With Geert Wilders winning, Israel gains another ally

For Israel, it had to be good news to learn that Geert Wilders, the supposedly wild and crazy Dutch version of Donald Trump, came in with a huge parliamentary victory in the Netherlands and now may become the country's next prime minister.

That's because Wilders is a ferocious advocate and ally for Israel.

Look at those details:

It matches the result from another Trump-like leader who just got elected -- that of Javier Milei, now president of Argentina ... and another very vocal ally for Israel. At one of this last campaign rallies, he was videoed waving the Israeli flag, vowing to make Argentina Israel's best friend.

Amid all the garbage going on at the United Nations, what with its bizarre Israel condemnations, as noted by AT contributor Eric Utter in his post here, it's going to be nice for Israel to finally be having some friends and defenders. That's not the only benefit for Israel; as there are likely to be many as Israel seeks to defend itself against the largely Islamist forces of hate and barbarism. Arms sales, intelligence, base support, sanctions, banking disruptions, it's bad stuff coming ahead for the terrorists now that Israel's friends are multiplying with this Trumpean movement worldwide.

And they are multiplying, actually. We know that President Trump leads in the polls -- the gutsiest, most pro-Israel U.S. president in history -- the one who forged the Abraham accords to bring peace with Israel and the Arab states, who lined up one by one to join it. He also moved the U.S. embassy to Israel's capital of Jerusalem, which led to another string of nations following. If Trump wins, Israel is going to win, too.

How about the other nations that sport supposed mini-Trumps who could also win their elections in coming months and years -- what are their views?

Let's look at the much reviled Marine Le Pen of France, who is supposedly an anti-Semite because her father seemed to be, who is also running on Trumpian values, what is her stance on Israel?

Voilà ... pro-Israel, just like Wilders, Milei, and Trump. Not exactly the Nazi they claimed she was.

How about the Canadian version of Trump who's doing well in Canada's polls -- Pierre Poilievre?

He certainly sounds like the others, pro-Israel and able to read the situation correctly, quite unlike his country's milksop current prime minister, Justin Trudeau.

How about a couple who are in power, recently or not, such as the much-revile Viktor Orban of Hungary and Giorgia Meloni of Italy, both of whom have been compared to Trump and reviled as fascists?

Yup, same picture, pro-Israel allies, reading the situation correctly. Those are some 'fascists' they've got over there in Italy.

And Orban, the one they paint as a Nazi, Putinite, Trumpite, and dictator?

and as a lagniappe [bonus], this:

He doesn't even want to look at them. Maybe that's a bit autocratic but they have those powers to govern that way as the voters chose. It probably helps keep terrorists out of his country, which I know he would insist on.

And Brazil's recent president, Jair Bolsonaro, whom many hope will be its future president, too?


Again, as pro-Israel as they come.

We can now start to see a significant pattern here.

All of the proto-Trump leaders now emerging in the world today are indeed nationalists, America-firsters, or fill-in-the native country first, make one's country its best, in spirit. They also are pro-capitalism, pro-rule of law, and pro-civilization. They abhor barbarism and cronyism and favoritism, grievance politics, and special interest politics. They are individualists and extremely brave in the face of the onslaughts of opposition from entrenched swamp establishments, who respond with insane instances of resistance. Trump is foremost here in this regards but the others face the same monsters.

How is it every nationalist out there emerging in public life can all be so pro-Israel. The answer to that is best explained by writer George Gilder in his 2009 book The Israel Test. I found a book blurb on my favorite book site, Thriftbooks, which sheds insight into how these supposed Nazis and fascists and Trumpites can all be so militantly pro-Israel and it has much to do with all their other ideas. According to the blurb (emphasis mine):

Trump and his coevals often talk about fighting for survival. Obviously, there's a link between our democracy and Israel's Judaic values, which are also present in America's Judeo-Christian founding values. Without those values, there is no individualism, no initiative, no rule of law, no capitalism anyone would want to live in, no progress, no prosperity and no moral framework of fairness and humility to God.

That's why so many of these Trumps of various countries respond so strongly to defending Israel, against all expectations that since they are nationalists, they don't think of any place but their own nation. The very values Israel embodies are the values of Trumpism. That explains why the support is so intense.

If this is right and I think it is, it tells us a lot about the importance of always supporting and defending Israel against the onslaught of barbarism. Israel is at the tip of the spear. When the Trump-like leaders of the world stand up for Israel, they are standing up for Western Civilization.

That is powerful and worthy of living for and dying for. For Israel, that can only be helpful as it expands.