By Douglas Reed
From The Controversy of Zion
From The Controversy of Zion
Then came the event which has produced such violent
results in our time: the Talmudic government moved into Christianized
Europe and established itself among peoples to whom the nature of its
dogma and its methods were strange and even incomprehensible. This led, in the
course of many centuries, to the recurrent clash of the alien ambition and
creed against native interest, which our century is again experiencing.
The nature of Westerners (more
especially in the northern latitudes) is to be candid, to declare purposes, and
to use words to express intention, and Christianity developed these native
traits.
The force which appeared among
them was of the opposite character, oriental, infinitely subtle,
secretive, conspiratorial, and practised in the use of language to disguise
real purposes. Therein lay its greatest strength in the encounter with the
West.
The removal to Europe came
about through the Islamic conquests. The Arabs, under the Prophet’s banner,
drove the Romans from Palestine. By this means the native inhabitants of
Palestine, who had inhabited it some two thousand years before the first Hebrew
tribes entered, became the rulers of their own country, and remained so for
nine hundred years (until 1517, when the Turks conquered it). An instructive
comparison may be made between the Islamic and the Judaic treatment of
captives:
The Caliph’s order to the Arab
conquerors in 637 AD was,
You shall
not act treacherously, dishonestly, commit any excess or mutilation, kill any
child or old man; cut or burn down palms or fruit trees, kill any sheep, cow or
camel, and shall leave alone those whom you find devoting themselves to worship
in their cells”.
Jehovah’s order, according
to Deuteronomy 20.16, is,
Of the
cities of these people, which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an
inheritance, thou shall save alive nothing that breatheth”.
From Palestine, Islam then
spread its frontiers right across North Africa, so that the great mass of Jews
came within the boundaries of the same external authority. Next, Islam turned
towards Europe and invaded Spain. Therewith the shadow of Talmudic Zionism fell
across the West.
The Moorish conquest
was “supported with both men and money” by the Jews, who as camp-followers were
treated with remarkable favour by the conquerors, city after city
being handed to their control! The Koran itself said,
Their aim
will be to abet disorder on the earth”;
the Islamic armies certainly
facilitated this aim.
Christianity thus became
submerged in Spain. In these propitious circumstances the Talmudic government
was transferred from Babylonia to Spain, and the process began, the results of
which have become apparent in our generation. Dr. Kastein says:
“Judaism,
dispersed as it was over the face of the globe, was always inclined to set up a
fictitious state in the place of the one that had been lost, and always aimed,
therefore, at looking to a common centre for guidance …
“This centre
was now held to be situated in Spain, whither the national hegemony was
transferred from the East. Just as Babylonia had providentially taken the place
of Palestine, so now Spain opportunely replaced Babylonia, which, as a
centre of Judaism, had ceased to be capable of functioning.
“All that
could be done there had already been accomplished; it had forged the chains
with which the individual could bind himself, to avoid being swallowed up by
his environment: the Talmud”.
The reader will observe the
description of events: “individuals” do not commonly bind themselves, of
choice, with chains forged for them. Anyway, the Jewish captivity was as close
as ever, or perhaps had been made closer. That was for the Jews to ponder.
What was to become of vital
importance to the West was that the Jewish government was now in
Europe. The directing centre and the destructive idea had both
entered the West.
The Talmudic government of the
nation-within-nations was continued from Spanish soil. The Gaonate issued its
directives; the Talmudic academy was established at Cordova; and sometimes, at
least, a shadowy Exilarch reigned over Jewry.
This was done under the
protection of Islam; the Moors, like Babylon and Persia before, showed
remarkable benevolence towards this force in their midst. To the Spaniards the
invader came to bear more and more a Jewish countenance and less and less a
Moorish one; the Moors had conquered, but the conqueror’s power passed into
Jewish hands. The story which the world had earlier seen enacted in Babylon,
repeated itself in Spain, and in later centuries was to be re-enacted in every
great country of the West.
The Moors remained in Spain
for nearly eight hundred years. When the Spanish reconquest, after this long
ordeal, was completed in 1492 the Jews, as well as the Moors, were expelled.
They had become identified with the invaders’ rule and were cast out when it
ended, as they had followed it in.
The “centre” of Talmudic
government was then transferred to Poland.
At that point, less than four
centuries before our own generation, a significant mystery enters the story of
Zion: why was the government set up in Poland? Up
to that stage the annals reveal no trace of any large migration of Jews to
Poland. The Jews who entered Spain with the Moors came from North Africa and
when they left most of them returned thither or went to Egypt, Palestine,
Italy, the Greek islands and Turkey. Other colonies had appeared in
France, Germany, Holland and England and these were enlarged by the arrival
among them of Jews from the Spanish Peninsula.
There is no record that any
substantial number of Spanish Jews went to Poland, or that any Jewish
mass-migration to Poland had occurred at any earlier time.
Yet in the 1500’s, when the
“centre” was set up in Poland, “a Jewish population of millions came
into being there “, according to Dr. Kastein. But populations of
millions do not suddenly “come into being”.
Dr. Kastein shows himself to
be aware that something needs explanation here, and to be reluctant to go into
it, for he dismisses the strange thing with the casual remark that the size of
this community, of which nothing has previously been heard, “was more due to
immigration,apparently from France, Germany and Bohemia, than
to any other cause”. He does not explain what other cause he might
have in mind and, for a diligent scholar, is on this one occasion strangely
content with a random surmise.
But when a Zionist historian
thus slurs over something the seeker after knowledge may be fairly sure that
the root of the matter may by perseverance be found.
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