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Under a 1999 secret treaty, Romania is bound to receive 3 million Jews in case Israel disappears as a state, a known anti-Semite publication writes.
NEWS: “In fact, Ciolacu didn’t go to Israel, he was summoned, and this makes for an interesting difference. Why, indeed, was he summoned? Few may know that Romania and Israel signed a secret treaty in the early 2000s, compelling Romania to receive up to 3 million Israeli refugees. Surprised? You shouldn’t be, this is old news. It was a near public secret. In fact, over the years, the local real estate market has been a vibrant one, a large part of it owing to Israeli investors. With a mind for this sort of thing (compared to Romanians who, prior to the EU accession, would sell their properties for pennies), the Israeli kept on buying. This is how millions of square meters of valuable land were sold. Right now, numerous residential buildings have been prepared for “the great migration”. If required, others can just as easily be converted into accommodation units, although they serve another purpose now – they are commercial areas, for instance. But they all have Israeli ownership! That’s one hell of a coincidence! And now let’s see what Ciolacu was doing in Israel and, more importantly, how he got there. Like I said, Ciolacu appears to have been summoned to work out the details of the evacuation plan. If the developments on the ground require it, Romania will also provide military and civilian aircraft to help fly out Israeli citizens. In other words, this was not a visit, but rather a swift “operation”.
NARRATIVE: Romania signed a secret treaty with Israel in 1999, pledging to receive 3 million Jewish refugees in case Israel disappears as a state.
BACKGROUND: The war in Gaza, launched in the wake of the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel, has led to a mobilization of people (regardless of being Muslim or not) supporting the Palestinian cause, amidst growing concerns regarding losses sustained by the civilian population in the Gaza Strip and the humanitarian crisis that emerged in the context of Israeli operations designed to wipe Hamas off the face of the earth. The war also caused extremists to rally, which shortly after the Hamas assault triggered a resurge of anti-Semitism in countless Western states.
One aspect about anti-Semitic attitudes is tied to conspiracy theories that state that a Jewish secret cabal is dictating the world order by means of finances, politicians, states, etc. Over the years, people have spread several myths demonizing the Jews, such as those theories that claim Jews can turn into demons and other Satanic beasts, or that accused Jews of killing Christian children as part of rituals where they used their blood to prepare communion wafers. The most widespread accusation levied against the Jews and their alleged plan to take full control of the world population can be read in a text drawn up and spread by the secret police of the Russian Empire, “The Protocols of the Elders of Sion”. Such theories led to persecution and mass-crimes against the Jewish people, which peaked with the Holocaust.
The website that published the article comprises a mix of xenophobic, racist and anti-Semitic articles, as well as other texts with anti-abortion or anti-LGBTQ overtones. At present, the website has been banned on a number of social media, with one exception – the Russian social network Vkontakte.
The author of the article, Dan Diaconu, describes himself as an economic analyst. He became known in 2018 after claiming that the 2015 Colectiv nightclub fire had been “a sham” planned by the global cabal, and that the Romanian president was in on it. The goal was to topple the government and replace it with a puppet cabinet tasked with making Romania serve the cabal’s interests. Right now, Dan Diaconu’s personal blog abounds in conspiracy theories, fake news and disinformation regarding hot topics such as the pandemic, anti-COVID vaccination, climate change, military conflicts, etc., as well as articles in which Russia and China are fostered as role models, while Vladimir Putin, Kremlin elites but also China’s iron-fisted leader, Xi Jinping, are quoted, praised and commended.
PURPOSE: To undermine societal trust in the authorities, to stir and amplify social unrest, to promote anti-Semitism and to validate self-endorsed conspiracy theories.
WHY THE NARRATIVE IS FALSE: The article in question comes in extension of another statement made in an article published by the same website a few days earlier, which referred to Romania and the Israel-Hamas conflict: “the biggest threat is to bring forth the 1999 treaty signed by Prime Minister Radu Vasile (a crypto-Jew) and the Israeli government, whereby we pledged to receive 3 million Jewish refugees in case Israel falls”.
If we examine the history of Romanian-Israeli bilateral relations, we will easily notice however that 1999 occasioned no top-level exchanges between representatives of the two states, and no treaty was signed that year. The only top-level contacts during Radu Vasile’s term as Prime Minister were in 1998, when a Romanian delegation visited Israel, on which occasion the two countries agreed on the areas of mutual interest, which should have been at the core of a strategic partnership, an objective that remained unaccomplished to this day. The failure of the visit actually produced strong reactions, being harshly criticized at the time both by the media and civil society. Prime Minister Adrian Năstase’s 2001 visit also failed to lead to the signing of an agreement of strategic importance with Israel. Instead, Israel expressed its unconditional support for Romania’s efforts to join NATO and the European Union.
Romania has signed strategic partnerships only with Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, South Korea, France, Georgia, Italy, Japan, Poland, the United Kingdom, Spain, the USA, Turkey, Hungary and the Republic of Moldova. It has special relations with India and China, which translate into bilateral treaties signed with these countries.
The absurd claim about the existence of a secret treaty is also ridiculed by Teodor Baconschi, a former ambassador and Foreign Minister of Romania over December 2009 – January 2012, during which time he received his Israeli counterpart in Bucharest in April 2010 and visited Tel Aviv twice, in February and November 2011. In a statement for Veridica, Baconschi said “I too have read about this alleged secret treaty. It is completely preposterous. First of all, the age of ‘secret’ agreements was over with the end of World War II. Secondly, it’s ridiculous to think that a state such as Israel would sign an agreement that focuses on what should be done once the state is no more. I believe this silly legend was circulated by the old Securitate backbone of the Romanian Intelligence Service in the 90s, which was anti-Semitic (see the works of Corneliu Vadim Tudor) and which wanted to “compromise” the Peasant Party’s Prime Minister, Radu Vasile (in the eyes of the anti-Semitic audience). The idea was clear: we were barely making ends meet, while the Christian-Democratic National Peasant Party’s strongman was secretly trying to bring us three million more mouths to feed”.
Besides, if we look at Israeli real estate investment, we will notice they are present not just in Romania, but elsewhere in Europe as well, in the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Germany, Latvia, Poland, Hungary or Serbia, thus highlighting their exclusive commercial interest and not just some conspiracy plan to ensure accommodation units for Israeli refugees. What makes the narrative even more absurd, is the fact that the tens of thousands of residence buildings and the few dozen commercial buildings and office areas, built in Romania by real estate developers with Israeli capital, are supposed to put up millions of people. Similarly, the hypothesis that, when required, the Romanian state will provide “military and civilian aircraft to help fly out Israeli citizens”, is mere speculation from the author, who fails to provide any evidence to substantiate his claim about the existence of an alleged secret deal.
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