This article was originally published in Danish on October 15, 2023.
By Povl H. Riis-Knudsen
Palestine/Israel is one of the issues that divides the nationalist camp throughout the West. One factor is, of course, the ingrained pro-Jewish sentiment that is instilled in us daily through the media, the church, schools, and so on—the Jews as God’s flawless chosen people. I think, in this context, that both I and others have written enough about this.
Another factor is, of course, that we are confronted daily with Hamas-like types in the public sphere—and that, to be perfectly honest, we don’t care for them. Personally, I have nothing against Arabs or Muslims, for that matter—but they simply shouldn’t be here! They have their own countries, and that’s where they can stay. There, no one burns the Quran (at least, you only do it once), there’s no pork, etc. It must be paradise for Muslims, so why do they seek out countries where people view these things differently? We all know the answers to that question.
The current open war between Israel and Hamas, however, stems from a completely different conflict. It is not a religious war—and it has, strictly speaking, nothing directly to do with Islam. It is a war between two peoples and two vastly different cultures over the same small piece of land in the Middle East.
The problems began when the newly formed UN, under Jewish pressure and citing the holocaust, divided historic Palestine into two parts, giving one part to the Jews and the other to Jordan. It would have been more reasonable to give them East Prussia or another German province, but that would have been rather irrelevant if people hadn’t already been living in this land: the Palestinians, of whom approximately 30% were, incidentally, Christians, representatives of that ancient Christianity which today is absolutely threatened with extinction.
Some well-meaning people then argue that the Jews’ presence in Palestine is well-documented, for example on the Column of Titus in Rome. Yes, one could also simply cite the Old Testament—to the extent that it is a historical document—where the Jews joyfully describe how they commit one genocide after another to take possession of this gift from God.
All of this, however, is terribly irrelevant to the Palestinian problem. The Romans expelled the Jews from Palestine in the year 70 because they—one might almost say, as usual—had become an undesirable and disruptive element. It was one of the Jews’ historically many holocausts. After that, it was the land of the Arabs, more specifically the land of the Philistines (hence the name Palestine), and the Philistines were, as is well known, the only Indo-European people in those parts. And until 1948, it thus remained the land of the Philistines—regardless of whether the rulers were in Istanbul or London, and regardless of what the country was called.
But where were the Jews supposed to go, when people were already living in this land! With the establishment of Israel, the “international community” created a permanent hotbed of unrest and war—and one should have been able to see that coming.
The Jews, however, knew how to make room for themselves. They formed various terrorist groups: the Irgun, the Stern Gang, and others. Prominent Danish Jews later also actively participated in these terrorist organizations, whose purpose was to spread fear and terror among the country’s original inhabitants. They murdered, burned down villages, bombed, and so on. The tactic succeeded; the Palestinians fled—initially to Jordan and Lebanon, but from there to the entire Arab world. Every time Israel has expanded its borders, it has set off new waves of refugees. It is difficult to put a number on it. I have seen 7.4 million. Of these, 3 million live in the Gaza Strip, the world’s largest concentration camp. Others live behind barbed wire in camps in the Jordanian desert, or in desolate ghettos in Jordan and Lebanon.
The Palestinians who remained in Israel became second-class citizens. They are treated as the Jews were treated in the Third Reich. It is worst for the Palestinian residents of the West Bank—what formerly belonged to Jordan. Here, there was a pretense of wanting to establish a Palestinian state, but Jewish settlers have taken the farmland and the water from the Jordan River. The Palestinian territory is shrinking, Palestinians are being forcibly displaced, their homes are being demolished, they are barred from using the roads that Israelis use—and they are subjected to daily terror by the Israeli army. The intention is quite clear. The Jews need the land, because Israel’s population is growing as a result of the country’s immigration policy. Jews from all over the world are welcome, and they are encouraged to emigrate to Israel. Let me just be honest: It’s a very sensible policy; in fact, there are very few things in Israel that I wouldn’t want to see implemented in the West, just as they are implemented in Israel for Jews. If I were Jewish, I would love Israel.
The problem with this policy is simply that it is carried out at the expense of a native Arab population whose living conditions are approaching slave-like conditions. Israel wants them to leave—that is what this policy encourages them to do—and Israel wants them to be resettled in Western countries to promote the dissolution of those nations. The war against the goyim has not been forgotten. However, they are not welcome here, for then we would end up in the same situation as the Palestinians are in Israel: an oppressed minority in our own country.
The Jews are to the Palestinians what the Palestinians are to us: outsiders who want to drive us out of the land.
I must admit that I have a sense of justice. I am not aligned with either side, but I believe that the Palestinians have become victims of Jewish pogroms in Europe that they had nothing to do with, and for which it is unreasonable to make them pay the price. And fortunately, there are also many Jews who can see this—and there are also many who would like to do something about it. I refer to my review of *On Palestine* by Noam Chomsky et al.1 The terrible reality, however, is that this conflict seems unsolvable.
That it has now escalated to what can only be described as war is, of course, the result of many years of daily Israeli terror, of the Jewish settlements in the West Bank, and of the Palestinian people’s bleak prospects for the future. It is an outburst of the Palestinians’ despair. The pressure in the pressure cooker has become so high that the pot has exploded. The Palestinians, however, cannot exterminate the Jews, and even if the Jews could exterminate the Palestinians, the political cost of doing so would likely be too high. Neither the Palestinians nor the Jews can bomb their way out of this conflict. It is pre-programmed to last until a third external power forces the parties into an arrangement that satisfies both—but such a third power hardly exists today, nor does an arrangement satisfactory to both. After all, there are now several generations of Jewish Israelis who know no other home than Israel and who wish to live in a distinctly Jewish state—just as we want to live in a West of white Europeans. The only difference is that they are allowed to create an ethnically homogeneous Jewish state, while we are not allowed to preserve our ethnic homogenity, whose history is somewhat longer than that of the Jewish state.
There are those who would like to see a religious conflict in this, and of course there are religious aspects when the Israelis want to build a new temple on the Temple Mount—which is also one of Islam’s holy sites. But at its core, it is quite simply a perfectly normal struggle for Lebensraum. We, too, will have to wage that struggle.
One can, of course, wonder how on earth Hamas was able to prepare this attack right under the Mossad’s nose. After all, the Mossad has a reputation for being the world’s best intelligence service. Was this, with unimaginable cynicism, staged by Israel itself? Or did they simply turn a blind eye? If so, it would hardly be the first time in history.2 However, it is also not the first time Israel may have been caught off guard.3 Intelligence work in the Middle East is not so easy. It can be very difficult to discern the loyalties. But in any case, it is certainly thought-provoking that this crisis comes just as Netanyahu’s government is in trouble. Hamas’s attack came as a godsend, for in times of crisis, the Jews close ranks and forget minor disagreements.
The nursing home patient in the White House in Washington even speaks of the attack as Israel’s 10 times 9/11, and constantly dredges up the memory of the holocaust. The Jews have always been the world’s best propagandists, and the horror stories have been many—including the 40 beheaded children, which turned out to be pure fantasy. It all seems to me, however, to be a bit too extreme just to save a government, and Biden’s use of 9/11 in particular may suggest that this attack is meant to be used for something more, such as an attack on Iran, just as the Americans’ 9/11 came at just the right moment to set the entire Arab world ablaze and destroy well-functioning states—with the added bonus of opening all routes for the multitudes from Africa to find their way to Europe. I refer to the article “Should European Nationalists Support Israel,”.4 An attack on Iran, however, would likely require drawing Hezbollah into the war, since Hezbollah—and not Hamas—is a direct ally of Iran. Hezbollah, however, is based in Lebanon, where it inflicted a stinging defeat on the Israelis, which in itself could be a motive for Israel’s revenge. Hezbollah possesses a quite significant and well-equipped fighting force, and a war against Hezbollah would be bloody and take a heavy toll on the already ravaged Lebanon. A campaign against Iran could very well mean World War III in the current situation. Russia will not be able to allow the U.S. to get bogged down in Iran—and let’s be clear that the U.S. has always willingly fought Israel’s wars. And Israel could certainly be tempted to spice things up with its nuclear arsenal. In any case, one must conclude that the rapprochement Israel has successfully sought with the Arab world is over. Israel may end up paying a high political price for its retaliatory action—no matter how justified it may seem.
If the Ukrainians shoot down a Russian missile so that it hits an apartment building, the entire Western world cries murder and war crimes, even though Ukraine has been bombing the civilian population in Donbas since 2014, with significantly more deaths than we are now seeing in Israel. The Israelis are in the process of razing the entire city of Gaza to the ground—and 3 million residents are trapped there, including 1 million children. The Egyptians have closed the only exit.
Understandably, they do not want to import the problem. Where is the West’s condemnation? It is very weak. This shows who holds power over the media and politicians—and thus who our enemy is.
I view with some dismay the massive support from Western nationalists for Israel in this matter. We have no common interests with Israel—and the Jews want nothing to do with nationalist Westerners who want the same for Europe as the Jews have in Israel: their own country.5 The goal of the Jewish elite is the extermination of the white man and his culture—among other things, by promoting immigration from the Third World to Europe. Regardless of what is right and wrong in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, however, the result must never be that any of them come here! The West is for white Europeans, and it must remain so. Otherwise, we will end up like the Palestinians in Israel!
This is one of those situations where you need a great deal of knowledge to determine what is right and wrong—and very few people have that knowledge. It is somewhat like the issue of Russia and Ukraine, but whereas that conflict—at least on the surface—is fairly simple, the situation in Palestine is extremely complicated. As I have described it elsewhere: a Gordian knot tied with steel wire. Hamas acts out of desperation; Israel responds in anger. Neither is wise warfare. The victims are the people.
I know Palestinians abroad with family in the West Bank. Naturally, my thoughts are with them at this time. They live a good life in a neighboring country, but every day they dream of the land their fathers had to leave in haste. We also have good friends in Israel, whom I naturally think of as well. We receive no answers to our concerned inquiries. They live 59 km from Ashkelon…
As I said, it is complicated, very complicated!
Notes
- https://frihedskamp.com/2026/04/15/on-palestine-2/ ↩︎
- See Moshe Shonfield: The Holocaust Victims Accuse, Neturi Karta of USA, New York 1977. In this work, the Jewish author believes he can document that Jewish organizations withheld knowledge about the holocaust and sabotaged aid to the victims because a blood sacrifice of 6 million was needed to establish the State of Israel in accordance with the prophecies of the Old Testament. ↩︎
- The Yom Kippur War in 1973. ↩︎
- https://frihedskamp.com/2025/10/22/should-european-nationalists-support-israel/ ↩︎
- https://frihedskamp.com/2024/10/29/unreciprocated-love/ ↩︎