Last Wednesday, about 50 people protested outside the Chinese embassy in Tel Aviv against Israel's participation in the Olympics. The following is Moshe Feiglin's speech at the protest:
Most of Israel's population is concentrated within a radius of 15 kilometers from the point at which we stand. Israel is so small, and many people wonder how or why we should take on the immense nation of China. Who are we to raise the flag of opposition against this Olympics of oppression? Who are we to protest when the U.S., France and England are all participating in this event?
In truth, though, we are not small at all. We are the nation that was redeemed from Egypt over three thousand years ago. We are the nation that brought the concept of liberty to the world. We are the nation whose Bible is the basis of all human civilization. We are the nation that the entire world sees as a moral example whether we recognize that fact or not. And whether we like it or not, the State of Israel is the representative of the Jewish nation. When the Israeli delegation marches under the flag of the blood-stained Chinese regime, it lends moral legitimacy to the horrors being perpetrated there.
Whoever claims that the Olympics are merely a sporting event and that there is no reason to mix sports with politics, should remember the Berlin Olympics. There, the entire world marched under the flag of the Nazi regime, lending it much-needed legitimacy. Those Olympics were the harbinger of the Second World War and the Holocaust.
The Jew and the moral message that his very existence projects is the ultimate foe of any totalitarian regime. Every totalitarian that strives to conquer the world must, by definition, see the Jew as his absolute enemy and seek to destroy him. A Jew who supports this type of regime ultimately threatens his own existence.
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