As F-16’s again bomb cities
of Palestine, and young men again sacrifice their lives and the lives of
others, Martin Indyk, writing in the New York Times, proclaims that the
‘Violence is worsening’[i].
The BBC and CNN reports, like a Greek chorus, echo Indyk with their
reports of ‘Violence in Palestine’. The White House issues another plea
to ‘break the cycle of Violence’. This faceless and causeless ‘Violence’
should probably be capitalized, as the ‘Wrath’ in the first line of
Iliad. This eternal poem begins with a call to ‘sing the Wrath of
Achilles’. In Homer’s world the Wrath (or Fury, War, Love, Hope) was a
condition personified. Nowadays, we tend to see an angry Achilles or a
violent husband, rather than Wrath or Violence per se. Unless, the
abuser is the Jewish state. In which case, we revert to the Homeric
concept of Violence as an independent being, rather then a man-made
action. People seriously discuss, how to ‘deal with’ Violence in order
to bring Peace.
In the real world, Violence
is not like the weather. Somebody does it, and we can usually identify
the patch of clouds responsible for the rain. So it was, that when the
‘Mitchell’ process was invoked and the daily quota of killed slowly
crawled down, the Jewish supremacists replayed the provocative visit of
Sharon to the Haram a-Sharif by laying the cornerstone of the Third
Temple.
Immediately after the
cornerstone provocation, Israel followed up with a wave of
assassinations in Nablus, Ramallah and elsewhere, trying to get
Palestinians to respond in kind. It seems to be a pattern. Last
September, after Sharon’s visit to Haram a-Sharif, Israeli Border Police
murdered seven worshippers in the Jerusalem mosque and ushered in the
second Intifada. Sharon’s assassins did not stop murders until a
suicide bomber obliged by responding.
It is no coincidence. Israel
wants the Palestinian uprising to go on. Israel wants not peace, but low
intensity conflict. A war with Palestinians allows the Israeli leaders
to keep their heterogeneous communities together, away from each other’s
throat. What is more important, the war allows the Jewish leaders over
the world to continue their arduous task of reviving World Jewry, a
medieval run-down construct. That is why it makes no sense to speak
against ‘Violence’ and for ‘Peace’. As long as the supremacist Jewish
state exists, it will ensure violence and avoid peace.
The recent assassinations
also had the intent of covering up the cornerstone provocation under a
heap of corpses. The meaning of this obscure ceremony was further
obscured by the mainstream media, and all references to it mysteriously
vaporised. For instance, Reuters reported on August 3, 2001: ‘Israeli
police stormed the Temple Mount, revered by Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif, after
Palestinians threw stones at Jews worshipping at the Western Wall
below’.
Why, all of a sudden, did
Palestinians begin to stone Jews? The cornerstone story was omitted, and
the average American or European was left with the impression that the
‘wild‘ Muslims attacked peaceful worshipping Jews just out of spite. On
this count, the unanimity of the English-language media was horrifying.
The BBC, once more objective than American networks, closed the gap.
They also reported of ‘Israeli soldiers who entered the mosques
responding to the Muslim stone throwers’, moving a reference to the
cornerstone to the end of the item. It now appears that the airing of
the BBC documentary on Sharon was a singular act of courage that will
not soon be repeated.
As for the American networks,
their coverage continues to be consistent. They market the Israeli line
without hesitation. That is why we shall revisit the details of the
strange, already forgotten story of the cornerstone. This was not your
average Israeli provocation. It brought to mind the black magic
incantations of Pulsa diNura, the cabbalistic formula used on the Prime
Minister, Yitzhak Rabin. In 1995, the Israeli media covered a gathering
of the important Cabbalists who invoked evil spirits and beseeched them
to extinguish the Prime Minister’s life. Soon afterwards, Rabin was
assassinated by a Jewish religious fanatic. An organizer of the Pulsa
diNura ceremony was tried by Israeli court of law and sent to jail, for
incitement to murder. You do not have to believe in black magic in order
to understand the logic of the judge.
In order to comprehend the
idea of the cornerstone laying, imagine: you wake up one beautiful
Sunday morning in your suburban home, have your coffee and proceed to
your church. There you encounter a commotion. In front of the church, a
band of men, well protected by armed soldiers and police, are busy
installing a huge billboard saying ‘On this place, a synagogue will be
erected in 2001’. On the background, there is the roar of bulldozer
engines and the amplified voice of a Rabbi blessing the new synagogue.
You would probably feel as hysterical as the hero of the Hitchhiker’s
Guide to The Galaxy. Supplant your parish church by St Peter or the Holy
Sepulchre, and you will understand the feelings of Jerusalemites.
Though the Temple Mount
Loyalists, the group that performed this magic ceremony, is tiny and
hardly mainstream, one can’t say that about the body that gave them the
green light. Overruling the police’ objection, the Supreme Court, the
highest Jewish legal authority, permitted them to do their act on an
auspicious date, the 9th day of the Moon month of Ab, with
all its mystic meaning. All the might of the Jewish state, including
thousands of policemen and army, was mobilized to allow the ceremony to
take place. That is why one can compare the pithy Loyalist band with the
sharp thin end of the dental pick in the hands of a dentist, pushing it
far inside the tooth, in order to check whether the nerve is dead.
The results of this painful
examination were unambiguous. The nerve was apparently alive, and the
quick mobilization of the Palestinians forced the Jews to re-route the
Loyalists’ procession. The ceremony took place outside the Old City, a
little earlier than planned. It lasted for a few minutes, and the stone
was returned to its usual place, in the deep protective shadow of the US
Consulate. This push of the pick caused sharp pain and the predictable
response of the Jerusalemites, and afterwards, the vicious attack of the
police on the believers in the mosque. What was the reason of all the
trouble? Why did the Palestinian kids dare to confront the Border
Police, famous for their brutality? Why was the cornerstone so
important?
Many Jews and their
Christian-Zionist allies believe the precious beauty of Haram a-Sharif,
the 7th century mosques of Jerusalem should be destroyed and
on their ruins, a Jewish temple should be erected. Why should this be
done? people provide different explanations, historical and
eschatological. It is not for some historical justice, or for the
purpose of prayer, as traditional Judaism forbade all interaction with
the Mountain of the Lord. Some mystically inclined Jews believe this
act will make Jewish domination of the world total and irreversible.
This belief is not an exclusive domain of kooks and freaks, nor even of
Zionists only, but rather a widespread conviction.
The mainstream media of the
West usually presents the conflict in terms of Muslims vs. Jews. But the
conflict as seen by these Jews, is Jews vs. Gentiles. In their minds,
the Temple Mount is a magic Ring of Power, one they should assume when
the time is right. As the Ring in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings (the
British professor was a very learned man), it should bring forth the
Messiah. For the Jewish mystics, this Messiah is not the Christian
Messiah. In their book, the Messiah is not a gentle Jesus with a message
for all mankind. Their Messiah would forever enslave the nations of the
earth and make the Chosen people the masters of the universe. Their
Messiah, Lord Enslaver of the Peoples of Earth, is the Antichrist of
prophecies.
As the digits of millennia
jump from 1 to 2 on the meter of our Cosmic Cabby, apocalyptic thoughts
come into otherwise sane heads. This is not the first time some Jews
dream of world domination and of the eternal kingdom of Antichrist. Only
now, they have in their possession nuclear weapons, the latest jets and
battleships, huge wealth, the blind support of the US, tens of millions
of willing ‘Christian Zionist’ slaves, and a broad web of tame and
docile international media.
It is not mystics only. Ten
years ago, a leading Israeli journalist, Nahum Barnea, wrote in Yediot
Aharonot: ‘For decades the Jews tried hard to refute the myth (of Jewish
domination of the world and of enslavement of Gentiles) treating it as a
morbid manifestation of anti-Semitism. Now some Jews even believe it’.
The late Jewish thinker, Israel Shahak commented: ‘The ruling Likud
party (let alone the extreme right-wing) genuinely believes in the
myth’.
The leading Israeli daily,
Haaretz reported that
Sharon, like Barak before him, sneaks out to visit the wizards of
Cabbala for advice. It is all quite fashionable; Cabbala schools,
courses and shops drew their net over the Jewish state. The Holy Land
turns into a Waste Land according to their guidelines. This is not a
matter of chance. Cabbala is ascribed to the first century mystic Simeon
b. Yohai, whose best known maxim reads, ‘Smash the head of the best of
snakes, kill the best of Gentiles’.
This archaic model of
domination, genocide and enslavement calls for archaic religious
content. Many Israelis sense the re-emergence of the ancient spirit of
hate and dominance. The weekend supplement of Haaretz published a short
story of an American president who tried to disobey the orders of the
Cabbalists and was removed by his subordinates. The Jews are destined to
rule the world, preached Rabbi Leichtman, a leading Cabbalist, in a long
article printed in Vesti,
a Russian-Israeli paper. In the chat rooms of the Israeli Internet, one
can find more heady stuff. They quote an old poem by Uri Zvi Greenberg,
a late Hebrew poet, who called for extermination of the Gentiles.
Greenberg did not limit himself to Palestinians, like the late Menachem
Begin, nor only to Arabs, like the highest spiritual authority in
Israel, Rabbi Obadiah Joseph. The extermination of Edom, a traditional
code word for European and American Gentiles, appears as a plausible
option in the feverish minds of Cabbala followers.
This feeling spills into the
Jewish diaspora. In the heart of the US, in Atlanta, there was a recent
debate in the Jewish Community Centre in presence of the Israeli Consul,
a Jewish businessman, a prominent Atlanta rabbi and a NY Times
reporter. An observer wrote to me, ‘I was struck mostly by the comments
of the rabbi. While claiming to be a non-Zionist, he declared (we have
him on tape) that the ultimate reason for creating Israel, as he
interprets it, is to become the world's controller of power and wealth.
Jews will eventually overthrow world governments and be assigned
positions to lead the world. This, he felt, will occur in a short
number of years’.
At the other end of the
world, in Russia, a Jewish follower of Sharon’s own ultra-Nationalist
Jabotinsky movement, ‘Eliezer Dacevich-Voronel’, who described himself
as a Jewish University Professor, composed a poem: ‘We, the Chosen Ones,
are united by hatred to the slave tribes that rose, dethroned our
ancestors and rejected our God. Once you knew of your place in the
world, a swine must stay in its sty. You revolted, and forced us to
serve you, but now your end is nigh. We are your masters. You are our
slaves. This is God’s design. Soon our sun will rise again, and the
slaves would not dare to look at it. And then, the Lord of My People
will appear in Heaven, while we, the dozen of dozen thousands (i.e.
144,000) of Chosen Ones will sit it the great amphitheatre and watch the
miserable columns of souls crawling into their paradise. By God’s will,
we shall name it Auschwitz’.
They even speak of
genetically re-constructing the King of the Antichrist. The brilliant
maverick, Dr Avi Ben Abraham, seems to be the man behind the project.
This unusual man recently returned to Israel after some years in
California, where he worked on a Star Trek-like Deep Freeze project for
very wealthy Jews. Loaded with money, Ben Abraham built a palace in
Caesarea on the seashore of Mediterranean, some 50 km north of Tel Aviv,
and contacted the Italian genetic expert, Dr Severino Antinori. Ben
Abraham, who received his doctor of medicine degree at the unheard of
age of 18, hinted at his plans in an interview with Haaretz. A few days
ago, his project received some benign attention from The New York Daily
News, the newspaper of Mortimer Zuckerman, a Jewish supremacist
billionaire and the head of Conference of Jewish American Organisations.
The men of hate and vengeance
are ready to seize the magic ring of power, the Temple Mount, to enforce
and perpetuate the rule of the Antichrist. But it can not be done by
brute force, due to a medieval prohibition, Issur Homah. A premature
action could backfire. A Jewish religious leader from Brooklyn,
Lubavitcher Rebbe, was considered by his disciples a potential Messiah,
and that is why he never ever came to the Holy Land. He did not feel
himself ready for the trial of forces. Meanwhile, the children of
Palestine, brothers of Faris Ode, nephews of Christ keep these religious
fanatics at bay. Now, Sharon and his band of mad believers try their
hand by snatching the Orient House, a Husseini mansion in Jerusalem. If
this is allowed to quietly pass, it will make for one more step to the
Ring of Power.
The soul-searching Russian
writer, Eugene Zamyatin, composed a short fable of Gospel quality. It
is a story of a man who decided to build a temple, but had no money. He
waylaid a merchant on the highway, tortured him to death, extracted a
lot of cash and built the temple. He invited a Bishop and many priests
and ordinary folks, but in a short time they left the church: the place
stank of murder. One can not build the temple on the blood of innocents.
An elder contemporary of Zamyatin, a Jewish thinker from Odessa, the
‘spiritual Zionist’ Ahad HaAm, put it in simple and beautiful words:
- If this be the Messiah, I
do not wish to see his coming.
