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Are You Ready to Face the Facts About Israel?
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
Counterpunch
Saturday, July 26, 2008
“On October 21 (1948) the Government of Israel took a decision that was to have a lasting and divisive effect on the rights and status of those Arabs who lived within its borders: the official establishment of military government in the areas where most of the inhabitants were Arabs.”
Martin Gilbert, Israel: a History
I had given up on finding an American with a moral conscience and the courage to go with it and was on the verge of retiring my keyboard when I met the Rev. Thomas L. Are.
Rev. Are is a Presbyterian pastor who used to tell his Atlanta, Georgia, congregation: “I am a Zionist.” Like most Americans, Rev. Are had been seduced by Israeli propaganda and helped to spread the propaganda among his congregation.
Around 1990 Rev. Are had an awakening for which he credits the Christian Canon of St. George’s Cathedral in Jerusalem and author Marc Ellis, co-editor of the book, Beyond Occupation.
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Realizing that his ignorance of the situation on the ground had made him complicit in great crimes, Rev. Are wrote a book hoping to save others from his mistake and perhaps in part to make amends, Israeli Peace Palestinian Justice, published in Canada in 1994.
Rev. Are researched his subject and wrote a brave book. Keep in mind that 1994 was long prior to Walt and Mearsheimer’s recent book, which exposed the power of the Israel Lobby and its ability to control the explanation Americans receive about the “Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
Rev. Are begins with an account of Israel’s opening attack on the Palestinians, an event which took place before most Americans alive today were born. He quotes the distinguished British historian, Arnold J. Toynbee: “The treatment of the Palestinian Arabs in 1947 (and 1948) was as morally indefensible as the slaughter of six million Jews by the Nazis. Though nor comparable in quantity to the crimes of the Nazis, it was comparable in quality.”
Golda Meir, considered by Israelis as a great leader and by others as one of history’s great killers, disputed the facts: “It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist.”
Golda Meir’s apology for Israel’s great crimes is so counter-factual that it blows the mind. Palestinian refugee camps still exist outside Palestine filled with Palestinians and their descendants whose towns, villages, homes and lands were seized by the Israelis in 1948. Rev. Are provides the reader with Na’im Ateek’s description of what happened to him, an 11-year old, when the Jews came to take Beisan on May 12, 1948. Entire Palestinian communities simply disappeared.
In 1949 the United Nations counted 711,000 Palestinian refugees. [United Nations General Assembly Appendix 4, No. 15 ]
In 2005 the United Nations Relief and Works Agency estimated 4.25 million Palestinians and their descendants were refugees from their homeland.
The Israeli policy of evicting non-Jews has continued for six decades. On June 19, 2008, the Laity Committee in the Holy Land reported in Window Into Palestine that the Israeli Ministry of Interior is taking away the residency rights of Jerusalem Christians who have been reclassified as “visitors in their own city.”
On December 10, 2007, MK Ephraim Sneh boasted in the Jerusalem Post that Israel had achieved “a true Zionist victory” over the UN partition plan “which sought to establish two nations in the land of Israel.” The partition plan had assigned Israel 56 percent of Palestine, leaving the inhabitants with only 44 percent. But Israel had altered this over time. Sneb proudly declared: “When we complete the permanent agreement, we will hold 78 percent of the land while the Palestinians will control 22 percent.”
Sneb could have added that the 22 percent is essentially a collection of unconnected ghettos cut off from one another and from roads, water, medical care, and jobs.
Rev. Are documents that the abuse of Palestinians’ human rights is official Israeli policy. Killings, torture, and beatings are routine. On May 17, 1990, the Washington Post reported that Save the Children “documented indiscriminate beating, tear-gassing and shooting of children at home or just outside the house playing in the street, who were sitting in the classroom or going to the store for groceries.”
On January 19, 1988, Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, later Prime Minister, announced the policy of “punitive beating” of Palestinians. The Israelis described the purpose of punitive beating: “Our task is to recreate a barrier and once again put the fear of death into the Arabs of the area.”
According to Save the Children, beatings of children and women are common. Rev. Are, citing the report in the Washington Post, writes: “Save the Children concluded that one-third of beaten children were under ten years old, and one-fifth under the age of five. Nearly a third of the children beaten suffered broken bones.”
On February 8, 1988, Newsweek magazine quoted an Israeli soldier: “ We got orders to knock on every door, enter and take out all the males. The younger ones we lined up with their faces against the wall, and soldiers beat them with billy clubs. This was no private initiative, these were orders from our company commander. . . . After one soldier finished beating a detainee, another soldier called him ‘you Nazi,’ and the first man shot back: ‘You bleeding heart.’ When one soldier tried to stop another from beating an Arab for no reason, a fist fight broke out.”
These were the old days before conscience was eliminated from the ranks of the Israeli military.
In the London Sunday Times, June 19, 1977, Ralph Schoenman, executive director of the Bertrand Russell Foundation, wrote: “Israeli interrogators routinely ill-treat and torture Arab prisoners. Prisoners are hooded or blindfolded and are hung by their wrists for long periods. Most are struck in the genitals or in other ways sexually abused. Most are sexually assaulted. Others are administered electric shock.”
Amnesty International concluded that “there is no country in the world in which the use of official and sustained torture is as well established and documented as in the case of Israel.”
Even the pro-Israeli Washington Post reported: “Upon arrest, a detainee undergoes a period of starvation, deprivation of sleep by organized methods and prolonged periods during which the prisoner is made to stand with his hands cuffed and raised, a filthy sack covering the head. Prisoners are dragged on the ground, beaten with objects, kicked, stripped and placed under ice-cold showers.”
Sounds like Abu Gharib. There are news reports that Israeli torture experts participated in the torture of the detainees assembled by the American military as part of the Bush Regime’s propaganda onslaught to convince Americans that Iraq was overflowing with al Qaeda terrorists. On July 23, 2008, Antiwar.com posted an Iraqi news report that the Iraqi government had released a total of 109,087 Iraqis that the Americans had “detained.” Obviously, these “terrorist detainees” had been used for the needs of Bush Regime propaganda. No one will ever know how many of them were abused by Israeli torturers imported by the CIA.
Rev. Are’s book makes sensible suggestions for resolving the conflict that Israel began. However, the problem is that Israeli governments believe only in force. The policy of the Israeli government has always been to beat, kill, and brutalize Palestinians into submission and flight. Anyone who doubts this can read the book of Israel’s finest historian Ilan Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006).
Americans are a gullible and naive people. They have been complicit for 60 years in crimes that in Arnold Toynbee’s words “are comparable in quality” to the crimes of Nazi Germany. As Toynbee was writing decades ago, the accumulated Israeli crimes might now be comparable also in quantity.
The US routinely vetoes United Nations condemnations of Israel for its brutal crimes against the Palestinians. Insouciant American taxpayers have been bled for a half century to provide the Israelis with superior military weapons with which Israelis assault their neighbors, all the while convincing America–essentially a captive nation–that Israel is the victim.
John F. Mahoney wrote: “Thomas Are reminds me of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: an active pastor who comes to the unsettling realization that he and his people have been fed a terrible lie that is killing and torturing thousands of innocent men, women and children. Not without ample research and prayer does such a pastor, in turn, risk unsettling his congregation. The Reverend Are has done his homework and, I suspect, has prayed often and long during the writing of this courageous book.”
Bonhoeffer was a Lutheran theologian and pastor who was executed for his active participation in the German Resistance against Nazism.
Professor Benjamin M. Weir, San Francisco Theological Seminary, wrote: “ This book will make the reader squirm. It asks you to lend your voice in behalf of the voiceless.”
Americans who can no longer think for themselves and who are terrified of disapproval by their peer group are incapable of lending their voices to anyone except those who control the world of propaganda in which they live.
The ignorance and unconcern of Americans is a great frustration to my friends in the Israeli peace movement. Without outside support those Israelis, who believe in good will and do not share their government’s belief in Lenin’s doctrine that violence is the only effective force in history, are deprived, by America’s support for their government’s policy of violence, of any peaceful resolution of a conflict began in 1947 by Israeli aggression against unsuspecting Palestinian villages.
Rev. Are wrote his book with the hope that the pen is mightier than the sword and that facts can crowd out propaganda and create a framework for a just resolution of the Palestinian issue. In his concluding chapter, “What Christians Can Do,” Rev. Are writes: “We cannot allow others to dictate our thinking on any subject, especially on anything as important as Christian faithfulness, which is tested by an attitude towards seeking justice for the oppressed. It’s a Christian’s duty to know.”
Duty, of course, has costs. Rev. Are writes: “Speak up for the Palestinians and you will make enemies. Yet, as Christians, we must be willing to raise issues that until now we have chosen to dodge.”
More than a decade later, President Jimmy Carter, a true friend of Israel, tried again to awaken Americans’ moral conscience with his book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.
Carter was instantly demonized by the Israel Lobby.
Sixty years of efforts by good and humane people to hold Israel accountable have so far failed, but they are more important today than ever before. Israel has its captive American nation on the verge of attacking Iran, the consequences of which could be catastrophic for all concerned. The alleged purpose of the attack is to eliminate nonexistent Iranian nuclear weapons. The real reason is to eliminate all support for Hamas and Hezbollah so that Israel can seize the entire West Bank and southern Lebanon. The Bush regime is eager to do Israel’s bidding, and the media and evangelical “christian” churches have been preparing the American people for the event.
It is paradoxical that Israel is demonstrating that veracity lies not in the Christian belief in good will but in Lenin’s doctrine that violence is the effective force in history and that the evangelical Christian Zionist churches agree.
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July 26th, 2008 at 5:47 am
I recently saw a documentary about a group of South-African Jews who visited Palestinian ghettos in Israel. They were immediately attacked by fundamentalist orthodox Jewish settlers who threw stone at them and started a fight. The Israeli police did nothing to protect them.
One of the South-African Jews, who visited Israel to see with his own eyes if the stories about apartheid were true, was interviewed after this incident. He told that his family had been murdered in Nazi Germany but that he regarded what he had seen and experienced during his visit as pure racism and fascism.
It seems that after the Second World war, many Nazis did not flee to South America, but they went straight to the state of Israel to become politicians there.
July 26th, 2008 at 6:51 am
Support Israel and you support nazis, pure and simple. But, Rev. Are, you are still kidding yourself being a kristian…you are just a believer…always believing, it’s your kristianity that that made you blind in the first place and I will add here keeps you blind. You contribute to the enslavement of humanity…thanks we all appreciate that. Wake up you gd fool.
July 26th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
I find your comments to be quite comical mar. In one breath you condemn a nation for its intolerance and in the next you vomit out intolerance for a man because of his religious beliefs.
seems to me YOU are the one that needs to wake up.
July 26th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Bush Fush , I only read about that visit , i did not see it and apparently these South African jews said what they had seen in Palestinian territories was far worse than what happened under the south African APartheid . to see Palestinians standing for hours under a hot sun ,(at checkpoints) to visit another town in the westbank was appalling , to have different color vehicle registration and also JewS ONLY roads caught their attention .
(68 new born babies have died at those checkpoints on Palestinian land by the way not israel , by the time help came it was too late . sometimes the mother die , bleeding to death . One woman lost both her twins .. and the tragedy continues with Arab Cooperation im afraid , because the Arab leaders are cowards and traitors (im Arab by the way and they disgust me ) they have good relations with America, why cant they use that to help the Palestinians ? But the Arab leaders have Sold the Paelstinian cause to the zionists ever since the 1940s ..
July 26th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Mr Roberts
thank you for such a brilliant article . I do admire and respect Americans with a conscience . Fortunately there are quite a few of them , but the media does not treat them well (we know who own the media )
July 26th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Israel was the driving force behind 9/11. Alex Jones fears Dov Zakheim and Dominic Suter…….
July 26th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
The Soviets learned their torture techniques from the Zionists. These techniques will soon be unleashed upon the U.S. Crushed testicles and a water hose down the throat filling up the stomach beyond capacity will be just the beginning.
July 26th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Are you all that easy to fool? The Jesuits formed the NAZIs who entered our CIA after the war: what you are witnessing is nothing but the Catholic Inquisition morphing through time to our present day. This Jew-hate garbage is straight from something Roman Catholic Joseph Goebbels would have concocted.
The threat is ROME, not the Jews. I can’t believe how gullible some people are to fall for this same trick thatthe Jesuits pulled in Nazi Germany – blame the Jews for what the Vatican’s SMOM & Jesuits have done.
July 26th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Maybe we should be attacking Israel Instead if Iran???? hmmmm, maybe that would stop Iran from it’s desire to get nuclear protection against Israel….. Very Interesting concept!
July 26th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
ok let me get this straigh,jews beleve they are the chosen people,from a fairytale book right?
and most fundimentalist christians believe that too.
this comes from a book that is mostly wild imagination,so we kill and maim in the name of something that is pure love? am i right so far?
hmmm just a cursory glance at religion tells me its seriously fucked up and causes intelligent people to lose the power of reason and wisdom.
we as a race need to move beyond this evil and let religion become a quaint topic over dinner at how silly we once all were.
July 26th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Hitler was a Jew. He simply created the impetus for regular Jews to leave Europe and fullfill the Balfour declaration of 1917 that committed the British (via Lord Rothschild) to building a homeland for the Jews in Israel LONG before the Nazis. Now tell me this, if you are a regular working class Jew in pre WW2 Europe and the Rothschild Zionist Bankers say “Hey! let’s go live in the desert because we are all Jews” are you going to just get up and go? NO. They needed a “catastrophic and catalyzing event” to get all the Jews to get out of their comfy home lives and mobilize. Sounds just like the PNAC document plan to me.
July 26th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
Paul Craig Roberts suck up to the Catholic Church if you want, but I won’t. Israel made errors, but you’re stereotyping of conservative Christians as lustful of war is a lie. So, Roberts I read his words with a grain of salt.
July 26th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
There is no Jesus. It is a rediculous fairy tale and you idiots that believe it…I have a hard time calling you humans. You are full of fear of the unknown. Scared of burning in hell with a scary monster? lol You are just cattle being herded up for slaughter. Religion is the original 911. Oh yeah, Jesus turned water into wine and rocks into bread and came back to life after being killed. LOL Are you kidding me? You actually believe this stuff? MORONS!!!! You people are the reason they get away with lies like Global terrorism and Global warming and false flag operations to incite war.
July 26th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
The religious question is exactly why we have this sort of mess. Any Israeli alive today who actually believes he/she is “chosen” among the other 6.5 billion people on this planet is a complete fool. It’s just another reason they use to excuse the evil they put upon other “men”. No matter what you believe (God or no God), men are greedy and would rather keep everything to themselves while all others die than to share and have all others live, period. It’s in our entire history and will be that way until our history has run out. The animals look upon us in fear and disgust – we’re the only species that kills for greed. I’ll wager there is not a person among those that read this comment who (if given the opportunity) wouldn’t resort to the same corruption that has led us to our current state – greed is in our nature (to be better than someone else, to have more than someone else, to be liked more than someone else, to get more laughs than someone else, to be smarter, taller, faster, etc.) and ultimate power leads to ultimate corruption. Everyone knows it and because most have no taste of any power whatsoever, they go along with the established thought that it’s okay to kill just because of their religious beliefs. Israel is a murderer, the US is a murderer, the UK is a murderer, Iran is a murderer, they are all murderers.
July 27th, 2008 at 12:03 am
Chris, you are the one who is extremely ignorant. Jesus did exist, and why don’t you tell me why the Rockefeller family supports the Anti-Christian organizations? Why is Jesus still hated by the Jews if Jesus was such a monster like those Jews as you describe? Huh? Tell me, moron, don’t tell me Zeitgeist is all that you know about Christianity.
And Jews being chosen does not mean they are the MASTER RACE, you ignorant hippies. Never read the Bible before? Then shut up. God has punished and hated the Jews for so many times in the Bible, and why is that? Aren’t they the CHOSEN ONES, THE MASTER RACE?
Morons…
July 27th, 2008 at 12:14 am
Well In the Islam book ” Koran” it i said that Christian are mislead by the Jews, and the Jews changed and altered their Holly books thoughout the History in order to achieve Political and Fincanial gains, therefore what you see from Christianity and Judaism is nothng like what Mosed and Jesus might have bought or preached for. The you ask: then what was said about Islam? by the Islam Prophit: Muslims will do exactly what Jews did, even if a Jews screwed hs mother Publicly a muslim will do it one day because of the corruption that will come, but what’s the difference between Islam, Christians and Jews is that the first one still have a refernce to go back too when he looses his way, but the last 2 have nothing to go back to because their refrence which is their holly books became so ultered that nothing is left in it that makes it Divine any more.
And to the People who refuses Religions and makes fun of people who believe in Heaven and Hell, I will tell you one thing. Whoever made this Universe, was not playing, you will be asked for what you have done, you can deny it now as much as you want, but there will be judgment and there you will stand infront of your ceator and you will judge for every wrong you have commited, and rewarded for ever Good you have made.
July 27th, 2008 at 5:51 am
oh crap, let me just point out that THIS Chris is not the OTHER Chris. THIS Chris only posted the comment about ALex JOnes being afraid of Dov Zakheim. carry on…..
July 27th, 2008 at 5:52 am
and Chris, did you not see my coments? maybe you could have added an initial after your name?
July 27th, 2008 at 5:53 am
This site preaches HATE! Hate is why thing’s cannot be worked out between men and nation’s THAT is the problem HATE!!!
July 27th, 2008 at 8:24 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V5iCUBEUx4
you dont have to accept this-
GS
July 27th, 2008 at 11:44 am
i am not ashamed of the gospel for it is the power of god for salvation to the JEW FIRST and the the gentile
for a christian NOT to suport the jew then i say to you
how are you then SAVED?
the grand father of our christianity is ABRAM
and god said to him I WILL CURSE THOSE WHO CURSE YOU
and i will bless those who bless you
were was the protest or the news when rome SACKED
israel and FORBID any jew to live in JUDEA?
were are the news reports of the arabs who are hurt in arabe bombing that its the JEW EMT’s that are there for them and get them to the ER?
its nice to see because of a few zioniest that anti semitisim is alive and well against them all
NOT
July 27th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
With more conflicting conspiracy theories about this topic and Jews in general than a lunatic asylum, its getting harder and harder to give Mr. Jones any credibility for letting this filth on his website. While he has exposed some great truths about many topics, his posts on Israel are always absolute bonkers mixed in with Islamic propaganda. Its incredible that many comments on the site try to call jews nazis in this way or that, when the reality is that there is a damming connection between modern day Islam and actual nazism. I would recommend you guys have a look at this site
http://www.tellthechildrenthetruth.com/
July 27th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
@saxon
Christianity teaches that salvation comes only through Christ not by idolizing Jews. Maybe you should reread the Bible sometimes. How do you explain the following:
“Abraham is our father,” they answered.
“If you were Abraham’s children,” said Jesus, “then you would do the things Abraham did. As it is, you are determined to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do such things. You are doing the things your own father does.”
“We are not illegitimate children,” they protested. “The only Father we have is God himself.”
Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now am here. I have not come on my own; but he sent me. Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say. You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies. Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me! Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me? He who belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.” (John 8:39-47)
Do not rejoice, O Israel, with joy like other peoples, For you have played the harlot against your God. You have made love for hire on every threshing floor. (Hosea 9:1)
I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars — I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you.(Revelation 3:9)
July 27th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Anti-semitism is caused by the behavior of the jews, nothing more complex than that. They’ve been thrown out of more nations throughout history for doing exactly what they’re doing now than most people could stomach to read about. They are not christ’s chosen people, he exposed them as the swine they are numerous times in the new testament.
Can you be bothered to google the Talmud? Anyone?
July 27th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
WARNING: Not for the faint of mind/may be too intense for those who are zionists or anti-Catholic.
The Point
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Edited Under Fr. Leonard Feeney M.I.C.M. — Saint Benedict Center
April, 1956
THE STORY OF GOD AND THE JEWS:
Nineteen Hundred Years of Rejection
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However divided the Gentile nations may be in their instincts and aspirations, they unite in their common aversion to the Jew; it is the one point on which they establish immediate agreement.”
When Jewish leader Leon Pinsker made the above statement, in the year 1882, the pogroms of Russia, in which tens of thousands of Jews were massacred, had only just begun; Adolph Hitler of Germany was not yet born; the Dreyfus Case of France was still twelve years away. Yet the truth of Pinsker’s statement was as strikingly evident when he made it as it is today.
For nineteen hundred years the pattern has been the same — relentlessly, incredibly, almost monotonously the same. Wherever in the world numbers of Jews have appeared, in that place antipathy to Jews has arisen. It is a phenomenon without precedent or parallel in human experience. The hostilities that have grown against other peoples, in particular places, at particular times, cannot be compared with this stupendous, world-filling hatred. Its outbreaks punctuate history like an insistent, recurring theme. So universal is it, that if a colony of Jews should settle in a country where their race had never before been known, it could be predicted, unequivocally, that sooner or later the people of that country would turn against the Jews. It has never failed. And the longer the inevitable reaction is delayed, the more furiously does it eventually burst forth. “The growth of anti-Semitism is proportionate to the number of Jews per square kilometer,” Chaim Weizmann, first President of the State of Israel, once said. “We carry the germs of anti-Semitism in a knapsack on our backs.”
In the following paragraphs, The Point presents a summary of what has happened to the Jews as they have wandered through the world with their knapsacks. It is a grim, violent story — concerning a people who, in the words of Saint Paul, “please not God and are adversaries to all men.”
* * * * *
Perhaps the most striking evidence of the world’s antipathy toward Jews lies in the well-kept record of Jewish expulsions. Nearly every land which the Jews have entered has, at some point, lost all patience with them and demanded that they pack up and leave. This has been going on, without interruption, ever since the Roman armies turned the Jews out of Jerusalem in the year 70 A. D. Successive Roman emperors continued the suppression, and after the break-up of the Empire, Jews came to be looked upon as the “property” of the many feudal princes, who tolerated or expelled them at their pleasure.
With the rise of centralized governments, the Jews incurred far more inclusive edicts of banishment. Thus, they were barred from all of Spain in the seventh century, and again in 1492. The Moorish kingdom of Granada expelled them in 1066, and they were forced out of France in 1182, again in 1306, again in 1394, and again, out of Southern France, in 1682. In accordance with a decree of Pope Leo VII, the Jews were exiled from Germany in the tenth century; they were expelled again one hundred years later, and once again in the year 1349. England ordered them to leave in 1290, preventing their return for 350 years. The Jews were forced out of Hungary twice: in 1360 and again in 1582. From Belgium, they were expelled in 1370. From Austria in 1420 and again in 1670. From Lithuania, in 1495. From Portugal, in 1498. From Prussia, in 1510. From the Kingdom of Naples, in 1540. From Bavaria, in 1551. From the Genoese Republic, in 1567. And from the Papal States, the Pope’s personal domains, the Jews were expelled in 1569 and, once again, thirty years later.
* * * * *
The usual history text which sets out to tell the story of the Jews over the past 2,000 years becomes, in effect, a repetitious catalogue of one mass slaughter after another. For, since the dispersion of the year 70, when more than a million Jews were left dead in the streets of Jerusalem, wholesale death — the riot and then the pogrom — has followed the Jew down each new path of his wanderings.
The total number of Jews put to death under the authority of the later Roman Empire has never been tabulated to the Jews’ satisfaction. In one three-year period (132-135) 500,000 Middle East Jews fell before Roman swords. And each succeeding age, down to our own day, has left a similar record behind it.
The year 523 saw thousands of Jews slaughtered by Christian Abyssinians in Yemen. The Mohammedan Caliph of Damascus took a comparable toll in the early 700’s. The first days of the Crusades brought death to numberless Jewish communities in Central Europe, and when Jerusalem was finally taken by the Christian armies in 1099, the city’s Jewish inhabitants died in the flames of the principal synagogue. The century following saw pogroms in many countries, the most extensive being those of Mohammedan Spain, of France, and of England.
Christian Spain and England both started off the next century with slaughters of the Jews, and Germany concluded it with the pogroms of 1283 and 1298. The year 1321 brought anti-Jewish riots in France, which were surpassed in intensity by those of Spain in 1355. During the fourteenth century, in Germany alone, 300 entire communities of Jews were destroyed. Early in the fifteenth century, all the Jews of Salzburg were burned alive and, shortly after, the riots in Rome provoked by the preaching of Saint John Capistrano forced all the Jews in the city to barricade themselves in their houses.
The most notable Jewish slaughters of the l600’s were those in Poland, where more than 200,000 were slain under the Cossack leader, Chmielnicki. Such treatment for the Jews of Eastern Europe (over half the world’s number at that time) continued into the present century. During Russia’s anti-Jewish demonstrations of 1905, there were 690 separate pogroms within one eleven-day period. And in the years that followed, Greece, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Romania all conducted extensive slaughters of their respective Jews — until these countries became incorporated into that potent anti-Jewish machine which the Jews claim was the bloodiest of all time: the National-Socialist Government of Germany.
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Behind the expulsions and mass exterminations of the Jews there has been, of course, an ordered and unquestioned tradition of social, political, and religious legislation against them. In the year 315, the first law of Imperial Rome passed under direct Christian influence demanded the death penalty for any gentile who should join himself to a synagogue. Saint Ambrose, the Bishop of Milan (397), instructed his people on the need for avoiding the Jews by saying that, “The very conversation with them is a pollution.” In 418, Jews in the Empire were forever excluded from the Roman army and from all public offices. In 537, they were prohibited from receiving dignities or honors of any kind, and in 553 the Emperor Justinian interdicted their Talmud. Around 650 the Mohammedan Caliph Omar ordered that Jews in his territories must wear a distinctive dress that would make them at all times recognizable. Similar strictures were imposed in 723 by the Byzantine Emperor Leo III. Charlemagne’s son was severely reprimanded in 829 by the ecclesiastical Council of Lyons for advocating the softening of certain anti-Jewish laws, and all during the rest of the ninth and tenth centuries both the feudal states of Europe and the Byzantine Empire in the East kept detailed legislation against Jews strictly enforced.
By the year 1006, ghettos had already been established in Bavaria, and the special “Jew tax” was everywhere exacted. This followed upon the universally accepted principle (later taught by the Church’s eminent theologian, Saint Thomas Aquinas) that all property of the Jews belongs by right to the temporal ruler who suffers them in his domains. The year 1155 saw the accession of the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, who referred to Jews as “belonging to the royal treasury,” and expended them accordingly. The Church’s Fourth Lateran Council, whose decrees are binding on all Catholics, codified and reasserted in 1215 many traditional pronouncements on Jewish segregation. Most emphatically urged were the exclusion of Jews from all public offices and the demand that they wear the “Jew badge.” In some sections this bright-colored badge came to be required not only of unconverted Jews, but also of all Jewish converts.
During the next three centuries, in those countries where Jews were still legally allowed to remain, there was vigorous enforcement of further anti-Jewish legislation, including compulsory attendance at “conversionist” sermons, prohibitions against Jews appearing in the streets on Sundays and great Church feast days, more rigorous ghetto edicts, and public burnings of the Talmud. By 1550, there were no Jews lawfully resident in England, France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, the Scandinavian countries or Russia. Pope Paul IV, in 1555, re-decreed much of the previous papal legislation against the Jews, emphasizing that they must not practice medicine or own real estate in Christian communities. In 1615, King Louis XIII bolstered the “Jew laws” of France by forbidding the Christians, under pain of death and confiscation, to shelter Jews or even to converse with them. Between 1649 and 1882, the Russian government issued over a thousand distinct anti-Jewish measures, The first Jews who arrived in what was to be the United States were asked to leave by Peter Stuyvesant at New Amsterdam; and even Lord Baltimore’s Catholic colony of Maryland, famed for its “tolerance,” would not grant citizenship to Jews. Indeed, it was not until 1826 that Jews in Maryland were given full “emancipation” by the state legislature; while in nearby North Carolina comparable recognition did not come until after the War Between the States.
The right of citizenship, withheld from Jews in every country during all the Christian ages, was not allowed to them until the triumph of the Judaeo-Masonic, anti-Christian principles of the French Revolution in 1789. Thus, Jews were not granted citizenship in France until 1791, in Holland until 1796, in Belgium until 1815, in Denmark until 1849, in England until 1858, in Switzerland until 1865, in Austria-Hungary until 1867, in Germany until 1870, and in Russia until 1917.
With their new-won citizenship, and the freedom of operation that it brought, the Jews devised spectacular reprisals against the nations which had so long held them in check. And yet, “liberation” of the Jews has in no sense meant immunization from further anti-Jewish outbreaks. Our own century, which has seen the unrivalled height of Jewish power, has already known unprecedented slaughters of the Jews. Europe, wasted by Jewish wars, beleaguered by Jewish Marxism, still, even now, gives indication of resistance — with 53 deputies in the present French Assembly elected on an anti-Jewish platform.
Even America, most docile of hosts to the Jews, is not for a moment regarded by them as a lasting, sure asylum. That leading molder of Jewish opinion, the Jewish Examiner of Brooklyn, put the issue very clearly just a couple of years ago with its hold-type warning, “We have no faith in the future security of American Jewry.”
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The history of the Jews, as they have wandered from nation to nation, inevitably leads one to ask: But why have these people been singled out for universal abhorrence? What have they done to make themselves so despised? What is wrong with the Jews?
This question has its answer in an event that happened long ago, when a frenzied Jerusalem mob, standing in the courtyard of the city’s Roman governor, hurled at the heavens its defiant shout, “His Blood be upon us and upon our children!”
That is what is wrong with the Jews. They have assumed, as a nation, guilt for the death of God They, once God’s chosen people, have called on themselves a curse, which as Saint Jerome says, “rests on them to this very day, for the Blood of the Lord is not taken from them.”
The curse which the Jews invoked in the year 33 A. D., and which descended on them with manifest finality in the year 70, had been prophesied 1,500 years before by Moses, who warned the Jews of what would happen if they dared ever to turn away from God (Deuteronomy, Chapter 28): — ”Cursed shalt thou be in the city, cursed in the field … Cursed shalt thou be coming in, and cursed going out … And mayst thou always suffer oppression, and be crushed at all times … And thou shalt he lost, as a proverb and a byword to all people, among whom the Lord shall bring thee in … The Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the farthest parts of the earth to the ends thereof … Neither shalt thou be quiet, even in those nations, nor shall there be any rest for the sole of thy foot. For the Lord will give thee a fearful heart, and languishing eyes, and a soul consumed with pensiveness: and thy life shall be as it were hanging before thee.”
The bitter hatred flung at the Jews by all the world can be accounted for only in terms of this divine judgment. The Jews’ baseness and sensuality and perpetual intrigue, their insatiable ambition, their open contempt for all standards of decency and order — all these malignities, these natural reasons for their being hated, spring from and are sustained by the central and supernatural fact that they are cursed.
That such has been the teaching of the Catholic Church — openly, vigorously, and abundantly proclaimed — is a circumstance of which the Jews are keenly aware. Mordecai Kaplan, of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, wrote recently, “It is unfortunately true that in the Christian religious tradition the Jews are assumed to be the accursed of God. There is no use evading the fact or prevaricating about it. There is only one way to deal with it; it must cease to be a fact. The judgment on the Jews must be expunged from Christian tradition.”
Audacious as this campaign is, however, it is quite futile. Even if Rabbi Kaplan and his cohorts should be completely successful in their undertaking — even if all references to the Jews as “perfidious” and “rejected by God” were to be stricken from parochial school textbooks, from the writings of the saints and decrees of the popes, from the prayers of the Church, and from Holy Scripture itself — the Jews would find their lot still no better than it has been for the last nineteen centuries. For the curse upon them is a reality, divinely-imposed and irrevocable, whether anyone talks about it or not. As Saint John Chrysostom declares, ”The Jews say it is men who have brought on their misfortunes; but in fact it is God who has brought them about.”
Though the Jews may become powerful for a time in some particular countries, as they once were in Moorish Spain, as they once were in modern Germany, as they now are in the United States, even then, in their hours of triumph, they will be always restless and fearful, knowing from deep experience that at any moment the Gentiles among whom they live may rise up against them.
The Jews have fixed their course. Till the end they shall remain a spectacle before all the world of a wicked and unrepentant people — a people who have called on their heads the abiding wrath of God.
July 27th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
I hope that more atrocities that the zionist jews do will come to light and the christians here in America will wake up and figure out what they are really about and quit idolizing them and believing the falsehood that the jews are the chosen. It is they who even have control over the churches so that the people will think this.
July 27th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
@ Angela Verkel
can you then show me how an old tesament beliver was saved then?
in romans it says we are grafted in
that is to say we become part of the jewish branch
NOT the other way around
if we are saved through jesus then how were the old testament saits saved?
do i suport jews the avrage jo blow walking down the street yes
the zioniest that are as greedy and as hatfull as some of these post …… no
July 27th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
funny that every one blame’s jews
alot of you talk like those from WWII germany
but funny thing is my grand mother and father
lived down the road from a camp
and when they rounded up the jews its funny that instead of food $
going down the $$ for food shot through the roof
as my german grand parents said the jew did more help to keep the $$ cost of things down and it was by getting rid of them that no one could aford anything any more
July 28th, 2008 at 5:03 am
saxon, “jews” are not the problem but Israel IS. Zionism is a racist and hateful ideology and should be exposed as such. Israels corrupt government,like ours, should also be exposed.
July 28th, 2008 at 7:30 am
Judaism and Christianity are the CHIEF CAUSE of US Imperialism,
militarism, and fascism. If and when it comes down to a fight,
synagogues, churches, and their assets will be PRIORITY TARGETS of the Freedom Fighters. Zionist Jews and Christians will not be welcome in the post-Revolutionary America, and Christian zealots will not be tolerated. This must happen, or our Revolutionary struggle for freedom and justice will have been a waste of time.
After the Revolution, there will be no place in the new America for Zionists. Period. Travel to and from Israel must be banned; anyone with an Israeli stamp in their passport must be expelled from the US or not allowed to enter in the first place. Plus all the synagogues must be closed and their assets confiscated. If the American Jews don’t like it, tell them where they can go. Agitation by Jews or Christians for their ‘rights’ should be punished with immediate deportation with no right of return, as well as confiscation of all their property of every kind.
July 28th, 2008 at 9:57 am
no horse in this race.( Im goin to kentucky.) A line from a movie but few will understand. North America and the world and universe will not be guided or fufilled by (regiment) or religion. This is a natural world guided and in force by cause and effect. Fight on peoples of the flame, for the days are numbered before there is no more time. Live and breath the freedom of human and recognize the difference opon this planet and this plane. Conditioned to lies and no ability because of that conditioning to look at natural laws of the universe. Universal law guides cause and will effect our broken lives and stimulated unlearned hearts and minds.
July 28th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Chris thanks that was what i was getting to next
July 28th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Gregory Fegel
are you even in america?
i suport the constitution and the bill of right
but from what you posted sounds like you want the same thing the global elete want
July 28th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
What is the strongest nationalist lobby that could have benefitted from pulling off 911? Qui bono. But always keep in mind that many Jews worldwide strongly oppose Zionism.
July 29th, 2008 at 3:07 am
Expel The Jesuits: OMG, someone gets it!!! This is Loyolas army within Rome at it again! People also do not understand that there is a HUGE difference between the Orthodox Jew and the Zion. We, the home of the free and the brave are rebuiling solomon’s temple for the Zion. If the Orthodox were to claim it..Rome would have no say over it. Rome is still not over with their inquisition. They have been at it for thousands of years and tigers do not change their stripes. Keep an eye on the archbishop of Rome(stealth CEO of the UN and EU). Thru the Zion, Rome will rule over the Holy land. Israel can defend herself very well! WE(USA) run by israel(they own us)are doing the Un and EU’s dirty work. If Israel did it for herself, then rome can lay no claim!
July 29th, 2008 at 3:08 am
Sad part: When they are done using the USA, they will come after us next. Rome does not like the Protestant reformation, it took temporal power away from her. america was built upon freedom from R
July 30th, 2008 at 4:25 am
Whenever I hear or read about the modern history of the Middle East I’m reminded of the phrase ( New World ) Order Out Of Chaos.
January 31st, 2009 at 8:43 am
It is sad that so many people need to blame Jews, Zionists etc. Germany did it with great success. Out wonderful leaders blamed people (Iraquis) for 911 to set a pretext for war. Once again everyone bought into the lie just like Pearl Harbor all over again. Division. It is all about division. Keep the people divided and conquer. If they told everyone the truth, most couldn’t handle it or would refuse right out to believe it. It is all smoke and mirrors. Someday soon, many will wake up………too late. The ones who say there is no Creator will be calling out his name for help or hiding from him. There are no atheists in a foxhole. It all began in Rome and the system that the great whore has given birth to along with all of her servants will not last. Fact. They ( the ones who serve the whore) are out to destroy 90% of the useless eaters on the planet. If you have been duped into thinking it’s only Jews who are doing this then I feel a great swell of pity for you. Our world leaders have a dream. And that dream does not include you and I. This is about much more than political maneuvering. It is about much more than who is persecuting who. Everyone is being used by one of two sides. One is good and one is bad. Only one will be victorious. We have a choice and we had better make it soon. We can serve YHWH or we can serve his enemy. Pretty simple huh? They want us disarmed, hungry, poor, controlled and dead. By the way if you want to blame someone for the world’s woes, blame yourself. We have all stayed in the comfort of our Lazy Boy and run the remote letting the world go to hell in a handbasket while we mindlessly drool over monday night footbal and dancing with the stars. Repent. Judgement is near.