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Romero visits Valruzia
"Encouraged" by the formation of Homeland Party
Hel, Valruzia
November 15, 5662


David Romero meets with Jacek Pawlak in Hel Valruzia to talk about Seleyan Yeudi concerns

Representatives from the Kalistani AYIC and the Valruzian Nasza Ojczyzna Party met this week in Hel Valruzia to discuss forging a closer relationship between the two Northern Seleyan Yeudi communities. The AYIC, founded earlier this year, claims to represent the nearly 3 Million Yeudi citizens in Ananto and Kalistan, while the Homeland Party has formed to give political voice to Valruzia's 15 million Yeudi citizens. Both organizations are focused on building and highlighting a national Yeudi identity within their respective nations which is free of external influence.

Romero and Pawlak met for several hours to discuss how the two groups could work together to advance both the national identification as well as a broader Seleyan identity that is separate from the Majatran nation state of Beiteynu. "As we have learned in Kalistan, the Yeudi diaspora, where ever it happens to exist has different interests than the population who happen to live in the nation formerly known as Beiteynu," said Romero in brief public remarks following the meetings. "This is not to disparage our Majatran kinsmen in any way, nor to tell them that they should join us in the diaspora. But we also invite them to follow the example of both AYIC and Nasza Ojczyzna and develop their own identities, independent of the Yeudi population that happens to live in the diaspora. They should know obviously that their interests in building and maintaining their own nation state are clearly not the same as mine, which happen to be in supporting both the Anantan Empress at home and in her foreign policy, and building a movement that is local to our nation and to our region of the world, with a focus on the lives, experiences and needs of the Seleyan Yeudi population rather than the Yeudis who live on the other side of the planet."

Romero expressed that there still remains a kinship with Yeudis all around the world. "I think ideally we would like to see similar movements and organization and associations of Yeudis everywhere there is a decent sized population of Yeudi people," said Romero. "We just don't want Beiteynu to think that they can direct our lives or split our loyalties, as they have in the past. As I have said: God has given me and my family and my neighbors a verdant garden, known as Kalistan to live in. This is the land he promised my own ancestors and descendants. Why would I ever prefer a barren wasteland in northern Majatra, where I have never been, where I am not wanted or well liked, and where I will end up being a second class citizen just so I can live in a land where struggle and conflict are guaranteed for me and my family? Yeudis in Kalistan live at peace where we are. Yeudis in Valruzia are here because they fled from there. These are the places we belong, and these are the places we must focus our time, attention, energy and resources onto."

Romero stated that the policies of the Beiteynese Government in the past were the largest sources of anti-Yeudi sentiment in the world in the last century. "I need not remind everyone here that Beiteynu was the country who deployed a nuclear weapon against Xsampa. What was the reason? It is very difficult to tell. But that disaster killed more people than even the Beiteynese designed missiles fired by Kundrati against Kalistan did. The war and death is plain for all to see. The meddling in other parts of the world to satisfy a parochial blood vendetta that is thousands of years old is also plain for all of us to see. And this provided fuel to collective blame of all the Yeudi people world wide who had nothing to do with any of that, no say in the policy, no vote. We want to make it explict: both the AYIC and the Homeland Party in Valruzia speak for ourselves. And if we loudly criticize the policies of the Beiteynese Government, that means we are on the side of those who prefer peace. But when they target Xsampa with a nuclear weapon, they may as well put a target on the backed of every single Yeudi in the diaspora, because they still claim to speak for all of us. Beiteynu has been the greatest single threat to the safety of Kalistani and Valruzian Yeudis for more than a century. But now, all of that is over."

The two groups meeting in Hel declared a common goal to improve the lives of the Yeudi people in Northern Seleya. "We will work together to push back against groups that would like to deny us our basic rights as citizens of either Kalistan or Valruzia," said Romero. "And we will help each other where we can against common adversaries. My group seeks to provide access for our people and to our community. Mr. Pawlak's group wishes to provide his people a unified political voice. We both are working for the betterment of the Seleyan Yeudi population and so we have these mutual shared goals that we can both work on. And best of all, they are working for the betterment of the communities we ourselves are a part of: Our family, our friend, our neighbors, and our homelands. The Beiteynese can do the same thing if they wanted. They can focus on their own home and leave other peoples' home alone."

Mr. Pawlack also delivered comments, largely echoing Mr. Romero's comments but adding words about the need of Valruzian Yeudis to unite politically to continue to advance the community's interests in Valruzia, and spoke out loudly against efforts to get his new party banned along ethnic lines. "We are a secular party," said Pawlack, "but like all Parties, we are an organization of shared, mutual interests, and those interests are quite unique. Whether we feel Valruzia is growing hostile to Yeudis or we prefer our Valruzian lifestyle over the strict Majatran one, this Party can give us a voice that is our own. We look forward to the opportunity to get to know all of you and talk to you about how Nasza Ojczyzna can help you make your dreams a reality."

The meeting, attended about 350 people, mostly large figures in Valruzian business, administrative and legal sectors, but also a lot of Yeudi activists, received the messages well, and then joined the two leaders for a short demonstration down Hel's main avenue to the City center, where they celebrated.

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