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In Haaretz:

Opposition leader Tzipi Livni on Tuesday urged Sweden’s foreign minister, Carl Bildt, to abandon an EU plan to issue an official call for the division of Jerusalem between Israel and the Palestinians.

“I wish to convey my deep concern regarding what appears to be an attempt to prejudge the outcome of issues reserved for permanent status negotiations,” Livni, a former foreign minister, wrote to Bilt.

Livni sent the letter in response to Haaretz’s report that EU foreign ministers are expected to call next week for Jerusalem to be divided, in order to serve as the capitals of both Israel and a future Palestinian state.

A draft document authored by Sweden, the current holder of the rotating EU presidency, implies that the EU would also recognize a unilateral Palestinian declaration of statehood.

This is bizarre.  What possible business is it of the EU to interfere with local politics in the middle-east, let alone within the sovereign state of Israel?   I am not Jewish as far as I know and looking at my background, I was probably more likely to be anti-Jewish, particularly given my experiences but I can recognize real prejudice when I see it.

Now the anti-Muslim feeling in Switzerland does balance that a bit and it’s quite easy to see why the opposition.  The Muslims are making a quite open power play in trying to take over the west, it’s not even a question in dispute and there are many blogs around exposing them.

However, the very old, even ancient anti-Jewish feeling which culminated in the holocaust is incredibly deep in Europe.  In a society such as Australia, where everyone’s all egalitarian and the old prejudices are supposedly only found in immigrants, the World Religion which grips the whole world at this time – pro-Palestine, anti-Israel, anti-America, PC, feminist, multicultural relativist, post-modern, gay mafia, pro-narcotics, anti-patriotism, pro-Statist, atheist – this religion has also gripped Australians and is reinforced by the media.

There’s such a piece in the Guardian at the moment by some person called Sue Blackmore, trotting out the same deceptively worded line of the World Religion.  It comes up in Australian newspapers too at intervals and is always done as an opinion piece, never allowing replies.  The Guardian, Britain’s leftist paper, allows comments, knowing they’ll get all the atheists in there, which in a quick perusal of comments on that article, they do get.

What’s behind the feeling in Europe which gave rise to Hitler and the neo-Nazis?  Unfortunately, you’re not going to get an unbiased answer.  The anti-semites disguise their articles as balanced and have innocuous, even learned titles.  The pro-Jewish ones proclaim that they are.  The Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs says:

The European Union’s attitude toward anti-Semitism is double-handed. With one hand, by its discriminatory anti-Israeli declarations, the EU plays the role of arsonist, fanning the flames of anti-Semitism.

With the other, it also serves as fireman by trying, at the same time, to quench the flames of classic religious and ethnic anti-Semitism. France is paradigmatic of this attitude.

The Trotskites say:

Aside from a short statement or two dealing with the concrete problem of Jewish immigration, and a rather long and abstract article on Palestine by T. Cliff, the Fourth International and The Militant in this country, as well as the press of other Trotskyist organizations, have refrained from comment on the Jewish question on the ground that there is really nothing different to say about this complicated international problem from what has already been said for dozens of years.

That is, until the Fourth International reprinted an essay by Ernest Germain entitled The Jewish Question Since World War II. This essay first appeared as the concluding chapter of the late A. Leon’s book, The Materialist Conception of the Jewish Question.

Essentially, as communists tend to go on and on, the argument was that the position of most European governments was to allow the Jews to assimilate and that they did this in the higher societies, that is the despicable capitalist imperialist warmonger pigdog societies of western Europe.

Hitler’s little jaunt had the Jews wanting to go to Palestine but the 4th International wasn’t having that as its position was:

“The very fate of the Jews in Europe was determined as much by the calculations of American imperialists as by the direct massacres of Hitler … If Hitler constructed the trap for the Jews, it was the Anglo-Americans who sprang it, The blood of the innocent falls upon their heads as well as upon the Nazis.”

and:

The Jews cannot live in Europe. They must leave. However, there is no place for them to go. The brutality of the conditions they experience daily and their homelessness has resulted in their universal desire to go to Palestine. Therefore we are for opening the doors of the whole, world – five continents, no less, Africa included – but … not Palestine!

So, according to the communists, all men are equal and should have equal opportunities, equal wages and so on but not the Jews.  The resurgent Jewish nationalism is to be extinguished at all costs.  The “Jewish Problem” is a complicated one.

Hmmmmm.  A more rabid Jewish-Marxist put it this way, shortly before the Nazis murdered him in 1942:

Capitalism has posed the Jewish problem, that is to say, it has destroyed the social bases upon which Judaism maintained itself for centuries. But capitalism has not resolved the Jewish problem, for it has been unable to absorb the Jew liberated from his social shell.

The decline of capitalism has suspended the Jews between heaven and earth. The Jewish “precapitalist” merchant has largely disappeared, but his son has found no place in modern production. The social basis of Judaism has crumbled; Judaism has become largely a declassed element. Capitalism has not only doomed the social function of the Jews; it has also doomed the Jews themselves.

Petty-bourgeois ideologists are always inclined to raise a historical phenomenon into an eternal category. For them the Jewish question is a function of the Diaspora; only the concentration of the Jews in Palestine can resolve it.

For a look at the general view, Greek Nationalist Theodorakis says:

From where I stand, this is a sublimation of the old anti-semitism and the focus of the anti-semitic view now is that Israel supports the U.S. official position, the U.S. under Bush are [were] warmongers, ipso facto the Jews are warmongers.

You’ll see the flaws in Theodorakis’s stance.  “Can do as they want.”  How?  Do what?  Not specified.   Is this an Obama “yes we can”?   Masochists?  There is no anti-semitism?  Interesting.   Did you watch the Beeb’s coverage of Arafat’s death over several days, with the weeping and gnashing of teeth but Sharon’s was mentioned, that’s all?

The anti-semitism is so deep-rooted in Europe and came out in publications as diverse as the Merchant of Venice and the hoax Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Though a hoax in themselves, who’s to say there isn’t a Jewish conspiracy?   After all, the Rothschilds are Jews but there are Jews and Jews and this is where the confusion lies.

A semi-secular family living in Tel Aviv is a far cry from rabid, semi-demonic Kabbalists, beloved of Guy Ritchie’s ex, Madonna.  Both groups are Jewish.

The Masonic Illuminists are a useful path of exploration; ex-illuminist Svali said, in 2000:

The Illuminati is a group that practises a form of faith known as “enlightenment”. It is Luciferian, and they teach their followers that their roots go back to the ancient mystery religions of Babylon, Egypt, and Celtic druidism.

They have taken what they consider the “best” of each, the foundational practices, and joined them together into a strongly occult discipline. Many groups at the local level worship ancient deities such as “El”, “Baal”, and “Ashtarte”, as well as “Isis and Osiris” and “Set”.

The Freemasons and the Illuminati are hand in glove. I don’t care if this steps on any toes, it’s a fact. The Masonic temple at Alexandria, Virginia (the city itself was named after Alexandria, Egypt, and is a hotbed of Illuminati activity) is a center in the Washington, DC area for Illuminati scholarship and teaching. I was taken there at intervals for testing, to step up a level, for scholarship, and high ceremonies. The leaders in this Masonic group were also Illuminists.

This has been true of every large city I have lived in.

On the UN:

The UN was created early in this century in order to help overcome one of the biggest barriers to a one world government necessary, if there is to be a military rule and dictatorship by the Illuminists. That barrier is the one of nationalism, or pride in one’s country. FDR was their man in America who helped the American public accept it).

On the Jews:

The conflict in the middle east is only to the advantage of the Illuminists. They HATE Israel, and hope one day to see it destroyed, and are biding their time. One of the olive branches offered by the UN when it takes over is that they will prevent war in the middle east, and this will be greeted with joy by many.

According to her, this is the Illuminist dogma as taught to members [remember that this was said in an interview in 2000]:

There will be continued conflict in the Middle East, with a severe threat of nuclear war being the culmination of these hostilities. An economic collapse that will devastate the economy of the US and Europe, much like the great depression.

One reason that our economy continues limping along is the artificial support that the Federal Reserve had given it, manipulating interest rates, etc. But one day, this won’t work (or this leverage will be withdrawn on purpose) and the next great depression will hit. The government will call in its bonds and loans, and credit card debts will be called in.

There will be massive bankruptcies nationwide. Europe will stabilize first and then Germany, France and England will have the strongest economies, and will institute, through the UN, an international currency. Japan will also pull out, although their economy will be weakened.

Peacekeeping forces will be sent out by the UN and local bases to prevent riots. The leaders will reveal themselves, and people will be asked to make a pledge of loyalty during a time of chaos and financial devastation. Doesn’t sound pleasant, does it? I don’t know the exact time frame for all of this, and wouldn’t want to even guess.

The good news is that if a person is debt-free, owes nothing to the government or credit debt, and can live self sufficiently, they may do better than others. I would invest in gold, not stocks, if I had the income. Gold will once again be the world standard, and dollars will be pretty useless.

Obviously I can’t comment on the veracity of that but anyone can see that for a Year 2000 statement, when the U.S. dollar looked more than safe, it’s turned out quite accurately.

However, the scope of this article is the anti-semitism.  Have I got any closer to the source of it?  Dare I go any further down the bizarre path that this thing has historic-religious roots, with Judaeo-Christianity on one side and all the pantheistic, occult, new age, pagan and ancient occult religions on the other?

Beneath the surface of public life, how many times do such things bubble to the surface.  Bloggers who confine themselves to the issues of the day nevertheless, around High Day time, start coming out with wishing people a Happy Samhain and posting vids of the demonic as lovable Hallowe’en hijinx.  i come out with Christian apologetics from time to time.  Certain bloggers go apoplectic when I do that and threaten never to comment on religion at this blog again.

My question is, “Why?”   It seems that there is a lot of the non-material lurking below the surface so perhaps that Blackmore woman’s piece in the socialist rag the Guardian was apt, if confused and blurring distinctions – how to stamp out “religion”?

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