifically designed to ensure that the Palestinian problem can have no solution other than the disappearance of Israel, some falsely humanitarian organizations left suffering populations in need of their help.

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It is also a crime to have relied on the despicable press, to have let oneself be defended by all the scoundrels of Europe so that there is the scum triumphing insolently in the defeat of law and simple integrity. It is a crime to have accused those who want generosity, made up of free and just nations, of disturbing world peace when one is plotting an impudent conspiracy to impose error before the whole world. It is a crime to mislead public opinion, to use this opinion for a work of death that has been perverted to the point of making it delirious. It is a crime to poison the small and the humble, to exacerbate the passions of reaction and intolerance, hiding behind odious anti-Semitism, from which old Europe will never cease to die unless it cures itself once and for all. It is a crime to exploit humanitarian efforts for works of hatred, and it is finally a crime to make post-truth the modern god when all human knowledge is at work for truth and justice.

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This truth, this justice that we have so passionately desired, how distressing it is to see them thus slapped, more misunderstood and obscured! I can imagine the collapse that must take place in the souls of those in the West who have a nostalgia for the truth. I believe that they will end up feeling remorse, the remorse of not having been able to identify evil on October 7, 2023, without immediately equating the protagonists, taking refuge in moral relativism, surrendering to the sword of Islam, adopting the term Islamophobia to justify the worst atrocities committed in the name of Islam.

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The West could have been the great honest man, the man of loyal life, convinced that the truth would be sufficient, especially when it appeared as glaring as broad daylight. And it is from this confident serenity that it has so cruelly weaned itself, ready to sacrifice Israel to its madness. I say this is one more crime which will raise universal consciousness. Apparently, the instances where international law should be pronounced have a singular idea of justice.

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So, dear friends, this is the simple truth, and it is horrifying; it will remain a stain on humanity. I well imagine that most of you think you have no power in this matter, that you are prisoners of political correctness and your surroundings. Nevertheless, you have a duty as a human being, which you will consider and fulfil. Moreover, I do not despair in the least of triumph. I repeat with a more vehement certainty: the truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it. It is only today that the matter begins because today the positions are clear: on the one hand, the genocidaires, incapable of conceiving otherness except as a target to be eliminated, who do not want the light to shine; on the other hand, the Sons of Israel who have given their lives so many times for it to be done. When truth is locked underground, it accumulates there. It takes such explosive force that it blows everything up with it when it explodes. "Truth will sprout from the Earth, and Justice is observable from the Heavens." We will see if the West has not just prepared for itself, later, the most resounding of disasters.

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But this letter is long, you whom I call my sisters and brothers, in truth and not in taqiya, and it is time to conclude.

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I accuse Yahya Sinwar and his accomplices of being the sinister workers of the infamous work that culminated on October 7, 2023, a nefarious work called Hamas, the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. I accuse them of making humans so vile through the most absurd and guilty machinations.

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I accuse Mahmoud Abbas, known as Abu Mazen, of contributing to forging a counter-identity based on hatred of Jews and truth.

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I accuse the president of the Islamic dictatorship of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, as well as Ali Khamenei, his Guide of the Revolution, of creating a regional environment based on genocidal fantasies, mobilizing an eschatological argument that they hide from useful idiots in the West. I accuse the Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, of letting it be believed that truth can be bought.

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I accuse António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, of becoming knowingly complicit in one of the greatest injustices of the century and contributing to discrediting the UN forever.

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I accuse Catherine Mary Russell, Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), of turning a blind eye to the indoctrination of Gaza's children into Jihad. I accuse Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), of knowingly becoming complicit in the same crime and of covering up the participation of collaborators from this office in war crimes, including in the premises assigned to them. Perhaps out of anti-Zionist passion, perhaps out of esprit de corps that turns UN offices into an untouchable holy ark.

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I accuse Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, of not having learned from the disastrous behaviour of this institution during World War II and, by ostentatiously taking sides for Hamas, of betraying the ideals of Henry Dunant.

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I accuse of anti-Semitism and lies the leaders of other allegedly humanitarian organizations, such as Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders, or the myriad of feminist organizations silent in the face of the mass rape of Jewish women.

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I accuse the scholars, unable to conceive that the other can coexist, who believe that the Creator can retract and force the masses to live in conspiracy and hatred. I accuse the architects of interreligious dialogue incapable of naming evil.

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I accuse progressives who, trading Marx for Said and making Israel the figure of evil, reduce Arabs to an anachronistic essentialism and erase history as well as the present.

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I accuse some journalists whose names do not deserve to be mentioned of conducting a dreadful campaign in the press to mislead public opinion and hide the facts.

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I, who have no taste for anaphora, accuse here the intellectuals who have patiently constructed all the theories allowing the lie to spread; I accuse them of having discredited this term, that of intellectual, and the hope that Zola had attached to it.

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Moulding my words from Jerusalem in his, I publicly pay homage to him, whose courage, because he refused to mourn the truth, continues to illuminate us everywhere.

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By making these accusations, I am not unaware that I place myself under the various articles that punish offences of defamation. And it is deliberately that I expose myself, knowing that our detractors have already lost in the Tribunal of History.

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As for the people I accuse, I prefer not to know them, never to see them. I feel the greatest disgust for them. For me, the institutions they represent are only entities, spirits of social malevolence. And the act I am accomplishing here is only a revolutionary means to hasten the explosion of truth and justice.

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I have only one passion, light, in the name of humanity that has suffered so much and has the right to happiness. My fiery protest is only the cry of my soul.

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Please accept, dear friends, in truth, the assurance of my profound respect.

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Joel Hanhart, November 29, 2023