Remarks made at the “SECOND SOVEREIGNTY SUMMIT” July 29, 2024.
https://sovereigntysummit.org/the-sovereignty-summit-2/
ARIEL KELLNER, Member of the Israeli Knesset
TRANSCRIPT:
IL MK Ariel Kallner: Dear friends, I want to extend my greetings to you in the important struggle to protect our sovereignty sovereignties of our nations. About 2100 years ago, there lived a Jewish sage named Hillel. He had a saying in Hebrew, [in Hebrew then in English] “If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And when I am for myself, what am I? And if not now? When?” This saying is so relevant to the challenge we face if we do not take care of our own sovereignties, no one else will do it for us. However, we are also committed to cooperate and to help each other in the struggle for our sovereignties. And we need to act now and not delay. In Israel, we’ll we have already started legislative processes to prevent international treaties from applying here without explicit legislation by the elected representatives of our democracy in our Parliament. I encourage you to act in this spirit so that we can protect the sovereignties of our nations and democracies. Good luck. Thank you.