Zionist Leadership, Tales of the Holocaust & the Weissmandl Files

Shedding Blood for the Zionist Elite’s Project of Eretz Yisrael
Dean of Nitra Yeshiva
The following is an excerpt from Sefer Min Hametzar (p. 92) by Rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandl. The excerpt is a literal translation of the letter the Jewish Rescue Committee in Czechoslovakia received from the Jewish Agency’s Executive Officers in Switzerland. This was in reply to the call of the Jewish Rescue Committee for help, with documentary evidence furnished, concerning the fate of millions of Jewish people in Nazi-occupied Europe.
JEWISH AGENCY Response:
“We are writing to remind you of the one factor of which you must never lose sight: that ultimately, the Allies will win the war. After their victory, territorial boundaries will be reshaped, as they were after the First World War. Then, the way will be clear for our purpose. At this time, with the war drawing to a close, we must do everything in our power to change Eretz Yisroel into Medinat Yisrael, and many steps have already been taken in this regard. Therefore, we must turn a deaf ear to the pleas and cries emanating from Eastern Europe. Remember this: all the allies have suffered many losses, and IF WE ALSO DO NOT OFFER MANY HUMAN SACRIFICES, how can we gain the right to sit at the conference table when the territorial boundaries are reshaped? Accordingly, it is foolhardy and brazen for us to negotiate in terms of money or supplies in exchange for Jewish lives. How dare we ask of the allied powers to barter money for lives whilst they are sustaining heavy casualties daily? So, insofar as the masses are concerned: RAK B'DAM TIHJE LAKU HA-AREZ, (‘Eretz Yisroel will be ours only by paying with blood’), but as far as our immediate circle is concerned, ATEM TAJLU. The messenger bearing this letter will supply you with funds for this purpose.â€
R. WEISSMANDL:
After I accustomed myself to the peculiar writing, I trembled when I realized the import of RAK B'DAM TIHJE LAKU HA-AREZ. But many weeks passed, and I was still confounded by the meaning of ATEM TAJLU. Until one day, it struck me. ATEM TAJLU meant "You escape," for the word "tiyul" (walking trip) was used by them as a euphemistic code for "escape." They meant to say – you fifteen or twenty "party members," escape from Czechoslovakia and save your hides. The price of Eretz Yisroel is the blood of the men and women, hoary sages, and babes in arms, -- but not YOUR blood! Let us not spoil this plan by giving the Axis powers money to save Jewish lives. But for you, comrades, I have enclosed carfare for your escape. What a nightmare! The Zionist agent "diplomat" comes to Czechoslovakia and says 'Now is a very critical time. But comparatively speaking, it is not at all critical for you trapped Jews. For there is an emergency of far greater proportions; namely, BINYAN HA-ARETZ (the prize of Modinat Yisrael). Shed your blood cheerfully, for your blood is cheap. But for your blood, the Land (of Israel) will be ours!’â€
“Ten Questions to the Zionistsâ€
http://www.nkusa.org/Historical_Documents/tenquestions.cfm
by Rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandl,
Dean of Nitra Yeshiva
“These Zionist ‘statesmen’ with their great foresight, sought to bring an end to two thousand years of Divinely ordained Jewish subservience and political tractability. With their offensive militancy, they fanned the fires of anti-Semitism in Europe, and succeeded in forging a bond of Jew-hatred between Nazi-Germany and the surrounding countries.
“These are the ‘statesmen’ who organized the irresponsible boycott against Germany in 1933. This boycott hurt Germany like a fly attacking an elephant - but it brought calamity upon the Jews of Europe. At a time when America and England were at peace with the mad-dog Hitler, the Zionist ‘statesmen’ forsook the only plausible method of political ameniability; and with their boycott incensed the leader of Germany to a frenzy. And then, after the bitterest episode in Jewish history, these Zionist ‘statesmen’ lured the broken refugees in the DP camps to remain in hunger and deprivation, and to refuse relocation to any place but Palestine; only for the purpose of building their State.
“The Zionist ‘statesmen’ have incited and continue to incite an embittered Jewish youth to futile wars against world powers like England, and against masses of hundreds of millions of Arabs.â€
“AND THESE SAME ZIONIST ‘STATESMEN’ HEEDLESSLY PUSH THE WORLD TO THE BRINK OF ANOTHER TOTAL WAR - REVOLVING ENTIRELY AROUND THE HOLY LAND.
“What may befall the Jewish inhabitants of Palestine, of the Arab crescent, Europe, or the USA is of no concern to these Zionist leaders. The rising anti-Semitism in the Western World is the product of their ‘statesmanship.’
“Under the guise of ‘love of Israel,’ the Zionist ‘statesmen’ seduced many Jews to replace devotion to the Torah and its Sages with devotion to the scoundrel who founded Zionism. It is of no little significance that Herzl originally sought conversion of the Jews as a solution to the problems of the Diaspora. When he realized that this was not acceptable to the Jewish masses, he contrived Zionism as a satisfactory alternative!
“A look into history reveals that this very same type of ‘statesmen’ opposed the call of Jeremiah the prophet to yield to the minions of Nebuchadnezzar at the destruction of the first Temple. Five centuries later, Rabbi Yochonon Ben Zakai appealed to the people to surrender to Titus the Roman to avoid bloodshed. The ‘statesmen’ rejected this appeal, and the second Temple was destroyed by the Romans. And now for the past fifty years, the Zionist ‘statesmen’ rebuff the leadership of our Sages; and continue in their policy of fomenting anti-Semitism. When will they stop?? Must every Jew in America also suffer?? Even the Nazi monsters had more sense, and gave up their war before all Germany was destroyed. The Zionist ‘statesmen’ ridicule the sacred oath which the Creator placed upon the Jews in the Diaspora. Our Torah, in Tractate Kesubos, folio 111, specifies that the Creator, blessed be He, swore the Jews not to occupy the Holy Land by force, even if it appears that they have the force to do so; and not rebel against the Nations. And the Creator warned that if His oath be desecrated, Jewish flesh would be ‘open property’, like the animals in the forest!! These are words of our Torah; and these concepts have been cited in Maimonides' Igeres Teimon, Be'er HaGola, Ahavas Yehonosson, and in Toras Moshe of the Chasam Sofer.
“IT IS COMMON KNOWLEDGE THAT ALL THE SAGES AND SAINTS IN EUROPE AT THE TIME OF HITLER'S RISE DECLARED THAT HE WAS A MESSENGER OF DIVINE WRATH, SENT TO CHASTEN THE JEWS BECAUSE OF THE BITTER APOSTASY OF ZIONISM AGAINST THE BELIEF IN THE EVENTUAL MESSIANIC REDEMPTION.â€
“...we should avoid the untenable position of the robber who prays for Divine help in carrying out his crime. We should pray that Zionism and its fruits vanish from the Earth, and that we be redeemed by the Messiah with dispatch.â€
“Many times in the past have segments of our people been defrauded by false messiahs - but none of the false messiahs has been as fallacious and delusory as the lie of Zionism.â€
“Let it be clearly understood that never in Jewish history (even in the time of Jeroboam or Achav) have such hostile atheists stood at the helm of the Jewish people as today.
“How can we plead to the Almighty for mercy while we tolerate these vile, ‘wicked’ leaders as spokesmen! Beloved brothers - let us cleanse our ranks and cleanse our midst; let us entreat the Almighty through prayer, repentance, and fulfillment of mitzvos that He alone redeem us, immediately.â€
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The Horses are Always First to Rebel
Here are some excellent comments from another “freedom horse†begging to have his IP address blocked by Israel’s last line of defense in the 9/11 info-war: Apt. 911b.
STALLION4:
Rep you’re out of line with your “racism†comparison
“Holocaust Revisionism has nothing to do with ‘racism’.
“David Cole's studies are largely disputed by the same type of creeps who go around ‘debunking’ 9/11 truth.â€
[BINGO! Perhaps that is because the “Cole-haters†and the “9/11 Truth-deniers†are all working for the same franchise.]
“And If you didn't want to ‘even tacitly promote his work’ on this site, you shouldn't have brought it up in the first place. But since you did and didn't get your facts straight about Mr. Cole (and also omitted the primary reason why he reversed his stance that the Holocaust was a lie, which was due to intimidation from ADL thugs) I decided to question your reasoning and supply others with information about Cole to help them decide for themselves.
"If I had just paid $20 million for the NIST report, I'd be asking for a refund!... The trouble with the NIST Report is that it isn’t even science because it's not capable of being verified or negated!" -- Dr. Frank Greening
From stallion4 Sat 7/19/08 12:16 am
http://www.911blogger.com/node/16695#comment
Stallion4 (another horse guy on “The Trail of...â€), in a separate entry, goes on to say:
“In a way I understand why he [Reprehensor, if that is his real name] doesn't want ‘Holocaust Revisionism’ to be associated with this site [911b], because most hear that term and instantly freak out because they've been brainwashed into thinking ‘it's a crime to question the Holocaust’... erm wait a minute... it is a crime to question such things in some countries isn't it. Not because it's wrong to research the holocaust and conclude that what the public has been taught about it is full of lies. Rather it's a crime because there's genuine concern that the Holocaust Revisionists are correct and that others may start to look into their claims if they're not silenced. So they get locked up and/or are intimidated into not wanting to express their views on the subject.â€
Thank you stallion4, and all the other horses of the apocalypso quartet. I must go on record as saying that this equating of “full-spectrum Holocaust research†(including methods of archaeology) with “anti-Semitism†and “racism†is a complete Zionist SMOKESCREEN. For starters, the majority of Jews in the world today are not Semitic, nor are they a “race.†Secondly, the story of “the Six Million†is a Talmudic interpretation of a further interpreted “prophecy†which says that the Israelite tribes will regain their homeland only after “the Six Million†are sacrificed—as repentance for spiritual rebellion—to the god YHWH in the form of “burnt offerings†(a holocaust sacrifice). The Zionist leaders used this myth twice within the same century to not only try to “cheat G-d,†as the Rabbis claim, by means of artificially and mechanically “fulfilling a prophecy,†but to create a new, yet related, myth, seemingly based in real history, and then feed it to the Jewish masses to justify why the European Jews had to endure the Nazi-era of round-ups, detentions, and sufferings (including an actual detention camp death toll [from Soviet, German, and Red Cross sources] of roughly 300,000 camp deaths. Whether you think 300,000 Jews perished in the camps, or the Talmudic “six million,†is irrelevant in the big picture of historical crimes, because in the end, any way you shake it, Jerusalem’s Rabbi Hirsch’s famous statement pointing out that, “Zionism brought us to the Holocaust†still stands as an accurate description of a history that will be one the Ministry of Information will definitely want to excise from the curriculum. Well documented are the military alliances attempted by the “Hebrew underground†in Palestine with Mussolini and Hitler to fight against Britain and America. Well documented is the mutual interest pact between the Zionist leadership in Geneva and the German Reich. These sets of agreements were based on the idea that Hitler wanted the Jews to leave Europe, and the Zionists wanted this as well, as long as European Jews left Europe for Palestine to alter the power demographics there. Offering a different, yet highly related view on this same history are the letters and documents kept by Rabbi Weissmandl on the notions of “sacrificing to the cause†the Jews of Eastern Europe, then being held in detention camps. The WZO leadership thought, “should we pay a cheap— such a deal—$25 per head ‘freedom tax’ to save ‘our people’ locked up in Eastern Europe, or should we ‘sacrifice’ them to the camps in order to simultaneously ‘fulfill by deception’ a whacky Talmudic prophecy—the interpretation of which was based upon processes of gemaria and numerology— and acquire the guaranteed leverage of sympathy at the post-war land pie dividing party, as well as achieve future cover from criticism for any ethnic cleansing or imperial projects we might decide to proceed with in the future?†Of course, as we now know, the “sacrifice of the ‘little people’ for post-war table positioning†was the decided upon option of the two. As Ben-Gurion once famously remarked, “Without Auschwitz, there would be no State of Israel.â€
And without 9/11, there would be no “War on Terror†for the benefit of the state of Israel.
Hey Lazlo, whaddaya trying to do?
No mention of David Duke or the KKK? No neo-nazi recruiting info? Are you trying to pretend that there are actually normal people motivated by the simple desire for honest inquiry and the uncovering of the WHOLE truths of important historical world-shaping events (9/11 come to mind, anyone?), not just racists and hitler supporters motivated by hatred and a desire for desecrating the collective memories of an "inferior" and victimized/"genocided" race, who have the audacity to question sacred truths about the You-Know-What-O-Caust? C'mon now, we all know that "anit-Zionism" is really just a sanatized code word for Joo-hater to disguise your real motivations...Oh, actually Lazlo, since you are in fact a Jew yourself, that would make you a "self-hating Jew". So, what we do here, all of us JOO-hating KKK neo-nazi types at jewhaters.com, otherwise known as the Church of Controlled Demolition, is to make it look like Lazlo, the token (self-hating) Jew on this site, does all the heavy lifting writing all these seemingly historical "anti-Zionist" research/academic looking stuff to provide cover for the anti-JOO lies we want to perpetrate. I know, I know, we are really trying to make this look respectable and all, but get real!
Seriously, Lazlo, thanks for this well written introduction to the ugly truth of the documented cynical and crucial Zionist manipulation of the whole You-Know-What-O-Caust situation, the collusion between Zionist "statesmen" and the Hitler regime, as well as framing of the discussion ever since in official "respectable discourse" to keep hidden that reality as such. I personally never questioned any part of the official Holocaust Narrative until early 2007. Basically, the taboo nature of the subject of "holocaust revisionism" and the lifelong brainwashing belief that, "only wackos and racists would have the insensitivity and foolishness to want to question any part of the official, unchallengeable holocaust narrative" kept me far away from the subject up until then. And, I probably never would have had the audacity to peek into this macabre tragic subject for the rest of my life if it wasn't for 9/11 truth that crashed down on my head in 2005. 9/11 was like the flood gates opening for me. Once I discovered that an historical lie as big as 9/11 actually happened and (so far) succeeded in fooling most of the population, I soon thereafter started uncovering other historical lies that I hadn't ever looked into before. Well, long story short is that one thing led to another until I finally discovered in early 2007 that there were people who I respected who HAD researched the You-Know-What-O-Caust and found some pretty significant lies embedded in the conventional indoctrinated version. The fact that EVEN MAINSTREAM HISTORIANS HAVE REVISED MAJOR ASPECTS OF THE HOLOCAUST - The Polish holocaust museum revising the number of exterminated Jews at Auschwitz down from 4 million to about 1 million; that the Nuremburg exhibit table of Nazi attrocities contained outright frauds (lampshades made out of Jewish skin and soap made out of Jewish fat were complete myths, the shrunken heads of South American origin misrepresented as Jewish, etc.) kind of gave lie to the claim by the JDL and the dominant politically correct discourse that, "there is not one bit of legitimacy to holocaust revisionism." So at that point I was finally ready to shed the brainwashed notion that I could only question the official holocaust narrative if I was a JOO-hater or wacko. Well, I do not in any way consider myself an expert on the subject of holocaust revisionism and I have only just barely begun researching the issue since then, but I have learned enough so far to say that the we have not only good reason to be skeptical about important parts of the holocaust narrative, but we have the right and a duty to question the official holocaust narrative as people who are both interested in important historical truths, as well as righting the wrongs that have been committed in the name of historical Untruths.
Having said that, I don't claim that we should absolutely reject any and all consideration of people's sensitivity to certain subjects or the question of what is best for the 9/11 truth movement in regards to the effect of the association of holocaust revisionism with 9/11 truth. Regardless of what your knowledge or beliefs are regarding the holocaust, it is obvious that for the society at large the issue is and will remain protected by a maticulously built emotional wall that stops most people from examining that particular historical mythos for the foreseeable future. It is WAY more emotionally charged than 9/11. Therefore, I agree it's best to avoid the issue when attempting to educate people about 9/11 truth and the movement. For that matter, I don't know anyone on this site who thinks it's good policy to combine the issues or attempt to associate the two historical revisionist movements to newbies. However, these few 9/11 and related blogging sites do not constitute the "9/11 Truth Movement". Most of the millions of people who have been made aware of 9/11 truth do not even visit these sites. These discussions forums are generally not people's first introduction to 9/11 truth, but rather tend to be a place for advanced discourse by those who are already convinced that 9/11 was an "inside job", so the cries of those who loudly claim that "we are destroying the movement by discussing such topics" are kind of ridiculous and completely exaggerated.
On the other hand, the fact that the evidence so strongly indicates that Israel/Zionism played a crucial role in 9/11 and is a central player in the fraudulent "War on Terror", and that this is the latest phase of the ongoing genocide project against the Arab/Muslim world since 1948 that was initiated as a direct result of the Jewish Holocaust Official Narrative - fraud or not - makes it important that lies about the former tragedy that continue to be utilized in emotionally manipulative strategies along side the lies about the latter tragedy against the unjustly framed Arab/Muslim world, as well as to hide the full truth about 9/11 ("How dare you talk about Israeli involvement in 9/11! What are you, a JOO-hating holocaust denier!?") do not go unchallenged. And it becomes quite obvious to people who are paying attention that the perpetrators of 9/11 and their allies ARE utilizing this exact strategy, and therefore should NOT be given a free pass.
It's a difficult balancing act in figuring out the best way to handle the confluence of these issues, and when you connect the dots between the creation of the "graven idol" of Israel (that could not have happened without the Jewish holocaust), the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, 9/11 and the "War on Terror", you can no longer deny that there IS a confluence of these issues. All I can say for sure is that more and more people are getting tired of being lied to and being manipulated and brainwashed for the benefit of the Psychopaths who have been running the world for far too long at the expense of everyone else. I don't care whether the Psychopaths call themselves Zionists, Christians, Capitalist Bankers, Illuminati, programmed/possessed/demonic beings, or whatever they really are. I don't know how many factions are running the world, or which one is at the top of the hierarchy, if one is. There is not a consensus here and we certainly don't agree on everything here. But we have enough information to implicate some of the key players and networks, and as far as 9/11 and the last 50 to 100 years of manipulation of major world events in the western/near-eastern world goes, that certainly includes the Zionist/Israeli/Mossad network and key institutions they control, along with the Rothschilds and Central Bankers and Wall Street, as well as the Bush/Rockafeller/etc., crime families. No group should be off limits to being exposed and outed, nor should any important historical untruths. Anyone who considers themselves a "seasoned 9/11 truther" is for all intents and purposes a Historical Revisionist. And Historical Revisionists cannot have a double standard in saying that only certain historical "truths" are open to question but not others, lest they want to be seen as less than serious and certainly not very thorough for the task they have set for themselves.
GREAT analysis Keenan!
I can't quote every single statement you nailed, there are so many. Thanks for stepping up and representing so well the cause of truth!
Hey Keenan, glad to see you visit again,
And thanks for your lengthy and spot-on enlightened comments, as ever. We have missed your voice, and do say hello for me to one of my favorite California towns. Feed those dulcimer players on the mall. I hope all the fires have halted and that you’re well.
You are definitely correct that the subject matters of “full-spectrum†Holocaust research, the Central Banking System, the history of Zionism and Israel, coupled with 9/11 research—although connected in ways that would take many books (and much time) to explain—are topics well within the “graduate level†discussion lounge of 9/11 Truth. No one here would disagree with you on that at all. When I talk with the average CNN-watching person on the street, it’s the basics only. To understand all of these things together, all at once, would be like throwing a bucket of ice water on a soundly sleeping person. Even if the republic is on fire, it’s still not nice to do to someone in a nice comfy REM state of slumber. We have all arrived at our levels of understanding this whole deal through much hard work, mental and soul-searching struggles, making adjustments and getting through levels of info-shock to just arrive at the place where we all are now. It takes time and effort to be able to correctly and rationally assess complicated and controversial subject matter. Some of these Zio-propagandists want to give everyone the impression that someone like British historian David Irving just one day woke up “hating the Jews,†or himself, and then decides to make up a bunch of total crap about the holocaust being an exaggeration so that people will then hate “the Jews†just like he does. Yeah, and we just made up all these characters like Feith, Perle, Wolfowitz, Silverstein, et al. and put them in our paranoid, conspiratorial 9/11 narrative because “we hate the Jews†and all of us JOO-Haters and Self-haters saw UBL’s 9/11 attack as the perfect opportunity to blame “the Jews†for 9/11. Are they upping the fluoride levels in the water supplies out there all of a sudden? Has this what “Tee-Vee logic†in propaganda has come to?
As Rabbi Weissmandl pointed out above (in a text I have been meaning to post here for ages now), the “Holocaustâ€â€”whether the death toll is held to be ~ 300,000 (as Red Cross, Soviet, and German records show) or 6,000,000,000—was a completely unnecessary, and real suffering that was, as so often in the past, collectively brought upon the Jewish community by an unelected secular leadership consisting of a vocal elitist minority of Zionist “statesmen†who goaded Hitler to action so that the Jewish masses would be forced to leave Europe in fear and terror. The idea preached was that the European Diaspora would be dissolved through a massive Aliya, or Exodus and flight of European Jewry back to the “Promised Land.†Rabbi Weissmandl’s documents do show the amazingly naked calculations of the Zionist leadership in their decisions to use “their people†as sacrificial pawns to get a better bargaining position at the Big Table after the war. Unfortunately, this same type of elitist psychopathic “leadership†is still at the helm of the Zionist ship, and to speak out or go against it is labeled “anti-Semitic†or “self-hating.†These terms, as they are often used in modern media, are just pure Zionist smokescreen bullshit, and simply manifestations of psychological projection phenomenon. The Jews who had to be rounded-up and subjected to 3-4 years of life in a Nazi detention camp should be much more angry at their own so-called leadership. Hitler was just the enraged bull. The Jewish community needs to direct its anger at the picadors who agitated the bull in the first place. The angry bull just provides cover for the real provocateurs. And now because of the creation of a grand Holocaust narrative, also done by a minority within the group, the group is now forced to go along with the whole thing, “because the Christians will think we’re all a bunch of liars and con artists, and hate us for it if they find out.†This is why I think that any attempt at historical revision and/or correction to this “sacred Jewish myth of the Six Million burnt offerings of penance in the ‘Nazi Holocaust’†(see also the myth of Hebrew slavery in Ramesside Egypt), is considered to be a “hate crime†or is considered “hate speech.†The Zionist leadership has brainwashed the community that if the Christians find out that the official Holocaust narrative is highly exaggerated with respect to death tolls and other details, then this will make all Jews appear as if they were participants in a giant conspiratorial historical hoax in order to manipulate the emotions of the Christian world so as to gain their support for the creation of a “Jewish State†in Palestine and their turning a blind eye kind of support for the gradual expulsion of Palestine’s indigenous, longtime inhabitants. It must be explained to the “Jewish people†in open discussion, if any were allowed to ever take place, that just because people know that the Zionist leadership who always speaks and acts “in our name†has been an agitating catalyst behind some of the 20th and 21st century’s biggest con jobs, doesn’t mean that the people who know and understand these things therefore think that ALL Jews have been collectively involved in these Zio-hoaxes and are therefore all liars. The Jewish people, on the Holocaust, and on things such as 9/11, have been completely lied to and put into a really bad corner and horrible situation because of the crazed decisions made by the Zionist and Israeli leadership, which seems to think it is the “Voice of the People.†The leadership, who always know best, seem to enjoy operating on the fait accompli principle, whereby now that they have done XYZ insane thing, usually without asking anyone but themselves, the whole community must therefore commit to their crazed course of action and stick together “so the Christians won’t find out, and hate us, and then think we’re all liars, and on and on and on. Actually, I think “the Holocaust†was the very first Zionist false flag op, and they fucked over their “own people†to get a nice chunk of real estate from which to build a kingdom, I mean empire, no I mean, “the only real democracy in the Middle East.†The guilt by association thing is always problematic, but under these circumstances, especially so.
With regards to my religious or spiritual identity, i.e. what box I check, I respect the traditional idea taught by real Jewish sages (not Zionist politicians) that to be a “Jew†means to believe in the Mosaic-Abrahamic Covenant, and that the acceptance of such belief or faith also means to take upon oneself the spiritual-moral responsibilities of following the divine Laws, and behaving accordingly. In Islam, this is called taking “the straight path.†The monotheistic religion developed by the Israelite tribes of Judea (hence, the terms Jud, Judaism and Jew) was also adopted over time and believed in by people of the Khazars (Kuzarim), the Arabians, the post-Cyrus Mesopotamians, and the Berber tribes of North Africa. Along with the history of Christian missionaries, there are records of Jewish missionaries walking the roads of the world as well. Most of these people who came to worship YHWH as the supreme deity and accept his Law were not originally tribally related to the Israelite tribal confederation, yet because of their acceptance of the Sinai Covenant and the Law, they are to be considered Jews because they follow the YHWH religion of the Judeans. Having said all this, and with spiritual love and respect for all my “homies†and the traditions of the sages and rabbis, I cannot really claim to be “a Jew,†and do not consider myself as such because I have not voluntarily accepted any Covenant with the ancient Canaanite god YH, and for various solid archaeological reasons (thank you very much Dr. Israel Finkelstein and Professor Bill D. ;) ), do not believe in the historicity or empirical reality of other particularities of narrative importance found in the Biblical narration, such as the slavery and exodus from Egypt; the lengthy wandering of a great multitude in the barren Sinai; the final granting of Canaan by YHWH to these tribal multitudes of escaped slaves; and the conquest of this land by the warrior hero Joshua. A great story, absolutely no doubt, and should definitely be made into a full-length film, but empirical, scientific archaeology says no dice to this entire narration, and the many problems with the slavery-to-freedom Exodus story from the Egyptian side of this research are too numerous to get into here.
“We were once victimized slaves in Egypt, led to freedom by a man who talked to G-d and received this deity’s laws. This deity gave to our now ‘specially chosen’ tribal confederation the entire land of the Canaanites, and all we had to do was conquer these people by the sword of Joshua and the powerful help of our god’s jealous wrath raining down upon these accursed, ‘non-chosen’ idol worshippers.â€
Take this basic narration out of the real history books, and what we have left is man-made religio-tribal laws, a monotheistic god borrowed from an older polytheistic religion, and a creative stitching together of reworked mythic motifs and literary models borrowed from the preceding two millennia of Near Eastern civilization, religion, and culture. Look at enough religions with an open mind, but critical eye, and you find they are all man-made, even the ones we still think today are not. The problem with this particular set of myths is when militant, empire-building politicians grab a hold on them and use them to manipulate two or more peoples in a death match, as has occurred in Palestine for nearly 90 years now.
I grew up in a household in which we learned to go mining in the rich spiritual imagination of the human race. In every written work, faith, or tradition, that we as a species hold to be sacred, one will nonetheless find gemstones and treasures which are not dependent upon the empirical historicity of a religious narrative, and when you go mining, you don’t bring back to the surface every damn rock you find. Not all rocks are gems, and not everything in those holy books is the word or “law†of Real Spirit either. If there is any metaphysical truth or perception amidst the many “man-made†elements in our religions, it perhaps, as William James once thought, came through a backdoor in the sub-consciousness and made its way through the screen(s) of the mystic’s conscious mind to finally be expressed externally, often couched in the traditional religious or tribal perceptions of the world in which the mystic or sage happened to have lived. We also, in such a scenario, cannot calculate the changes and permutations that an ineffable experience of the Neumenous has gone through in this filtering process from possible subconscious backdoor to words written on a page in a holy book. I think it was based on this type of understanding that Thomas Jefferson created his own custom Bible where he kept the awesome stuff and left aside all the, how might I put this, the not so awesome stuff, or “the crazy shit.†Also, btw, I do not support the idea of a one-world religion, but I do support a general rise in the quality of consciousness and perception. Put me down for that. Everyone should just appreciate the individual holidays, special foods, songs, chants, stories, poetry and spirito-philosophy that they each have in their religious faiths, but also learn to appreciate the spiritual intuitions of others in how they connect to the “Ground of Reality†in the way they have found. All the sages say that The God sees the contents of your heart not the methods of your rituals.
My grandparents actually liked the writings of the Indian yogi, Paramahamsa Yogananda, and so I learned to see ‘my people’ as ‘the human people’, and learned how to be a ‘self-loving’ (not ‘self-hating’) spiritual, philosophical human race type of person. If I didn’t like the “lied to and abused by their leadership†folks of the 12 tribes, I wouldn’t write or say any of the stuff I do. (“self-hating Jew†is another one of those nonsense terms that the Zionists try to pass off on the brain-dead masses. Totally ridiculous. Oh yeah, supposedly Woody Allen is a now a “self-hater†as well, sheesh.) My position is that I basically like and respect everyone’s spiritual traditions and metaphysical intuitions, and have found a sort of enlightenment and inspiration in all of them, but at the same time, I don’t believe in the orthodox particularities of any one of them enough to actually join a community as a Jew, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Jain, Zoroastrian, Gnostic, or even Buddhist. I do believe in the “cosmic God thing†though, after all, we do seem to be existing in something regarded as infinite time and space. There is something going on here, folks, and I also intuitively feel that there is consciousness and experience beyond this little drama we call Life on Earth. I also believe that there are unavoidable consequences for acting in, lets say, a Cheneyesque fashion. You may escape for a long time, but soon your negative karma will cut you down, and on the so-called “other side†you probably don’t get to call your attorney and post bail. I suppose religion is perhaps an attempt to codify or explain this seemingly innate human metaphysical intuition of these three basic things – God, karma, and ‘consciousness as a continuum’, which is apparently interrupted by “learning experiences†gained in a very real play, acted out in a very real, yet ultimately illusory world. Thank you all for BEING HERE, wherever we are.
thanks lazlo, as usual
for the deep wisdom of your thoughtful posts! so much to learn from, especially for those who are afraid of standing up to Zionism and the many other divisive and covetous ideologies used to keep "da maaaasses" in line. I too was raised to appreciate and respect all spiritual traditions but also to be skeptical of the abuse they were susceptible to. I remember in fourth grade one of my classmates who was Jewish and whose family I guess was reasonably observant was given time during the day to go outside and practice some song or recitation in hebrew for a couple of weeks, in preparation for... well, I don't remember, but he explained it to the class and demonstrated some verses for us and we all thought it was weird and kind of cool at the same time. not as weird as our classmate who didn't like candy (said he preferred vegetables--yeah right) but it was just one more horizon broadening experience in a long series during my upbringing. To think that there are people--all kinds of people--who grow up in very different circumstances, not learning about anything but their own traditions and history--I just can't see that being a good thing. Nor can i see how lying to people and threatening them and coercing them because they are "your people" is anything but slavery. It's not hard to see the truth of everything you say about Jews being manipulated by "their leaders". So are we all, after all. Until we rejct them, throw off the yoke they burdened us with, and take our risks in direct contact with that incredible diversity represented by our fellow human beings. Who in most cases have no desire whatsoever to kill us.
Nice! Lazlo. Thanks.
Hi Lazlo!
Thanks for this. I would like to laugh at this whole internets drama but it's not cool to be silenced by anyone...anywhere...even on the internets.
I am sad that Reprehensor has decided to 'stomp on my face' as he so eloquently put it. I didn't get any response from him or 911Blogger.com when I asked for just one example or justification for the face stomping.
Wow, I frequent many websites and I've been silence on a few. But never has my association with one website gotten me banned from another! Actually, I've been silenced at TWO SITES NOW all because I visit WTCDemolition.com!
YT of TruthAction.org allowed me to be silenced on the TruthAction.org forum along with others. YT, like Reprehensible, would not answer one single e-mail asking for a reason or example showing why I've been silence and what I should do to 'be good' so that I may participate in discussion on the forums.
Shit, I helped that guy set up the damn site! Oh well.
THanks again and I want to post this passage again because there is a chance that Reprecensor did not read through Lazlo's entire post. This is essentially the response 9/11Blogger.com is giving as it's public response to the rampant face stomping & silencing of dedicated 911 Truth Activist.
"Some of these Zio-propagandists want to give everyone the impression that someone like British historian David Irving just one day woke up “hating the Jews,†or himself, and then decides to make up a bunch of total crap about the holocaust being an exaggeration so that people will then hate “the Jews†just like he does. Yeah, and we just made up all these characters like Feith, Perle, Wolfowitz, Silverstein, et al. and put them in our paranoid, conspiratorial 9/11 narrative because “we hate the Jews†and all of us JOO-Haters and Self-haters saw UBL’s 9/11 attack as the perfect opportunity to blame “the Jews†for 9/11."
interesting bit of history
AL AND TIPPER GORE PRESIDE OVER CONSERVATION GALA AT CENTRAL PARK
The Wildlife Conservation Society’s June 3 “Safari! India†gala to save the Indian tiger, held at the Central Park Zoo, honored David Schiff, its longtime board member and chairman (1990-2001). A managing partner at the investment bank Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Schiff is the grandson of American Jewish financier Jacob Schiff (1847-1920), one of the founders of WCS predecessor the New York Zoological Society. The event’s honorary chairs were former vice president Al Gore and his wife, Tipper Gore (the Gores’ daughter Karena Gore-Schiff is married to Dr. Drew Schiff, the honoree’s son), and trumpeter extraordinaire Wynton Marsalis. I told David Schiff that I indirectly owe my life to his grandfather. Jacob Schiff was so outraged by the 1903 Kishinev pogrom (which Tsar Nichola II condoned), that after meeting Baron Kerekio Takahashi in 1904 in London, he helped raise international loans that enabled the Japanese to defeat Russia in 1905. Schiff became a national hero in Japan. This may, in part, have prompted the Japanese government in 1940 to 1941 to accept the 2,139 “illegal†visas issued by Chiune Sugihara, then Japanese consul in Kovno, Lithuania, for 6,000 refugees (including my mother and me) who found a haven in Japan. Chatting with the Gores, I recalled the 1987 Washington, D.C., party hosted by Abbington Press for Tipper Gore’s book “Raising PG Kids in an X-Rated Societyâ€: The hotel room had been transformed into an old-fashioned soda fountain with the Gore family — parents and children — acting as “soda jerks,†dispensing ice cream cones topped with sprinkles, chocolate chips and whipped cream.
http://www.forward.com/articles/13809/