[WAR] The clear (+biblical) foundation of Israel - be aware.

[Zenaan Harkness]

One cannot help but be impressed with the very material achievements
of the house of the Red Door (Rothschilds):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1s0VEk9vgw


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