The Dot On the I In History: Of Gentiles and Jews—a Hebrew Odyssey Scrolling the Internet

By Michael B. Hammer

The inspiration author Michael B. Hammer received when speaking with others about the Israeli-Palestinian problem led to The Dot on the I in History: On Gentiles and Jews—Scrolling the Internet with the goal of helping others better understand the problem. When the issues involve intertribal, interracial, interreligious, and international human relationships lasting over several generations, they often become so complex one does not see the forest for trees, unless one knows where and when the seeds were planted. That is what history is all about. This book aspires to explain what Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have in common, how they differ, and how they have evolved. You’ll also learn how the Internet has affected and changed those involved in the Middle East conflict. With this information, you will have a better understanding of the real reasons for such world-changing events as what took place on 9/11.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu Publishing Services
• Release date: Dec 14, 2017
• ISBN: 9781483427003

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Introduction

The history of Western civilization begins in the Middle East where the Hebrew believe that their prophet Moshe wrote the Torah sometime around the 13th century BCE (before the Common Era). Torah is the Hebrew word for instructions. It is widely known as the five books of Moses. It consists of the first five books of the Christian Old Testament, called the Pentateuch: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. In Exodus 11:1-10 God turns the water in Egypt into blood, covers Egypt with frogs, lice and flies, kills the livestock, infects Egyptians with boils, creates hailstorms, locusts and darkness in Egypt for three days; until finally, God massacres the first-born. – from the first born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill and all the firstborn of beasts.¹

While God thus justifies violence as means of achieving a positive objective, he cannot be as almighty as the same book presupposes if he needed to impose 10 plagues on the innocent people of Egypt for the sins of their Pharaoh. Aside of faith and religion, it is doubtful that Moses himself ever existed or Kings David and Solomon, for that matter. It is the common belief among scholars that the Hebrew drafted these books while they were slaves in Babylon in the 6th century BCE, and that they later polished them. In 539 BCE Cyrus the Great Persian conquered Babylon, and freed the Hebrew slaves. At about that point in time man began to write history, and the Old Testament started to record facts.

One day in 538 BCE the king of the Chaldeans was having a drinking party in Babylon when a bodiless hand appeared and wrote four words on a wall – Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin.² No one in all Babylon could read and interpret these four words except a Jew; he was a slave as the Jews had been since Nebuchadnezzar II conquered Judah in 586. That Jew was the prophet Daniel, and those four words foretold the imminent fall of the Neo-Babylonian Empire; those four words changed the Western world. On that same day, the Chaldean King Belshazzar was killed, the Persians sacked Babylon, and Cyrus went on to liberate the Jews after 48 years of slavery in exile. The sequence of events is circumstantial evidence that the Jews conspired with the Persians to overthrow the Neo-Babylonian Empire; they would have been justified in using every means to achieve their freedom under every moral code of conduct. The world today similarly recognizes the rights of the Palestinian refugees to return to their homes, free from military occupation.

The next conspiracy was between Britain and the Zionists to appropriate Palestinian land that they hoped to conquer in the Ottoman Empire of the Turks; the infamous letter of British Foreign Secretary Lord Balfour to Zionist Jewish Banker Baron Rothschild³ dated November 2, 1917, provides the corpus delicti of that conspiracy. Far from being … a product of years of negotiation,⁴ or one that ended with Britain rewarding a Zionist Jewish chemist the land of Palestine for discovering the process of producing acetone from corn, that was a quid pro quo agreement. The British did impose a specific condition under which they would grant asylum to the Jews in Palestine by the clause, … it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine …. However, considering that the chances were remote that the Zionists would fulfill that condition, one cannot but admit that the Balfour declaration makes a mockery of British diplomatic reputation. The callousness exhibited by that concession to the Zionist Jews points to some urgency if not desperation at the British front lines of the then ongoing World War I, which lends credence to the confession of Jewish defector Benjamin Freedman, in 1961.⁵

"Over more than two centuries, the Rothschild family has frequently been the subject of theories. These theories take differing forms, such as claiming that the family controls the world’s wealth and financial institutions, or encouraged, or discouraged wars between governments. Discussing this and similar views, the historian Niall Ferguson wrote, ‘As we have seen, however, wars tended to hit the price of existing bonds by increasing the risk that a debtor state would fail to meet its interest payments in the event of defeat and losses of territory. By the middle of the 19th century, the Rothschilds had evolved from traders into fund managers, carefully tending to their own vast portfolio of government bonds. Now having made their money, they stood to lose more than they gained from conflict. The Rothschilds had decided the outcome of the Napoleonic Wars by putting their financial weight behind Britain. Now they would sit on the sidelines.’ (Author’s highlight.) Many conspiracy theories about the Rothschild family have been identified because of anti-Semitic prejudice reaching back several hundred years, including the era of the Napoleonic wars, and not as a result of valid evidence."⁶

There is no valid evidence either, of their involvement in the burdensome debts that led the Ottoman Empire to default on its repayment in 1875 and 81, which made the European creditors bondholders. However, considering that in 1836, Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalischer petitioned Jewish banker Anschel Rothschild to buy Palestine, the grounds were laid for the Zionists to make an offer in 1898, to obtain money from Jewish financiers to pay off the onerous debt of the Ottoman Empire. The Zionists thought they could buy Palestine for £191 million (pounds sterling); that was the Ottoman debt.

There is no valid evidence either of their involvement in the bankruptcy of Ottoman Egypt, however, The Rothschild family bank loaned money to Jewish British Prime Minister Disraeli in 1875 to buy Egypt’s 50% shares in the Suez Canal for £4 million (pounds sterling).

In 1917 the 2nd Baron Walter Rothschild was the addressee of the Balfour Declaration, to the Zionist Federation, which committed the British government to the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people. If there is a family that does not have to prove its commitment to Israel, it’s ours. Israel is very precious to me. It is totally ingrained in the family, part of the legacy, part of the DNA. We are all particularly committed to Israel. ~ Ariane de Rothschild, the self-declared atheist wife of Baron Benjamin de Rothschild.

It soon became apparent that the British did not foresee the consequences of their action as the Zionists began to terrorize both the British and the Palestinians. "Because of the bloody riots between Arabs and Jews in 1929, the British government reneged on its promises made in the Balfour Declaration. The Passfield White Paper issued October 20, 1930 by colonial secretary Lord Passfield, was a formal statement of British policy in Palestine which the Churchill White Paper of 1922 had previously set. The new statement resulted from the Hope-Simpson Commission’s investigation into the deeper causes of the 1929 Palestine riots which initially started over access to the Wailing Wall. The white paper limited official Jewish immigration to a much greater degree. The paper’s tone was decidedly anti-Zionist since several of its institutions were severely criticized, including the Histadrut (General Federation of Labor) and the Jewish Agency, both of which promoted employment of only Jewish labor. Like the Hope-Simpson Report, the Passfield White Paper found this Zionist policy damaging to the economic development of the Arab population."⁷

PART I

1. The Case against Israel

The following are citations from The Middle East Conflict: Zionist Quotes – Mona Baker. (n.d.) Retrieved from http://monabaker.com/quotes.htm

We must expel Arabs and take their places. ~ David Ben Gurion, 1937. Ben Gurion and the Palestine Arab, Oxford University Press, 1985.

Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves ... politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves… The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here, settle down and in their view, we want to take away from them their country. ~ David Ben Gurion, quoted on pp 91 - 2 of Chomsky’s Fateful Triangle, which appears in Simha Flapan’s Zionism and the Palestinians pp 141 - 2 citing a 1938 speech.

If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England and only half by transferring them to the Land of Israel, I would choose the latter, for before us lies not only the numbers of these children but the historical reckoning of the people of Israel.⁸ ~ David Ben-Gurion (Quoted on pp 85 - 86 in Shabtai Teveth’s Ben-Gurion in a slightly different translation).

Anyone who speaks in favor of bringing the Arab refugees back must also say how he expects to take the responsibility for it, if he is interested in the state of Israel. It is better that things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let this happen. ~ Golda Meir, in a speech to the Knesset, reported in Ner, October 1961.

How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to. ~ Golda Meir, March 8,1969.

"Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist. Not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahlal arose in the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Huneifis and Kefar Yehushua in the place of Tal al-Shuman. There is not a single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population." ~ Moshe Dayan, April 1969, Ha’aretz; quoted in Edward Said, Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Victim, Social Text, Volume 1, 1979, 7–58.

"There is no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn’t exist." ~ Golda Meir, in a statement to the Sunday Times, dated June 15, 1969.

This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy. ~ Golda Meir, Le Monde, October15, 1971

There has been antisemitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that? ~ Nahum Goldman, in Le Paradoxes Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp. 12 –122.

We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question; what is to be done with the Palestinian population? Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said ‘Drive them out!’" ~ Yitzhak Rabin, leaked censored version of Rabin memoirs, published in the New York Times, October 23, 1979.

Israel will create, in the course of the next 10 or 20 years, conditions which would attract natural and voluntary migration of the refugees from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank to Jordan. To achieve this, we have to come to agreement with King Hussein and not with Yasser Arafat. ~ Yitzhak Rabin (a Prince of Peace by Clinton’s standards,) explaining his method of ethnically cleansing the occupied land without stirring a world outcry. (Quoted in David Shipler in the New York Times, 04/04/1983 citing Meir Cohen’s remarks to the Knesset’s foreign affairs and defense committee, on March 16.)

The Palestinians are beasts walking on two legs. ~ Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, speech to the Knesset, quoted in Amnon Kapeliouk, Begin and the ‘Beasts, New Statesman, June 25, 1982.

The Partition of Palestine is illegal. It will never be recognized…. Jerusalem was and will forever be our capital. Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel, all of it and forever. ~ Menachem Begin, the day after the U.N. vote to partition Palestine.

"The past leaders of our movement left us a clear message to keep Eretz Israel from the Sea to the River Jordan for future generations, for the mass aliyah (Jewish immigration) and for the Jewish people, all of whom will be gathered into this country." ~ Former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir declares at a Tel Aviv memorial service for former Likud leaders, Jerusalem Domestic Radio Service, November 1990.

The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It’s that simple. ~ Yitzhak Shamir, Maariv, 02/21/1997.

(The Palestinians) would be crushed like grasshoppers ... heads smashed against the boulders and walls. ~ Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Shamir in a speech to Jewish settlers. New York Times, April 1, 1988.

Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories. ~ Benyamin Netanyahu, then Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, Prime Minister of Israel speaking to students at Bar Ilan University, from the Israeli journal Hotam, November 24, 1989.⁹

It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonization, or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands. ~ Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of militants from the extreme right-wing Tsomet Party, Agence France-Presse, November 15, 1998.

Everybody has to move, run and grab as many (Palestinian) hilltops as they can to enlarge the (Jewish) settlements because everything we take now will stay ours…Everything we don’t grab will go to them. ~ Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of the Tsomet Party, from Agence France-Presse, 15 Nov. 1998.

Israel may have the right to put others on trial but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial. ~ Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon quoted in BBC News Online, March 25, 2001.

These citations by themselves alone, coming from the most eminent of the recent prophets of Zionism, as candid as some are spoken in private and on conditions of confidentiality, should leave no doubt on any one’s mind where the blame lies in the ongoing Middle East conflict. Over the years since the First World War, the West has watched with indifference while rapacious Zionists recreate a nation by destroying another. The West has watched while approximately 6 million self-proclaimed Jewish people, mostly from the former communist states, have displaced an equal number of Arabs from their homes. There are only about 14 million Jews worldwide, with 6.7 million living in the USA, constituting the largest single Jewish community outside Israel. More than a million of the 1.7 million Jews in NY now live in the New York Metropolitan area. The capitalist half living outside Israel, provides the finance for the development of New Settlements to house the communist other half, mostly from the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, as well as to provide winter escape vacation homes for themselves and their cronies. While Pogroms and Holocausts may be over, the real estate establishment that calls itself Israel continues to expand and flourish while the Zionist aliyot feeds on a Palestinian exodus infamously known in history as the Nakbah.¹⁰

2. The Third Conspiracy

Dismissed as another conspiratorial theory is the suggestion that Communism and Zionism might be a coordinated Jewish plot to rule the world. It is certain however, that they are both of Jewish origin, individually conspiratorial, and that they appear about the same time in history. Each has exhibited characters compatible with the theory of world domination. Is it a coordinated plot? Communism is of Ashkenazi origin; Karl Marx, the father of Communism was a German Jew. Zionism originated among the Sephardic Jews that Spain exiled, and the Turkish sultan granted asylum in his Balkan territories. There is a vast cultural chasm between the Ashkenazim and the Sephardim. That difference manifests itself in discrimination even in Israel where an Ashkenazi, considering himself superior, would not see his daughter marry a Sephardi. The Ashkenazim, most from the former communist bloc, who swiftly hijacked the Zionist movement, now claim to represent all Jews in a worldwide liberation movement. Yet, can one believe that the Zionist Sephardim created Israel to save the Ashkenazi communists from future Pogroms and Holocausts? While, no doubt, Jewishness encompasses ethnic as well as religious components, how can one not find a contradiction in Jewish atheism? To account for the very large and increasing none-kosher Israel, the Zionists have now created the concept of Humanistic Judaism that should morally justify the continued investment of the Jewish diaspora in the advancement of Israel. It is true that there is not a phoneme for the letter P for Palestinian, in Arabic, just as there is not one for the letter J for Jew in Spanish. That does not mean that the Jews do not exist. Called Hudios in Spanish that is as close to Judeans as Jews have ever been called. They shared the land of Canaan with the Phoenicians, Philistines and Nabataeans up to the time of the Romans. Ever wondered why Moses did not take the short cut through the Gaza strip when he left Egypt during the Exodus, but chose instead to go by the circuitous route across the Red Sea and across the Arabian Desert? The answer is simply, that route would have taken the Jews directly through the pentapolis of Gaza, Gath, Ashkelon, Ekron and Ashdod, all well-known ancient cities of the Philistines. Gaza is where Delilah cut the hair of the legendary Samson; Gath was the Biblical city home of Goliath. Palestinians are the Philistines of the Bible, even more so than the Sephardi, Ashkenazi, Sarfati, Mizrahi, Romaniotes, Karaites and Falashas who claim to be the Jews of ancient Israel.

3. The Fate of Judea

If as it is the consensus among historians that the stories told in the Hebrew Bible as occurring before the "Babylonian captivity" are mostly Jewish mythology, then a united Jewish state of Israel may never have existed in antiquity. There were Samaritans¹¹ and Jews in a country known as Judea, a part of the Roman Empire, at the time of Jesus, at the turn of the common era. The Jews themselves were divided between the conservative Pharisees, the Hellenized liberal Sadducees and the ascetic Essenes, the last from which group John the Baptist and Jesus descended. The Jews detested the Samaritans. Declaring independence from Britain in 1948, the Zionists formally adopted the name State of Israel (Medinat Yisrael) after they had considered and rejected other proposed historical and religious names including Eretz Israel (The Land of Israel), Zion and even Judea. Roman Judea suffered the same fate as Carthage did almost 400 years earlier. The Romans destroyed Judea; they erased it from the map of the Middle East, following three major Jewish uprisings against Rome, between 66 and 135 CE¹²:

The first Jewish-Roman War (66–73 CE) began when Nero was emperor; The Great Revolt of Judea began when religious tensions between Greeks and Jews, over the issue of whether pigeons are acceptable as temple sacrifice or not, finally erupted and escalated to protests against taxation, and attacks upon Roman citizens. "The Romans responded by plundering the Second Jewish Temple, and executing up to 6,000 officials in Jerusalem prompting a full-scale rebellion. The rebels quickly overran the Roman military garrison of Judea, while the pro-Roman King Agrippa II together with Roman officials fled Jerusalem. As it became clear that the rebellion was getting out of control, Cestius Gallus, the legate of Syria, brought in the Syrian Army based on the XII Fulminata¹³ and reinforced by auxiliary troops to restore order and quell the revolt. Despite initial advances and the conquest of Jaffa, the Jewish rebels ambushed and defeated the Syrian legion at the Battle of Beth Heron. With 6,000 Romans massacred, and the legion’s Aquila lost – a result that shocked the Roman leadership,"¹⁴ fearing the success of the Jewish rebellion, the Roman command to suppress the rebellion was handed to General Vespasian and his son Titus who assembled four legions and began cleansing the country in the year 67 CE, starting from Galilee. The revolt ended in 70 CE when legions under Titus besieged and destroyed the center of rebel resistance in Jerusalem. Titus later defeated the remaining Jewish strongholds ending with the siege of Masada. An estimated 500,000 Jews perished in that rebellion. The Romans burnt Jerusalem to the ground, destroyed the Second Temple as well as the magnificent palace of Herod the Great. The Romans exported to Rome an estimated 100,000 Jewish prisoners of that war to build the Coliseum, the construction of which monument, on a reclaimed lake site, lasted only ten years. They sold tens of thousands of other survivors into slavery and forcibly deported others to remote parts of the Roman Empire. Numerous Jews ended up farming the vast Roman estates in the Maghreb of North Africa (Arabic for the west)¹⁵ to foment a second revolt in the next generation.

After crushing that rebellion, the Romans installed a praetor as governor in Judea instead of a procurator, and stationed an entire legion there. Judea became just a province of the Roman Empire. That was the last war that the Jews will ever fight as a nation. Following the suicide death of Nero, in 68 CE, a power struggle ensued in Rome whereby emperors: Galba, Otho and Vitellius, in turn succeed as emperors, until the troops in Judea and Egypt acclaimed Vespasian as emperor. The "Year of the Four Emperors" ended with Vespasian leaving his son Titus in charge of the siege of Jerusalem to become emperor of Rome, in December 69. Vespasian was the founding father of the Flavian dynasty of Roman emperors.

Jews call The Second Jewish revolt, the Rebellion of the Exile. History knows it as the Kitos War (115–117 CE). They named the revolt after the Roman General Lusius Quietus commanding the legions, tasked with crushing the rebellion. Kitos is a later corruption of Quietus. The second Jewish rebellion resulted in tens of thousands of Jewish refugees and exiles increasing the number of their still unsettled and unaccepted Hellenized compatriots, in neighboring Cyprus, Egypt and Libya, with over a hundred thousand Hellenized Jews in Alexandria and Cyrenaica (eastern Libya). It would seem today like a concerted uprising of Jews in the Roman diaspora, using hit-and-run guerrilla tactics, to sabotage the Roman war effort against Parthia. Parthia once provided safe haven for the last Hasmonean king, dethroned by the Romans when they installed Herod the Great as king of the Jews. The Emperor Trajan himself commanded a massive campaign to punish the Parthians for interfering in Armenia, in 115 CE. As Trajan advanced in triumph through Mesopotamia, Jewish rebels began attacking the little garrisons he left behind to secure his lines of supply. The revolt, started in far off Cyrenaica, soon spread to Egypt and then Cyprus, inciting revolt in Judea. A widespread uprising centered at Lydda threatened grain supplies from Egypt to the front. The Jewish insurrection swiftly spread to the recently conquered provinces; to cities with substantial Jewish populations – Nisibis, Edessa, Seleucia, Arbela joined the rebellion, and slaughtered their small Roman garrisons. The situation in Judea remained tense for the Romans who were obliged to move the Sixth Legion (Legio VI Ferrata) to Caesarea Maritima in Judea.

The third and final revolt of the Jews against Rome began in 132 CE, when the Roman Emperor Hadrian on a tour of his Middle Eastern Empire decided to rebuild Jerusalem to placate the Jewish people. He declared Judea a Roman colony, and renamed it Aelia Capitolina, the better to integrate the Jews into the empire. He ordered the rebuilding of the temple on the ruins of the old one to please the Jews, but when he later ordered the temple rededicated to Jupiter, the head of the pantheon of Roman Gods, the Jews were enraged. Hadrian went on to ban circumcision, and thus declared the practice of Judaism illegal. That further enraged the Jews to the extent that they again revolted. The rebellion, known as the Bar Kokhba revolt, after the warrior leader Simeon Bar Kosiba, was an extremely violent and costly uprising that resulted in the massive loss of Roman lives, and the virtual extermination of the Jews; that was the third and last Jewish rebellion against Rome.

The Jewish leaders carefully planned this revolt to avoid numerous mistakes that had plagued the first Great Jewish Revolt sixty years earlier. They dug out a network of tunnels in advance, again deciding to use guerrilla tactics. The revolt started in 132, and quickly spread from Modi’in across the country, cutting off the Roman garrison in Jerusalem. The greatest rabbi of the time, Akiva ben Yosef, hailed Simeon bar Kosiba as the Messiah.¹⁶ Reputedly of Davidic descent he also gave him the title Bar Kokhba – Son of the Star, a messianic allusion. Bar Kokhba took the title nasi – prince, and struck his own coins with the markings, Year One of the Liberation of Jerusalem. A restored sovereign state of the Jews was thus, to last just the two and a half years that followed. The outbreak took the Romans by surprise. The Jews took Aelia by storm, and badly mauled the Romans’ twelfth Egyptian Legion.

The war became so serious that in the summer of 134 Hadrian himself came from Rome to visit the battlefield, and summoned the governor of Britain, Gaius Julius Severus with 35,000 men of the Tenth Legion to his aid. The size of the Roman Army deployed against the rebels was much larger than that commanded by Titus sixty years earlier. Six full legions with auxiliaries and elements from up to six additional legions made up the contingent of troops. The widespread belief that the end of the world was near, and that Simeon Bar Kosiba was the prophesied Messiah, spurred the rebels to fight to the very end. Severus gradually wore down and constricted the rebels’ area of operation. After losing Jerusalem, Bar Kokhba and the remnants of his army withdrew to the fortress of Betar, which also subsequently came under siege. The Talmud Yerushalmi relates that the numbers slain were enormous, that the Romans went on killing until their horses were submerged in blood to their nostrils.¹⁷ The war lasted three years, and ended with the killing of Bar Kokhba at Betar, his stronghold in southwest Jerusalem in 135. The Romans crushed the remnant of the Jewish Army soon after. According to Cassius Dio, Jewish war casualties amounted to 580,000 not including those who died of hunger and disease. The Roman Army destroyed Judea in that war; they razed 50 fortified towns and 985 villages. They either annihilated or exiled the surviving Jewish population that, by then, included the early Christians. They barred Jews and Christians alike from Jerusalem, thereafter; however, the victory had cost Hadrian so dearly that in his report to the Roman Senate on his return, he omitted the customary salutation "I and the Army are well," and refused a triumphal entry. Roman losses were so very heavy that at least one legion had to be disbanded.

Judea simply ceased to exist after the Bar Kokhba Revolt; the Romans gave the land to the Philistines, and the greater area was renamed Provincia Syria Palaestina. Why did Golda Meir deny this historic fact?

Jesus the Christian messiah had already come and gone by the year 132 CE, and the early Christian Church was already established. Although the Roman historian Dion Cassius noted that the Christians refused to join the revolt, the Romans regarded them as just another Jewish sect, as such, when the Romans banned the practice of Judaism, they did not differentiate Christians from Jews. Hadrian’s persecution was indiscriminate; therefore, he banned synagogues and churches alike, all over the Roman Empire. The Romans sold into slavery and/or deported all the survivors of that revolt, Christians as well as Jews. Ever since then, one could find Jews in every corner of the Roman Empire.

A similar fate befell the Carthaginians three centuries earlier. The Romans fought the Carthaginians in the Punic Wars, for over a hundred years, to gain control of the sea. With the victory over Carthage, Rome also acquired their vast trading empire at sea. That transformed the Roman Empire from a relatively small, regional land based agrarian power, into a widespread commercial empire. Following the destruction of Carthage, in 135 BCE, the Romans established their first colony in North Africa, in the most fertile part of what was formerly Carthaginian territory. They named the province Africa Vetus, and its capital city Utica.

Roman provinces were established later from east to west, named: Aegyptus; Cyrenaica originally a Greek settlement in eastern Libya; Tripolitania – the Three cities on the Gulf of Sidra, embraced 2 former Carthaginian settlements: Labqi, renamed Leptis Magna (Labdah today) and Oea (Tripoli today); the third city was newly settled Sabratha (Sabratah today); Numidia and Mauretania were the farthest west. The Romans rebuilt some over the ruins of former Carthaginian towns; others completely newly settled Roman cities on the North African coast, included: Thysdrus, now known as El-Djem and Hadrumentum that survived Carthage in Tunisia; Tipaza in Algeria; Hippo Regius of Saint Augustine’s fame (354–430 CE), in present-day Algeria and Lixus in Morocco. Veterans of the Roman Army created the settlement of Timgad in Algeria.

The fertile coastal plains of North Africa largely produced wheat, while olive oil was the cash crop of the fertile hills bordering the Sahara Desert. Frontier towns strategically located along these hills were Dougga in Tunisia, Djemila and Timgad in Algeria. The farthest frontier town was Volubilis in the foothills of the Moroccan Atlas Mountains. The extent and magnificence of the ruins of these ancient Roman cities existing in North Africa, today, is testimony to the magnitude of wealth generated by slave labor in what became the bread basket of the Roman Empire.

It would seem like the great divide between Yiddish Ashkenazim, and Ladino Sephardi Jewry followed the dispersion of the Jews in the two separate directions: The former to rebuild Rome, the latter to toil the wheat fields of North Africa – the bread basket of the Roman Empire, where slaves were also bred later.

4. Communism and the Jews

While some claim that Winston Churchill was a Zionist, he was arguably anti-Semitic in that he supposedly wrote of the Jews in 1937, For it may be that, unwittingly, they are inviting persecution – that they have been partly responsible for the antagonism from which they suffer.¹⁸ That Churchill was a manipulative opportunist few would argue, indebted to the Zionists for coming to the rescue of Britain in the First World War; Churchill pursued a policy of strict adherence to the letter of the Balfour declaration throughout his political career. He did not however consider the Zionists in Palestine as a branch of the expanding British Empire although he saw Jewish immigration to Palestine as a positive factor influencing the civilization of the Arabs. Political historians view his policy towards the Zionists as opportunistic. Newly declassified MI5 papers reveal that in 1944, the British feared that the Stern Gang, a Jewish terrorist group determined to oust the British from Palestine, was plotting to kill Churchill, as well as the unpopular politician Ernest Bevin.¹⁹ In the end, it was not Churchill who died but his close friend Lord Moyne, assassinated by the Stern Gang in Cairo, in November 1944. Mr. Segev writes that the bloody act lost the Zionists one of their most important supporters, Winston Churchill.¹⁹ In an address to the House of Commons, Churchill made clear the depth of his dismay, If our dreams for Zionism are to end in the smoke of assassins’ pistols and our labors for its future to produce only a new set of gangsters worthy of Nazi Germany, many like myself will have to reconsider the position we have maintained so consistently and so long in the past.

By then the wheels had already been set in motion and the Jewish state was only a few years from becoming a reality.

It is perhaps ironic that a statue of Churchill should stand just yards away from the King David Hotel, the scene of a deadly Jewish terror attack on British military headquarters, in 1946, that was to hasten the demise of mandate rule in Palestine.

Churchill wrote in 1920Some people like Jews and some do not; but no thoughtful man can doubt the fact that they are, beyond all questions, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has ever appeared in the world. … … And it may well be that this same astounding race may at the present time be in the actual process of producing another system of morals and philosophy, as malevolent as Christianity was benevolent, which, if not arrested, would shatter irretrievably all that Christianity has rendered possible. It would almost seem as if the Gospel of Christ and the Gospel of Antichrist were destined to originate among the same people; and that this mystic and mysterious race had been chosen for the supreme manifestations, both of the divine and the diabolical. Churchill loathed the prominent role played by international Jewry in the Bolshevik Communist Revolution in Russia, Germany and Hungary; about which he wrote, "The adherents of this sinister confederacy are mostly men reared up among the unhappy populations of countries where Jews are persecuted on account of their race. Most, if not all, of them have forsaken the faith of their fore fathers and divorced from their minds all spiritual hopes of the next world. (Author’s highlight) This movement among the Jews is not new. From the days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx and down to Trotsky (Russia), Bela Kun (Hungary), Rosa Luxemburg (Germany) and Emma Goldman (United States), this world-wide revolutionary conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence and impossible equality, has been steadily growing. It played, as a modern writer, Mrs. Webster has ably shown, a definite recognizable part in the tragedy of the French Revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the nineteenth century; and now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the under worlds of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of the enormous empire."¹⁹

One might yet credit Churchill with having foreseen the end of Western civilization, as we know it. The same race that introduced to the world the concept of one God, and ushered in Christianity might now be poised to destroy that lonely God. While saving the persecuted Bolshevik atheists from future Holocausts and Pogroms, they may have inadvertently set up the first genuinely atheistic sovereign state to be in Israel, in the not so distant future. The same race that ushered in Christianity, and inspired Mohamed, now threatens to destroy both Christianity and Islam. The uncompromising intolerance of the Zionist foreigners for their Palestinian hosts may have provoked a jihad between Muslims and Christians. The outcome of a jihad is unimaginable, because at the end of the day, no one knows which way the increasing population of the Indo-Chinese hemisphere will sway in the ongoing struggle between Arabs and Jews in the Middle East. That War has decreased the population of the West by so much already. While the Masada syndrome may have acclimatized the Jews to fight to the death for their cause, the rest of the Western world should begin to question their wisdom.

Quoting Churchill continued, "There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of Bolshevism and the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution by these international and for the most part atheistic Jews. It is certainly the very great one; it probably outweighs all others. With the notable exception of Lenin, the majority of the leading figures are Jews. Moreover, the principal inspiration and driving power comes from the Jewish leaders. Thus, his nominal subordinate, Litvinoff, eclipses Tchitcherin, a pure Russian and the influence of Russians like Bukharin or Lunacharski cannot be compared with the power of Trotsky or of Zinovieff, the Dictator of the Red Citadel (Petrograd)or of Krassin or Radek – all Jews. In the Soviet institutions, the predominance of Jews is even more astounding and the prominent if not the principal part in the system of terrorism applied by the extraordinary Commissions for combating Counter Revolution has been taken by Jews and in some notable cases by Jewesses.²⁰ (Author’s highlight) Jews obtained the same evil prominence in the brief period of terror during which Bela Kun (Cohen) ruled in Hungary. The same phenomenon has been presented in Germany (especially Bavaria), so far as this madness has been allowed to prey upon the temporary prostration of the German people (Author’s highlight). Although in all these countries there are many non-Jews every whit as bad as the worst of the Jewish revolutionaries, the part played by the latter in proportion to their numbers in the population is astonishing."

The fact is that one finds the Jews, both Zionists and Bolsheviks, siding with the winners in both World Wars: With Britain, France and Russia fighting in alliance against a common enemy – Germany. Without the strikes in the German armaments’ factories, and if the United States had not entered WWI, it is unlikely that Germany would have lost that war. Indeed, to quote Churchill, himself, It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma that Churchill did not show appreciation for the role played by the Spartacist group headed by Luxemburg and Liebknecht in organizing the strikes in the German armament plants. Was he feigning ignorance or was he perhaps, covering up the role of the SIS (Secret Intelligence Service), in collusion with the Bolshevik Jews? In time of war, the truth is so precious that she must be protected by a bodyguard of lies – Winston Churchill. After all, those strikes were a simulation of the British Shell Crisis of 1915 that justified the creation of a high-ranking Ministry of Munitions which Churchill was recalled to head, in 1917.

Churchill had to resign his post as First Lord of the Admiralty in 1916, following the disastrous defeat, and massacre of British forces (mostly ANZAC – Australians and New Zealanders) by the Turks, at Gallipoli, between April 1915 and January 1916. Unable to resupply Russia through the White Sea, Churchill tried to do so through the Black Sea by launching the disastrous Dardanelle Campaign, aiming to conquer Istanbul, and gain access to the straits of Bosporus.

Coincidentally, Russia signed the Peace of Brest-Litovsk, March 3, 1918, with Germany. The Bolsheviks likely believed that the Germans would seize the opportunity to make a separate peace with Russia enabling them to transfer some 70 divisions from the Eastern to the Western Front, and defeat France and Great Britain before the Americans arrived, even if that meant them losing some ground. That would allow the Bolsheviks to stabilize their successes with the revolution in Russia while they plotted revolutions of solidarity across Europe. At the European Congress of the Second Socialist International, the SPD (German Socialist Party) had always agreed to resolutions asking for combined action of Socialists in case of a war. After the outbreak of the Russian Revolution in 1917, the first organized strikes erupted in German armament factories in March and April that year with about 300,000 participating workers. The American entry into the war on April 6, 1917 threatened to worsen the situation. An armed uprising in Berlin followed a call for a general strike to start the German Revolution in January 1919. An alliance of the German Social Democratic Party and the Communist Party, failed to agree on how to proceed; thus, the Free Corps (Freikorps) could crush the Spartacist uprising, and kill the leaders, Luxemburg and Liebknecht. The Social Democrats were nationalist patriots while the communists were international revolutionaries. The Bolshevik Jews were willing to sacrifice Britain and France by agreeing to the Brest-Litovsk peace between Germany and Russia, while the Zionists also had nothing to lose. They were using their financial and industrial weight in Europe and America to leverage both sides of the conflict to promise them Palestine. They threw their full weight behind the first party that made that commitment, and so won the war.

The second wave of migration to Palestine consisted of about 40,000 men and women, mainly from Russia starting in 1904, to escape the Pogroms in the aftermath of the assassination of Russian Czar Alexander II by the Bolsheviks in 1881. Many of these early Jewish immigrants to Palestine were socialist young men and women who were not guided by any national ideology but were fired-up by the ideal of laying the foundation for a workers’ commonwealth in Palestine; the kibbutz establishment manifests that fact. The outbreak of World War I interrupted that wave of migration. Immigration of Russians to Palestine was resumed in 1919, at the end of the First World War, by a wave of 35,000 Jews of which 53% were from Russia the rest from Poland, Lithuania, Romania, and other Eastern European countries. Each of these waves of emigration supposedly coincided with a wave of anti-Semitic Pogroms, spurred on by a renewed hope inspired by the Balfour Declaration, and the British conquest of Palestine.

While Churchill described Communism as this movement among the Jews, ... this world-wide revolutionary conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization, others propose that it is a Jewish plot to rule the world in league with Zionism, complete with Jerusalem as the world’s capital, instead of Moscow.

Communism brought about the Cold War, fought largely by proxy in the Third world. Zionism on the other hand, has brought home terrorism, the horror of which has yet to be comprehended. While the whole world suffers the inconveniences imposed on our freedom by security demands, who knows what comes after the toils of boarding a flight today? With increasing fear for our personal safety, the world around the American traveler is constricting at an alarming rate, as more and more people detest our foreign policy as much as they love our way of life. At home, politicians tell us that we should sacrifice our privacy, and some of our freedoms in the interest of our security, even as we find out that our own government is secretly spying on us. We are appalled to learn that our government not only condones investigation under torture, but transports suspects covertly for interrogation to countries, some that we have even criticized for their human rights violations. While our CIA conducted secret detention, and extraordinary rendition operations in countries such as Poland, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania, Croatia, Syria and Iran, listed as used for operations by the Washington Post,²¹ our freedom fighters return home with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and gun violence takes over our schools as we continue to deteriorate morally.

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UK Foreign Secretary Lord Arthur J. Balfour’s letter to Baron Walter Rothschild, dated November 2, 1917

The Balfour declaration (shown above) is the most atrocious international document contrived in the last century. The evidence weighs heavily on the side of it being a conspiracy.

Although the westward road to the United States was still open most of those who chose to go to Israel did so out of Zionist convictions. Unless of course, there are other incentives provided, like financial and real estate handouts, or as it happens, to explain the recent influx of Hebrew speaking people to the USA, Israel was, and still is just a stepping-stone to the United States. Given the choice to go to the USA or Palestine, who would want to go to Palestine?

In the case of Afroyim v. Rusk, 387 U.S. 253 (1967), the United States Supreme Court ruled that citizens of the United States may not be deprived of their citizenship involuntarily. The U.S. government had attempted to revoke the citizenship of Beys Afroyim, a Polish-born man, because he had cast a vote in an Israeli election after becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen. The Supreme Court decided that Afroyim’s right to retain his citizenship was guaranteed by the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. In so doing, the Court overruled one of its own precedents, Perez v. Brownell (1958), in which it had upheld loss of citizenship under similar circumstances less than a decade earlier.

Is it not true that the push in the courts to allow dual citizenship came from Zionists? Our tradition of renouncing past citizenship was a proud one, and stood the test of time. This bastardization of our laws is a disgrace. Any US citizen who wants to become a citizen of another country should be allowed to do so – concurrent with renouncing his US citizenship. Loyalty should not be split. ~ Dolphin, comment #4 in response to Is Dual Citizen Allowed in the United States?²²

At risk of being branded with McCarthyism, one dares to say that the right to dual citizenship has opened a can of worms, just as that phrase was first used when the question of command for Middle East defense against Soviet aggression was being decided at General Eisenhower’s SHAPE headquarters, in 1951, its relevance in our current fight against terrorism cannot be overemphasized. However, in the context of the spread of Zionism and Communism in the U.S., suffice it to say that dual citizenship does provide facility.

The sun of freedom has risen for the fatherland; for us it is merely a bloody northern light ... to the oppressed and downtrodden ... to all whom ‘liberty’ has brought calamity ... we say: ‘For us no help has come. Seek it out in far off America.’

~ Leopold Kompert, Jewish poet in Osterreiches Zentral-Or.

About one quarter of a million Jews lived in the USA around 1880; by 1910 that number had risen to 1.5 million. By the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, that number had risen to almost 2 million. In 2010, Jews numbered approximately 6.6 million in the USA.

Absolutely, not all Jews are Zionists or communists, and one must distinguish between Gentile communists who consciously pursue Zionist ideals, and Jews who are actively anti-Zionists, OKA Self-hating Jews.²³ Even in Israel there are Jews working for recognition and peace with the Palestinians, just as there are those who only pay lip service to the peace process by diplomatically negotiating in perpetuity, punishing the Palestinians, by moving the goal posts each time they refuse to accept the Zionist’s conditions.

5. Why do they hate us?

I googled Why do they hate us? and came across the Washington Post – Sunday, July 22, 2007, edition…. But there is another major reason for anti-Americanism: the accreted residue of many years of U.S. foreign policies. These policies are unknown to most Americans. They form only minor footnotes in U.S. history. However, they are the chapter titles of the histories of other countries, where they have had enormous consequences. America’s strength has made it a sort of Gulliver in world affairs: by wiggling its toes it can, often inadvertently, break the arm of a Lilliputian.²⁴ This is an article by the Pakistani author of the novel titled The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Further research would reveal that in its current form, at least, anti-Americanism relates directly to her policy in the Middle East. Whether overtly or covertly, what President Woodrow Wilson called "secret forces at work" has had a profound influence on American foreign policy, beginning from The First World War (WWI). Notwithstanding the strong ties that exist between the U.S. and Britain, Wilson, a Democratic president, declared a policy of strict neutrality at the outbreak of WWI that he maintained throughout his first term in office. He knew that the majority of European immigrants to the United States were Germans, and he feared their reaction. His second term campaign slogan was "He Kept Us Out of the War. That was so popular that he won the election of 1916. Why was it that just under one month after his second swearing-in on March 4, he broke his promise and declared war on Germany? Notice that the U.S. declared war on Germany on April 2, 1917, also that the date on the letter to Rothschild was November 2, 1917. Later, Wilson became so obsessed against secrecy in international diplomacy that he proposed to eliminate it by the very first of his fourteen points proposed for adoption by the League of Nations; now almost a century later, that has become the mission and objective of WikiLeaks." The USA never signed the charter of the League of Nations.

This is a collection of biographies and anecdotes of past events relating mostly to the Caucasian race that is guilty of creating the "melting pot" that we Americans proudly call the United States, better known in the world outside as just America. This collection goes back to the earliest of recorded History. It is therefore, infected with the prejudices of the people who recorded them, and is deficient by the limitations of the writing process itself, starting with the invention of The Alphabet. It has been affected by translation from foreign languages, before and after copying by hand, over the period that transpired before the invention of the printing press in the Middle Ages.

These narratives obviously include many inaccuracies, ‘facts’ that are actually presumptions. Knowledge, or the lack thereof the contribution to civilization of other races makes it deficient, since all the other races of man, put together, by far outnumber the Caucasian. The demography of the Indochinese people alone is a tribute to the Hindu Buddhist culture of tranquility that breeds tolerance and resourcefulness, much different from the wasteful, bloody bigotry of the dominant religions of Abraham. While listing events and biographies to the earliest of recorded history, this book seeks to explore the historical background to the recent attack on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York. To which, the immediate reaction was to have the word crusade thrown about at the highest levels of power. Commentaries that followed the use of that word ranged from uneducated misinformation to outright recklessness. Was that a justified gut feeling reaction or are we beginning to see that this might be the jihad? On February 11, 2010 Newsweek writes, "…a far greater concern was that the group (al-Qaeda) had or could establish a powerful hold on the hearts and minds of Muslims. And if Muslims sympathized with al-Qaeda’s cause, we were in for a Herculean struggle. There are more than 1.5 billion Muslims, living in more than 150 countries across the world. If jihadist ideology became attractive to a significant part of this population, the West faced a clash of civilizations without end, one marked by blood and tears. These fears were well founded. The 9/11 attacks opened the curtain on a world of radical and violent Islam that had been festering in the Arab lands and had been exported across the globe, from London to Jakarta. Polls all over the Muslim world revealed deep anger against America and the West and a surprising degree of support for Osama bin Laden. Governments in most of these countries were ambivalent about this phenomenon, assuming that the Islamists’ wrath would focus on the United States and not themselves. Large, important countries like Saudi Arabia and Indonesia seemed vulnerable."²⁵

This article details the threat posed by radically infected Arabs influencing world Islam against America and the West, implying that Bin Laden (still alive, then) had lost the Clash of Civilizations that was yet probable or not. The article twice associates the USA (America) with The West in a hypothetical Conflict of Civilizations without mentioning the the elephant in the room – Israel, the underlying cause for the radicalization/infestation of the Arabs, the ongoing Arab/Palestinian-Israeli war. The perpetrators of nine eleven were mostly Arabs, and while Egypt and Jordan have signed peace treaties with Israel, Israeli expansion in Palestine has not abated. Truly, there is festering hatred for America in the Arab world, due exclusively to our unconditional support for Israeli policy in the Middle East. The United States supplies enough aid to Israel to ensure that Israel can retain by armed occupation, lands that the United States itself has declared to be rightfully Arab territories seized in the 1967 War. To associate the West with America, and to draw Christianity into a clash of civilization with Islam is exactly why al-Qaeda was established. The result of such a conflict, al-Qaeda hopes, would be the destruction of the state of Israel. Regretfully, the Zionists in Israel, and the Likudnik wing of the pro-Israel lobby in the United States are playing into their hands. The uncompromising attitude of the Zionists is not only helping al-Qaeda, but is also stoking the fire of antisemitism and anti-Americanism, worldwide. The Zionists in and outside of Israel are constituted into extremely well financed organizations with the aim of marketing Palestinian real estate to anyone calling himself a Jew in an Israel to be devoid of Arabs. To debate this issue in the American media is to call to question our continued aid to Israel, military and other, to revisit tax-exempt and/or refundable contributions, but more importantly, to expose the bigotry for which Zionism stands. The bare mention of this subject invokes the risk of branding with antisemitism although Zionism in Palestine is no less guilty of ethnic cleansing than Serbian Nationalism was in Bosnia and Kosovo.

While none Arabs may have been involved in the planning of the horrible nine eleven attack, all who took part in its execution were Arabs. al-Qaeda attacks preceding the World Trade Center (WTC) were against us Americans: Starting in 1998, with the Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, in 2000, the USS Cole in the Yemen. Nine eleven as we know it, was an attack on us alone, and not on the West or Christianity. Attacks on other Western interests occurred after the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq that followed nine eleven. To associate the West, and draw in Christianity as allies in this conflict, is a deception implying that Israel and the West are on the side of good, whilst Islam and the Arabs are on the side of evil. The other deception is that Israel and us, the US, are jointly fighting terrorism, when in fact Israel is terrorizing the Palestinians. These are smoke screens created and maintained by the Zionists. At issue is the Arab-Israeli conflict. Evil as it was, al-Qaeda chose the Twin Towers of the WTC because they were in