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In the light of ...

what the "International Community", through cowardice or complicity, is allowing Israel to perpetrate against the Palestinians; and ...

breaking news that the United Nations is now [end of April 2002] contemplating the abandonment of its 'resolution' [sic - all the 'resolution' of a squawking flock of chickens!] to send a "fact finding" team to Jenin to investigate allegations of an Israeli massacre of Palestinian civilians - abandoned on the grounds that Israel refusesl to co-operate with any procedure which "would put Israel on trial" and might produce findings which "would be misused by enemies of Israel";

... the predication made by Sir Richard F. Burton a century and a quarter ago - about what the world would and would not tolerate by way of barbarism from Jews were they to establish a Jewish state on the land of Palestine - seems hopelessly naive and optimistic, according to Gregory Johnson of <gjohnson@psr.edu>, whose occasional informative e-bulletin brought Burton's quote to my attention.

However, the world has chnged a lot since the 1870s. Burton had no idea of what we know of as "the mass media", nor would he have been able to conceive of the power it would be able exert over the careers of individuals and of the destinies of nations - still less that this entity would be almost wholly owned by Jews and operated by them for the benefit of Zionism.

Further, he would not have been able to comprehend that the "political elites" and party machines of all the nations of what was once known as "Christendom" would become wholly dependant upon Zion's financial patronage.

How could he have possibly guessed that at the turn of the 20th to the 21st century the United States would become the world's sole super-power and that BOTH of its major political parties and ALL their presidential contenders would be substantially reliant on contributions from Jewish big business and Jewish community organsiations for their nomination and election campaigns?

How could he possibly have imagined that Zionist corruption of the body politic was so advanced by the middle of the 20th century that America would recognise the State of Israel upon the instant of its creation because the new occupant of the White House (Truman) had been given by the World Jewish Congress a personal cash "donation" of $4 million (a very great deal of money in 1948) in the last days of his campaign for the presidency - the cash being delivered to him in suit cases on a train whilst he was engaged in a 'whistle-stop' tour!

How could he have known that, in our time, Britain's Prime Minister (Blair) would have a "Private Office", the funding of which (hundreds of thousands of pounds a year) would be secured by a Zionist millionaire (Levy) with a home in Israel, who, as a reward for this service, would be elevated to the House of Lords and appointed as the Prime Minister's personal "roving ambassador" to the Middle East and, thereby, unanswerable to the House of Commons?

In 1874, Burton, author of 'The Thousand and One Nights', explorer of the Middle East and noted scholar of the languages, literature and religions of that region, wrote the following words about the prospects of a revived Jewish state in Palestine in 'The Jew, The Gypsy, and El Islam' *. [I hope the author's shade will forgive me for dividing his text into smaller paragraphs for ease of comprehension by 21st century readers, unused to long blocks of prose broken only with semi-colons.]

<<"This Russian pre-emption of the Holy Land is a benefit to the Jew, although the latter may not recognize it. But for this he would hasten to fulfill the prophecy; he would buy up the country, as indeed he is now doing at Jerusalem; he would conquer the people by capital, and he would once more form a nation.

"But here the question obtrudes itself: If Judaism should again prevail - indeed its advocates say it shall prevail universally - how long could it endure?

"Those who know the codes of the Talmud and of the Safed School, which are still, despite certain petty struggles, the life-light of Judaism, will have no trouble in replying:

"A people whose highest ideas of religious existence are the superstitious sanctification of Sabbath by the washing of hands, the blowing of ram's horns, the saving rite of circumcision, and the thousand external functions compensating for moral delinquencies, with Abraham sitting at the gate of Hell to keep it closed for Jews;

"a community which would declare marriage impossible to some twelve millions of Gentiles, forbid them the Sabbath, and sentence to death every 'stranger' reading an Old Testament; which would have all the Ger [Goyim] who are not idolaters without religion, whilst forbidding those whom it calls 'idolaters' (the Christians) to exercise the commonest feelings of humanity; which would degrade and insult one half of humanity, the weaker sex, and which would sanction slavery, and at the same time oppress and vilify its slaves by placing them on a level with oxen and asses;

"a faith which, abounding in heathen practices, would encourage the study of the Black Art, would loosen every moral obligation, would grant dispensations to men's oaths, and would sanction the murder of the unlearned;

"a system of injustice, whose Sanhedrins, at once heathenish and unlawful, have distinguished themselves only for force and fraud, for superabundant self-conceit, for cold-blooded cruelty, and for unrelenting enmity to all human nature; such conditions, it is evident, are not calculated to create or to preserve national life.

"The civilized world would never endure the presence of a creed which says to man, 'Hate thy neighbor unless he be one of ye' , or of a code written in blood, not in ink, which visits the least infractions of the Rabbinical laws with exorcism and excommunication, with stoning and flogging to death.

"A year of such spectacles would more than suffice to excite the wrath and revenge of outraged humanity; the race, cruel, fierce, dogged, and desperate as in the days of Titus and Hadrian, would defend itself to the last; the result would be another siege and capture of Jerusalem, and the 'Chosen People' would once more lie prostrate in their blood and be stamped out of the Holy Land.

"Briefly, it is evident that nothing but Russian preponderance in Syria and Palestine prevents its being reoccupied by its old intolerant and persecuting owners, and that to these the greatest possible misfortune would be the granting of their daily, weekly, and yearly prayer:

" 'Next year may we meet at Jerusalem'. ">>

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[*ed. W.H. Wilkins (1898), pp. 67-71; notes omitted.]

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