One cannot help but be impressed with the very material achievements of the house of the Red Door (Rothschilds):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1s0VEk9vgw On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 10:02:58AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > That which we have no awareness of, can certainly impact upon us, our > lives and our loved ones and so it can be useful to learn a little. > Perhaps this is one of the most important foundations for the fellow > Souls of our age to comprehend. > > Courtesy the ever poignant “The Saker”. > > Be aware, > > > > https://russia-insider.com/en/israels-aggressive-behavior-embodied-and-prophesied-hebrew-bible/ri22632 > Israel's Aggressive Behavior is Embodied and Prophesied in > the Hebrew Bible > > Source: The Saker > How Biblical is Zionism? > http://thesaker.is/how-is-biblical-zionism/ > > > by Laurent Guyénot for the Saker Blog > > "Even the nuclear policy of Israel has a biblical name: the Samson > Option" > > > > The biblical mind of Israel’s founding fathers > ---------------------------------------------- > > The Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) is for the committed Jew as much a record > of his ancient origins, the prism through which all Jewish history is > interpreted (is not the “Holocaust” a biblical term?), and the > unalterable pattern of Israel’s promising future. That is why the > Bible, once the “portable fatherland” of the Diaspora Jews as > Heinrich Heine put it, remains at the core of the national narrative > of the Jewish State, whose founding fathers did not give it any other > Constitution. > > It is true that the earliest prophets of political Zionism — Moses > Hess (Rome and Jerusalem, 1862), Leon Pinsker (Auto-Emancipation, > 1882) and Theodor Herzl (The Jewish State, 1896) — did not draw their > inspiration from the Bible, but rather from the great > nationalist spirit that swept through Europe at the end of the > 19th century. Pinsker and Herzl actually cared little whether > the Jews colonized Palestine or any other region of the globe; > the first thought about some land in North America, while the > second contemplated Argentina and later Uganda. More important > still than nationalism, what drove these intellectual pioneers > was the persistence of Judeophobia or anti-Semitism: Pinsker, > who was from Odessa, converted during the pogroms that followed > the assassination of Alexander II; Herzl, at the height of the > Dreyfus affair. > > Nevertheless, by naming his movement “Zionism,” Herzl himself was > plugging it into biblical mythology: Zion is a name used for > Jerusalem by biblical prophets. And after Herzl, the founders of the > Yishuv (Jewish communities settled in Palestine before 1947) and > later of the Jewish State were steeped in the Bible. From their point > of view, Zionism was the logical and necessary end of biblical > Yahwism. > > “The Bible is our mandate,” Chaim Weizmann declared at the Peace > Conference in Versailles in 1920, and David Ben-Gurion has made > clear that he only accepted the 1947 UN Partition Plan as a > temporary step toward the goal of biblical borders. In > Ben-Gurion, Prophet of fire(1983), the biography of the man > described as “the personification of the Zionist dream,” Dan > Kurzman entitles each chapter with a Bible quote. The preface > begins like this: > > “The life of David Ben-Gurion is more than the story of an > extraordinary man. It is the story of a Biblical prophecy, an > eternal dream. […] Ben-Gurion was, in a modern sense, Moses, > Joshua, Isaiah, a messiah who felt he was destined to create an > exemplary Jewish state, a ‘light unto the nations’ that would > help to redeem all mankind.” > > For Ben-Gurion, Kurzman writes, the rebirth of Israel in 1948 > “paralleled the Exodus from Egypt, the conquest of the land by > Joshua, the Maccabean revolt.” Yet Ben-Gurion had never been to the > synagogue, and ate pork for breakfast. > > According to the rabbi leading the Bible study group that he > attended, Ben-Gurion > > “unconsciously believed he was blessed with a spark from Joshua’s > soul.” “There can be no worthwhile political or military > education about Israel without profound knowledge of the Bible,” > he used to say.[1] > > He wrote in his diary in 1948, ten days after declaring independence, > > “We will break Transjordan [Jordan], bomb Amman and destroy its > army, and then Syria falls, and if Egypt will still continue to > fight — we will bombard Port Said, Alexandria and Cairo,” then he > adds: “This will be in revenge for what they did to our > forefathers during biblical times.”[2] Three days after the > Israeli invasion of the Sinai in 1956, he declared before the > Knesset that what was at stake was “the restoration of the > kingdom of David and Solomon.”[3] > > Ben-Gurion’s attachment to the Bible was shared by almost every > Zionist leader of his generation and the next. Moshe Dayan, the > military hero of the 1967 Six Day War, wrote a book entitled Living > with the Bible (1978) in which he justified the annexation of new > territory by the Bible. More recently, Israeli Education minister > Naftali Bennett, a proponent of full-scale annexation of the West > Bank, did the same.[4] > > Zionism is biblical by ideology, but also in practice. As Avigail > Abarbanel wrote, the Zionist conquerors of Palestine > > “have been following quite closely the biblical dictate to Joshua > to just walk in and take everything. […] For a supposedly > non-religious movement it’s extraordinary how closely Zionism […] > has followed the Bible.”[5] > > The paradox is only apparent, because for Zionists, the Bible is not > a religious text, but a textbook of history. And so it should be > obvious to anybody paying attention that Israel’s behavior on the > international scene cannot be understood without a deep inquiry into > the Bible’s underlying ideology. > > > Prophecies and geopolitics > -------------------------- > > Only by taking account of the biblical roots of Zionism can one > understand why Zionism has never been a nationalist movement like > others. It could not be, as Gilad Atzmon remarked, from the moment it > defined itself as a Jewish movement, aimed at creating a “Jewish > state”.[6] Jewish exceptionalism is a biblical concept that has no > equivalent in any other ethnic or religious culture. > > Neither can Zionism be correctly assessed as a form of colonialism, > despite Jabotinsky’s effort to do so. For colonialism seeks not to > expel the natives, but to exploit them. If Zionism is colonialism, it > can only be in the sense of the colonization of the world by Israel, > according to the program laid out by Isaiah: > > “The riches of the sea will flow to you, the wealth of the > nations come to you” (60:5); > > “You will suck the milk of nations, you will suck the wealth of > kings” (60:16); > > “You will feed on the wealth of nations, you will supplant them > in their glory” (61:5-6); > > “For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you will perish, > and the nations will be utterly destroyed” (60:12) > > Christians find hope in Isaiah that, some day, all peoples “will > hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into sickles. > Nations will not lift sword against nation, no longer will they learn > how to make war” (Isaiah 2:4). > > But more important to Zionists are the previous verses, which > describe these messianic times as a Pax Judaica, when “all the > nations” will pay tribute “to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of > the god of Jacob,” when “the Law will issue from Zion and the word of > Yahweh from Jerusalem,” so that Yahweh will “judge between the > nations and arbitrate between many peoples.” > > No wonder Isaiah is the biblical prophet most often quoted by > Zionists. In a statement published in the magazine Look on January > 16, 1962, Ben-Gurion predicted for the next 25 years: > > “All armies will be abolished, and there will be no more wars. In > Jerusalem, the United Nations (a truly United Nations) will build > a Shrine of the Prophets to serve the federated union of all > continents; this will be the seat of the Supreme Court of > Mankind, to settle all controversies among the federated > continents, as prophesied by Isaiah.”[7] > > The launching of the Iraq War was a decisive step toward that goal of > a new world order headquartered in Jerusalem. It was the context for > a “Jerusalem Summit” held in October 2003 in the highly symbolic King > David Hotel, to seal an alliance between Jewish and Christian > Zionists. > > The “Jerusalem Declaration” signed by its participants declared > Jerusalem “the key to the harmony of civilizations,” replacing > the United Nations that had become “a tribalized confederation > hijacked by Third World dictatorships”: > > “Jerusalem’s spiritual and historical importance endows it with a > special authority to become a center of world’s unity. [. . .] We > believe that one of the objectives of Israel’s divinely-inspired > rebirth is to make it the center of the new unity of the nations, > which will lead to an era of peace and prosperity, foretold by > the Prophets.” > > Three acting Israeli ministers spoke at the summit, including > Benjamin Netanyahu. Richard Perle, the guest of honor, received on > this occasion the Henry Scoop Jackson Award.[8] > > When Israeli leaders claim that their vision of the global future is > based on the (Hebrew) Bible, we should take them seriously and study > the Bible. It might help, for example, to know that according to > Deuteronomy Yahweh plans to deliver to Israel “seven nations greater > and mightier than [it],” adding: “you must utterly destroy them; you > shall make no covenant with them, and show no mercy to them. > > You shall not make marriages with them…” (7:1-2). As for the kings of > these seven nations, “you shall make their name perish from under > heaven” (7:24). The destruction of the “Seven Nations,” also > mentioned in Joshua 24:11, is considered a mitzvah in rabbinic > Judaism, included by the great Maimonides in his Book of > Commandments,[9] and it has remained a popular motif in Jewish > culture, known to every Israeli school child. > > It is also part of the Neocon agenda for World War IV (as Norman > Podhoretz names the current global conflict in World War IV: The Long > Struggle Against Islamofascism, 2007). General Wesley Clark, former > commandant of NATO in Europe, wrote in his book Winning Modern Wars > (2003), and repeated in numerous occasions, that one month after > September 11, 2001, as he was paying a visit to Paul Wolfowitz, a > Pentagon general showed him a memo “that describes how we’re gonna > take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then > Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia and Sudan and finishing off with > Iran.”[10] > > In his September 20, 2001 speech, President Bush also targeted seven > “rogue states”, but included Cuba and North Korea instead of Lebanon > and Somalia. The likely explanation to that discrepancy is that Bush > or his entourage refused to include Lebanon and Somalia, but that the > number seven was retained for its symbolic value, as an encrypted > signature. > > Without question, the neocons who were writing Bush’s war agenda were > Zionists of the most fanatical and Machiavellian kind. But the neocon > viper’s nest is not the only place to look for crypto-Zionists > infiltrated in the highest spheres of US foreign and military > affairs. Consider, for example, that Wesley Clark is the son of > Benjamin Jacob Kanne and the proud descendant of a lineage of rabbis. > > It is hard to believe that he never heard about the Bible’s “seven > nations”? Is Clark himself, together with the Amy Goodmans who > interviewed him, trying to write history in biblical terms, while > blaming these wars on the Pentagon’s warmongers? What’s going on, > here? > > > A lesson from the books of Ezra and Nehemiah > -------------------------------------------- > > To understand how the crypto-Zionists have hijacked the Empire’s > military power into proxy wars, a lesson can be learned from Book of > Ezra and its sequel, the Book of Nehemiah. At the time of Ezra, the > imperial power was Persia. After the Persians had conquered Babylon > in 539 BCE, some of the exiles and their descendants (42,360 people > with their 7,337 servants and 200 male and female singers, according > to Ezra 2:64-67) returned to Jerusalem under the protection of King > Cyrus, with the project of rebuilding the Temple in Jerusalem. Thus > begins the Book of Ezra: > > “Yahweh roused the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to issue a > proclamation and to have it publicly displayed throughout his > kingdom: ‘Cyrus king of Persia says this, Yahweh, the God of > heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and has > appointed me to build him a temple in Jerusalem, in Judah.’” > (Ezra 1:1-2). > > For acting on behalf of Yahweh, Cyrus is bestowed the title of > God’s “Anointed” (Mashiah) in Isaiah 45:1. > > “Thus says Yahweh to his anointed one, to Cyrus whom, he says, I > have grasped by his right hand, to make the nations bow before > him and to disarm kings: […] It is for the sake of my servant > Jacob and of Israel my chosen one, that I have called you by your > name, have given you a title though you do not know me. […] > Though you do not know me, I have armed you.” (Isaiah 45:1-5) > > A succeeding Persian emperor, Darius, confirmed Cyrus’ edict, > authorizing the rebuilding of the Temple, and ordering gigantic burnt > offerings financed by “the royal revenue.” Anyone resisting the new > theocratic power backed by Persia, “a beam is to be torn from his > house, he is to be impaled on it and his house is to be reduced to a > rubbish-heap for his offense” (Ezra 6:11). > > Then another Persian king, Artaxerxes, is supposed to have granted > Ezra authority to lead “all members of the people of Israel in my > kingdom, including their priests and Levites, who freely choose to go > to Jerusalem,” and to rule over “the whole people of Trans-Euphrates > [district encompassing all territories West to the Euphrates]” > (7:11-26). In 458 BCE, the priest Ezra went from Babylon to > Jerusalem, accompanied by some 1,500 followers. > > Carrying with him the newly redacted Torah, Ezra called himself the > “Secretary of the Law of the God of heaven” (7:21). He was soon > joined by Nehemiah, a Persian court official of Judean origin. > > The edicts of Cyrus, Darius and Artaxerxes are fake. No historian > believe them authentic. But the fact that Persian kings granted to a > clan of wealthy Levites legal authority for establishing a theocratic > semi-autonomous state in Palestine seems historical. What did these > proto-Zionists give the Persian kings in return? The Bible does not > say, but historians believe that the Judeans exiles in Babylon had > won the favor of the Persians by conspiring to help them conquer the > city.[11] > > What is of interest in this biblical narrative is the blueprint for > the Zionist strategy of influencing the Empire’s foreign policy for > its own advantage. In the late 19th century, the empire was British. > Its foreign policy in the Middle East was largely shaped by Prime > Minister Benjamin Disraeli. Born in a family of Marranos converted > back to Judaism in Venice, Disraeli can be considered a forerunner of > Zionism, since, well before Theodor Herzl, he tried to include the > “restoration of Israel” in the Berlin Congress’ agenda, and hoped to > convince the Ottoman Sultan to concede to Palestine as an autonomous > Jewish province. > > He failed, but succeeded in putting the Suez Canal under British > control, through funding from his friend Lionel Rothschild (an > operation which also consolidated the Rothschilds’ control over the > Bank of England). That was the first step in binding British interest > and fate to the Middle-East[12]. In short, Disraeli was a modern-day > Ezra or Nehemiah, capable of steering the Empire’s policy according > to the Jewish agenda of the conquest of Palestine, a dream he had > cherished ever since his first trip to Palestine in 1830, at the age > of 26, and which he had expressed through the hero of his first > novel, The Wondrous Tale of Alroy: > > “My wish is a national existence which we have not. My wish is > the Land of Promise and Jerusalem and the Temple, all we > forfeited, all we have yearned after, all for which we have > fought, our beauteous country, our holy creed, our simple > manners, and our ancient customs.” > > A quarter of a century after Disraeli, Theodor Herzl also failed to > convince the Sultan. It therefore became necessary that the Ottoman > Empire disappear and the cards be redistributed. Zionists then played > the British against the Ottomans and, by means now well-documented, > obtained from the former the Balfour Declaration (in fact a mere > letter addressed by Secretary of State Arthur Balfour to Lord Lionel > Walter Rothschild). > > But when the British started to limit Jewish immigration in Palestine > in the 1930s, the Zionists turned to the rising new Imperial power: > the United States. Today, the stranglehold of Zionists on US imperial > policy is such that a few Jewish neocons can pull the US into a > series of wars against Israel’s enemies with a single false flag > attack. > > The capacity of Israel to hijack the Empire’s foreign and military > policy requires that a substantial Jewish elite remain in the US. > Even Israel’s survival is entirely dependent on the influence of the > Zionist power complex in the United States (euphemistically called > the “pro-Israel lobby”). That is also a lesson learnt from Ezra and > Nehemiah’s time: Nehemiah himself retained his principal residence in > Babylone and, for centuries after, the kingdom of Israel was > virtually ruled by the Babylonian exiles. > > After the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, Babylon remained > the center of universal Judaism. The comparison was made by Jacob > Neusner in A History of the Jews in Babylonia(1965), and by Max > Dimont in Jews, God and History (1962). The American Jews who prefer > to remain in the United States rather than emigrating to Israel are, > Dimont argued, as essential to the community as the Babylonian Jews > who declined the invitation to return to Palestine in the Persian > era: > > “Today, as once before, we have both an independent State of > Israel and the Diaspora. But, as in the past, the State of Israel > today is a citadel of Judaism, a haven of refuge, the center of > Jewish nationalism where dwell only two million of the world’s > twelve million Jews. The Diaspora, although it has shifted its > center through the ages with the rise and fall of civilizations, > still remains the universal soul of Judaism.”[13] > > > Conclusion > ---------- > > In the words of the Zionists themselves, including Herzl himself, > Zionism was supposed to be the “final solution” to the Jewish > question[14]. In 1947, the whole world hoped that it would be, except > for Arab leaders who warned against it. But Israel’s existence has > only resulted in changing the “Jewish question” into the “Zionist > question”: the question about the true ambitions of Israel. Part of > the answer is to be found in the Hebrew Bible. The Zionist question > is the Biblical question. Zionists themselves tell us so. Their > mouths are full of the Bible. > > On March 3, 2015, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dramatized in > front of the American Congress his deep phobia of Iran by referring > to the biblical Book of Esther (the only Bible story that makes no > mention of God, incidently). It is worth quoting the heart of his > rhetorical appeal to a US strike against Iran: > > “We’re an ancient people. In our nearly 4,000 years of history, > many have tried repeatedly to destroy the Jewish people. Tomorrow > night, on the Jewish holiday of Purim, we’ll read the Book of > Esther. We’ll read of a powerful Persian viceroy named Haman, > who plotted to destroy the Jewish people some 2,500 years ago. > > But a courageous Jewish woman, Queen Esther, exposed the plot and > gave for the Jewish people the right to defend themselves against > their enemies. The plot was foiled. Our people were saved. Today > the Jewish people face another attempt by yet another Persian > potentate to destroy us.”[15] > > Netanyahu managed to schedule his address to the Congress on the eve > of Purim, which celebrates the happy end of the Book of Esther — the > slaughter of 75,000 Persians, women and children included. This > typical speech by the head of the State of Israel is clear indication > that the behavior of that nation on the international scene cannot be > understood without a deep inquiry into the Bible’s underlying > ideology. Such is the main objective of my new book, From Yahweh to > Zion: Jealous God, Chosen People, Promised Land … Clash of > Civilizations, translated by Kevin Barrett. > > May those who still want to believe that Zionism has nothing to do > with the Bible think twice. Even the nuclear policy of Israel has a > biblical name: the Samson Option.[16] And let them read the Prophets: > > “And this is the plague with which Yahweh will strike all the > nations who have fought against Jerusalem; their flesh will rot > while they are still standing on their feet; their eyes will rot > in their sockets; their tongues will rot in their mouths.” > (Zechariah 14:12) > > > > Notes: > > 1. Dan Kurzman, Ben-Gurion, Prophet of Fire, Touchstone, 1983, > p. 17-18, 22, 26-28. > > 2. Ilan Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Oneworld > Publications, 2007, p. 144. > > 3. Israel Shahak, Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of > Three Thousand Years, Pluto Press, 1994, p. 10. > > 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Png17wB_omA > > 5. Avigail Abarbanel, “Why I left the Cult,” October 8, 2016, on > mondoweiss.net > > 6. Gilad Atzmon, Being in Time: A Post-Political Manifesto, > Skyscraper, 2017, pp. 66-67. > > 7. David Ben-Gurion and Amram Duchovny, David Ben-Gurion, In His > Own Words, Fleet Press Corp., 1969, p. 116 > > 8. Official website: www.jerusalemsummit.org/eng/declaration.php > > 9. > http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/961561/jewish/Positive-Commandment-187.htm > > 10. Wesley Clark, Winning Modern Wars, Public Affairs, 2003, p. 130. > > 11. For example, Heinrich Graetz, History of the Jews, Jewish > Publication Society of America, 1891 (archive.org), vol. 1, > p. 343. > > 12. On Disraeli’s proto-Zionist policy, read my article : > > https://www.veteransnewsnow.com/2015/02/13/515416tracking-the-roots-of-zionism-and-imperial-russophobia/ > > 13. Quoted in Michael Collins Piper, The New Babylon: Those Who > Reign Supreme, American Free Press, 2009, p. 27 > > 14. The first Zionist association inspired by Herzl’s program, the > National-jüdische Vereinigung Köln, declared as its goal in > 1897: “The Final Solution of the Jewish Question lies therefore > in the establishment of the Jewish State” (quoted in Isaiah > Friedman, Germany, Turkey, and Zionism 1897–1918, Transaction > Publishers, 1998, p. 17). Herzl wrote: “I believe I have found > the solution of the Jewish Question. Not a solution, but the > solution, the only one,” repeating further that Zionism was “the > only possible, final, and successful solution of the Jewish > Question” (The Complete Diaries of Theodor Herzl, edited by > Raphael Patai, Herzl Press & Thomas Yoseloff, 1960, vol. 1, > p. 118). > > 15. “The Complete Transcript of Netanyahu’s Address to Congress,” on > www.washingtonpost.com > > 16. Seymour Hersh, The Samson Option: Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal and > American Foreign Policy, Random House, 1991. >