Why the Speech, on Video (but Now Whitewash Edited), by Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, Saying that Western Civilization Is Based on the Judeo-Christian Tradition Is Historically False
ADVISORY BY COMMENTATOR: THE VIDEO HAS BEEN EDITED OF ITS REFERENCE TO "WESTERN" CIVILIZATION AND HIS LAST STRING OF WORDS THAT ORIGINALLY PRECEDED HIS CLOSING SALUTATION, HIS ENDING SLOGAN, APPARENTLY IN HEBREW. THOSE DELETED WORDS WERE THE SAME AS THOSE THAT I HAVE PUNCTUATED IN SINGLE-MARK QUOTATION MARKS BELOW THAT WERE POSTED IN WRITING (TYPED) BY THEIR POSTING SOURCE,ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM X, WHO QUOTED THE WORDS FROM THE ORIGINAL, UNEDITED VIDEO, AND WHOSE COMPLETE POSTING I HAVE PUNCTUATED ITS BEGINNING AND END WITH NORMAL DOUBLE-MARK QUOTATION MARKS. I LISTENED TO AND WATCHED THE UNEDITED, INITIAL VERSION OF THE AUDIO-VIDEO MULTIPLE TIMES AND HEARD IN SHOCK THOSE WILDLY ABSURED WORDS SPOKEN BY NETANYAHU BEFORE I COPIED THE AUDIO-VIDEO FROM YOUTUBE, TO SHARE, WHERE IT WAS WHITEWASH-EDITED THERE AS WELL AS BY THEN OR THEREAFTER ON MY X-MEDIA REPOST-SAVED COPY OF IT. I, NEVERTHELESS, REPEAT HIS QUOTATION OF NETANYAHU'S WRONG STATEMENT HERE. THE WORDS ARE:
'Were it not for the Jews, there would be nothing called the United States of America. We brought you into this world, and we can take you out of it.'
Click on the following hyperlink to view the context audio-video of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu giving a speech with the delete edits in it hiding his falsely saying that Western civilization is based on the Judeo-Christian tradition, https://youtu.be/bNEB_Q4gAo8?si=OTBgg9ogt0kwXgM_
"🇮🇱🇺🇸 Netanyahu: 'Were it not for the Jews, there would be nothing called the United States of America. We brought you into this world, and we can take you out of it.'
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Prior to the unedited version of the now edited hereinabove concerned Netanyahu speech deleting reference to explicitly the word "Western" in his assertion of Western civilization being based on the Judeo-Christian tradition, or being the foundation of Western civilization, also in recent months I viewed on X social media a posted brief audio-video of a European woman with fancily-styled blond hair who was identified as an EU official also saying to the effect, to my consternation, that the Judeo-Christian tradition was the foundation of Western civilization and I posted a comment to its posting that in effect said "Wrong, Greco-Roman civilization and culture are the foundation of Western civilization!" On 12-23-2025, I tracked down the identity of that official via a description of her in a question I submitted on an internet search engine, whose reply was "The blonde-haired woman official of the EU who stated that Judeo-Christianity is the foundation of Western civilization is Ursula von der Leyen...President of the European Commission..."
No, Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, and Ursula von der Leyen, President, European Commission, the Judeo-Christian tradition is not the foundation or basis of Western civilization, and Western civilization is not stagnant and does not exist in a cultural vacuum but is dynamic and culturally interactive, adaptive, evolutionary and enriching of itself ongoingly, to its higher-mindedness, benefit and so-to-say [political-]spiritual or enlightened credit.
Classical Greco-Roman civilization and culture and their historical paths are the foundation of Western civilization.
Western civilization in intellect, the Latin alphabet overwhelmingly in Europe and all of Western Europe, the Romance language family of Europe and its diaspora, https://www.lingodigest.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-romance-languages/ , literature, literary forms and styles, the arts, music notation and scoring (in Western culture, an ancient Greek invention), culture overall, amphitheaters-theaters (outdoor and indoor), arenas, stadiums, colosseums, opera, concerts, plays, sports, Olympic sports and circus, economics (including plantations and past slavery in European colonies and foreign lands for repopulation by their people), commerce and coinage, societal organization and infrastructure, law, government and governance, engineering, militarily and warfare, and modern mass printing-press-based education and mass music production and markets, is primarily founded on its Greco-Roman institutional and acculturational imprinting, inheritance and legacy and qualitative miscellaneous international influences and appropriations. As relates to economics, both civilizations had white slaves, males and females, adults and youth. This sociocultural and institutional inheritance to Europe from the Roman Empire (which before the rise of its predecessors the city and kingdom of Rome in Italy, much of southern coastal Italy was colonized and cultured by ancient maritime Greece, https://www.britannica.com/place/Magna-Graecia , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Graecia ), including its predominate Christian religion, leading to Europe's, and other territories', indigenous host of offshoot Christian denominations, came directly from imperial Rome and its appropriation and recasting of original Christianity (from roots peasant, pacifist and communitarian Apostolic Catholicism to the Roman Catholic Church and, tending to militancy, Holy Roman Empire, https://www.britannica.com/place/Holy-Roman-Empire , https://www.worldhistory.org/Holy_Roman_Empire/ , the first of the two initiated by Roman Emperor Constantine the Great in 313 CE and officialized and furthered by his successors, https://www.historytools.org/stories/the-triumph-of-christianity-in-the-roman-empire-a-historical-analysis#google_vignette , except for the brief but heroic reign of return-to-Roman-polytheism Roman Emperor Julian, also referred to as Julian the apostate), as its own new imperial religion, disassociated from root Apostolic Catholicism (the "universal church" Christianity, in which the word Catholic then meant "universal" in Greek and the words Christianity and Christians are cognates of and derive from the word Christ or the Christ, meaning the Messiah, or redeemer and savior, hence, Jesus the Messiah or Jesus the Christ, the New Testament moral and spiritual teacher in departure from the ethnocentric, chosen-people Judaism of his time and the Old Testament and its murky and often dubious and disconcerting morality. The Jesus and his New Testament start of Christianity were so although Jesus and his twelve disciples were Jews -- a new testament based on the new, sage, compassionate, egalitarian and kindlier, or lovingly, moral and ethical teachings, practices and way of life of Jesus and corresponding church founded by Jesus the Messiah, whose first pastor and leader he appointed his apostle Simon Peter to be. Ancient Roman society previously had its own quite sophisticated polytheistic religion from which its religious institutional structures of the pontificate (Elector College of Cardinals), the pontifex maximus (pontiff), the hierarchical priesthood and its/their ceremonial garments or vestments, often richly embroidered, of silk and satin, accoutrements of gold and silver (sometimes bejeweled), rituals, choirs and the splendorous and regal houses of worship of Catholicism, formerly Roman temples to the Gods for worship of them, were transferred to the religious culture of Roman Catholicism and retained by much of its later offshoot branches of orthodox and protestant Christianity, after Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire by decree of Roman Emperor Theodosius I in 38O CE.
The rise of new, mainland and northern European Western civilization from its Dark Ages, circa 500 to 1000 CE, following the descent and fall (fracturing, disintegration and collapse) of its once virtually humanly almighty colonizer the imperial [Western] Roman Empire finally in 476 CE, and from its Medieval period, from 1000 to 1453 CE, began with the fall of Constantinople, the fortress city and capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, as well as the accompanying fall of the remainder of the whole of its alternatively named Byzantine Empire, militarily brought down in 1453 CE by and replaced, in the name of Turkey, by the army of the besieging Ottoman Turks and its mercenary military allies, https://www.britannica.com/event/Fall-of-Constantinople-1453 , including Europeans, and, moreover, gained momentum by the subsequent successful reconquest of and fall in 1492 CE to northern Iberia, aka Hispania or Spain, by the Spanish army of the reconquest King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Castilian northern Spain, of southern Iberia from its 700-plus years of Islamic Arab-Moor caliphate rule, https://www.britannica.com/event/Reconquista . This coincidental historical time frame, with that of the fall of the Byzantine Empire, of the successful reconquest of southern Iberia by northern Spain may have been enabled by northern Spain's acquisition of advantaging military knowledge and weapons used decades before by the Ottoman Turk army and its allies to militarily defeat the Byzantine government and seize its territory and impose its own rule over it. Both of the said defeated societies were by comparison highly advanced and repositories of large collections of scholarly manuscripts (essentially books), including mathematical, engineering, technological, all things military, architectural, philosophical and logic as well as quasi-scientific and cultural manuscripts, which were appropriated by the conquerors, whose beneficiaries in Europe were the royal, noble, clergy, scholar, educator and technocrat, including civil-servant and military, educated, intelligentsia classes, formally educated in the Greek and Latin languages and their literature, scholarly and cultural, in which most of the captured manuscripts were written, in addition to being written in Arabic for those of until-then Islamic-caliphate-ruled southern Iberia, which free, northern Iberia had previously failed in numerous military attempts over those more than 700 years of its Islamic rule to recapture before 1492 CE. These stores of manuscripts came into the possession of the Europeans, as well as, in part, of the rulership and intelligentsia of the Ottoman Turks, but especially to mainland and northern Europe via Spain, Portugal and Italy (where much of the Byzantine collection of manuscripts were evacuated during and upon the fall of Byzantium) and institutionally and socially fueled and spread the Greco-Roman technical and cultural, in all societal dimensions, civilizational Renaissance in Europe, infused with the mathematically new to Europe, far better Arabic-Indian numerals for performing math, as well as far more advanced Arab-caliphate levels of mathematics. Western European civilization was further enhanced with subsequent European maritime international contact, exploration, commercial trade, cultural exchange, military conquest and colonization of foreign societies and territories, and the human-trafficking slave trade in black Africans for free labor and selective sexual predation and glutting by amoral, immoral, heartless and mercenary incipient capitalism's big to small business operations and persons, and from the musical influence of the black African slaves and their descendants on Western music and dance culture (including in the birth and onward of US Country and Western music, whose founder southern white rural folk-music musician Jimmie Rogers created it by combining the influences of the southern black music that he grew up around listening to and loved, and had assimilated in his own music, with rural southern white folk music, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmie_Rodgers , the music of racially insular MAGA white people and their square dancing, whose origin was from plantation-slave line dancing), economies and wealth, Europewide and worldwide, that has catapulted legions of poor and middle-class white musicians and of almost all other races and ethnicities from otherwise lives of subsistence, obscurity and dependence on philanthropic patronage, to lives of fabulous fame and wealth or financial comfort, significant popularity and relative happiness.
Of the utmost importance in Western civilization is the foreign origin to it and Europe of the invention of the printing press (as well as ink and paper) -- that is the foundation of mass literacy and education, and their democratization and pan-European democracy itself, as well as the stimulus of the intellectual boom, or Enlightenment, period and industrial revolution, in Britain, of the late 1700s CE, that spread like raging wildfire throughout Europe, Anglo-Saxon-ruled North America and global pan-Britain and whose effect has been nonstop and evolving ever since worldwide -- in the Far East, where it was used primarily for religious printing products and in the civil services of China, Japan and Korea, https://www.britannica.com/topic/printing-publishing/History-of-printing , long before disputed detailed knowledge of it was brought to Europe from China by Italian traveler Marco Polo and an improved version of it was made by the German metalsmith and inventor Johannes Gutenberg in the last quarter of the 1400s CE, the historically and luckiest transformative century for Europe and the establishment of its indigenous rendition of Western civilization, and became the first staple technology of and for manuscript and communications mass production and dissemination and was the start of Europe's and humanity's continuingly evolving information revolution.
It is not credible that Johannes Gutenberg, or that he and his associates, invented all three, the printing press, his improved printing press as a purely original invention, ink and paper, when they were Chinese inventions of centuries before, including a Chinese-made movable-type improved version of the original, verified by conclusive historical research, despite the claim that it is historical myth that Marco Polo saw and obtained and brought detailed knowledge of them or product instances of them to Europe from his travel in China, when the caliphate Arabs yet had secured product instances of paper and ink, and possibly of the printing press (and produced them in their own domains), from China in circa the mid-700s CE and Italy yet had secured product instances of paper and ink, and possibly the Chinese and Far Eastern state-of-the arts printing press, from China and traded in them since the 1200s CE, long before Johannes Gutenberg's and his associates' claimed independent original invention of any of them in the late 1400s CE. According to historical literature on Marco Polo's travel to China, it reports that he spent 17 years in China sometime within the years 1271 and 1295 CE, https://www.worldhistory.org/Marco_Polo/ .
Western civilization of Europe is the direct descendant, heir and continuation of Roman civilization, of both its Western and Eastern empires and their variations on Christianity, but with its own indigenous and societally evolutionary innovations and contributions as well as contributions from its international relations and colonial-venture and acculturational appropriations. Mainland and northern Europe had no civilization until it/they was/were penetrated by Greek civilization, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeks_in_pre-Roman_Gaul , and it established a few port colonies there and Roman civilization was later imposed and superimposed upon Roman colonies and their indigenous cultures in mainland-plus Europe by force of the imperial military might of the Roman Empire, Western and Eastern, which they (the colonies) spread to the rest of Europe. The Christianity of Western civilization is Romanized Christianity, unconnected to Judaism, and is a major feature of Romanized Western civilization (but not its foundation), of the legacy Western civilization of Europe.
If imperial Rome had kept its polytheistic religion, but represented its Gods and Goddesses as invisible, and not ridiculously behaving but serious, entity deities in its religious instruction, making them not subject to credibility dispute, its polytheistic religion probably would have persisted, as do other ancient religions of the world elsewhere, like Hinduism, Buddhism and Zoroastrianism, as the religion of current Western civilization. If adherents of religion can be taught and learn to believe in a three person or divinity collective ghost in a one unitary deity of them, the divine Trinity of Roman Catholic Trinitarianism, consisting of The Father, The Son [of God the Father] and The Holy Ghost or Spirit (the Latter of Whom a case can be reasonably argued religiously is God The Mother, since the God in the book of Genesis of the Old Testaments refers to Itself as We and that God made man (mankind) -- indicatively male, female and offspring of either gender -- in Its image, the image of God), they alternatively should be able to be taught and learn to believe in multiple ghost Gods and Goddesses and families of them. Anyway, Roman imperial colonization and cultural Romanization of Europe, the Levant, West Asia and Egypt and North Africa was/were well established over the period of well more than 400 years before imperial Rome adopted its Romanized version of Christianity, officially instituted in 380 CE by a new Roman emperor, Theodosius I, after it was legally sanctioned (affirmatively) in 313 CE by a predecessor, other Roman emperor, Constantine I, aka Constantine the Great. (All but most of Europe of the said Romanized territories of the Western Roman Empire were Islamized and Arabized in the Arab-califate military conquest of them from circa 632 CE through 711 CE, following the death of the Prophet Muhammad, 570 CE-632 CE, of Arabia and founder of the religion of Islam, who was a victorious military leader and conqueror in his later life and upon his death left behind one of world's most well-trained, experienced and successful and best armed militaries of his time, https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Courses/Coalinga_College/World_Regional_Geography%3A_Understanding_World_Regions/07%3A__North_Africa_and_Southwest_Asia/7.04%3A_Conquest_in_North_Africa_and_Southwest_Asia -- Arabia was militarily a formidable province of the Western Roman Empire before its fall.) Moreover, the Western division of the Roman Empire collapsed as a preeminent military and political power within 100 years after it had adopted Christianity as its official religion, in 476 CE, although it would continue on for short of 100 years more under Germanic-barbarian control -- some click-to-view links: 1., short video, https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=Germanic%20barbarian%20rulers%20of%20the%20Western%20Roman%20Empire%20after%20its%20historically%20definitive%20fall%20in%20476%20CE&mmscn=stvo&mid=E442075F7D56A8B87633E442075F7D56A8B87633&ajaxhist=0 ; 2., circa 18-minute video, https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=History+narratives+and+videos+on+the+Germanic+barbarian+rulers%2c+Theodoric+and+his+successors%2c+of+the+Western+Roman+Empire+after+its+historically+definitive+fall+in+476+CE&&mid=771B2402504B46810691771B2402504B46810691&FORM=VAMGZC ; 3. short written narrative outline, https://www.historyandculture.org/historic-timelines/medieval-europe-timeline/early-middle-ages-timeline/theodoric-the-great ; 4., short written narrative, https://www.bookofworldhistory.com/blog/barbarian-invasions-and-the-fall-of-rome-the-rise-of-germanic-kingdoms-from-alaric-to-attila-the-hun.
Classical Greek analytical [and interrogative, debate and critique] thinking and logic are the core and distinctive forms and methods of thinking and reasoning of the formal and academic secular quasi-scientific, empirical and scientific intellectual community/ies and pursuits in Western civilization, commonly referred to as Western thought, including of the intelligentsia of imperial Rome at its height of power and dominion.
Incidentally, Caesar Augustus, an aficionado of Greek civilization and culture, recruited skilled Greeks and Greek intellectuals in large numbers to Roman society and granted them Roman citizenship and Roman Emperor Hadrian recruited them en masse to reside in Palestine.
Classical Greco-Roman civilization and culture and their historical paths are the foundation of Western civilization.
