Then as Now: Learn from History…read The First Tithe
During the early 1940s, as WW II raged in Europe, while Germans and their allies rounded up Jews, concentrated them in ghettos, made them converge before shipping them to slave labor, gas chambers, ‘medical’ labs and crematoria, the British occupiers of Israel harassed the Jews there in many ways. Among these were by enabling and inciting local or neighboring Arabs to pogroms and doing nothing while slaughter ensued as it did at Hebron, Tzfat, Jerusalem and scores of other places famous and forgotten. The Jews fought back as much as they could; they did whatever they could to acquire arms and hid them from increasing British searches.
It was a bloodier version of the British game that sparked the American Revolution in Concord in 1775 but for the Jews the odds were much greater, arms much more difficult to get and hide; the disparity of arms far greater and the international situation worst of all. The gravest problem was a pre-State (yishuv) establishment that collaborated with the British, vilified, spied-on, captured, tortured and turned in Jews with a spark of resistance in them. The pattern continues to this day and so this narrative of the 1940s, written retrospectively in 1949 by Israel Eldad has intense relevance.
After the murder by imperial British occupying troops of Jews at Kibbutzim Hulda and Ramat HaKovesh in 1942-3, because they were places of ‘sound’ Laborite principles, mainly the practice of havlaga, Jewish “restraint” when attacked and a refusal to strike back unless mortally assaulted (shades of the present day) prominent lawyers appeared to defend the prisoners taken by the British murderers and thieves. Their excuse for having arms (and thus deserving to be searched, attacked, and murdered): “they were quiet working men who restrained themselves [like ‘good Jews’] after the murders at Hulda, and perhaps the sentences should be light” if our lords and masters, the benevolent British could find their way to be as merciful as they truly are, land of parliaments and the first blood libels and mass burnings of Jews (Lincoln and London, 1142 CE, ff) [1].
“Perhaps the sentences would be light; and they were.” After all, like good kibbutzniks the men had not attacked anyone even though the British had locked the Jews into Europe to a fate they knew awaited them; and locked them out of Eretz Israel into which they were obligated by law to bring them. Yes, British judges have soft hearts; the sentences were light for those whose homes were broken into and robbed and beaten by the soldiers of the Empire: “only imprisonment of twelve, ten or seven years, that was all and perhaps a pardon to come on one of the birthdays of His Royal Highness King George” who is rotting in hell as Harry, Charles and Philip will be, the Malthusians and those who love to dress in Nazi uniforms and give the stiff-armed salute, as do the legions of Hizballah. As for mercy, “for every beaten Jew pardoned, ten Arab killers would be.”
But these are postmodern times and we are progressive. So the ratio now is more like a thousand or two thousand Arab murderers or would-be murderers for every Jew who gets, not a pardon, but a reduction of his sentence for striking back after a brother, friend or neighbor is murdered by one of Britain’s and the Quartet’s utensils. Samir Kuntar who murdered four Jews including a four-year old girl whose head he bashed in after killing her father in front of her eyes was released by the client regime for the bodies of two Israeli border guards who were tortured and then murdered after their capture. The Geneva Convention? It doesn’t apply to Jews. To the “international community,” the fig leaf of the great powers pushing their world state for “peace,” Jews are not human; thus they cannot suffer humanitarian crises as do those who murder and plot the genocide of Jews, those, like Hamas, enabled by both the western powers and their Islamic proxies.
“And because the Jews [only received twelve year sentences for being beaten and robbed] all the Hebrew schools” and institutions of the Yishuv celebrated, prompted by the daily papers of the Jewish Agency and the official “Zionist” establishment. And all the while, from the regime to the Revisionist Irgun, the message went out to enlist in the British Army.
Among the most mind-numbing official lies of the past ninety years is the appropriation of the august terms “Zionism” and “Zionist” to apply to the collaborators with foreign Empires while Jewish patriots who seek to be “a free people in our land” are derided by these same outlets and their great power backers as “extremists” or “gangsters.”
“There were many arms searches, and they were degrading; and there were many arms trials, and they were degrading. Lord Moyne and High Commissioner MacMichael had been appointed, after all, not only to implement the British White Paper policy [barring Jewish immigration even during the shoah] but also to help the Arabs finish Hitler’s work…”
And then, Eldad writes of that winter, “The danger of a German invasion [under Rommel] passes. A few Jews may be left in the world and they may make some noise,” an outcome clearly not in the great power script. Jews must not resist much less preempt an attack on them selves. “America may seek influence and oil in the Middle East” he wrote presciently; and in fact, it was in 1943 that the British creation, “Saudi Arabia” became an American protectorate and partner as to this day, its power increasing thanks to those who direct American diplomatic and financial policy. “So a slaughter [of Jews] must be prepared here” (in the Middle East, as then, so now); “the pogroms against Jews term, “intifada” or rocket strikes] must be increased, must become more serious” as indeed they have become via Western-inspired “intifadas” and rocket attacks by ‘frustrated militants.’ But Jews must not add to “the cycle of violence in the region” which means that the role of Jews is to be murdered and perhaps protest, a little, to the UN, perhaps, or to America or the EU, but never to strike back: “not supposed to strike back; supposed to have a thick skin; supposed to lay down and die while your door is kicked in” [2]. How the powers must chuckle as Israeli ambassadors play their role by repeatedly describing the sequence of events and how unfair it is.
The Arabs and UN-Islamic “Human Rights Commission” is empowered by the great colonial powers to wear down and destroy the greatest anti-colonial war for independence of the 20th century. Israel must be smothered; its potential stillborn; and the client regime and its media must keep Israelis focused on the details of the latest “peace plan” and never mention the structure of the game or their role in perpetuating it, one Eldad describes repeatedly, succinctly and bitingly.
As this writer often has demonstrated, while the Germans and English contended for rule of the new world order, a term and goal already very widely used by 1940 [3], a goal sought actively and openly by the British Round Table since 1910, they were allies, by the mid-1930s at the latest in the plans and then implantation of the plan to eradicate the Jews and with them the world’s memory, history, holiness and connection to the Creator.
So the “attacks against the Jews must be increased” then as now by Hizballah, Hamas and Iran, with the help of Egypt and funding from sources as disparate culturally as Russia and the House of Saud (‘united’ by global media “telling us who we are and what we mean to each other”); “the Hagana [today, the IDF, in Hebrew, Tzahal, “National Defense Force,” the emphasis is still on defense, still on havlaga, purity of arms which the world despises). So then: “The defense lawyers and Jewish Agency officials and newspapers are pathetically ridiculous when they sob bitterly: ‘but the weapons are defensive, only defensive!’ Of course they are defensive. No British soldier doubts that; but the British [or the American, EU or Russian top echelons] are not interested in Jews having defensive weapons on the day of slaughter.” So now: they must feed those who want to annihilate them; must give them water and electricity for their role is to give and be murdered; to be pitiful and condemned for being both aggressive and weak. In “the West” nothing has changed since the days of Hadrian, Constantine, Ambrosius, Chrysostum and Augustine. Degrade, humiliate, disarm and kill the Jews. Then perhaps everyone will forget or not notice that our culture is a pastiche of their book and its instructions for an integrated way of life on a medium-sized, demarcated piece of land.
And while the West manages, through its subcontractors, the destruction of Israel and the way of Judaism it reverts to savagery as becomes more obvious each month in depraved cultural products that advance the Malthusian agenda of a de-populated, more easily managed world.
Like so many Jew-haters and armchair philosophers today, then “Lord Moyne delivers an address in which he ‘scientifically proves’ that the Jews are not even a nation,” the same lie that fabulist and fuzzy-brained but ambitious socialist H.G. Wells made in his pompously titled, An Outline of History (4th edition Collier 1922, 4 Volumes) where he refers to Jews as “mentally and racially confused” and of Lionel Curtis in his Catholic-inspired tome (all 986 pages of it) in which he argues, like lunatic Aryan supremacist Adolf Lanz that the Greeks and Romans were descended from ancient Germans and that the Jews and other Mediterranean or southern and eastern peoples were primitive, semi-human and addicted to “theocracy” unlike the British who alone carry “the idea of freedom” to the world with results more apparent every day. Eldad knew that “each and every Englishmen sees his race as superior and looks down not only on darker races but also on Europeans and even, on the inside, on Americans” whom they have recaptured through very costly diplomatic-military-financial maneuvers to do the heavy-lifting for their global commonwealth [4]. Eldad did not live to see pc rules neuter the British police and embolden Muslims who now deride and chase them through the streets of London.
Since “the Jews are not even a nation,” Moyne argued it is ridiculous for them to be in the Middle East when what the British want there, as Round Table Editor John Dove wrote, is an Arab Federation with its front door on the Mediterranean. We are watching it play out in slow motion for ninety years as the entire world is regionalized. Since the enlightened, imperial position denies Jewish nationhood, the most ancient and richly attested nation in the world, “moving them to Madagascar or some corner of Africa would be worthwhile.” Then Lord Moyne; in recent years, Nick Rockefeller, reported Aaron Russo, suggested that “each Jew be given a million dollars and moved to Arizona.” Why not; the green paper being printed in the trillions of dollars every week is becoming worthless anyway, precisely the value the “sordid buccaneers” place on Jewish life. Let them pray in Arizona; let them make that desert bloom and then we’ll put it in Mexico. Meanwhile, “the Arab masses must be given something” to bind them more deeply in love with their English enablers and masters: “give them the treasures and corpses of Jews” as was done from 1920-48 when Jews were forbidden to own or store arms and forbidden to serve in the police unless their main role was to inform on Jews who sought means to defend themselves and, how radical, “to defend my people and conquer the Homeland” [5]. And every time the Jews have conquered since 1947 when their tiny Underground, opposed not only but 100,000 British troops but all the informers, kidnappers, militia and media of the Yishuv, and the British-armed and trained armies of new-minted Arab States, the “world community” in its obsession for “peace” has pressed them, just as the local “sub-contractors” are employed to be pressed to unilaterally give away the parts of their homeland their soldiers have conquered against all odds.
And while the world’s pitiless robber-barons thinly disguised as peaceniks crank their media into a frenzy of Jew-hatred (‘criticism of Israel’) the establishment cries its old, old song: “but the arms are pure, pure, pure…” We live by the code of “sanctity of arms”; the “innocent civilians” that we feed, fuel and treat in our hospitals and who voted for those pledged to exterminate us must not be harmed, we agree, of course, we agree; are job is to dishearten our people and deny their heritage, in Hebron, Har HaZeitim, everywhere. And so the vicious farce grinds on toward the most horrific of redemptions, slow, jolting in its time (Isaiah 60:22)…
From 1943 to 2009 neither the tune nor script has changed and neither has the intended outcome: vilify the Jews and concentrate them ever more compactly on a bull’s eye. If in 1942-43 the Germans had driven out the British their retreat would have been covered by a army of Jews, loyal to their imperial enemy, “slaughtered except for the leaders who will be flown out at the last minute.” But the establishment thundered, “We will show them how loyal we are! We will respond with increased enlistment in their army…We know the regime [Mandatory regime, today, insert “Arabs,” or “Hamas,” or “the PLO, etc] is pushing us; it wants to provoke us” to leave the path of peace and havlaga;” but nothing will deter us from making more sacrifices for “peace.” Nothing has changed. Eldad comments: “the production of their excuses is the work of a creative genius”). “The enlistment was covered in powder and lipstick” and any Jewish action was “revenge a la Shushan, — by permission of the king” of the empire [6].
Back then an old transport ship, the Struma, loaded with about eight hundred Jewish refugees from Europe explodes and sinks in the Black Sea; Eldad believes it was torpedoed and doesn’t say who may have done the deed. But the responsibility is clear; so was the response of the Jews in the Land who had none to lead them for the true leaders were watched, followed, exposed, caught by the British, murdered sometimes in bed or with the arms raised or tied behind their back like poet and classics scholar, Avraham Stern. But Eldad knew that not only a hundred thousand Polish Betarim had been left behind while the British doled out a tiny quota of immigration “certificates” but that scores of thousands of youth in Eretz Israel were ready, after the Struma sank, and after the violence and degradation of the first arms searches “to open the ports to boatloads of refugees…thousands upon thousands of good, healthy young men and women are ready to burn down the High Commissioner’s castle with him in it. Revolution is in the air… But the Yishuv is in the hands of a fifth column which does the work of the British regime. The Jewish leadership blocks the [cleansing] anger and rage.” And so it is to this day.
“Where is the great director who will bring this whole grotesque drama to the stage,” the screams of the burning and the drowning” while HaShomer HaTzair [socialist] youth solicit pennies for the Jewish National Fund that decades later would, via the regime of undertakers alienate the Jewish bought, owned and paid for in blood and money to Arabs and where Arab towns and high rises are today on land, empty thirty years ago and owned by Jews is said to belong in the State of a non-existent people who have no history or language or anything but hate and the welfare they get from the West to murder Jews.
While the leaders of the regime enlist and “send thirty thousand Jewish men out of the country” to fight in the armies of their imperialist occupiers, oppressors and murderers, “thirty thousand cedars that could have undermined the British in one instant and gained four precious years” and millions of lives for the Jewish people, four years later little more than three thousand fighters from the Irgun and Lehi chased the British out and had the Hagana joined them, the victory of ’67 would have been won in ’48 as commander of the Palmach, Yigal Alon detailed in the early 1960s: “We were at the height of our victories, from the Litani River in the north to the heart of the Sinai desert. The country has remained divided because of operations that were disallowed and forbidden by the political leadership headed by Ben Gurion. The country has remained divided and its borders distorted…because of a political retreat” [7].
“The anger and the rage were there,” as early as 1943 Eldad wrote, “but a fifth column prevented its being used… Ben Gurion declared, ‘the differences between us and England over the White Paper [Jewish immigration] are not necessary differences. We believe that the renewal of true cooperation between us and the British Empire is a historical necessity.” Spoken like a true acolyte of the Round Table and its affiliated internationalist groups; spoken like a hireling at his best when establishing a spy state to suppress his own people on behalf of a genocidal foreign Empire.
Eldad notes, “Between the liberation of the Hebrew people and British imperialism there were no common interests [but] only conflict which was brought to a partial conclusion [in 1947-49] against the will of Ben Gurion and his associates. The common interests and cooperation between the British imperialist regime and the regime of Mapai and the Kibbutz sector and the Funds would have continued indefinitely” if not for the insane hatred of Jews, and of their sovereignty of those like Ernest Bevin (a charter member of the globalist, “Federal Union”) [8] and Anthony Eden. Indeed, it re-asserted itself before the war of independence was concluded, short-circuited the military victories and proceeded to play ball with the Anglo-American and other globalists to this bitter day, uprooting Jews from their homes and entire communities, alienating whole swaths of the Promised Land, putting Jews in an indefensible box. They even would have accepted “the truncated ghetto” Britain offered in “the Morrison Plan” in July 1946. The “toughest” prime minister of Israel, Golda Meyerson, begged the British to “guarantee” that Jews would not be attacked by Arabs; then, she pledged, the Jews would surrender all their arms and snuggle into the loving British embrace. Israel today, at its policy levels, differs only in details, not in substance from this pathetic and suicidal dependence; it collaborates with the goyim in destruction of its magnificent identity. Its client regime embraces and supports the fiction of the “non-nation” in order to bury the ancient nation whose revolutionary yet simple faith gives the lie to the power lust of modern oligarchs.
“So many strengths are sleeping embedded within us Jews. I want to see the symmetry of these strengths flowing together in a great collective current. I want to see in my lifetime a mighty, beautiful and good Hebrew King in Jerusalem…otherwise [we] are dead, dead, dead, with lives that evaporate into the void or nature…” [9]. Filling the void where the light of the Jewish people should be will be the baronial masters of a world state the powers have been putting into place with a century of war, contrived financial disaster, relentless diplomatic pressures and lies multiplied in millions by the mass media they own and whose editors and writers they instruct with the official “Newspeak” an ideological “bailout” that sinks the ship of a humane and abundant world.
Read the First Tithe and be informed and refreshed. Everything’s at stake and time is of the essence.
1. Nearly all the quoted material in this essay is from The First Tithe by Yisrael Eldad, a book absolutely essential for understanding what the British did, and the Jews mostly failed to do in the Land of Israel from 1938 –early 49 and, perhaps more vital, perceiving how these acts of commission and omission, these choices and the collaboration of the client regime already operated as a template for the events we have seen from 1948 until this day in February 2009, the same attitudes, excuses, lies and spin, betrayal of the best by the worst, imperial diktats and more. Israel Eldad, The First Tithe (1950 first Hebrew edition; 2nd edition 1963; first English edition 2008 by the Jabotinsky Institute, Tel Aviv, translation, Zev Golan). This is a must read for anyone wishing to understand what has been going on in Israel, and world geopolitics since 1938. Also get a complementary, sometimes more detailed but always more ‘apologetic’ view by the estimable Shmuel Katz, Days of Fire (NY, Doubleday 1968). Read these books and you will understand the history and the mountains of disinformation we have been fed, the murderous betrayal of Anglo-American ‘friendship’ for Israel and the Jews.
2. Bob Dylan, “Neighborhood Bully” on Infidels (NY Columbia Records, 1982); the other quotes, as noted are from Eldad’s The First Tithe pages 114-19.
3. A book of that title was published by Samuel Z. Batten (1919); another by H.G. Wells was written in 1939 and published early in 1940); it called for a “socialist world collective,” a global currency and an “international police force” with everyone else to be disarmed. The Carnegie Foundation for International Peace [sic] published a long list of lectures and essays on this topic in 1939-40 in a series titled “World Order” which of course was always justified by “peace” and which, by late 1942, when what was being done to the Jews became widely known was championed as the only way to be sure it would never happen again, although the same people making this point made sure that nothing was done to rescue the Jews in the meantime (with the partial exception of Hungary in summer 1944 when the limited rescue was led by an individual, Raoul Wallenberg, see David S. Wyman, The Abandonment of the Jews: American and the Holocaust, 1984; 1998). John Foster Dulles, Lionel Curtis, author of Civitas Dei an extension of Augustine’s De Civita Dei), Philip Kerr (Lord Lothian), William Paton, Alfred Toynbee, Frederick Hayek and the entire Protestant “ecumenical” movement were just a few of the major proponents of world government by 1940. Their numbers have grown and they are now running the affairs of the world, a terrifying new Malthusianism is the result, mass impoverishment, depression, collapse of borders, seizure of natural resources by Corporate Barons behind the fig leaf of the UN; and the chilling ‘suggestion’ from “Global Agenda 2009” meeting in Davos that human beings need a global media “to connect the world, telling us who we are and what we mean to each other.” It is come to this: the ‘plausible persons’ and constructed images on the screen show and tell us who we are: we are to await their model and instruction.
4. The First Tithe 69-70; unless otherwise noted, all quotes from this invaluable text.
5. The young Menachem Begin’s proposal for amending the Betar oath and hymn. See The First Tithe, 33; the term “sordid buccaneers” was used by Joseph Conrad to describe the ivory raiders in his novel, Heart of Darkness (1899 serialized, 1901 in book form).
6. Eldad, The First Tithe, 90-91, 113-16
7. Katz, Days of Fire 261-2
8. For the “Federal Union” its genesis, membership, clout and affiliation with the Round Table see Martin Erdman, Building the City of God on Earth (2005); for Anthony Eden and Bevin see Days of Fire and Wyman, supra, and Joan Peters, From Time Immemorial (1984; 2002) for extensive discussion.
9. The First Tithe, 98