[ISRAELNATIONALNEWS] Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz (Likud) on Wednesday morning warned that if Europe hopes to defeat the Islamist terror attacking it, it must change."All we have to do is make sure the Visigoths have job security..."
Speaking to Army Radio about the lethal Islamic State
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(ISIS) bombings in Brussels the day before in which 34 people were murdered, he said, "if Europe wants to fight terror, and it is not fighting terror, it has to change."
"It's easy to fear the Ostrogoths. They have those fur vests and helmets and axes. But they have families, just like us!""The terror threatens the entire non-Muslim world, the entire Western world - us, Europe, the United States," he said.
"Gauls and Franks can learn to get along..."
Steinitz expressed his disappointment that "Europe didn't wake up. Because what we heard from Europe yesterday is the response: 'we won't change.' We should have heard: 'we will change.' The response of the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
was: 'we will not give up on our values,' and that's completely fine, but basically, the subtext is 'we will stay as we were.'"
"Terrorism knows no religion!"
"Europe cannot make do with just policing and preventative steps. It must fight terror with active intelligence, to a large extent like we are doing (in Israel), by investing resources with a minimal harm to the freedom of the individual, the right to privacy and the rights of the citizen."
"No! Never! All you need is love! Ya-ta-ta-ta-ta! Al you need is love, babe! Love is all you need!"
He suggested that Europe begin by targeting the sources of incitement in the continent, by "closing mosques, arresting imams who incite to terror and hatred against non-Muslims."
"Our laws protect the Vandals, whether the Vandals obey our laws or not!"
Secondly, he called for the immediate implementation of a control system for gathering intelligence which "has a certain aspect of intelligence breaching into the domain of the individual."
"Of course they don't hate us! That's a very racist comment!""They still haven't established in Europe organizations like the FBI and the Shabak (Israeli Security Agency), which monitor the state internally in order to prevent these kinds of groupings and to nip them in the bud," he said regarding the terror cells.
"If you're going to have freedom of assembly it's got to include freedom to conspire. We have emergency services to treat the maimed and bury the dead and then we can catch the perpetrators, put them on trial, and give them hefty suspended sentences."
Steinitz said Israel "has a lot to contribute to Europe. Unfortunately we have dozens of years of experience. We don't have absolute success - we did not succeed in wiping out the terror, but we have great success. We succeeded in preventing it from becoming a lot more significant."
"Help? From Israel? That shity little state? We'd rather die!"
He said the terror in Europe and the terror attacks plaguing Israel are two sides of the same coin.
"Just because they employ the same rhetoric and the same tactics doesn't mean they're the same!"
"This is a stream with different factions. Here they emphasize more the need to 'liberate Paleostine,' there they emphasize attacking the crusaders, the Christians and eventually reaching the Islamization of Europe."
"See? Two entirely different goals! Nothing in common!"
"It all stems from the same worldview that posits: Islam is supreme, Islam needs to rule, there is no place for infidels. For radical Islam we, the Europeans and also moderate Muslims are the infidels," he concluded.
"Never! It's worth three dozen dead and a couple hundred maimed to remain the Europe we are! We do not need testicles!"