PALESTINIAN civilians are scrambling to find safe havens as Israel continues its airstrike campaign on Gaza targeting entire neighbourhoods simultaneously. The assaults are a prelude to a ground offensive by the Israeli Army in retaliation for the surprise land, sea and air attack on southern Israel by Hamas. Hamas may have launched a daring assault on its tormentors but it should remain cognizant of Israel’s policy of vengeance, which is deep rooted in its theology. Professor Israel Jacob Yuval of Hebrew University in his book, Two Nations in Your Womb, explains that ‘Vengeful salvation’ was adopted by the European Jews from the old Pharisee sources and became the prevailing doctrine of the Synagogue. The learned professor states that Christians are taught to think that the Jews wait for the Messiah who is Christ.
On the other hand, Christianity teaches that he came and will come again. But the concepts are vastly different: Christ came to save, while Messiah comes to take revenge. Prof. Yuval quotes many ancient Jewish texts supporting this point. “In the End of the Days (when the Messiah comes) God will destroy, kill and exterminate all the nations but the sons of Israel”, written in the Sefer Nitzahon Yashan, written by a German Jew in the 13th Century. A liturgical poet Klonimus b. Judah had a vision of “God’s hands full of Goys’ corpses”. Even more dreadful dreams of blood and destruction precede the first attacks on Jews, in the end of 11th century. A hundred years before the Crusader’s onslaught on Jews, R. Simon b. Yitzhak calls on God ‘to take his sword and slaughter the Gentiles’. In order to hasten the destruction of Gentiles, the sages of Europe adopted curses against Christians and Christ, and introduced them into the liturgy of Passover, Doomsday and even the daily prayer.
There are two days of the Jewish calendar especially suitable for vengeance. One of them is Purim, the day, when according to Esther; the Jews slaughtered 75,000 Gentiles in Persia. On Purim, Dr. Baruch Goldstein of Brooklyn and Hebron massacred the devout Muslims on the Tomb of Abraham. On Purim, the ministers of Germany were executed in Nuremberg. Many American public figures, mostly Jewish, have called for revenge for the attack by Hamas. “There is only one way to begin to deal with people like this, and that is you have to kill some of them even if they are not immediately directly involved in this thing”, said the former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger, who heads the Jewish organization for claims to Germany, at US $ 300,000 per annum.
Jewish culture is saturated with the idea of vengeance, as it draws straight from the Old Testament. John Sack, a brilliant Jewish journalist has analyzed the same in his Eye for Eye, a chilling book about horrible revenge exacted from the Germans after WWII. The book tells of tortures, extra-judicial killings, mass poison and other horrors. The book is not available since the Jewish establishment has succeeded to suppress it and keep it out of bookshops. Not surprisingly, Israel promoted vengeance into its daily policy. Its attacks on Palestinians are called peulot tagmul, the acts of vengeance. One of these acts was perpetrated by the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on 14 October 1953, when he and his soldiers murdered some sixty peasants, women and children in the village of Qibya. The invasion of Lebanon in 1982 with its 20,000 murdered Lebanese and Palestinians, Christians and Muslims, was an act of revenge for the attempt to assassinate the Israeli ambassador in London. During the intifada and for each Palestinian bomb blast, every act of Israeli terror is called “retribution” or “retaliation” by Israelis and by American Jewish-owned media.
The tinsel-town of American movies was created by Jews and Hollywood made vengeance its subject. In a way, American cinema is an expression of the Jewish collective subconscious, and it was the main factor in the creation of the American psyche. From Hollywood, vengefulness flew all over the earth. America could not withstand the impact of Jewish mentality, and she became a Jewish State, the ‘big sister of Israel’. A grandson of Trier Rabbi, who grew in the Church, Karl Marx actually prophesied in the 1840s that America will become a Jewish state and will embrace the Jewish ideology of greed and alienation. This explanation answers the question, does America support Israel because of the Jewish lobby or because of the “true interest of American corporations”. The answer is: the Jewish lobby is a superfluous body supportive of Israeli right-wing, while America as a whole is a grander Jewish state with interests outside the Middle East as well.
This presumption explains a lot of queries. It elucidates the invariable 99 percent vote for Israel. It clarifies the endless Holocaust museums, Holocaust studies and Holocaust films. It explicates the centrality of Jews in American life, as now America views world events from a traditional Jewish position. That is why good persons of Jewish origin, whether Noam Chomsky or Woody Allen, St Paul or Karl Marx, if they are critical of Jews or Israel, are labelled as “Anti-Semites” and are usually rejected by the Jewish community. It is not surprising then that Arnold Toynbee, the greatest British philosopher of history in the 20th century, suffered because he spoke of the tragedy of Palestinians. He also mentioned African slavery as a tragedy at par with the Jewish holocaust. Resultantly, he was erased and disappeared from American conscience.
Christians per se are no friends of Muslims. When their knights took to the sword, the Crusaders caused a lot of bloodshed and indulged in unspeakable brutalities but in a way it was a Western Jihad, yet they never pursued revenge. The slaughter of innocent civilians in Gaza, the rocketing, strafing and napalming of hundreds of thousands of boys, girls, unborn babies and old men is pure slaughter on the altar of vengeance. The brutal extermination of Palestinians in Israel is sheer revenge and an execution of the Theology of Vengeance by Israel.
—The writer is a Retired Group Captain of PAF, who has written several books on China.
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