What Ireland Better Learn from Israel—and Quickly

Few countries on Earth are under siege like Israel and Ireland, the former having fought off coalition after coalition of enemies attacking relentlessly for the last three-quarters of a century, with the latter now wilting under a different yet far worse pressure—an inexplicably bizarre bout of sudden collective national suicide, opting for overwhelming immigration unto oblivion. A jaw-dropping twenty percent of the people residing in Ireland today were born somewhere else. They grew up eating something other than colcannon, didn’t recite Christian prayers as altar boys but instead prayed five times daily facing East, or offered entreaties to deities like Vishnu or Shiva. One in five of inhabitants of Ireland have no connection whatsoever to Irish dance, religion, history, food, language, folklore, legal and ethical traditions.

Israel, on the other hand, is sane enough to realize that permitting vast numbers of Americans, or Asians, or Africans, or Europeans, or Laplanders, or anyone else for that matter, to stampede into tiny Israel would in the shortest time put an end to the Wailing Wall, to Seders and Shabbats, to Jewish holidays and all the rest. In fact, flooding Israel with uncounted numbers of any people from any locale would result in converting Israel, and quite naturally, into a state reflecting the overwhelming culture of the newly welcomed. People would perhaps still visit the Wailing Wall, but probably not to pray since there’s the greatest likelihood that the venue would become something else, something in all certainty far less Jewish.

Ireland’s political elites, however, in wisdom too sage to be understood by the average Irish citizen being sold down the river, have opened the nation’s doors wide and welcomed in legions of immigrants with zero interest in keeping alive the charm of leprechauns or stepdancing. They are instead—just as any other group of newcomers strangely being granted some other people’s homeland, and by the very indigenous stakeholders themselves—busily going about re-making Ireland, and not surprisingly, in their image. And that’s to insinuate nothing unbecoming toward the newly-arrived; it’s only human nature to take full advantage having been granted a country by people so divorced from reality as to collectively give up their homeland.

We Americans have observed Ireland’s outlandish will toward its own disintegration and of course are horrified by it, just as we’ve observed Israel’s unconquerable grit to hold on to its ancient native soil, and much admire it. We’re only recent allies and friends with Israel, but instead have been tied linguistically, culturally, religiously and historically with Ireland since even before the Great Famine joined our two nations as closely as two countries can be connected.

The American president too has been frank and candid enough to wonder aloud if there’ll be an Ireland if the globalists and “Irish Last” faction leading Erin into oblivion are permitted to continue for much longer. This is the same American president who does more than just speak his mind openly, the leader who thumbed his nose at the entire world, moving the US embassy to Jerusalem, recognizing the ageless city as Israel’s capital and advising anyone who didn’t like it to lump it. Needless to say, only a leader like that could have forged the Abraham Accords, achieved the release of the hostages, and brought a cessation to the bloodshed and destruction in Gaza.

Ireland’s own leaders, however, have a different opinion. They don’t like Israel and great numbers of the Irish citizenry concur with them; the Anti-Defamation League’s Global 100 Survey found a hardly believable 20 percent of the Irish holding anti-Semitic attitudes. What’s far worse for the Irish though than clinging to medieval Jew-hating superstition is so suffer additionally from the dysfunction of being unable to see the near-future rushing up at them with the potential impact of a comet. Such a blinkered populace makes it possible for Ireland’s leaders not only to avoid answering for having given their nation away to anyone and everyone streaming in from everywhere, but with the greatest gall imaginable, to pretend that it’s the American president standing with native Irish culture against the flood who is supposedly the villain in this shameless episode in Irish history.

Catherine Connolly, Ireland’s newly elected president, for example, in a curious and upside-down diplomacy, describes the US president as “volatile, unpredictable, acting like a bully.” As for the state he leads, the nation that acted as Ireland’s lifeboat in the mid-1800s, the greatest friend Ireland ever had or ever will have, she insults America as an “imperial power” and one that the Irish “cannot fully trust.”

Israel, America, and countless other nations have discovered double-speaking, Orwellian politicians of this very sort among their own apparatchiks. People all over the world have risen up in these last few years against these very forces, taking back their country from entrenched and often traitorous bureaucracy-cum-deep state globalism built upon destroying the normalcy of Western civilization, owing loyalty to a bizarre world-citizen supremacy rather their own fellow countrymen.

Ireland spent centuries convincing the English that Erin would be no colony; it must now stand up to a much more virulent attack on its very sovereignty. It need not surrender its soul, its soil, its incomparable culture to whomever next is debauched off ships, imported to take the place of the ancient spirit that lives and breathes on the Emerald Isle. The Irish need to follow the example of the Israelis whom they’ve somehow talked themselves into denouncing, condemning, and publicly criticizing. What’s required to defeat the ongoing assault which must end in erasing the Irish people’s ancient homeland from the face of the Earth is simply to confront it—like the Israelis have.

And confront it the Irish must if they’d like their grandchildren and great-grandchildren to ever come to know a place called Ireland. Neither Israel nor any other nation is going to rush in and save them. Nor can an American president sign any executive order and make that happen, so we’ll politely thank the Irish for leaving him out of it.