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"Of Course we are Right," says Romero
AYIC Leader thanks Benowitz for her Support, invites her to join AYIC
Sulari, Duchy of Suldanor
June 5, 5666


AYIC Leader counts Neset comments as "Victory for Kalistani Yeudis"

"This is absolutely a victory for Kalistani Yeudis," said AYIC leader David Romero, as his ongoing strike against the Amudim driven Yeudi Neset organization continues.  Mr. Romero spoke at an AYIC rally in downtown Sulari today to encourage Kalistan's Yeudi community to reach out to friends, relatives neighbors and co-workers about the efforts the Neset is making to sideline Kalistan and marginalize Kalistani Yeudi concerns.  He was responding specifically to an article in The Times of Yishelem, titled "They Are Right [...]"  "She said in her country's paper that we have a point, that Kalistani Yeudis have been neglected by the Neset, and reluctantly acknowledged the support and protection that this Nation, our Nation has offered to us as Yeudis Yeudis while our relatives and loved ones were being persecuted around the world.  We were right, Ms. Benowitz declared.  To which we respond, 'Of Course we were right.  We're Kalistani.'"

Romero said despite Benowitz' conciliatory language toward Kalistan, this was not what his group is looking for, at all.  "Ms. Benowitz says a lot of pretty words about Kalistan," he said to a crowd of over 10,000 supporters who met at Martinez Park in Downtown Sulari to kick off the summer PR campaign for AYIC.  "It's nice that she acknowledged history.  But our statement was not one of unity.  We are striving for an identity, separate from those represented by Ms. Benowitz's organization.  Which, at the end of the day, is no different than our own.  They represent a constituency, no larger or really much different from our own."

The only issue, Romero said was that "The Neset, as it is takes their constituency for granted.  For far too long they have assumed that they are the single spokespeople for the various Yeudi communities in Seleya, Keris, and Macon.  Did they ask us if they could speak for us?  Did they bother coming to our nation one single time while they bribed other governments to block us at every turn, or worse, to attack our people with their weaponry?  Yes, we know who was behind the missiles who struck sleeping Yeudis in their own homes.  It was Ms. Benowitz' group, the Neset who sold Kalistani Yeudis out during the war to protect some privilege they believed they had in a place like Kundrati, of all places.  They protected their hovel in a shtetl in a fascist dystopia, and helped that nation destroy mansions and single family homes here in Kalistan to do it.  We do not forget, Ms. Benowitz.  Those deaths are at the Neset's doorstep."

Then Romero offered the coup de Grace: "If Ms. Benowitz really wants to do some good, she will disband her organization and have her constituents begin supporting AYIC. If she truly cares about global unity, that is."

Romero's firey speech was a flat out rebuke of the Neset in Kalistan, and a warning shot to Neset activities in Seleya.  "We are asking Seleyan Yeudis to reject this so called leadership from afar and take matters into your own hands here in Seleya.  Foreign kings, foreign interest groups, which have used us and ignored us when we begged for help, why do they still hold such power over us?  What we as Seleyans should do is work together, for our own interests, and say good bye to the old world, the world of masters and puppets.  I as a Kalistani recognize no sovereign but my Empress.  A Valruzian Yeudi should recognize no sovereign but his or her Constitution and the people who live and rule under it, just the same.  But our sovereign, as Yeudis, is not in Majatra, or in Artania.  It is right here, at home, in Seleya.  And blowing us off with some sugarry words, as Ms. Benowitz has really isn't going to change that."

Romero finished the rousing speech with a  call to action.  "Let's work to get this message out.  The Neset is not our friend.  It never has been and it never will be.  And the only way we will stand up against this international cabal of influence peddlers is if we stand together.  Surely our Governments will hear our pleas to divest from the Neset.  I can tell you Kalistan has.  It is my prayer that all do.  But to do that, we, the Yeudi People need to call on them to do that.  Today."

The crowd roared their approval, and at this moment, Mr. Romero asked his invited guest, the Chancellor of the Empire to the podium to offer some words of support and solidarity between all Kalistanis.  Along with her came Lady Helen Ananto-Reynolds, head of House Ananto, who publicly presented Mr. Romero and his organization a check for ₭500,000 Imperial Rubles before a cheering crowd of supporters.

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