| The Jewish Question |
November 16, 2009 - February 8, 2012
Author: Bart klein Ikink
| Introduction |
Jewish culture
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There may come a revolution and this may be a confrontation between the richest people in the world and the rest. A correct assessment of the underlying issues can be helpful in avoiding mistakes that have been made in the past. Currently a small number of oligarchs run the affairs, and many of them are Jewish. This probably is not a coincidence. The actions of the Jewish oligarchs are underpinned by the morals of the Jewish faith and culture.
The Jewish religion advocates the use of money as a tool of power to be used against non-Jews by charging interest on money. This has helped to make a number of Jews wealthy and powerful. On average Jews are better educated than other people so their wealth and influence is also the result of education and knowledge. Jews have always been a minority and Jewish unsecurity plays a role in acquiring wealth and knowledge. People who feel insecure are more inclined to become achievers. There are people who think that there is a conspiracy of Jews or a hidden Zionist agenda for world domination but the influence and wealth of Jewish oligarchs can also be explained as a result of their culture and upbringing.
It is natural that people sharing a cultural background stick together and help each other. Jews are no exception. In the past they were often excluded from certain professions and persecuted for their relgion, so the Jews had to help each other to survive as a people. Jewishness not only implies being a people but also having a religion. Therefore Jews did not assimilate like other people when they migrated to other nations. Their tribal allegiance and their behaviour, such as charging interest on money harmed the nations they were living in. This is why anti-Semitism is more vicious and difficult to combat than other types of tribal hatred.
Usury and exploitation
Usury has helped a small group of oligarchs to acquire a large share of wealth and influence without producing useful goods or services. Usury is also the main cause of social inequality, political conflict and the destruction of the living conditions on Earth. If usury is not abolished then civilised human existence may not be possible in the future [+]. Historically the Jewish religion and culture have played a significant role in the spread of usury. Currently Jews still play a dominant role in the financial sector.
The issue of Jewish oligarchs acquiring a large share of wealth and influence without producing useful goods or services does not only exist in the West. After the collapse of the Soviet Union a wealth and power grab occurred in Russia. A number of oligarchs emerged and most of them were Jewish [+]. Most Russian oligarchs are also criminals. Former Russian President Vladimir Putin took action against a number of Jewish oligarchs because they became political opponents. He was helped by a strong anti-Jewish sentiment in Russia [+].
Only a small portion of the Jews has profited enormously from this but many have to live with anti-Semitism. Most Israelis also seem not to profit. During the last two decades the poverty rate in Israel rose the most of all developed nations [+]. Therefore they appear to be better off when they take action against the problematic elements in their cultural heritage. The same does apply to other etnic groups that have a bad name because of the behavior of minorities within those groups.
Only a minority of the Jews is involved in harmful activities. It is also true that only a minority of the Muslims is violent. Despite that there appears to be a link between violence and Islam. A culture is a disposition that makes certain behaviour more likely. Culture plays a role amongst other issues, such as personality and past experiences. People can hardly be blamed for the their problematic behaviour as long as they think that they do nothing wrong. Cultural tensions should therefore be discussed more openly.
The root cause of anti-Semitism and other forms of tribal hatred have never been correctly addressed. The most important cause of anti-Semitism is Jewish culture and the conduct of Jews as a group, sometimes caused by a perceived existential insecurity of the Jews.
Avoiding new progroms
In Islamic countries there is resentment over the actions of Israel. When the usury financial system collapses and takes down societies in its fall, many people will realise that they have been robbed of everything they had and that Jews dominated the financial sector. A potentially dangerous situation is brewing. If the threat of anti-Semitism is not defused then Jews may find themselves harassed, threatened and forced to leave their homes again. Islamic immigrants in Europe may find themselves in a similar situation and they can also become subjected to seclusion and violence.
In the Netherlands some Jews already found out that they cannot express their religion openly because of the agressive and intimidating behaviour of North African immigrants. Furthermore many Dutch still distrust the Jews. According to a report of the European Union from 2002, compared to the other nine countries included in the surveys, the Dutch show the lowest percentage of anti-Semitic attitudes. Despite that 48% of the Dutch agreed with the statement that Jews are more loyal to Israel than to their own country [+]. Also in Germany there are deeply rooted prejudices and stereotypes about Jews [+].
The situation cannot be resolved without addressing cultural differences and conflicts. The cultural conflict between Islam and modernity has been analysed in depth in recent years. Jewish culture however has remained largely out of the pricture. For the Jews living outside Israel the issue of allegiance has to be addressed. If they want to remain Jewish, in the sense of being a member of the Jewish people, then the best country to live in will be Israel. The same applies for everyone else who feels an allegiance to another country than the country he or she is living in.
Ending the New World Order
The subject of Jews, their wealth and influence is also the domain of conspiracy theories. Whenever there is money or power involved, the existence of conspiracies is inevitable. People making up conspiracy theories mostly do not have insider knowledge so conspiracy theories are often speculative, based on coincidences and circumstantial evidence, and often cannot be proven. However what can be proven is still alarming. There is evidence that there is an undemocratic global government of the elites or New World Order. The United States, a country that is under Jewish political control, appears to be its primary stronghold.
It is a minority that gives the Jews a bad name and much of the injustice in the world is not caused by Jews or Western oligarchs, but the most important problem for human survival at the moment is usury and the social dislocation, wars and environmental degradation caused by it [+]. There is an existential dilemma: end usury or face a collapse of human civilisation. Ending usury without ending the existing power structures surrounding the usury financial system will not be possible. Those power structures as wel as the usury financial system are not exclusively Jewish, but they have a disproportionate Jewish component.
| History |
All the nations of the Earth shall be blessed
History appears to be a script and God was in control of everything all the time [+]. Therefore some conclusions are unescapable. All wars and killings that have taken place in history, were intended or at least accepted by God. Because we live in a virtual reality, we are not real in the eyes of God. To God we are only characters in a story. A conclusion that comes as a consequence, is that it was the intention of God to kill millions of Jews during World War II [+]. Most people that died in the concentration camps did not commit any crimes. Therefore the obvious question is: Why did this happen? Many Jews consider themselves to be God's chosen people. However this does not mean that God has gave them special privileges. In Genesis 18 God told Abraham that all the nations of the Earth will be blessed:
[17] The Lord said, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do, [18] seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the Earth shall be blessed in him?" |
In the eyes of God there are no special people. The Jews were already informed of this before their tribe was formed. Because all the nations of the Earth shall be blessed, people that consider themselves to be chosen because of their descent or religion may be disappointed. The idea of a chosen people can be found in Judaism and in some Christian sects. Islam considers Jews and Christians to be peoples of the book so in Islam the concept of a chosen people does not exist. In Judaism the concept of a chosen people appears to include exploiting the gentiles by usury.
The controversy about the Jews having killed Jesus has been important for the existence of Christian anti-Semitism. The reason Jesus was crucified, was that it fitted God's plan. Jesus intended this to happen. Jesus did know what Judas was planning and he did not flee [+]. Jesus was crucified for sedition, which is rebellion against Rome. In the Gospel it is written that the Jewish high priests and a Jewish mob demanded the crucifiction of Jesus (John 18:12-40, 19:1-16). As the Gospel has been rewritten to make Christianity more acceptable to Roman rule, it cannot be ruled out that the facts have been misrepresented to take the blame away from Pontus Pilate and the Romans [+].
The root of all evil
Judaism has a more practical view on good and evil than Christianity and Islam [+]. As a consequence the morality of Jews tends to be more pragmatic than the morality of Christians and Muslims. God favoured Jacob who outsmarted his brother (Gen. 26:29-34) and deceived his father (Gen. 27:5-29). Because God favoured a deceiver it may have appeared that God approves of this type of conduct. Being smart and deceiving others probably has helped the Jews to survive as a people for more than 3,500 years, but this also fueled feelings of animosity towards them.
By the 10th century most of Europe was under the rule of Christian monarchs who made Christianity the religion of their realms. The Catholic Church forbade Christians to charge interest to fellow Christians. During the Middle Ages Jews were often excluded from a wide range of professions, and often they had to live in ghettos and had to make their living with trade, finance and other kinds of intellectual activities. While many Jews rose to prominence in these times, Judaism was mostly practiced in private to avoid persecution [+]. Jews could justify charging interest to Christians based on the following verses in Deuteronomy 23:
[19] You shall not charge interest to your brother, interest on money or food or anything that is lent out at interest. [20] To a foreigner you may charge interest, but to your brother you shall not charge interest, that the Lord your God may bless you in all to which you set your hand in the land which you are entering to possess. |
Jews charging interest to Christians did not consider Christians as their brothers but as foreigners that could be exploited. Jews have always behaved like foreigners towards the native peoples of the countries they lived in. The Old Testament explicitly forbade usury, which is the charging of interest [+]. According a letter that has been attributed to Paul, the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil (1 Tim. 6:10). Money often brings out the worst in people [+]. Money probably has played a significant role in the negative attitude of Christians towards the Jews.
Some of the consequences of a usury are higher taxes and economic crises due to hoarding of money [+]. Usury also made it more easy for governments to finance war with debt. If there was no interest on money, financing war with debt was difficult because there was no compensation for the risk involved. Kings did not always repay their debts [+]. Leaders that wanted to wage wars often found bankers only willing to lend money to them at interest. A documented example of debt based war financing are the Genovese public debts in the Middle Ages [+]. The debts could only be repaid if the wars were profitable or taxes were raised. In this way there is a direct link between usury banking, wars, government debt and high taxes dating back from the Middle Ages.
Predictions hinting at events to come
The Quran teaches tolerance towards members of the Jewish and Christian faith (Quran 2:256, 3:113-115), but the Quran also links usury and corruption to the Jews. They were forewarned that their actions could bring retribution:
[4:160] Due to their transgressions, we prohibited for the Jews good foods that used to be lawful for them; also for consistently repelling from the path of God. [4:161] And for practicing usury [charging interest on money], which was forbidden, and for consuming the people's money illicitly [corruption]. We have prepared for the disbelievers among them painful retribution. |
Usury and corruption are transgressions specifically mentioned to be eligible for punishment as they are insidious activities that break down the fabric of a society. At the individual level the harm done is often not large, and often there is no direct link between the actions and their consequences, but on a larger scale usury and corruption are civilisation destroyers. Therefore financial crimes such as usury and corruption are among the most severe crimes against humanity.
Collective punishment, which is making a people suffer for the deeds of a minority, is a method God has used before. The Quran indicates that history is predetermined and must run its course, and therefore God has put the Jews in harm's way. According to the Quran God intentionally diverted specific people to make them suffer a terrible retribution:
[5:41] O you messenger [Mohammed], do not be saddened by those who hasten to disbelieve among those who say, "We believe," with their mouths, while their hearts do not believe. Among the Jews, some listened to lies. They listened to people who never met you, and who distorted the words out of context, then said, "If you are given this, accept it, but if you are given anything different, beware." Whomever God wills to divert, you can do nothing to help him against God. God does not wish to cleanse their hearts. They have incurred humiliation in this world, and in the Hereafter, they will suffer a terrible retribution. |
Some people believe that Nostradamus predicted the rise of Adolf Hitler. A quatrain from Nostradamus supposedly predicting the rise of Adolf Hitler is:
Century 2, Quatrain 24 |
The Latin word for Danube used in the quatrain is Hister, which resembles the name Hitler. This is the reason why many people think that the verse refers to Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler grew up in Linz, which is a city on the banks of the Danube. This is a remarkable coincidence. Many people take the vague utterings of Nostradamus seriously. Some Chistians think that Nostradamus was possessed by a daemon but his work resembles the Book of Revelation in ambiguity and vagueness.
Nostradamus made many predictions and they can only be linked to historical events by human interpretation. Therefore it can never be proven that Nostradamus predicted specific events. It is said that Nostradamus intentionally obscured the quatrains through the use of symbolism and metaphor, as well as by making changes to proper names by swapping, adding or removing letters. The obscuration is claimed to have been done to avoid him being tried as a magician.
Jews and banking
Because their religion allows Jews to charge interest to non-Jews, some of them did get an important role in the banking sector. The Rothschilds were the most prominent banking family during the nineteenth century. They made their fortune by dealing in gold bullion, lending money to governments in general, financing the war effort of Great Britain against Napoleon. Around the Rothschilds many conspiracy theories circulate, such as the Rothschilds having made a vast fortune by using early knowledge of the British victory at the Battle of Waterloo.
The conspiracy theory may have been a rewriting of the facts. After the news of British victory had been made public, Nathan Rothschild calculated that the future reduction in government borrowing brought about by the peace would create a bounce in British government bonds after two years of stabilisation. Nathan immediately bought up the government bond market, for what at the time seemed an excessively high price, before waiting two years, then selling the bonds on the short bounce in the market in 1817 for a 40% profit. This profit was an enormous sum [+].
There are a number of quotes circulating about banking that are attributed to prominent people but some of them are not adequately documented [+]. Jews were not the only bankers and therefore the hatred against Jews must have been partly the result of envy or anti-Semitism in general. The banker JP Morgan was a prominent anti-Semite while he did not have moral objections against the practice of usury banking. Swiss bankers may have helped Adolf Hitler for the same reasons but most likely they only wanted to make a profit. Financing war is a major business of usury banking since the Middle Ages. The wars the United States are currently fighting are financed by the FED lending money to the banks at low interest rates so the banks can buy government bonds at higher interest rates and profit from it.
There is a link between usury banking, wars, government debt and high taxes so bankers were often seen as criminals that exploit and kill people for profit. Jews traditionally held a strong position in usury banking because their religion promotes the use of money as a means of exploiting non-Jews. This did not escape the attention of some prominent political thinkers. In his work On the Jewish Question, Karl Marx attributed a low moral consciousness to the Jewish religion and he equated practical Judaism to huckstering. Marx concluded that the Christians have become Jews in a practical sense and that mankind (both Christians and Jews) needs to emancipate itself from practical Judaism.
Karl Marx correctly observed that Christians act contrary to what their religion teaches. In Roman Catholic circles there is still awareness of how the Christian religion has been perverted on the issue of interest on money [+]. It may therefore not be a coincidence that the Vatican said that banks should look at the rules of Islamic finance to restore confidence amongst their clients at a time of global economic crisis [+]. Central in Islamic finance is the absence of usury.
Anti-Semitism before World War II
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Adolf Hitler could not have risen to power if there had not been many people with similar views. There had been a strong sentiment against Jews in Europe for centuries. Before World War II anti-Semitism was widespread [+]. The charging of interest caused economic hardship and the Jews were often blamed for this. The publication of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion further helped the case of anti-Semitism. The Protocols describe an alledged global conspiracy of the international Jewry to achieve Jewish world domination. They are a forgery but many considered them as authentic in the twenties.
In the United States Henry Ford became a sponsor of The Dearborn Independent, a magazine spreading anti-Semitic ideas [+]. Themes discussed in The Dearborn Independent were: Jewish control of world finance; Jewish organization of radical political movements; and Jewish manipulation of diplomacy to cause wars in which Christians died to enrich Jews. Ford was also a pioneer of welfare capitalism, designed to improve efficiency by improving the lot of his workers [+]. During the Weimar Republic in the early 1920s, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion were reprinted and published in Germany, along with anti-Jewish articles first published by The Dearborn Independent. They were combined into a set of four bound volumes, cumulatively titled The International Jew, the World's Foremost Problem.
The ideas of Adolf Hitler also seem to be influenced by those of Martin Luther who initiated the Protestant Reformation. In his treatise On the Jews and Their Lies Luther advocated setting synagogues on fire, destroying Jewish prayerbooks, forbidding rabbis from preaching, seizing the property and money of Jews and smashing up their homes so that the Jews would be forced into labour or expelled for all time. Luther argued that the Jews were no longer the chosen people but the devil's people [+].
Many people thought that Jews formed a secretive tribe obsessed with money that preys on other people. The Dutch language has the word "jodenbod", which means Jew's offer, to indicate a very low offer below the market price, which people in a desperate position may be forced to accept. The Dutch language also has the word "jodenstreek", which means Jew's trick, for a dirty trick. It may therefore not be a coincidence that in the Netherlands 90% of the Jews have been deported during the World War II. The majority of the Dutch probably did not care what happened to them. Heroic stories about people hiding Jews did get much attention after the war and they may have distorted the official view on history.
| Clash of civilisations |
The conflict between Islam and the West
Huntington's view
According to Huntington the principal conflicts of global politics in the future will occur between nations and groups of different civilisations. He stated that the Western belief in the universality of Western culture dangerous to the world, because it could lead to a major intercivilisational wars, and it is dangerous to the West because it could lead to defeat of the West. Huntington also believed that a fundamental problem for the West is Islam, which is a different civilisation whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority of their power. According to Huntington the rise of China will also place a stress on future international stability.
Huntington thought that the West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion, but rather by its superiority in applying organised violence. He further stated that to understand current and future conflict, cultural rifts must be understood, and culture must be accepted as the locus of war. According to him Western nations will lose predominance if they fail to recognise the irreconcilable nature of cultural tensions. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, Westerners saw their civilisation in a position of unparalleled dominance, while at the same time weaker Asian, Muslim, and other societies were beginning to gain strength. Huntington cleared the way for discussing cultural tensions and their underlying causes.
Superior religion
Muslims consider Mohammed to be the last prophet before the End of Times so they think that Islam is the most complete religion as it includes the teachings of Judaism and Christianity. Historically Islam has been relatively tolerant towards Christians and Jews but currently the position of religious minorities in most Middle Eastern countries is worse than in most Western countries.
Under Islamic rule Christians and Jews were not persecuted but many of them converted to Islam because they had to pay higher taxes than the Muslims. Non-Muslims citizens often had to pay taxes called jizyah. In return they were permitted to practice their faith, to enjoy a measure of communal autonomy and were entitled to Muslim state's protection from outside aggression, and exempted from military service and the zakat taxes obligatory for Muslim citizens [+]. As a consequence many Islamic countries have or had significant Christian and Jewish minorities that could practice their religion.
In recent years the position of religious minorities in many Islamic countries deteriorated. Jews and Christians often had to flee because of increasing religious intolerance, most notably in Iraq [+], Egypt [+] and Nigeria. But also in other countries Islamic extremists started to suppress the rights of religious minorities. The underlying causes may differ in each situation but the rise of Islamism has often played a significant role. To identify Islam as the primary cause for the violence seems not correct as religious minorities have lived in Islamic countries for centuries. Often other issues play a dominant role in those conflicts. For example, the conflict in Nigeria is not about religion [+].
The violence seems to be caused, at least partially, by a conflict between Islamic values and modernity. Jews and Christians seem to have less difficulty with the transformation to modernity and often Jews and Christians fare relatively well compared to Muslims. Such situations often lead to sectarian tensions as the perceived superiority of Islam to other religions did not reflect itself in the position of Muslims and Islamic nations.
The invasions in Iraq and Afghanistan also have contributed to the difficult plight of religious minorities. The Society for Threatened People stated that more than three-quarters of the approximately 400,000 Christians living in Baghdad have fled the city since the 2003 US-led invasion, due to either direct or indirect threats to their community [+].
Lack of freedom
Intellectual progress in Islam has been hampered by a culture of orthodoxy. Many Muslims rely on the Hadith or the views of scholars from the Middle Ages. Thought outside Islam is deemed reprehensible as all truth comes from religion. Most notable Salafists reject innovative thinking [+]. According to the Quranic scholar Abu Zayd, the lack of spiritual and intellectual freedom created a culture of conformism and religious display [+]. It may therefore not be a coincidence that Islamic counties often remained poor unless there was oil.
Muslims often have difficulty in understanding why other people reject the truth as there is only one God and Mohammed was God's prophet. The devil is in the detail as many passages in The Quran are difficult to believe for the rational mind. Frithjof Schuon noted:
Muslims have a curious tendency to believe that non-Muslims either know that Islam is the truth and reject it out of pure obstinacy, or else are simply ignorant of it and can be converted by elementary explanations; that anyone should be able to oppose Islam with a good conscience quite exceeds the Muslim’s power of imagination, precisely because Islam coincides in his mind with the irresistible logic of things. |
An important distinction between the West and Islam is secularity. Secularity is the separation of Church and state. It is a Christian notion, whose origins can be traced to Christ’s words: “So give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s” (Matt 22:21). Based on Roman law, the West developed institutions that were essential for the emergence of democracy and secularism, such as the representative assembly and the legal person.
Western law became an extension of reason and in this way secularity forwarded free thought. The Church also became an institution with its own hierarchy. There was never an absolute authority in the West and the Church and the state competed for power. In Islam the separatation of Mosque and state did not arise as there was the Mosque never became an autonomous institution. Mohammed was a prophet, a soldier and a statesman at the same time. Consequently Islamic law became an extension of religion.
In Islamic countries women are frequently severely punished or even killed for being unfaithful [+] while men often are punished more lightly for the same offenses. Honourkillings are not part of Islam itself but are the consequence of the status of women and the cultural traditions in many Islamic regions. Most governments in the Middle East are not democratic. Leaders in Islamic countries often use Islam to justify their government, even though their behaviour often conflicts with Islamic teachings [+]. In many cases corrupt despots in Islamic countries have been supported by the West for economic reasons.
Islamism
The rise in Islamic terrorism coincides with the rise of political Islam or Islamism. Before Islamists used political methods including terrorism, this method was mostly used by political groups like the PLO and the IRA to achieve political ends. On the political level Islam has become an ideology like Capitalism, Socialism and Fascism. The use of the religion Islam for political ends has become an important factor in the current conflict between the West and Islam. Islamism was often oppressed by secular Arab regimes and elections results were often canceled when religious parties won them. Consequently violence became a resort for Islamists.
The political response of the West to Islamism was promoting values like freedom to Islamic nations and fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan on false pretexts to spread those values. The weapons of mass destruction in Iraq were never found while the war in Aghanistan alledgedly was started to find Osama Bin Laden. Osama Bin Laden remained elusive for ten years, and after he was killed the war in Afghanistan continued. On the one hand this undermined the credibility of the West, but on the other hand it fostered the desire for democracy in the Middle East. The desire for democracy was one of the causes for the Arab Spring. The elected governments were in Egypt and Tunesia were Islamist. The Arab Spring however did not improve the plight of religious minorities.
Islamofascism
Most Muslims do not identify themselves with Western values but they are not violent. There are however violent groups that justify their deeds with Islam and thus Islam is used by those groups as a cover for a violent totalitarian ideology. From time to time people who call themselves Muslims kill innocent people in terrorist attacks, while Israel is often named as an excuse to divert attention away from wrongdoings in Islamic countries. Israel may violate the rights of the Palestinians, but in many Islamic countries there are also serious human rights issues. Islamofascists may be violent but they lack sophisticated weapons and therefore they are not as lethal as Western armies.
On many places where Muslims live together with others such as Christians and Jews there is repression and violence. The violence appears to have emerged in recent years with the advent of Islamism or political Islam. The main areas of conflict are Egypt, Nigeria and Iraq. On other places there are violent Islamic insurgencies, for example in the Philippines and Thailand. The repression and violence may have increased in recent years, and reasons may differ from place to place, but presently there is a correlation between Islam and repression and violence. This phenomenon gave rise to the word Islamofascism [+].
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Expressions of Islamofascism are the killing of the Dutch film maker Theo van Gogh and the death threats to the Danish cartoon maker Kurt Westergaard who made cartoons of the prophet Mohammed. During violent protests against the cartoons more than 100 people were killed. People that are critical of Islam and its practices often fear for their lives. The problem of the extremists may be that they are lacking a sense of humour. Most Sunni Muslims believe that visual depictions of Mohammed and all other prohets of Islam should be prohibited. There is no verse in the Quran that forbids to make pictures of prophets if those pictures are not used for worship. The cartoons were definitely not ment for worship.
The Arab Spring does not bode well for religious minorities in the Middle East. Europe and the United States do not take a strong position on the religious violence as they are too dependent on oil from the Middle East. If the West is serious about values like freedom, it should start with cutting back consumption of oil and useless products, so Europe and the United States will be in a better position to speak out against the violence and the oppression, not only in Islamic countries but also in Russia and China.
Neocons
The ideas of Huntington, and especially his thoughts about the use of force, inspired a variety of Neoconservative and Zionist think tanks like the Project for the New American Century. The stated goal of the PNAC was to promote American global leadership. The PNAC stressed the need for military force. The goal of regime change in Iraq remained the consistent position of PNAC. After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the Neocons seized the opportunity to promote an attack on Iraq. Nine days after the September 11, 2001 attacks, the PNAC sent a letter to President George W. Bush, advocating a determined effort to remove Saddam Hussein from power. According to General Wesley Clark there had been a policy coup engineered by neocons after 9/11 [+].
It had been a US policy for to replace governments that are not servile to the oligarchy, even if it meant replacing democratically elected rulers by dictators, as happened in Chile in 1973. The country then became the playground for a neoliberal experiment that is promoted as a success by neoliberal propaganda. In reality the results of the neoliberal experiment were not so great [+]. The doctrine of the Neocons was that toppling dictators and spreading democracy was in the best interest of the United States. Despite that dictators that were useful to the global elite have often remained in power.
Economic interests were one of the reasons for the war in Iraq. As a curious coincidence concerning the Carlyle Group sparked speculation about a conspiracy. George H. W. Bush and his Secretary of State James A. Baker were both advisors for Carlyle, while Shafiq bin Laden, Osama bin Laden's estranged brother was at Carlyle's annual investor conference at the time of the September 11 attacks. Shortly after September 11, 2001, the Binladin Group investment in Carlyle was terminated. Carlyle had directors and advisers that were doing business and also advising the president of the United States [+]. Carlyle was involved in a failed secret deal to use its political influence to collect a $27 billion debt owed by Iraq to Kuwait [+].
Economic interests and oil may also have played a role in war in Libya [+]. During the rebellion probaboy around 50,000 people have been killed. The CIA may have operated on both sides as the United States supported the rebels, while the CIA also had a close relationship with the regime of Gaddafi [+]. A French newspaper reported that France made a secret oil deal in exchange for its support of the rebels [+]. At the same time there was a crackdown of protests in Bahrain, but the United States supported the government of Bahrain [+].
Creating a breeding ground
The United States government has supported dictatorships and undermined democracies for political purposes and business profits. One of the dictatorships supported by the United States government is the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The rulers of Saudi Arabia have used their large oil revenues to sponsor the spread of a conservative form of Islam called Salafism [+].
Conservative Islam itself does not promote terrorism, and a majority of Salafi scholars stand firmly against the present-day manifestations of jihad, particularly as it relates to terrorism and the killing of civilians and innocents. As non-Muslims, and most notably Americans, interfere with the affairs of Islamic countries, Salafism can be a stepping stone towards extremism. Western interference was one main reasons for Osama Bin Laden to attack the United States.
Under the Reagan adminstration, US foreign policy evolved towards the unconditional support and endorsement of the Islamic freedom fighters in Afghanistan, who are now labelled Islamic terrorists. The Taliban are students or graduates of the quranic schools set up by missions from Saudi Arabia, with the support of the CIA [+]. The recent NATO military invention in Libya also helped to increase the influence of Islamic fundamentalists [+].
Islamic extremism is therefore at least partly a product of Western foreign policies. Another issue is that the economic conditions in many Islamic countries are poor and a large number of people depend on Islamic charities. Islamic extremists will remain motivated to perform acts of terrorism as long as the West helps the Jews to kill Muslims and take land from the Muslims in Palestine, meddles into the affairs of Islamic countries and invades those countries under false pretexts [+].
The religious conflict
After the attacks of September 11, 2001, Huntington's views about Islam got more attention. Huntington failed to see that the clash of civilisations between the West and Islam was not only cultural, but also religious in nature. Judaism, Christianity and Islam claim to be the true religion. Islamic extremists attacked the West, not because they believed that their culture is superior, but because they believed that the West is on the wrong path and does not respect the laws of God.
The conflict between Islam and the West is the most prominent, but it is part of a larger religious conflict. The religious conflict concentrates around the following issues:
- Judaism does not recognise Jesus and Mohammed as prophets of God and therefore religious Jews consider Christianity and Islam as false religions.
- Christians help the Jews to take land from the Muslims in Palestine. Many Christians may have felt that the Jews should have their own country after what happened to them during World War II. Particularly within the Evangelical community in the United States many people believe that supporting Israel is a religious duty [+].
- There is little political and religious freedom in many Islamic countries. In those countries Christians and Jews are severely restrained in practicing their religion.
- Islam as it is currently practiced by many Muslims gives women less freedoms than men.
- According to Muslims, the West is on the wrong path by practicing usury and not respecting the laws of God.
Gershom Gorenberg, the Israeli author of The End of Days, pointed out that many Christian Zionists do not like Jews. In The Washington Post he warned that Christian Zionists support the hard line position of Israel in the name of a fundamentalist theology. According to him they expect many Israeli Jews to die in the great battle of Armageddon and the survivors to convert to Christianity [+]. Father Hagee however asserted that a growing majority of evangelical leaders do not preach replacement theology, which teaches that Christianity has replaced Judaism. He also said that the Christians have a mandate to be supportive of Israel and the Jewish people without a hidden agenda [+].
Curiously President Ahadminejad of Iran appears to be working on the same project as the Christian Zionists. His hardline position seems to be based on the same type of fundamentalist theology. The confrontational style of Ahadminejad appears to be aimed at invoking the coming of the Mahdi, who is expected to return before the Day of Judgment to lead the righteous against the forces of evil [+]. Ahadminejad represents a minority fraction within the Iranian leadership and most Iranians do not share his messianistic views [+].
For a number of Christians, the return of Jesus requires that Jews return to Israel and rebuild the third Temple of Solomon. Rebuilding the Temple of Solomon would most likely destroy the Islamic religious shrines now located there. Rational arguments do not play a dominant role in religious conflicts and especially those in the Middle East [+]. Violence can be the consequence and a Battle at Armageddon may become a self fulfilling prophecy. All parties in the conflict have committed acts of violence. The parties in the conflict tend to concentrate their attention on the violence and atrocities committed by their opponents. Focusing on violence and atrocities, while ignoring the underlying causes, will not solve the conflict but only perpetuate it.
Money has become the religion of the West
Money is the god of our times
Heinrich Heine said that money is the god of our times, and that Rothschild is his prophet. This observation is even more valid today because the West is promoting Mammon as a religion. This religion is called Capitalism and is promoted as being good. Opponents of Mammon are often vilified and called lazy, socialists or people that hate freedom. There are theological disputes within the religion of Mammon. Most believers worship central bankers while others think that gold or economic cycles will bring salvation.
At least all believers share the idea that money should dominate our lives. Matt Taibbi identified greed as a religion [+]. At the center of the religion of Mammon or Capitalism lies self-interest and individualism and the segregation of ethical principles from economic affairs. A consequence is that moral issues often play an insignficant role in business and the market driven perception of reality creates a situation in which truth and honesty have become inconveniences [+].
The first known use of credit was found in Babylon and perfected by the priests of Baal. The concept of usury was invented at that time. A borrower will often find it difficult to repay his debts with interest and so he will become a servant to the lender. The problem is, and always has been, that money supply is finite, while compound interest is theoretically infinite. Little has changed since then as today's high priests of finance are the world's central banks sitting in their temples of Mammon, the modern progeny of the money-lending priests of Baal [+].
Protestant ethics
Protestant ethics have played a significant role in establishing Capitalism. The German sociologist and economist Max Weber wrote an influential book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism about the link between the protestant ethic and Capitalism [+]. He presented the Protestant ethic as a disposition leading toward Capitalist modernity. Weber found that in the Protestant religions an individual was religiously compelled to follow a secular vocation with as much zeal as possible. A person living according to this world view was more likely to accumulate money.
Weber defined spirit of Capitalism as the ideas and esprit that favour the rational pursuit of economic gain. The rationalisation is partially a product of the fact that Luther and his religious descendants read the Old Testament and New with equal weight. Consequently they gave a greater influence to Jewish thought. The most vital feature of the spirit of Capitalism is that it gave economising a high moral significance. The individual engages in capitalistic economising not only to make a living, but in the expectation that such activity would test his inner resources and thus affirm his moral worth.
The Protestant religions effectively forbade wastefully using hard earned money and identified the purchase of luxuries as a sin. According to Weber, the donation of money to the poor or to charities was generally frowned on as it was seen as furthering beggary. Jesus taught that people should use their talents, be rewarded for using them and punished for not using them (Mat. 25:14-29, Luke 19:11-26). Talents were money and in this way making money could evolve into a religious moral imperative. The paupers were perceived as lazy, burdening their fellow man, and an affront to God.
Many poor people are not lazy and compassion is a normal human emotion. Capitalism has the tendency to dehumanise people by eroding compassion. This is not only a problem for Christians and Jews. Islam teaches moderation and giving money to the poor. However when the UN announced that at least $ 1.8 billion was needed to feed the people in East Africa, a Malaysian businessman bought a luxury yacht for $ 5 million. Around the same time Saudi Arabia announced the building of a new Tower of Babel of over one kilometre in height, that is planned to cost $ 1 billion.
Freedom from responsibility
The underlying moral issues however are not often discussed. Economic freedom is often perceived as a freedom from responsibility and commitment to a society. It may therefore not be a coincidence that psychopaths are overrepresented on Wall Street and in boards of multinational corporations [+]. Because Jews often remained foreigners, so they on average had less commitment to the societies they lived in, while the Jewish religion promoted the use of money as a tool to exploit others, which is a psychopatic cultural disposition, Capitalism worked to the advantage of the Jews. The economist Milton Friedman, who also was a Jew, strongly opposed the idea that corporations have a social responsibility. In his work Capitalism and Freedom he wrote:
The view has been gaining widespread acceptance that corporate officials have a “social responsibility” that goes beyond serving the interests of their stockholders or their members. This view shows a fundamental misconception of the character and nature of a free economy. In such an economy, there is one and only one social responsibility of business – to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game ... Few trends could so thoroughly undermine the very foundations of our free society as the acceptance by corporate officials of a social responsibility other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible. |
The consequences of the position of Milton Friedman are not correctly understood by most people, but it implies that whenever there is a profit in killing people, corporations have a moral obligation to do so. If it is against the law to kill people, corporations have a moral obligation to bribe politicians into changing the law. Nothing should get in the way of a good profit. This is Capitalism in its purest form. We see it in action everywhere around us: the destruction of nature, the wars for the benefit of the military industrial complex, speculation in food leaving the poorest prone to famine, the selling of deadly pharmaceuticals and the assassination of leaders that do not generate enough profits for the oligarchy.
Moral Issues
Jews and business
The affection of Jews for money is acknowledged by some Jews at least. Gerald Krefetz wrote a book about it named Jews and Money: The Myths and the Reality. Because Jews were sometimes expelled while their properties were seized, money was a more secure asset because it is fungible while property and businesses are not [+]. The preoccupation of Jews with making money appears to be, at least to a certain extent, based on feelings of existential anxiety. Billionaire oligarch Samuel Zell explained in The New Yorker why he, as a Jew, could never earn enough, and why he diversified his investments globally:
I think that being Jewish means that you’re vulnerable forever. Was there a stronger Jewish community anywhere in the world a more intellectual, more successful than Germany in the late twenties and early thirties, before Hitler? And seven years later they’re building concentration camps! So, do I expect something like that to happen in the United States? Of course not. Do I think it could? Absolutely. |
Jewish business practices that contributed to the success of the Jews in Germany may also have contributed to their downfall. For most Germans the twenties and the early thirties meant economic hardship, but the Jews where thriving. According to Adolf Hitler, international finance, dominated by Jews was to blame. In the United States the government and the parliament have been corrupted by lobbyists, and many Jews, most notably those on Wall Street, prosper in this environment [+]. When law and order in the former Soviet Union broke down, a wealth and power grab occurred in Russia, and for many Russians this was a time of impoverishment. During this period a number of oligarchs emerged and most of them were Jewish [+].
It may not be a coincidence that Israeli nationals dominate the production and trade of blood diamonds [+]. According to Keith Harmon Snow, Israeli operatives and businessmen appear everywhere there is egregious suffering and dispossession. Usury and Jewish business practices seem to create an economic environment that can be compared to a pool of sharks where others are eaten alive. This is clearly visible in the financial sector where investors are screwed by a wide range of schemes and frauds. In the past the issue was often resolved in a brutal way, when the economic hardship and suffering were attributed to the actions of Jews.
As the economy of Germany did well in the second half of the 1930's, it may well be that the impact of the Jews on the prosperity of the rest of the population was negative, not only because of their culture but probably also because many of them were employed in sectors that did not contribute to economic output [+]. Most likely the same applies for the top 1% in the United States. It is difficult to tell to which extent the actions of Jews contributed to their misfortune, as religious motives, xenophobia and opportunistic plunder also have played a role, but the hatred towards Jews appears to have been, at least to a certain extent, based on feelings of existential anxiety. The nature of Jewish culture does not remain unnoticed on the Internet:
There's an undeniable, statistically proven correlation between the individuals most responsible for the most viciously sociopathic sectors of our society, and their own self-professed, self-identified Judaism, but we're not allowed to mention it? No-one has done more harm to us in half a century, not drug cartels, gangs, organised criminals, industrialists, unions, terrorists or foreign powers, but we can't mention that? |
Trading, speculation and fraud
The practice of large scale currency speculation at the expense of the public was first practiced by George Soros, who reportedly made $1 billion during the 1992 Black Wednesday UK currency crisis. Soros was called the man who broke the Bank of England. In 1997 the UK Treasury estimated the cost of Black Wednesday at £3.4 billion. It may not be a coincidence that George Soros is a Jew [+].
The largest financial fraud in history has been committed by Bernard Madoff. In March 2009, Madoff pleaded guilty to 11 federal crimes and admitted to turning his wealth management business into a Ponzi scheme that defrauded thousands of investors of billions of dollars. The court appointed trustee estimated actual losses to investors of $18 billion. It may not be a coincidence that also Bernard Madoff is a Jew [+].
The Enron scandal was another large fraud case. Shareholders lost nearly $11 billion when Enron's stock price, which hit a high of $90 per share in mid-2000, plummeted to less than $1 by the end of November 2001. Enron was headed by Chairman and Chief executive officer Kenneth Lay. He was not a Jew but the chief financial officer Andrew Stuart Fastow was. Jeffrey Verschleiser, considered to be one of the biggest assholes in the entire world by Matt Taibbi as he was for a large part responsible for the demise of Bear Stearns, rented all 94 rooms of Hotel Jerome in Aspen, Colorado for his daughter’s Bat Mitzvah [+]. Jews are involved in many of the greatest financial scandals.
Seven out of ten people Max Keiser identified as the main culprits of the financial crisis were Jews [+]. Jews are overrepresented in finance but this may not be the only reason. Jewish culture may have something to do with this. Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street banks were involved in criminal activities [+]. Despite that the CEO of Goldman Sachs Lloyd Blankfein said that his firm is doing God's work in trying to justify the high bonuses of the bankers shortly after they were bailed out with taxpayer money. Mr. Blankfein is a Jew and the Jewish religion advocates the exploitation of gentiles by usury.
Illegal organ traficking
The deficient morality in Jewish culture also reveals itself in illegal organ traficking. Allegations have been made about Jews harvesting organs, such as Israeli troops killing Palestinians [+] or Israelis importing Ukrainian children [+] to harvest their organs. The allegations most likely are false but they are not completely baseless, as Israeli organ harvesting - sometimes with Israeli governmental funding and the participation of high Israeli officials, prominent Israeli physicians, and Israeli ministries - did occur [+].
The former head of Abu Kabir forensic institute, Dr Jehuda Hiss has admitted that corneas, skin, heart valves, and bones were taken from the bodies of Israeli soldiers, Israeli citizens, Palestinians and foreign workers, often without permission from relatives. The Israeli Ministry of Health later acknowledged that those practices existed in the 1990's [+]. In the Ukrain Israeli organ trafickers are also active [+]. Recently a Jewish rabbi admitted to have been buying organs from vulnerable people in Israel and selling them to desperate patients in the United States [+].
According to Nancy Scheper-Hughes, an anthropologist and organ trade expert, organ traffickers and procurers come from numerous nations and ethnicities, but Israel is at the top with tentacles reaching out worldwide. There is a donor organ shortage in Israel as only eight percent of adult Israelis hold organ-donor cards because the Jewish religion requires that a body is buried whole. Most Islamic scholars hold the same view but organ transplants are rare in Muslim countries. What the whole issue makes so bad, is that most Jews are not willing to donate organs but seem to have no problem with accepting them, while Jews also dominate the illegal organ traficking scene.
The Jewish Paradox
According to the economist Milton Friedman there is a Jewish Paradox, consisting of two propositions validated by evidence, which seem to be incompatible with each other. The first proposition is that there are few peoples if any in the world who owe so great a debt to free enterprise and competitive capitalism as the Jews. The second proposition is that there are few peoples if any in the world who have done so much to undermine the intellectual foundation of capitalism as the Jews [+]. Karl Marx was raised in a Jewish family that had converted to Christianity. Important figures in the Russian Communist Revolution of 1917 like Leon Trotsky, Karl Radek, Yakov Sverdlov and Lev Kamenev were also Jewish.
Superior knowledge and education have been an important factor in this development and the Jews involved most likely were not secretly working on a hidden agenda to take over the world. But the Jews as a group have greatly increased their wealth and influence during the existence of the paradox. It is therefore not surprising that a number of people think that there is a Jewish conspiracy to take over the world. G. Edward Griffin noted that The Protocols of the Elders of Zion accurately describe much of what is happening in our world today [+]. Uri Avneri made a similar comment [+]. Many conspiracy theories about Jews are based on these and similar observations. They often resemble the following reasoning:
Jews know that the best way to control the opposition is to lead the opposition themselves. Once they are in the leading positions of any organised labour movement or antiwar groups, or even the so called right wing extremist groups, they can always direct it to their advantage. The purpose of funding and manufacturing right wing radical groups is to have a poster boy to blame for any atrocities; so, the Jewish leaders, activists, professors can lecture us on how to be civilised and any suggestion of a Zionist connection would be labeled as a conspiracy theory by the likes of Noam Chomsky. Just like he lectures us on US imperialism and oil corporation and never the true powers behind wars who are bankers and its overwhelmingly under the control of international Jewry. |
Jewish allegiance and assimilation
Former Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion once stated that whenever a Jew, in America or in South Africa, talks to his Jewish companions about our government, he means the government of Israel. During an interview with Gilad Atzmon, Philip Weiss disclosed that he feels himself an American before he feels himself Jewish and that this is the achievement of his life [+]. Both statements indicate that the allegiance of many Jews is with their tribe and with Israel and not with their home country.
The Israel government is sponsoring ads in the United States warning young Jews against marrying Americans [+]. Jeffrey Goldberg wrote in The Atlantic that the idea, communicated in these ads is that America is no place for a proper Jew, and that a Jew who is concerned about the Jewish future should live in Israel. The issue of Jewish allegiance and assimilation is also addressed in Gilad Atzmon's book The Wandering Who. John Mearsheimer, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, wrote the following:
Gilad Atzmon has written a fascinating and provocative book on Jewish identity in the modern world. He shows how assimilation and liberalism are making it increasingly difficult for Jews in the Diaspora to maintain a powerful sense of their Jewishness. Panicked Jewish leaders, he argues, have turned to Zionism (blind loyalty to Israel) and scaremongering (the threat of another Holocaust) to keep the tribe united and distinct from the surrounding goyim. As Atzmon’s own case demonstrates, this strategy is not working and is causing many Jews great anguish. The Wandering Who? should be widely read by Jews and non-Jews alike. |
At some point Jews living outside Israel will have to make a choice. Do they want to remain part of the Jewish people, and emigrate to Israel, or do they want to become fully integrated into the societies of the countries they are living in? The Israeli government at least seems to agree.
| Israel betrays its closest allies |
Introduction
Israel is a small nation surrounded by Arabs who are generally hostile towards the Jewish state because Israel has taken land from the Arabs. For this reason many Jews think that the existence of Israel is not secure. For survival betrayal may be permitted and this could explain why Israel does not shy away from betraying its closest allies. A strong survival instinct of Israel is mentioned as a motive for Israeli spying [+]. A number of Jews consider themselves to be God's chosen people and in this they may find an additional justification for using and betraying their allies.
The United States is Israel's closest ally, but Israel betrayed the United States at least in the Lavon Affair (1954) and the Jonathan Pollard spy case (1987). Many people have doubts concerning the role of Israel in the sinking of the USS Liberty (1967), the suicide attack that killed 241 Marines in Beirut (1983) and the terror attacks of September 11 (2001). Also the Netherlands is a close ally of Israel but there are indications that Israel supports the Dutch politician Geert Wilders who is known for his strong stance against Islam. Some of the rhetoric of Geert Wilders was reminiscent of Nazi hate speech [+].
Attacks
Lavon Affair
The Lavon Affair was a plan to discredit Egypt's government, then headed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, by bombing theaters, post offices and U.S. and British institutions. As part of the false flag operation, a group of Egyptian Jews were recruited by Israeli military intelligence for plans to plant bombs inside Egyptian, American and British-owned targets. Colonel Binyamin Gibli, the chief of Israel's military intelligence, initiated the operation in 1954.
The attacks were to be blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood, Egyptian Communists or local nationalists with the aim of creating a climate of sufficient violence and instability to induce the British government to retain its occupying troops in Egypt's Suez Canal zone. The plan involved the killing of British and US citizens and then putting the blame on Egypt. The plan was foiled by Egyptian intelligence services [+].
In 1956 Israel, together with Great Britain and France invaded Egypt. The attack followed Egypt's decision to nationalise the Suez Canal, after the withdrawal of an offer by Britain and the United States to fund the building of the Aswan Dam, which was in response to Egypt's new ties with the Soviet Union and recognizing the People's Republic of China. The aims of the attack were primarily to regain Western control of the canal and precipitate the fall of Nasser from power.
The attack on the USS Liberty
The USS Liberty incident was an attack on a United States Navy technical research ship, USS Liberty, by Israeli jet fighter planes followed by motor torpedo boats on June 8, 1967, during the Six-Day War. The combined air and sea attack killed 34 crew members, wounded 171 crew members, and severely damaged the ship. At the time, the ship was in international waters north of the Sinai Peninsula, about 25.5 nautical miles (47.2 km) northwest from the Egyptian city of Arish.
Both the Israeli and US governments conducted inquiries into the incident, and issued reports, which concluded that the attack was a mistake, due to Israeli confusion about the identity of the USS Liberty [+]. Although an Israeli motive remains elusive, some US diplomats, veterans and intelligence officials who were involved in the incident continue to dispute the official findings, stating that the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty was not a mistake. It remains the only major maritime incident in US history not investigated by the US Congress. In 2004 Former Admiral Thomas Moorer, Commander-in-Chief US Atlantic Fleet in June, 1967, when Liberty was attacked, made some serious allegations [+]:
U.S. military rescue aircraft were recalled -- not once, but twice -- through direct intervention by the Johnson administration. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's cancellation of the Navy's attempt to rescue the Liberty, which I confirmed from the commanders of the aircraft carriers America and Saratoga, was the most disgraceful act I witnessed in my entire military career. |
Spy cases
Jonathan Pollard
Jonathan Pollard stole more than 1 million highly-classified US documents and then sold those documents to Israel. Israel most likely gave many of those documents to the Soviet Union in exchange for continued Soviet permission for Jews to emigrate to Israel. A large number of American intelligence assets may have been eliminated as a result [+].
The US officials investigating the spy case stated that they had no hard evidence in the form of a document from an Israeli or a Soviet archive to demonstrate the link between Pollard, Israel, and the Soviet Union, but they also said that the documents which Pollard had handed over to Israel led them to no other conclusion. It is likely that Israel has sold more US military secrets that it has acquired in the United States to other countries like China. For this reason the Pentagon had frozen joint US-Israeli defense projects [+].
Jonathan Pollard may have been part of a larger Israeli spy ring that also stole nuclear secrets [+]. Israel is lobbying on his behalf to release him from prison [+] and 38 members of Congress have formally called for Pollard’s release.
Lawrence Franklin espionage scandal
A few spy cases got some media attention. Former AIPAC officials Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman passed classified Pentagon information on to an intelligence officer at the Israeli Embassy [+]. The FBI arrested them. Israeli officials have called the charges completely false and outrageous. They also stated that the Israeli government terminated all espionage activities in the United States after the Pollard affair. Evidence to the contrary exists [+].
In May 2009, federal prosecutors dropped the charges against Rosen and Weissman citing that restrictions the judge had placed on the case made a conviction unlikely. The Congressional Quarterly reported that Democratic congresswoman Harman was overheard agreeing to seek lenient treatment for two former employees of the AIPAC. In exchange prominent pro-Israel contributors would press then majority leader Pelosi to appoint Harman to the chairmanship of the House Intelligence Committee [+].
Other spy cases
Leading Neoconservatives like Richard Perle, Douglas Feith and Stephen Bryen have all provided classified information to Israel. The investigations were halted and they could remain in office. FBI counter intelligence officer John Cole has reported on the frustration of his colleagues over the many cases of Israeli espionage that are dropped under orders from the Justice Department. He provides a conservative estimate of 125 worthwhile investigations into Israeli espionage in the US stopped due to political pressure [+].
Ben-Ami Kadish was arrested in New Jersey in December 2008 for a handing over classified defence documents related to nuclear weapons and anti-missile defence systems. He was fined and given a suspended sentence. The judge wondered why it took the government 23 years to bring Mr. Kadish to justice.
Israel always features prominently in the annual FBI report called Foreign Economic Collection and Industrial Espionage. The 2005 report states that Israel has an active program to gather proprietary information within the United States. A key Israeli method, according the FBI report, is computer intrusion [+]. These collection activities are primarily directed at obtaining information on military systems and advanced computing applications that can be used in Israel’s armaments industry. It adds that Israel recruits spies, uses electronic methods, and carries out computer intrusion to gain the information. The 2005 report concluded that the thefts eroded US military advantage, enabling foreign powers to obtain expensive technologies that had taken years to develop.
Not only the United States is a target for Israeli spying. On September 19, 2003, the Ottawa Sun mentioned that nine Israelis suspected of being foreign agents were arrested by Immigration and Ottawa police officers near the Canadian Parliament building [+]. This article was pulled by the Ottawa Sun for unknown reasons within hours of posting. The Israeli spies posed as art students as they did in the United States [+]. In 2011 new arrests of Israeli nationals were made in Canada but it is unclear whether they are spies or not as it appears to be forbidden for the press to mention this [+].
By Way of Deception
In his book By Way of Deception Victor Ostrovsky, a former Israeli secret agent, claimed that the Israelis had advance notice of the suicide attack that killed 241 Marines in Beirut in October 1983 but withheld the information from the United States in the hope that the attack would poison American Arab relations. According to him Ronald Reagan was tricked into bombing Libya by means of a radio transmitter smuggled into Tripoli by the Mossad, which broadcasted messages designed to fool the United States into thinking Libya was about to launch a terror attack on the west.
Many of Ostrovsky's claims have not been verified from other sources nor have they been refuted. Arguments continue to rage over the credibility of his accounts. He was named in a lawsuit by the Israeli government saying he was part of the Mossad. Critics have argued that a case officer would not have had access to so many operational secrets [+].
One of Ostrovsky's claims is that the Mossad recruits sayanim or helpers amongst the Jews living in other countries. The strong grip of the Jews over the United States and the successes of the Mossad are difficult to explain without assuming the existence of a network of helpers. There is no reliable information on sayanim available and helpers do not have to be sayanim or Mossad members. The consequence of the system of sayanim and helpers is that Jews cannot be trusted because they may operate like a fifth column in other nations.
The attacks of September 11, 2001
Doubts about the official story
Many people think that the US government is not telling the truth about the terror attacks of September 11. The official story does not account for a number of suspicious coincidences and anomalies. A number of people also believe that the September 11 attacks were a false flag operation. False flag operations have been planned and executed in the past. America’s top military leaders drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in US cities to trick the public into supporting a war against Cuba in the early 1960s [+]. During the cold war terrorist attacks have been executed using a secretive network named Gladio to keep the left from coming to power in Italy [+]. In the Netherlands the secret service AIVD helped to organise violent left-wing activities [+].
Shortly after September 11, 2001, a series of anthrax attacks took place in the United States. Those attacks may have played a significant role in influencing the attitudes towards Iraq and the Neocons have tried to put the blame on Al Qaeda [+]. The anthrax however originated from a U.S. military lab. An investigation ensued but some questions remain [+]. There is data suggesting that a chemical may have been added to heighten the potency of the anthrax, a move that may have exceeded the expertise of the presumed killer [+]. It also appeared that the alledged perpetrator may not have had the equipment that would be required to prepare the antrax that was used in the letters. According to FBI officials however circumstantial evidence against the suspected perpetrator is overwhelming [+].
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Israeli involvement
A number of suspicious circumstances hint at Israeli involvement. Reporters of the Herald Times investigated the leads linking Israel to the September 11 terror attacks [+]. Some of the suspicious circumstances are:
- Five Israeli citizens were seen filming, dancing and celebrating when the World Trade Center burned and crumbled. They were arrested and at least two of them were Israeli intelligence agents working for Mossad.
- According to a French intelligence report the Mossad agents were spying on Mohammed Atta and Marwan al-Shehi, two of leaders of the 9/11 hijack teams. The pair had settled in Florida, along with three other hijackers, after leaving Hamburg where another Mossad team was operating close by.
- The Mossad agents were driving a van from Urban Moving Systems. A warrant was issued for a search of the Urban Moving Systems premises in Weehawken in New Jersey but boxes of papers and computers had already been removed.
- After being questioned by FBI-agents the owner of Urban Moving Systems Dominick Suter suddenly departed from the United States and left no one acting as an agent [+].
- A US official noted that the assessment was that Urban Moving Systems was a front for the Mossad and operatives employed by it.
- The five Israelis were held in custody for 71 days before being quietly released.
The Forward, a New York Jewish news magazine, reported that the FBI concluded that two of the men were Israeli intelligence operatives. A spokesperson for the Israeli Embassy in the United States said that they had not been involved in any intelligence operation in the United States. The FBI later concluded that they had no foreknowledge of the attacks. But this conclusion is questionable as investigators within the DEA, INS and FBI have all told that to pursue or even suggest Israeli spying (through Comverse) is considered career suicide [+].
Odigo, the instant messaging service, says that two of its workers received messages two hours before the Twin Towers attack on September 11 predicting the attack would happen [+]. The CNN also covered this story, but the article has been removed. According to Carl Cameron of Fox News, evidence indicates that Israeli spies must have known what the terrorists were planning [+]. On the issue Senator Bob Graham has said [+]:
I think there is very compelling evidence that at least some of the terrorists were assisted not just in financing - although that was part of it - by a sovereign foreign government. |
If the sovereign foreign government was Iraq then this information would have become public so it could be used to justify the attack on Iraq. Saudi Arabia had no motive and there is no evidence pointing in that direction. Israel had a motive, Israel had the means, Jewish culture provided the mindset for such acts, Israel did similar things in the past and there is compelling evidence for Israeli involvement. There is not much room for doubt, really.
The facts do not indicate that American Jews as a group or the Israel lobby were involved in the terrorist attacks. The number of accomplices must have been small. It is known that Israeli intelligence services do not shy away from tying up with Islamic extremists [+]. Any terrorist threat or attack therefore should be regarded with great suspicion, especially when they are planned in regions where the Mossad is also active [+]. It is therefore possible that other terrorist attacks apparently perpetrated by Islamic terrorists were facilitated by the Mossad.
Possible conspiracy in the United States government
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At the time of the terrorist attacks the United States government included a number of Neoconservative Zionists. It is also true that Islamic extremists had a strong motive for attacking the United States because the oligarchs of the West support a number of regimes in Islamic countries. In the secretive world of covert operations things often are not what they appear to be. Some people within the US secret services may have known what Osama Bin Laden was planning to do, or even worse, Osama Bin Laden may have been helped by elements in the US secret services.
Many people question the government account of the September 11 attacks [+]. Coincidences that appear to be a message from God suggest that rogue elements in the United States government were involved in the September 11 attacks and that the collapse of the World Trade Center was caused by explosive devices [+]. The 9/11 Truth Movement has investigated the September 11 terrorist attacks. The website www.911truth.org contains much of their research.
There is a risk of explaining suspicious coincidences as a result of a conspiracy while they are the result of The Program. There are many suspicious coincidences. The website killtown.911review.org has a list of suspicious coincidences and circumstances. Alternative explanations for many events are possible and many coincidences may not point at conspiracies. The website www.debunking911.com has many alternative explanations. Even though there may be inconsistencies and fallacies in the conspiracy research, this does not mean that there was no conspiracy by elements in the US secret services [+]. There is evidence suggesting the existence of a conspiracy in the United States government.
The chairman, vice chairman, and senior legal counsel of the 9/11 Commission wrote books in which they stated that the Bush Administration witheld information from government commission investigating the September 11 attacks [+]. As there is compelling evidence for Mossad involvement, this could have been done to hide information linking September 11 to the Mossad and Israel. Zionist Jews have been appointed to oversee the investigations and the juridicial process in the aftermath of September 11. Philip Zelikow, who was also an Israeli citizen, was appointed as the executive director of the 9/11 Commission. Without a proper investigation of the September 11 attacks the complete truth will remain obscure.
The Neoconservatives succeeded in starting the Iraq war with the use falsified evidence [+] of which it was already known that is was questionable [+]. Former CIA George J. Tenet stated that White House and Pentagon officials, and particularly Vice President Cheney, were determined to attack Iraq from the first days of the Bush administration, long before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. According to him there have been numerous efforts by aides to Cheney and Rumsfeld to insert crap into public justifications for the war. Tenet also describes an ongoing fear within the intelligence community of the administration's willingness to mischaracterise complex intelligence information [+].
The Bush Government was making plans to attack Iraq before September 11, 2001 [+]. The document Strategic Energy Policy Challenges For The 21st Century describes how America is facing the biggest energy crisis in its history. It targets Saddam as a threat to American interests because of his control of Iraqi oilfields and recommends the use of 'military intervention' as a means to fix the US energy crisis. The document was commissioned by James Baker, the former US Secretary of State under George Bush Snr, and submitted to Vice-President Dick Cheney in April 2001, five months before September 11. Yet it advocates a policy of using military force against Iraq to secure US access to, and control of, Middle Eastern oil fields [+].
It was also the intention of the neo-conservative policymakers in the Bush administration to improve Israel's security [+] by eliminating its greatest military threats, forging a regional balance of power overwhelmingly in Israel's favour, and in general creating a more friendly atmosphere for Israel in the Middle East. The Neocons have been open about the fact that this played a role in promoting wars against Iraq [+]. A curious consequence is that the United States fought a war for Israel, a country that was involved in the September 11 attacks, and attacked Iraq, a country that was not involved in the September 11 attacks, and was not a threat to the United States.
Events in the Netherlands
The Dutch politician Geert Wilders thinks that Islam is an ideology that conflicts with Western values. According to Wilders a moderate Islam does not exist. Islam means surrender (to God) and therefore a moderate Islam is a contradiction in terms. Geert Wilders called the prophet Mohammed a barbarian, a mass murderer and a pedophile. According to Wilders several verses in The Quran call Muslims to oppress, persecute or murder Jews, Christians, other believers and non-believers, to rape and beat women and to use violence to establish a global Islamic state. Geert Wilders also called for a ban on The Quran in The Netherlands.
The picture Fitna made by Geert Wilders shows selected excerpts from verses of The Quran, interspersed with media clips and newspaper cuttings showing or describing acts of violence and hatred by Muslims. The film intends to demonstrate that The Quran motivates Muslims to hate all who violate Islamic teachings. According to the picture Islam encourages, among other things, acts of terrorism, anti-Semitism and violence against women and homosexuals. Geert Wilders took Quranic verses out of context, misinterpreted them, and used them to explain acts of violence. Because of his statements Islamofascists threatened to kill Geert Wilders.
Before Geert Wilders founded his Freedom Party PVV his visits to the Israeli embassy caught the attention of the Dutch intelligence service AIVD [+]. These visits are remarkable because Geert Wilders declared many times that Muslim immigrants should renounce dual citizenship because of a potential loyalty conflict. The Dutch intelligence service AIVD suspected that Geert Wilders received instructions from the Israeli embassy. Geert Wilders is a passionate Zionist and he called Jordan the only Palestinian state there will ever be [+]. During his life Geert Wilders has visited Israel several times.
The Netherlands is one of Israel's closest allies, but the activities and statements of Geert Wilders have the potential of destabilising the country. The possible Israeli involvement in the Freedom Party PVV is even more remarkable considering the fact that the hate speech used by Geert Wilders closely resembles that of the Nazis [+]. Some people have tried to prosecute Geert Wilders for his hate language, but he has not been convicted as this would curtail the freedom of expression in the Netherlands.
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Introduction
Because there is a sense of political correctness surrounding Jews that is reinforced by the atrocities committed by the Nazis during World War II, Judaism, Jewish culture and Zionism have not been adequately analysed. Judaism does not give other people a secondary status based on race because Adam was created singly as the common forebear of all mankind so that future families would not quarrel over claims of superiority in their respective ancestry (see also: Talmud Sanhedrin 38a). The Jewish identity in the Talmud is based on religion. The Talmud is important to Orthodox Jews and it promotes a number of questionable practices such as stealing from gentiles and lying to them.
Many orthodox Jews like Rabbi Yosef seem to think that they are superior people. They show little or no respect for non-Jews. Rabbi Yosef said that the gentiles only exist to serve the Jews [+]. Rabbi Yosef is an influential religious leader of the Shas Party, which is part of the Israeli government. Rabbi Yosef and some other rabbis hold racist views, for example that non-Jews are uncompassionate by nature and should be killed in order to curb their evil inclinations [+].
In his book, Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years, the late Israeli writer Israel Shahak, who himself did not shy away from malicious gossip and lies [+], argued that whenever Orthodox rabbis use the word human they normally did not refer to all people, but only to Jews (see also: Talmud Baba Mezi'a 114b, Talmud Sanhedrin 74b). On the Internet you will also find false and distorted quotes, such as former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin stating that the Jewish race is the master race.
Consequences for Israeli politics
The Israeli betrayal of friendly foreign nations demonstrates that superiority thinking is common amongst Jews. Statements of Israeli politicians confirm this, like the words of the former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon when he said that Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial [+]. Also Israeli policies [+], court rulings [+] and the behaviour of groups of orthodox jews [+] seem to be based on Jewish superiority thinking.
Mentioning that Jews are not the only chosen people and saying that the idea of the Promised Land should not be used to let Jews migrate to Israel and to exile Palestinians has caused a diplomatic row between Israel and the Vatican [+]. It is true that in many Islamic countries similar policies are implemented, and many Israeli policies that seem to be racist are a response to a perceived threat, but it cannot be denied that Jewish superiority is part of the political doctrine of Israel. "A land without a people for a people without a land" is widely-cited phrase associated with the reintroduction of a Jewish state in Palestine. Some Zionists claimed that Palestine was empty even though Arabs were living there.
Rabbi Yosef is an extremist and his views do not represent those of the majority of the Israelis. Still those thoughts are shared by a significant minority and Yosef's political party has been part of the Israeli government. Rabbi Moshe Greenberg, an Israeli scholar on Jewish scriptural views on racism and ethnic chauvinism said that most Israelis do not believe in Jewish supremacy but these statements are in the Jewish scriptures. Greenberg, who was a professor at Hebrew University, pointed out that such Talmudic texts were purely theoretical at the time of their writing, because Jews did not have the power to carry them out, but now they are carried out in circumstances where Jews have a state and are empowered [+].
Similarities between Judaism, Zionism and Nazism
Closer inspection reveals that Nazism and Zionism are similar ideologies. This appears not to be a coincidence as both ideologies emerged in a situation where the survival of the nation and the people have been under stress. It is not surprising that Adolf Hitler saw life as a bitter struggle, as he had been homeless and survived World War I. In his little known second book Adolf Hitler wrote:
Politics is history in the making. History itself is the presentation of the course of a people's struggle for existence. I deliberately use the phrase struggle for existence here because, in truth, that struggle for daily bread, equally in peace and war, is an eternal battle against thousands upon thousands of resistances, just as life itself is an eternal struggle against death. For men know as little why they live as does any other creature of the world. Only life is filled with the longing to preserve itself. The most primitive creature knows only the instinct of the self preservation of its own, in creatures standing higher in the scale it is transferred to wife and child, and in those standing still higher to the entire species. While, apparently, man often surrenders his own instinct of self preservation for the sake of the species, in truth he nevertheless serves it to the highest degree. For not seldom the preservation of the life of a whole people, and with this of the individual, lies only in this renunciation by the individual. Hence the sudden courage of a mother in the defence of her young and the heroism of a man in the defence of his people. The two powerful life instincts, hunger and love, correspond to the greatness of the instinct for self preservation. While the appeasement of eternal hunger guarantees self preservation, the satisfaction of love assures the continuance of the race. In truth these two drives are the rulers of life. And even though the fleshless aesthete may lodge a thousand protests against such an assertion, the fact of his own existence is already a refutation of his protest. Nothing that is made of flesh and blood can escape the laws which determined its coming into being. As soon as the human mind believes itself to be superior to them, it destroys that real substance which is the bearer of the mind. |
Israel's aggressive militarism resembles that of Nazi-Germany. Whether there was a conspiracy of Jews to destroy Germany or there is an Iranian plot to wipe Israel of the map does not really matter. If there is an argument for such a position, then there is reason to act. But Israel's military options are limited [+] and Hezbollah has become a formidable foe. For Israel the Holocaust is a national trauma that shapes the national identity. Security threats are often seen as potential new Holocausts [+]. Israel's main concern is to never let it happen again, but this would require a thoroughgoing investigation into the causes of anti-Semitism, which has not been performed until now. According to Merav Michaeli [+]:
The Holocaust is the primary way Israel defines itself. And that definition is narrow and ailing in the extreme, because the Holocaust is remembered only in a very specific way, as are its lessons. It has long been used to justify the existence and the necessity of the state, and has been mentioned in the same breath as proof that the state is under a never-ending existential threat. |
Creating the impression that one's own race or nation is superior strengthens the bond between the members of the group. This also applied to the apartheid regime in South Africa, where a white minority used politics of separation to assert its identity in the face of a black majority. The actions of the Nazis and the apartheid regime in South Africa united the world against them. The actions of the Israel such as treating the Palestinians badly, facilitating the September 11 attacks and pushing the United States into wars, have a similar effect. The parallels between Zionism and Nazism are striking:
| Zionism and Judaism | Nazism |
| Jews are God's chosen people | Germans are superior people (Übermenschen) |
| Gentiles are inferior (Talmud Baba Mezi'a 114b) | Some other races are not humans but subhumans |
| Gentiles can be exploited with the use of money | Inferior people can be exploited to the benefit of the Third Reich |
| Jews must return to Israel | Ethnicity is based on descent and homeland (Blut und Boden) |
| Jews colonise the occupied territories | Germans need living space (Lebensraum) |
| Palestinians live small designated areas similar to ghettos | Jews and other "undesirables" were put in concentration camps |
Downsides of superiority thinking for Israel
Jewish superiority thinking has downsides for Israel too, as the recent release of the soldier Gilad Shalit made clear. If one Jew is worth a thousand Palestinians, then Israel makes decisions no rational government would make. Among the Palestinians released in exchange for Gilad Shalit were a number of Palestinians that have killed Israeli civilians. Some of them may kill Israeli citizens again once they are free [+].
Superiority thinking may have played a role in the decision of the Zionist Neocons to attack Iraq. The possibility of Iraq posing a threat to Israel was extremely remote, and it could be expected that a war in Iraq would kill hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, and thousands of Americans soldiers. They all died for Israeli policy objectives. Superiority thinking may have induced the Mossad to facilitate the terrorist attacks of September 11. Israel and the United States have become an existential threat to many nations, as there can always be a political or business case for war. The Iran terror plot of 2011 demonstrates how a new war may be started [+].
To add insult to injury, the usury financial system in which Jews play a dominant role, is the main systemic driver behind the destruction of nature, poverty, exploitation, corruption and wars. Many financial panics, economic depressions, famines and wars in recorded history can be attributed to the influence of usury banking [+]. Interest on money and fractional reserve banking probably have been the most important underlying causes for World War II [+].
Judaism is not evil nor are Jews
Orthodox Jews with racist views are a minority and most Israelis probably will be appalled when it becomes public that the Mossad had facilitated the September 11 attacks. The Mossad action may also have been a sign of desperation as many Israelis do not feel secure. Egypt and Jordan are the only Arab nations that recognise Israel. Many Israelis live with the idea that the Arabs will one day try to overrun Israel. On the other hand the Jewish culture and religion appear to make Jews more inclined to this type of conduct than other people. Most people are not aware of their cultural background as it is their normal.
Judaism like any other religion can be used to justify war but it can also be used to promote peace [+]. Many Jews who support Israel have objections to the war crimes Israel has committed. In most conflicts war crimes are committed and the war crimes of Israel have not been extraordinary. A majority of Israelis would support a nuclear weapons-free Middle East, even if it meant that Israel too would have to give up its nuclear weapons. Two thirds of Israelis said they believe their government should be doing more to promote a comprehensive peace with the Arabs based on the 1967 borders with agreed modifications [+].
Hamas and other militant groups are also blocking a peace settlement even though Hamas removed its call for the destruction of Israel from its chapter in 2006 [+]. In 2008 the Hamas leader in Gaza stated that Hamas would agree to accept a Palestinian state along the 1967 borders, and to offer a long-term truce with Israel. However a long term truce is not a peace settlement, and from this statement one can argue that Hamas plans to take up arms again in the future. The militant groups help to prolong the suffering in Palestine and the Palestinians suffer from this. The firing of rockets at Israel has prompted military responses. A few young people in Gaza dared to speak out against Israeli killings, the Hamas oppression and the political games being played [+].
There will be no peace without security for Israel and there will be no security for Israel as long as many Arabs hope that Israel will one day be wiped from the map. Likewise there will be no peace without security for the Palestinians. As long as new settlements are built, Palestinians have good reason to think that one day they will be expelled from their land. The settlers are also a security threat to Israel itself [+]. The Israelis and the Palestinians will face a difficult choice: accepting the pre-1967 borders or become one nation with equal rights for Israelis and Palestinians based on the example of South Africa.
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Conclusive remarks
We have to face the facts. A poster from the September 1930 Reichstag election summarises the Nazi ideology (see picture to the right). A Nazi sword kills a snake, the blade passing through a red Star of David. The red words coming from the snake are: usury, Versailles, unemployment, war guilt lie, Marxism, Bolshevism, lies and betrayal, inflation, Locarno, Dawes Pact, Young Plan, corruption, Barmat, Kutistker, Sklarek (three Jews involved in major financial scandals), prostitution, terror and civil war. The sad thing is that much of the Nazi propaganda turned out to be prophetic.
In the United States one can see how Jews are able to take over and destroy a country they are living in [+]. The worst accusations of the antisemites have become a reality as Jews have sent Christians to wars and profited from it. Jews were overrepresented in the Neocons that initiated the wars as well as the oligarchs that profited from the wars and the police state. A survival instinct makes people prepare for dangers based on their own assessment of the situation, even when others have a slew of arguments to the contrary. If Adolf Hitler's premonitions became reality then why should the Israeli hawks not be right about Iran? Iran may see itself threatened as there is an American policy to attack the country for decades [+].
People with a survival instinct know that when there is 100% certainty, this may be too late. This not only applies to military threats, but also to issues like global warming and genetic engineering. Most people in the West are disconnected from nature and falsely believe that technology provides security. Now existential threats must be put on the agenda, and the most formidable risks have to be identified. One of them is the Jewish culture of exploitation and betrayal. Marcus Tullius Cicero, a Roman Statesman, philosopher and orator, noted shortly after the assassination of Julius Caesar:
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. |
Terrorists are less dangerous then the people that knew of the September 11 attacks, facilitated them and started wars for their own political objectives and profits. They may start World War III for profit and for Israel. If that does not happen, the consequences of usury such as energy shortages, resource wars, global warming, pollution and outright poverty will kill billions of people. Usury is closely linked to Jewish culture. A small group of oligarchs wields enormous power by exploiting the labour of others and sending them to wars. A disproportionate number of those oligarchs are Jews. The power structure is maintained by deception and most people are not aware of it. But smart people with a survival instinct are. Antisemitism does not come out of the blue, and it does not fade, because something rotten in Jewish culture.