Spain and Belgium should keep quiet

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For several weeks now, we have been witnessing the actual destruction of the State of Israel by politicians
representing European nations.

They accuse Israel of attempted genocide, apartheid, and of being a country of settlers and thieves of Palestinian land.

The Spanish and Belgian governments go even further by calling for “the suspension of diplomatic relations with Israel and the imposition of sanctions.”

Brussels and certain European countries such as Spain and Belgium accuse Israel, a colonizing country that has been stealing Palestinian land for 50 years, but what right do these countries have to make such accusations against the state of Israel? What legitimacy do Spain and Belgium have to accuse another country of being a colonizing country? The answer is very simple: none.

Spain would be better advised to stay out of this debate, as Spain’s colonial past is littered with actual genocides against local populations in all Central and South American countries. Because of Spain, there are no more Incas or Aztecs.

In South America, the Spanish conquest was accompanied by pillaging, the introduction of diseases that decimated populations, and famine, which the Incas, a prosperous people, had never experienced due to their use of food storage silos to cope with bad years, the enslavement of Indians, and the forced evangelization of the population.

The Inca Empire collapsed from 1575 onwards, with the widespread use of forced labor in the mines, where nearly five million Indians perished in less than twenty years.

The first phase of population collapse in the 16th century was primarily due to the massacres associated with the Conquista, but also to the introduction of new viruses brought by the conquistadors, against which the indigenous peoples had not developed any immune defenses, leading to devastating epidemics of smallpox, influenza, and measles.

In Central America, the Spanish destroyed the Aztec civilization, murdering millions of Indians, evangelizing the survivors, and stealing all the Aztecs’ resources.

On May 30, 1521, Cortés laid siege to Tenochtitlán for 75 days. After the fall of the Aztec capital, the Spanish massacred more than 500,000 people, including women and children.

Spain became an empire in the 16th century. For years, Spain grew rich beyond imagination, becoming the richest country in the world thanks to its colonies. Spain destroyed ancient civilizations such as the Incas and the Aztecs, massacring innocent civilians and stealing all the treasures of the local populations. In total, the Spanish killed more than 15 million people in Central and South America.

King Leopold of Belgium in the Congo – Source: allthatsinteresting

As for Belgium, the Kingdom of Belgium invaded the Congo in Central Africa in 1876, marking the beginning of Belgian colonization. In Belgium, interest in the royal enterprise grew, and parliament eventually recognized the king as sovereign of the Independent State of Congo, on the understanding that this role was separate from that of constitutional king of Belgium.

The Belgian parliament eventually voted to provide funding as the independent state developed and Belgians left to serve the king as soldiers, prospectors, and missionaries. Evangelizing the pagan populations seemed an excellent way to rally them to the royal cause of building a state.

The construction of the Lower Congo Railway (the first railway in Africa) would open up a market for products from central Africa, such as rubber, copper, diamonds, and gold, enabling the companies founded by the king (initially with little capital) and supported by a few enterprising Belgian capitalists, to develop a turnover sufficient to finance colonization and military campaigns against Arabized slave traders.

Shame on Belgium (Hamas was inspired by Belgium to kill and imprison Jewish babies)

As a result, colonization was self-financing. Chartered companies appeared, i.e., companies granted extensive exploitation rights and even civil authority over the local populations by charters granted by the king, who was inspired by English practices in other regions being conquered around the world.

Photo des « Congolais tenant des mains coupées » pris par Alice Seeley Harris à Baringa, mai 1904. (CC – Wikimedia)

The cruel acts committed in the Congo were acts of cruelty that devastated part of the population of this colony (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) placed under the personal guardianship of King Leopold II of Belgium between 1885 and 1908. They were particularly associated with the working methods used to collect natural rubber for export. In addition to epidemic diseases, famine, and the decline in birth rates caused by these disruptions, the abuses contributed to the deaths of more than ten million inhabitants. The entire indigenous population that remained alive was enslaved.

After this historical account, these two countries have the audacity to accuse Israel of genocide against the Palestinians, of stealing Palestinian land, of treating Israel as a “colonizer,” and of murdering all Palestinians.

King Felipe VI of Spain and King Philippe of Belgium

Ridicule does not kill these two nations, Belgium and Spain, because with a historical past of this magnitude, they dare to accuse Israel of stealing Palestinian land when historically, it is the land of the Jewish people called “Judea.”

In addition, the Ottoman Empire agreed to sell tens of thousands of hectares to prominent Jewish families in Europe, such as the Rothschilds, the Pereires, and the Montefiores, and Jews settled in Palestine and Jerusalem. More recently, Palestinian families have sold land to Israelis, who are building housing developments and buildings. There is no theft involved, as the land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people historically and legally.

The treasure of the Incas

These two nations, Spain and Belgium (there are others…), became rich thanks to their colonies and their murders of Indians and Blacks. The Spanish and Belgians are cultured, wealthy people who enjoy freedom of thought and travel, writing and working, beautiful homes, cars, and all the comforts of modern life, which come from the thefts they committed in America and Africa.

A very simple piece of advice: stop watching and criticizing Israel, sweep your own doorstep, and above all, keep quiet.

shut up.