ZGram - 1/27/2003 - "Shamir: Four Blind Men"

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ZGRAM - Where Truth is Destiny

January 27, 2003

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Agree or disagree, Israel Shamir is always challenging and, yes, 
enriching reading:

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=46OUR BLIND MEN, or

REVIEW OF Jewish Tribal REVIEW

By Israel Shamir

The Author of the Critique is worried that he will be considered 
"anti-Semitic=92, but my main objection is quite an opposite one, 
namely, The Critique is too "Jewish" by its outlook.

Our comprehension of the world starts at juxtaposing observations. 
=46our blind men describe an animal they encountered: it is like a 
column; no, a snake, no, a barrel, no, a tooth. Their impressions 
would be of little value unless there were a man of vision to 
integrate them and draw a picture of an elephant.

Various manifestations of Jewish spirit produced a cascade of 
differing impressions almost defying an integration attempt. Zionist 
Jews in Palestine created a many-tiered rigid caste society, where 
natives are excluded, imported "guest" workers have no rights, army 
and security apparatus controls everything and a call for equality 
disqualifies the caller from holding a public office. Globalist 
financiers of George Soros kind, followers of Karl Popper's Open 
Society offered and created other systems. There are impressions of 
activity by Jewish media moguls, Hollywood producers, museum 
curators, art dealers, human rights activists, New York bankers and 
Washington neo-conservative ideologists.

The observations are valid and important; now they should be 
collected and systematised until the ground is ripe for a man of 
vision who would draw a picture of the elephant. It is not an easy 
task, for it is an article of faith in our world, "thou shalt not 
draw an elephant". This commandment is enforced by the fierce Jewish 
opposition to such endeavour.

This forbidden and mammoth task was undertaken by the Anonymous (and 
possibly collective) author of WHEN VICTIMS RULE: A Critique of 
Jewish Pre-eminence in America, (further called The Critique), 
two-thousand-pages-long collection of observations of various Jewish 
activities. This work in progress is posted on 
<http://www.jewishtribalreview.com/>www.jewishtribalreview.com and 
probably will remain there for quite a while. Its sheer size is just 
one of the reasons why it is not likely to emerge as a printed book.

While describing the challenge that moved him, the Author writes:

In "free societies," anyone who wants may write, and publish, works 
that attack Christianity; assail the "historical revisionism" of 
Afro-centrism; deconstruct the myths of Hinduism; defame the Pope; 
disdain Republican, Democratic, communist, or any other ideology; 
emblazon the whole of Islam as a hotbed for irrational mania and 
terrorism; write entire volumes about the alleged worldwide Japanese 
economic "conspiracy"; and vilify the entirety of the nebulous entity 
known as the "white establishment" and anyone dictated by skin colour 
to be within it. But, curiously, in the vast expanse of 
deconstructive engines of all and everything, one cannot criticize 
the sacrosanct domain of Jewish history, politics, and identity, 
unless the critic is willing to be systematically marginalized in all 
walks of life, prepared to be tarnished and branded as a contemptible 
hate-filled "anti-Semite," risk losing his or her job, and be 
categorically lumped into mainstream society's moral and intellectual 
garbage dump reserved for the likes of the Nazis and Ku Klux Klan.

The biased discourse so aptly described by the Author causes much 
mental anguish to Americans of Jewish origin, separates them from 
their Gentile compatriots and even more regrettably contributes to 
the loss of life in Palestine. That is why a good new deconstruction 
of Jewish history, politics, identity, religion and tradition is 
certainly needed, especially as the critical works of 1920s and 1930s 
became outdated. The Author has followed the trail blazed by 
Professors Albert Lindemann of the University of California, Kevin 
MacDonald of California State University, Israel Shahak of the Hebrew 
University of Jerusalem, Elliot Horowitz and other researchers.

The Author collected immense amount of data, sometimes trivial, 
sometimes relevant facts and opinions. The bibliography is colossal, 
as if the book was produced by a Jewish Studies department of a 
well-endowed American University. It could be a companion volume to 
Encyclopaedia Judaica. Severely abridged, it would be readable and 
still impressive. In the full form, it will be used whenever there is 
a discussion on the Jewish influence in American politics or media. 
=46or instance, recent debate Neumann =96 Blankfort would be easily 
substantiated by referring to this book.

However, this interesting book is regrettably short of insight. While 
noting and criticising "Jewish pre-eminence", it does not offer an 
answer to the paramount questions: What does it mean? how was it 
achieved? Why it is achieved? Without an attempt to answer, the book 
remains but an important database.

The Author is worried that he will be considered "anti-Semitic", but 
my main objection is quite an opposite one, namely, The Critique is 
too "Jewish" by its outlook, and not only because some pages appear 
as a Jewish vanity publication, listing prominent and successful 
Jews. It is true, there are lists of Jews in unorthodox business of 
robbery and murder, but even this thing is not unusual. Isaac Babel 
happily described Jewish gangsters of Odessa, while the stories of 
Jewish-American gangsters were published many times and are quite 
popular with Jewish readers.

Probably the word "tribal" is the key to its "Jewish-ness" and to the 
relative failure. The view of Jews as a tribe is a very Jewish view, 
promoted nowadays by Adin Steinzaltz, the chief Talmudic authority in 
Israel. He called the Jews: "family". But this view does not furnish 
us with a good explanation of the Rise of the Jews and of its 
consequences. If the Jews are "a tribe", sort of extended family, 
what is the secret of their magic attraction and strange successes? 
There are many "families", from Sicilian Mafia to Hong Kong Triads, 
but can they measure up to the Jewish influence, nay, centrality in 
the Western world? By adhering to this Jewish "clannish" view the 
Author overlooked the ideology behind the Jews. For instance, he 
quotes:

Raphael Patai, a Jewish scholar, claims that, for all the knottiness 
surrounding the modern day issue, being Jewish can best be described 
as nothing more than "a state of mind"

And smugly adds:

"This kind of 'state,' of course, won't afford you citizenship in 
today's state of Israel, nor acceptance into any Jewish community 
anywhere."

True? Not really. This state of mind is shared by Conrad Black, a 
Gentile who became a Jewish media mogul without undergoing 
circumcision. He is an accepted and valued member of the Jewish 
community and a potential citizen of Israel. Technically, by virtue 
of his marriage to his Jewish wife, but much more so by his state of 
mind. Plenty of Gentile Americans share this state of mind. On the 
other hand, a factory worker or a peasant born of Jewish parents 
technically entitled to the place in the community and to the Israeli 
passport but lacks this state of mind and would be out of place in 
the Jewish community. In Israel there are many immigrants of Jewish 
origin who were thoroughly de-Jewified but decided to come to Israel. 
They do not fit into the Jewish society and form its outcast fringe.

While rejecting [the] insightful remark of Patai, the Author accepts 
some misleading Jewish declarations for their face value. He writes:

"Yet modern Jewry's deep animosity towards Christianity stems from 
the accusation that institutional Christianity was seminal to 
anti-Semitism in the Middle Ages..."

It is the traditional Jewish point of view, deeply un-historical and 
anachronistic. In the same vein, the Author could say,

"Yet modern Jewry's deep animosity towards Palestinians stems from 
the accusation that Palestinians were seminal to anti-Semitism..."

In both cases, Jewry was on the offensive, not a defensive side. The 
Jews attacked Christians from the days of the Apostles, just as they 
attacked Palestinians by depriving them of their livelihood from the 
very beginning of Zionist immigration. The Author probably noticed 
his mistake and tried to correct it without harmonising with his 
preceding statement:

"Judaism had, of course, antipathy for Christianity from the latter's 
very inception."

So, the reader has a choice of two contradicting statements: the 
Jewish animosity is a reaction to Christian anti-Semitism, or it is a 
primary attitude of Jews. The Author goes on, getting deeper into the 
bog of anachronistic contradictions:

"Christianity evolved out of Judaism; it was founded and propagated 
by Jews dissatisfied with the direction of the seminal faith as 
guided by its leaders. 'Popular hatred of the Temple priests and the 
rich," says Lenni Brenner, "became the basis of Christianity, and the 
New Testament must be seen as the last major production of the Jewish 
religious genre.'"

Again, it is a traditional Jewish point of view, debunked by 
Professor Israel Joseph Yuval of the Hebrew University. Yuval proved 
that while Christianity "evolved" from the Biblical Judaism, the 
Rabbinic Judaism came to existence AFTER Christianity appeared as a 
reactionary response to it. Lenni Brenner can be forgiven for his 
weak grasp of ancient history, but the Author should know that 
Christianity rose and won the day when there were no Temple priests 
"filthy rich" anymore, after AD 70.

No study or deconstruction of Jewishness is meaningful, unless one 
understands that Jewry was born in order to fight Christ and 
Christianity. It found other uses: to make money and share influence. 
Likewise, an army can be used for many purposes, to harvest potatoes 
or extinguish fires, but it is created to fight wars. The Author 
collected much evidence of Jewish hostility to Christianity, but he 
failed to comprehend its key role in Jewish attitudes.

He failed for he adopted basically Jewish materialistic "export 
vision" of history, world and self. He quotes:

"As even Mark Twain noted, 'With most people, of a necessity, bread 
and meat take first rank, religion second. I am convinced that the 
persecution of the Jews is not due in any large degree to religious 
prejudice.'"

It is an erroneous observation of a myopic Yankee. In the course of 
history, people gave up their bread and meat, wives and children, 
died and killed for the sake of their faith.  While persecution of 
the Jews was not due to religious commandment, the relentless Jewish 
assault on Christendom can't be comprehended without this framework.

The Jews promote the Tribe vision, as it sounds quite harmless and 
stops potential escapees: why indeed should one escape one's own 
tribe that one belongs to by virtue of birth? Again, if it is just a 
tribe, it really makes no difference what sort of positions its 
members occupy. The Tribe vision allows the Jews to claim for their 
own the Apostles and Karl Marx, and many wonderful people of Jewish 
origin. This vision proclaims: once a Jew, always a Jew.  However, 
reality is different: two thousand years ago there were millions of 
Jews, while by [the] 8th century they disappeared almost completely. 
Spain succeeded to undo its Jews. If descendents of Jews were Jews, 
there would be hundreds of millions Jews nowadays.

The non-tribal character of Jews is well illustrated by the fate of 
the Jews of China. This community was successfully assimilated, and 
all efforts of Israeli and American Jews to bring them back to 
"Jewish conscience" failed, for it makes no sense to be a Jew outside 
of Christ's ecumene.

Indeed, what is a Jew? Everyone has a small part of his personality 
that stops him from embracing (=3Dbeing together with, or identical to) 
Christ. It is excessive care for one's property, anti-collectivism, 
godlessness and fight against God =3D Christ, dishonesty, elitism, some 
sorts of creativity, disregard for others. That is a small Jew inside 
us. The fiery catharsis of Christ's incarnation, mission, passion and 
resurrection expelled this slag from the body of Church. Presence of 
slag is to remind us of the catharsis, and to help us to contemplate 
of God. Provided there is no God but God, rebels against God take the 
side of the Prince of the World, and he takes their side.

That is why great theologians and mystics from St John to Martin 
Luther, from Muhammad to Fr Serge Bulgakov contemplated on the Jews. 
=46or them, the Jews were a visible proof of God's attention to Man, a 
living memory of Incarnation and a negative example of what can go 
wrong. A Jew who understood it and acted correspondingly ceased to be 
a Jew. A Gentile who accepted the Jewish mode of behaviour turns into 
a Jew. The "pre-eminence of Jews in America" is another form of 
re-stating words of Marx: America has been Jewified and accepted the 
Jewish values.

The Author failed to understand this spiritual meaning of Jews and 
Jewish influence. Not a tribe, but ideology, that is the essence of 
the problem. Pre-eminence of Jewish ideology and Jewish values in 
America is the true problem of America and the world. The Author 
quotes words of a Jewish commentator, Robert Kamenetz:

"I began to suspect that Jewish identity, as it has evolved in the 
West today, could be a real barrier to encountering the depths of 
Judaism. In other words, being Jewish could keep you from being a 
Jew."

And exclaims:

"What on earth is one to make of this observation!"

However, Marx proposed an answer: Judaism is [a] sordid form of 
Christianity, while Christianity is sublime Judaism. Kamenetz (like 
many good and spiritual Jews) felt that immersion into the depths of 
Judaism (=3DChristianity) leads to rejection of Jewish identity. Such 
people should be supported and assisted to leave the Jewish fold. The 
leaders of the Jews are aware of the danger and that is why they 
fight the church and derail its efforts to save the Jews from Judaic 
tendency. In my opinion, the greatest Jewish achievement in the US 
was the Boston proclamation by Bishops of the Catholic Church that 
Jews do not need salvation, effectively reducing Christianity to the 
level of "faith for goyim".

[The] Judaic spirit is a real danger to the tripartite ecumene of 
West-Russia-Islamic world. But [a] biological approach proposed by 
the Author does not help. One of modern ideologists of European 
Traditionalism, Horst Mahler, a great adversary of Jewish supremacy, 
stressed the spiritual element of the struggle:

"Hitler failed, for he attended to [the] biological (racist, tribal) 
aspect of Jews, while it is the spiritual aspect that had to be 
fought. Only in April 1945 [did he recognize] that the Jews represent 
certain Spirit that can't be defeated but by spirit. The belief that 
there is no God, that Man is self-sufficient (Humanism), that the 
World is realizable without recourse to the concept of the Absolute 
Spirit (God), is the triumph of Judaism over other peoples. On this 
basis alone these peoples are delivered to Globalism and ordained to 
destruction."

Without spiritual background, the tribe-based research of the Author 
offers no solution but copying of the Jewish strategy. It will 
certainly be utilised as a good database, after some editing will be 
done. The encyclopaedic grasp of the book makes some errors 
unavoidable.

=46or instance, the Author writes at length about [the] relevance of 
Maimonides, a medieval Jewish scholar and sage, and then, on the next 
page, he refers to "an old -- and obviously still influential -- 
Talmudic expert, Rambam". He does not realise Rambam and Maimonides 
is but one person, Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon.

The Author has no clear grasp of Russian name usage and constantly 
confuses family names and patronymics. For instance he refers to 
"Moisei Solomonovich, head of the secret police in Petrograd", though 
his last name was Uritsky.

But the most important lacuna of the book is its lack of 
understanding what should be changed. We shall discuss it on other 
occasion.

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