ZGram - 12/1/2001 - "Tribal observations"/

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ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny

December 1, 2001

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Matt Giwer, the intellectual terror of the Nizkorites, shares some worthy,
albeit politically incorrect revisionist reflections on "tribal matters":

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Tribal observations

by Matt Giwer, =A9 2001

Nov. 30

I am reminded of the long-standing speculation, even belief, after the
discovery of the New World, that the American Indians descended from the
lost tribes of Israel - a reason perhaps being that the tribes of Israel
included their slaves, dependents and adopted strangers, as described in
Exodus, as did the Amerinds.  Those were representatives of primitive
social forms which, by the end of the 19th century, European countries had
by and large outgrown - save for quite literally treaty relationships with
tribes of the New World.  Even today we refer to "tribal lands", Souix land
for example, indicating group ownership rather than individual ownership.

This concept of group ownership existed in Europe in terms of Church
property, where the land belonged to the Church rather than the later
ownership invested in the bishop or archbishop, in comparison to the modern
approach, where churches are legally corporations for purposes of
ownership. The western world has almost totally adopted the concept of
individual ownership - whether it be an actual person or the legal fiction
of a corporation being a person.

The most glaring exception ... revolves around the retrograde concept of
tribal Jews.

=46rom the Bolshevik Revolution through the post-WWII expansion of communism
to Eastern Europe, tens of millions of individuals lost ownership rights in
private property. With the fall of European Communism, churches and
synagogues have taken actions to recover properties expropriated by the
governments. Some individuals have also taken action.

The exception to this is the retrograde concept of tribal Jews.

Jewish organizations are threatening, and at times are taking legal action,
to recover all property owned by Jews under the tribal concept that such
property is uniquely Jewish property. Consider a direct parallel - the Pope
in Rome taking legal action to claim all property that had been owned by
Catholics as Catholic property whereby the ownership falls to the Pope.

 When it comes to property which had been owned by Catholics, it takes on
no unique Catholic nature. Rather, it is treated as any other personally
owned private property.

When it comes to Jews, the archaic, even medieval, concept of tribal
ownership is invoked as though there is a tribal ownership superior to
individual ownership.

This anachronism permits self-appointed groups, such as the World Jewish
Congress, to make property and financial claims upon countries and
organizations in the name of all Jews. Dr. Norman Finkelstein in his short,
insightful and polemic work, The Holocaust Industry - which might be better
titled The Holocaust Racket - makes short work of these groups. Without
mincing words, he demonstrates that these self-appointed groups are keeping
almost all the recovered monies and properties, funneling the proceeds
remaining, after paying bloated salaries and expenses to organization
leaders and their cronies, into pet projects. These pet projects include
innumerable projects to remember their self-styled "The Holocaust", (1) are
headed by overpaid directors and supernumerary staff who pay far more than
is reasonable for academically worthless rehashes of decades of repetative,
prior publications.

 Another parallel, if you will, would be the construction of a US Christian
Nazi Holocaust Memorial Museam (USCNHMM) on the Mall in Washington, DC
established through the efforts of the United Baptist Church. IT would
parallel the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to what happened to non-Americans
in Europe during WWII.

This hypothetical museum would ignore all Christians but Baptists. It would
have all but a few token non-Baptists on its board of directors and senior
staff. (2) It would ignore the elementary and minimum standards of a museum
by ignoring the elementary intellectual and academic norms for a museum.
Rather than a place of learning it would be a place to "feel" what it was
like to be a Bapist during WWII.

(Imagine the Smithsonian's Aerospace Museum trying to give visitors the
"feeling" of flying without exhibiting one airplane or spacecraft.)

Clearly the idea of Christians as a particular group of people with rights
is no longer in use. Only in circumstances where there is a component
related to the Christian religion does the term apply. In contrast the
tribal concept commonly applied to Jews permits atheists to be counted as
Jews. To do this it applies the concept of tribal membership by birth (3)
-otherwise it would hark (harken?) back to membership in a race or
nationality by birth and invite the resurrection of racial considerations
for everyone.

 In the US we are currently debating the applicability of group reparations
to Blacks. The parallel would be if the NAACP were demanding the right to
distribute all compensation funds, set the criteria for who is to get
compensation, take a large handling fee for doing so, and keep every dollar
not distributed. The NAACP, like the WJC, is unelected and unaccountable to
anyone but its members. Neither has any legitimate claim to representing
anyone but its members.

Unlike the WJC, the NAACP does not claim any motive other than political
activism.

 The WJC is a powerful organization, but even bigger fish have been in the
game. Since 1954, the state of Israel has claimed to be the natural
recipient of compensation, which should go to individual Jews or their
descendants and survivors. Germany has recognized that claim with financial
and material support worth billions of US dollars a year.

 Following the lead of Germany, and for no particular reason, the US annual
cash payments to Israel of three billion dollars is about equally divided
between military and welfare, without significant conditions. Along with
those trade agreements, loan guarantees, loan remissions, and other things
of value are estimated to be worth between an additional two to seven
billion US dollars annually. The cumulative cash payments as of 2000 are on
the order of 93 billion US dollars.

 As it has long been a popular political fiction attributed to President
Richard Nixon, Israel is of "strategic value" to the US - which it clearly
is not. The only remaining rationale for this charitable giveaway is
recognizing Israel to be the beneficiary of the losses of suffered by
individual Jews as a consequence of WWII.

A parallel to this would be billions of dollars annually given to the
Catholic Church of Poland in compensation for the losses of individual
Polish Catholics.

 This collectivization of Jews, rather than considering Jews as individuals
by Jewish organizations and self-proclaimed Jewish leaders, makes
anti-semitism understandable. The same people who are gaining financially
and in political power are both promoting Jews as a collective and raising
sanctimonious cries when people do not consider Jews as individuals. Their
working premise:  When one Jew is harmed, all or harmed - but when one Jew
harms another, one individual has harmed another individual.

I can agree that nothing justifies anti-semitism if Jews will agree there
are no group claims for all Jews. It cannot be both ways without
reinvigorating the long dead anti-semitism.

These self-styled representatives of all Jews benefit from discovering
anti-semitism. Abraham Foxman director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in
Los Angeles - no connection with Simon Wiesenthal except for the franchise
fee to use his name - has publically stated that the best way to encourage
contributions is to mention Hitler and the Nazis in fund-raising letters.

Jewish organizations which collect incidents of anti-semitism have a
methodology so flawed it cannot honestly be called a methodology.  They
simply count the number of reports by individuals. There is no followup to
ascertain it actually happened. There is no requirement for a police
complaint to be filed. There is no requirement for a court conviction.

The closest comparisons to this non-method are chulpacabra sightings and
UFO abductions - although the latter is often more thorough.

 There may or may not be an increase or a decrease in anti-semitic acts
these days (4)  but there is no way of knowing at present. Given the direct
connection between claims of anti-semitism and the increase in
contributions, it is clearly following the Foxman rule of raising fears.

Even Israel has used this method to increase the number of Jews immigrating
to Israel. It is an odd phenomenon that acts committed against individual
Jews or their property benefit the self-proclaimed leaders of Jews. (Cui
bono is a line of investigation best pursued in a later article.)

 In the last decade Israel has made practical use of this method. Its
leaders have begun talking as if the zionist state of Israel speaks for all
Jews in the world - at the same time claiming anti-zionism is a new code
word for anti-semitism.

What it encourages on one hand it hides behind on the other. It equates the
actions of Israel in the occupied territory with acting on behalf all Jews.
(5)  When people carefully make the distinction between "Judaism the
religion" and "Zionism the atheist political movement", Israel claims the
latter is a code word for the former.

 At times it appears to the careful observer these self-proclaimed leaders
of Jews are operating an intricate propaganda campaign. Israel refers to it
by the Hebrew word "hasbara". To outsiders the word is translated as
"information". In the Jerusalem Post and Ha'aretz the English translation
has been candidly "propaganda". This is similar to Israel insisting upon
the Hebrew word for "assassination" always to be translated into other
languages as "targeted killing".

 In this propaganda, similar to that noted by Dr. Finkelstein, the target
of the campaign by these self-styled leaders of Jews is more their fellow
Jews than non-Jews. One target noted in The Holocaust Industry may be the
Swiss banks, but the greater target is the average retired Jew of modest
means these outfits claim to represent. At the present rate of payment,
they will not live long enough to see anything.  They will not ever see the
money divided evenly among the survivors or even descendants and survivors.
The leaders keep what is not disbursed.  This reversion to the tribal
model, including tribal elders who speak for the tribe and all of its
members, represents a return to primitive times where the rabbi ruled the
shtetl and was its only spokesman.

It is long past the time for individual Jews to stand up and tell their
tribal elders to shut up and get an honest job. It is long past the time
for non-Jews to ignore them.

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Notes:

  1 All during WWII up until the late 1960s, the use of the word
"holocaust" used in relation to WWII was as in the phrase "the Nazi
holocaust". Some time after that the usage became, The Holocaust, as a
reference to a Jewish-only occurance. I missed the staff meeting which made
the change - so I cannot explain the change, only note it.

 2 As the USHMM is owned by the US Government, it must comply with all US
laws, including ethnic diversity. At its last audit it was found grievously
lacking in ethnic diversity, being almost exclusively Jewish is
composition. It was also found failing to address its charter which
required coverage of all peoples - not just Jews. It appears the US
Congress also missed the staff meeting making The Holocaust a Jewish-only
affair.

 3 Being a Jew by birth is also a concept found in the Jewish religion.
Since by definition an atheist rejects the precepts of religion, an atheist
cannot consider himself a Jew save in the same as applied to American
Indians. It goes back to times prior to the idea of religious conversion
introduced to Europe by Christianity. Before that time there was no
difference between membership in a tribe and worshipping the gods of that
tribe. Thus there was no religious persecution per se since religion was
not a distinguishing feature of a person.

 4 I have not collected my own statistics on this, but in the years I have
heard about anti-semitic acts I cannot remember one press release saying
they have decreased. With a certain skepticism I must observe that after
hearing for some three decades that anti-semitic acts are increasing I have
to suggest that by now they would be daily occurances around the country.

 5 Note the painful irony:  Throughout the history of Israel, with the
exception of World War II, it has been the most dangerous, life-threatening
place in the world for Jews to live for almost the last three centuries -
with rare and quite exaggerated exceptions.

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Definition:

Tribe

=46unction: noun

Etymology: Middle English, from Latin tribus, a division of the Roman
people, tribe

Date: 13th century

1. a : a social group comprising numerous families, clans, or generations
together with slaves, dependents, or adopted strangers b : a political
division of the Roman people originally representing one of the three
original tribes of ancient Rome c : [see] PHYLE

2 : a group of persons having a common character, occupation, or interest

3 : a category of taxonomic classification ranking below a subfamily; also
: a natural group irrespective of taxonomic rank

(courtesy: Merriam-Webster Online)

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Acronyms:

WJC - World Jewish Congress

NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

USHMM, United States Holocaust Memorical Museum

Souix, a supra-classification of American Indian tribes, the Souix Nation,
covering subtribes such as the Ogalala Souix.