Thursday, February 6, 2025

Jewish Invention Myths: Krav Maga

 

Source: https://www.renegadetribune.com/jewish-invention-myths-krav-maga/

 

by Karl Radl

 

At the risk of repeating myself on the subject of so-called ‘Jewish Inventions’ I’d like to do something of a reprise since the claim that jews invented ‘physical exercise’ – in reality the author means the ‘Israeli martial art’ of Krav Maga – has reared its head again and my original article on it not flagged as a ‘Jewish Invention’ myth. (1)

 

Now ‘Kosherica’ claims the following:

 

‘12. Physical exercise

 

Not unlike eastern or Russian Martial Arts, Israel developed one of its own. It’s called Krav Maga, and many of my friends are devout practitioners. It’s powerful and was developed for the Israeli army making it a serious workout. Feldenkreis is a method developed for perfect posture, effecting the inner organs and general feeling of the body and mind. It’s gentle and to my mind, even more powerful in it’s quiet way than the rambunctious Martial arts, Israeli or otherwise. Acting and Ballet schools include it in their curriculum since it’s body enhancing and elongates the spine, often preventing spine curvature that comes with age. Feldenkreis practitioners look younger and their stature tends to be more regal.’ (2)

 

Now as we can see ‘Kosherica’ is claiming that Krav Maga is an ‘Israeli creation’ and ‘widely used’ around the world but this claim about Krav Maga is – in my estimation – one of the foundation myths of Israel as Roger Garaudy famously put it. It forms a key part of Israel’s Hasbara efforts by leveraging its status as a supposedly ‘deadly’ martial art and then introducing pro-Israel talking points and creating sympathy for the jewish state.

 

The interesting thing about Krav Maga is it’s rather… shall we say… dubious ‘jewish origins’ story.

 

The British Krav Maga Association summary of this is useful to quote in order to understand this:

 

‘Krav maga is a hybrid military self-defence system from Israel. The system of Krav Maga was founded by Imi Lichtenfeld and was based upon Imi’s own street fighting experiences in 1930’s Bratislava (part of modern Slovenia). Imi acquired a good deal of street fighting experience whilst attempting to defend the Jewish quarter of Bratislava from fascist groups.

 

The unprecedented level of violence experienced by the Jewish population at this time is hard for us to comprehend today. Shootings, clubbing and stabbing of the Jewish populace were commonplace and unpunished. For some these acts were considered patriotic and celebrated.

 

After a number of serious run in’s with local fascist groups, Imi became of interest to the authorities and recognised that his chances of survival were getting slim. Imi fled Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia and arrived in Israel in 1942 where he joined the Czech legion of the British Army fighting Nazi’s. Later, before Israel’s independence from Britain, he began teaching close quarters combat to Israel’s first fighting units the Haganah.’ (3)

 

The Brazilian Krav Maga Association’s website explains this story in greater detail:

 

‘Born in 26 of May of 1910 in Budapest, which was located at the center of Austro-Hungarian Empire, Imi was raised in Bratislava, the capital city of Slovakia.

 

His family education was based in sports, law and medicine. His father, Samuel, was the chief of the local secret service and was known as the agent who caught the most criminals. Besides this, he was also an instructor for grappling techniques in the secret police.

 

With his father s incentive, Imi practiced many different sports. Between 1928 and 1929, he won many European wrestling championships and in that year he became a boxing champion.

 

In the following decade, Imi focused his training as a wrestling athlete and instructor, winning many medals in national and international competitions. Ever since the mid-thirties, life in Bratislava was not the same anymore. Fascist groups slowly won political ground, therefore, changing the life in that country. Imi then became the leader of a resistance group that fought the Fascists groups. Between the years of 1936 and 1940, he participated in countless missions and violent confrontations, being alone or in a team. Imi and his colleagues fought hundreds, thousands of enemies in a cruel and unfair war. All of these events and personal experiences resulted in the strengthening of his body and spirit, preparing him for the events yet to come, and planting the seeds that germinated, resulting in the creation of Krav Maga.

 

In 1940, Imi left his homeland, his family and friends and boarded the last ship that managed to flee from the Nazis. It was nothing more than a simple raft, called “Pentcho”, which was adapted to transport hundreds of people who left Europe with Israel as their final destination. The stories of this raft and its passengers became famous, and were described in the book “The Odyssey”, written by John Birman.

 

The “Odyssey” of Imi lasted 2 years, during which, in many occasions, he jumped in the water to save the lives of passengers or a valuable bag of food in the frozen Danube River. These “adventures” gave him a strong ear infection that almost led him to death. After an explosion at the gas tank of the ship, which happened near the coast of the Greek Islands, his help was requested. After four days and nights of great effort, Imi was taken in a terrible health condition to Alexandria, where he underwent many surgeries.

 

Recovered, he joined the Czech Army that fought together with the British Army. And it was in this way that he fought in the middle-east, in combats in Libya, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt. In the year of 1942, he then retired from the army and received a license to live in Israel, where a new phase of his life would begin.

 

His arrival in the State of Israel meant for Imi only one more step in his path. But without him noticing, this “small” step would be a landmark that would influence and guide the story of the Jews in the State of Israel. Already at this time, in mid-1942, there were defense movements, based in three groups: Haganah, Hetzel and Lehi. They fought to assure the survival of the people in that region, mostly against the “Fedanin” attacks, which were gangs of Muslim criminals who pillaged, kidnapped and killed with cruelty, not for need, but just for fun. In the Haganah defense group, which was the largest organization among the three, Imi met some of his old colleagues and pupils from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. They readily introduced Imi to the Haganah chief, Yitzhak Sadeh, who immediately appointed Imi as the one responsible for physical conditioning

 

Imi privately taught the elite groups of Haganah and Palmah, and among these the “P.A.L.I.A.M.”. This last one, years later, became the base for the creation of the elite groups of Israeli Armed Forces. With the creation of the State of Israel, Imi joined the “Tzahal” and became the head instructor of physical conditioning and Krav Maga. This work began only in the army, and later spread to the school of physical conditioning of all the Armed Forces. During the following 20 years, Imi improved his special technique of self-defense and face-to-face combat.’ (4)

 

Notice that there is a significant gap in the narrative between 1940 and 1942 – when Imi Lichtenfeld was allegedly making his way down the Danube in raft to Greece and then somehow got Palestine by the middle of 1942. Only for Yitzhak Sadeh – a former sergeant in the Russian army – to appoint Imi as the head of Physical Conditioning of the Haganah and we are then told that Imi taught ‘elite groups’ of the Haganach and Palmach something and it is implied – although not explicitly stated – that this was Krav Maga, which they then used in combat.

 

The key here is: what is the something that Imi was teaching them?

 

Was it Krav Maga as these two sources seek to imply?

 

This is unlikely precisely because while Imi had experience in wrestling, boxing and little bit of street fighting by 1940. It is freely admitted by the source material that the reality of combat and fighting was simply out of his league between the supposed formative years of Krav Maga in 1936-1940. This also nicely rules out Imi’s secret policeman father as the source for Imi’s knowledge of martial arts and actual combat.

 

The truth is hinted at by Isabel Kershner in the New York Times when she bows to Krav Maga’s origins myth by writing that:

 

‘Imi Lichtenfeld was born in 1910 in Hungary and reached adulthood in Bratislava, in what was then Czechoslovakia. The son of a police detective who also ran a wrestling club, Mr. Lichtenfeld excelled in various athletic disciplines and is said to have developed his street fighting and mixed martial arts skills to protect his community from attacks by anti-Semites and marauding fascists.’ (5)

 

Yet then goes on to explain that:

 

‘Mr. Lichtenfeld set off for the British Mandate of Palestine in 1940, and he began training the Zionist forces in skills like stick fighting and bayonet tactics.

 

After the state of Israel was established in 1948, he became the Israeli military’s close quarters combat chief. The system has since evolved into a vital component of Israeli combat training. Elite forces endure many hours of intense coaching. There is no competitive Krav Maga circuit, because the idea is to break all the rules, not play by them, although the army did institute an annual Krav Maga contest a few years ago.’ (6)

 

So where had Imi learned ‘bayonet tactics’ as this requires standard infantry training?

 

Maybe the British-trained Free Czech Legion that Imi joined in North Africa in 1942?

 

When we further note Kershner words that Krav Maga is about ‘breaking all the rules’ then it is obvious enough that the source of Krav Maga is the British fighting system Defendu aka ‘All-in Fighting’ that was first systemised by a British police officer (and later Lt. Colonel training the trainers of anti-Axis guerrillas and espionage units) named William Fairbairn in 1926.

 

Defendu shares both Krav Maga’s defensive focus and was the only system of martial arts at the time that encouraged its students to ‘break all the rules’. The fact that Imi’s Krav Maga is so close to Defendu and that we know British troops trained jewish guerrillas to fight with them against the Axis powers suggests that it is the origin of Imi’s sudden knowledge of a martial arts system he called Krav Maga. (7)

 

It is thus no surprise to discover that modern adherents and teachers of Defendu rather pointedly explain that Krav Maga is just a modified form of Fairbairn’s system.

 

To quote the ‘Defendo Alliance’:

 

‘The Krav Maga founder fled from Bratislava during the German occupation in 1940, to escape to Palestine. South Africa called when the Free Czech Legion team went to the British protectorate, and in 1942 with the State of Israels armed organization, the Haganah was in superannuation. During this time, the British armed forces instructors trained members of the Haganah and the armed struggle began. The British instructor taught Imi Defendo, so it is likely that this knowledge was the basis for the future Krav Maga. Starting from 1944 Imi has also participated in the Haganah, Palmach, Pal-yam soldier- and a number of police trainings. 1948, after the formation of the IDF, the Israel Defense Forces, the British withdrew from the already established Jewish state and we can talk about the territorial divisions of the two systems.’ (8)

 

It is difficult not to agree with this analysis of the situation in so far as the traditional origins myth of Krav Maga has Imi create the system ex nihilo and therefore it is a ‘jewish invention for a jewish state’ if you will.

 

This cannot be true, because whatever else Imi may have been. He simply didn’t have the knowledge let alone the combat and street fighting experience necessary to create such a system, but if he was taught an existing system by the British – who we know gave him military training – and then rebranded it as his own ‘jewish fighting system’. It would make sense of the rather gaping holes in Krav Maga’s origins myth as well as explain the close similarity between Krav Maga and Fairbairn’s Defendu.

 

So, in essence Imi Lichtenfeld was trained in Defendu by the British army, rebranded what he was taught as his own creation called ‘Krav Maga’ and then taught it in turn to other Zionist jews, which in turn led to it being integrated into the early IDF.

 

So, no Krav Maga was not ‘invented’ by jews but rather by Lt. Colonel William Fairbairn in 1926 as Defendu then Krav Maga’s jewish ‘creator’ Imi Lichtenfeld simply renamed Defendu as Krav Maga and claimed to have ‘invented it’.

 

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References

 

(1) See my article: https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/the-non-jewish-origins-of-krav-maga

 

(2) https://kosherica.com/10-awesome-israeli-inventions/

 

(3) https://britishkravmagaassociation.co.uk/short-history-krav-maga.html

 

(4) http://www.kravmaga.com.br/languages/eua/?id=o-criador

 

(5) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/30/world/middleeast/israel-krav-maga.html

 

(6) Ibid.

 

(7) Simon Anglim, 2010, ‘Orde Wingate and the British Army 1922-1944’, 1st Edition, Routledge: New York, pp. 70-74; 118-119

http://www.britishforcesinpalestine.org/attacks.html; also http://www.defendo.us/defendo/defendo-and-krav-maga.html

 

(8) http://www.defendo.us/defendo/defendo-and-krav-maga.html

 

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Monday, February 3, 2025

Jewish Invention Myths: Solar Power

 

Source: https://www.renegadetribune.com/jewish-invention-myths-solar-power/

 

by Karl Radl

 

Once again, we have another ridiculous ‘Jewish Invention’ claim by the jewish website ‘Kosherica’ where they claim that jews invented ‘solar energy’.

 

They write that:

 

‘10. Solar Energy

 

Solar Energy by Pythagoras solar, does the same thing for heat and uses the sun for energy and warmth, while saving on the cost of conventional means. Their unique invention of a glass panel generates power, is also transparent, therefore can be integrated into construction and building.’ (1)

 

Now what ‘Kosherica’ is describing is solar panels and/or the use of the suns rays to generate energy and/or heat and then claiming by necessary implication – it is a list of ‘jewish inventions’ after all – that jews invented the ability to generate/harness that energy and/or heat.

 

This as you probably can guess is complete and utter nonsense.

 

The first use of solar energy is usually dated to the seventh century B.C. by the ancient Greeks and the classical Greeks and Romans were using mirrors to light torches for religious purposes in the third century B.C., while in the second century B.C. the Greek inventor Archimedes set fire to Roman ships in the bay outside the walls of the Sicilian Greek city of Syracuse and from the first to fourth centuries A.D. (2)

 

Indeed, if we fast forward to the creation of the first solar panels, we come to the American inventor Charles Fritts who built and then installed the world’s first rooftop photovoltaic solar array on a roof in New York City in 1883. (3) Indeed, American satellites were fitted with solar panels from circa 1957! (4)

 

So no jews and the Israelis didn’t invent or even particularly contribute to the development of solar power!

 

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References

 

(1) https://kosherica.com/10-awesome-israeli-inventions/

 

(2) https://www1.eere.energy.gov/solar/pdfs/solar_timeline.pdf

 

(3) https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20170525170459/https://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/31/photovoltaic-dreaming-first-attempts-commercializing-pv/

 

(4) https://web.archive.org/web/20150321054447/http://code8100.nrl.navy.mil/about/heritage/vanguard.htm

 

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Thursday, January 30, 2025

Adolf Hitler – Radio Address to the German Folk, 30 January 1945


January 30, 1945

 

German Volksgenossen! National Socialists!

 

When, twelve years ago, the now deceased Reich president von Hindenburg entrusted me, as the leader of the strongest party, with the chancellorship, Germany faced the same situation at home as it does today abroad with regard to international politics. Initiated and carried out according to plan through the Treaty of Versailles, the process of the economic destruction and annihilation of the democratic republic led to a situation that was slowly being regarded as permanent: nearly seven million unemployed, seven million part-time workers, ruined peasants, destroyed trade, and a corresponding breakdown of commerce. The German ports were only ship cemeteries. The financial situation of the Reich threatened at any moment to lead to the collapse not only of the nation, but also of the Lander [provinces] and the [local] communities. However, what was decisive was the following: behind this systematic economic destruction of Germany was the spectre of Asian Bolshevism, just as today. And just as on a large scale today, the bourgeois world on a much smaller scale was completely incapable, in the years before our seizure of power, of effectively opposing this development.

 

Even after the collapse of the year 1918, it was still not recognized that an old world was passing away and a new world was being born. It was not a question of supporting by all means what had become decayed or rotten and artificially preserving it, but a question of the necessity of replacing it with something visibly healthy. A bygone social order had broken down, and any attempt to maintain it was bound to fail. Thus, it was no different from what is happening now on a large scale, when likewise, the bourgeois states are doomed and only Volksgemeinschaften which possess a clear orientation and are ideologically fortified have a chance of surviving this gravest European crisis in many centuries.

 

We were granted only six years of peace after January 30, 1933. In these six years, we secured so many tremendous accomplishments and planned even greater ones; so many and such great things that we all the more elicited the envy of our democratic, good-for-nothing surrounding world.

 

What was decisive, however, was that we succeeded with superhuman efforts in these six years in reorganizing the defence of the German Volkskorper, which meant not so much giving it the material military strength as the spiritual power of resistance necessary for self-assertion.

 

The gruesome fate which is today overwhelming the east and which exterminates tens and hundreds of thousands of human beings in villages and market towns, in the countryside and in the cities, will, with the utmost effort, be parried and overcome by us, despite all setbacks and severe trials. If this is at all possible, then it is because, since the year 1933, an inner change has taken place in the German Volk. If a Germany of the Treaty of Versailles still existed today, Europe would long have been swept away by the Central Asian floods.

 

There is no need to discuss this with blockheads who will never die out and who are of the opinion that a defenceless Germany would not have become the victim of this Jewish-international world conspiracy because of its impotence.

 

That is nothing other than turning the laws of nature upside down! Since when does the fox not kill the defenceless goose just because the goose is not aggressive by nature, and since when does a wolf become a pacifist because sheep do not wear armour? That-as I said earlier-there are bourgeois sheep who believe that nonsense in all earnestness just proves how necessary it was to eliminate an era whose educational system was capable of breeding such personalities, sustaining them, and granting them political influence. Long before National Socialism came to power, a merciless fight against this Jewish- Asiatic Bolshevism was already raging. If it did not invade Europe as early as the years 1919–1920, it failed only because it was too weak at the time and too poorly armed. Its attempt to eliminate Poland was not abandoned because of compassion for the Polish, but because of the lost battle of Warsaw. Its intention to destroy Hungary was never realized, not because it reconsidered but because the Bolshevik force could not be sustained militarily. Likewise the attempt to shatter Germany was not abandoned because its success was no longer desired, but because it was not possible to eliminate the rest of our Volk’s natural will to resist. Jewry then immediately started the systematic breakdown of our Volk. By so doing, it found the best allies in those stubborn citizens who did not wish to admit that the age of the bourgeois world was over and would never return, that the epoch of unrestrained economic liberalism belonged to the past and could only lead to collapse, that the great tasks of the present can only be managed by the authoritarian, concentrated strength of the nation based on the law of equal rights for all and resulting equal duties, which, in turn, means that the fulfilment of these equal duties will inevitably lead to equal rights.

 

Thus, National Socialism, in the midst of a gigantic economic, social, and cultural reconstruction, gave the German Volk an armament, particularly in terms of education, that alone was suited to be transformed into military values.

 

The power of resistance of our nation has grown so tremendously since January 30, 1933, that it can no longer be compared with the earlier epoch. To maintain this inner power of resistance is therefore the surest guarantor of the final victory! If today Europe is the victim of a serious illness, then the affected states will either have to overcome it by summoning their entire and utmost power of resistance, or they will be doomed. But the convalescent, that is the survivor, overcomes the climaxes of such an illness only in a crisis that greatly weakens him. It is therefore all the more our unchanging will not to shrink from anything in this struggle to rescue our Volk from this most gruesome fate of all time, and to obey steadfastly and loyally the commandment of the preservation of our nation. The Almighty has created our Volk. By defending its existence, we defend His creation. That this defence is connected with nameless misfortune, suffering, and pain without equal, lets us become all the more attached to this Volk. However, it also lets us gain that hardness which is necessary for doing our duty even at the worst crisis points. This means not only our duty toward the decent, eternal Germany, but also our duty toward those few men without honour who divorce themselves from their Volk.

 

Therefore, there is only one commandment for us in this fateful struggle: Who fights honourably can save his own life and that of his loved ones; who attacks the nation from behind, as a spineless coward, will under any circumstances die a shameful death. That National Socialism has awakened and reinforced this spirit in our German Volk is its greatest accomplishment. Once the bells of peace ringing out after this mighty international drama has subsided, then people will realize what the German Volk owes to this spiritual rebirth: it is no less than its existence in this world.

 

A few months and weeks ago, the Allied statesmen still spoke openly about Germany’s fate. Then a few papers admonished them that it would be wiser if they would rather make promises, even though there was no intention of keeping these promises. As a relentless National Socialist and fighter for my Volk, I would like to assure these other statesmen once and for all at this hour that any attempt to impress National Socialist Germany with phrases of Wilson’s type assumes a naivete that the present Germany does not know.

 

However, it is not at all important that in the democracies political activities and lies go hand in hand. What is important is that any promise these statesmen give a nation is completely insignificant today, because they are no longer in a position to follow through on any such assurance. That is no different from one sheep’s assuring another that it will protect it against the tiger. In opposition to that I repeat my prophesy: Not only will England not be in a position to tame Bolshevism, but its own development will follow the inevitable course of this degenerative disease. The democracies can no longer get rid of the spirits they themselves have summoned up from the steppes of Asia.

 

All the small European nations which capitulated trusting in the Allied assurances are heading for their complete extermination. Whether they meet this fate earlier or later is-in view of its inevitability-completely without significance. The Kremlin Jews are moved exclusively by tactical considerations in their decisions to proceed with brute force in one case and temporary restraint in the other. The end will always be the same.

 

Germany will never suffer this fate! The victory gained twelve years ago in the interior of our country guarantees this. Whatever our enemies may come up with, whatever suffering they may cause the German cities, the German landscapes, and above all our people, pales in comparison with the incorrigible misery and misfortune that would hit all of us, should the plutocratic-Bolshevik conspiracy win. It is, therefore, all the more necessary on the twelfth anniversary of the seizure of power to make one’s heart stronger than ever before, and to harden oneself in the sacred resolve to take up arms, no matter where, no matter under what circumstances, until victory finally crowns our efforts. On this day, I would like to leave no doubt about one other thing: in spite of a hostile environment, at one time in the past I chose my way in the depth of my being, and I followed this path as an unknown, nameless man, up to the final victory. Often proclaimed dead and always wished dead, at long last I was the victor! My present life is likewise being exclusively determined by the duties incumbent on me.

 

Together, they amount to only one duty, namely, to work for my Volk and to fight for it. Only He can absolve me from this duty who has called on me to take it on. It was in Providence’s hands to eliminate me through the bomb that went off only one-and-a-half meters away from me on July 20 and, thereby, to end my life’s work. That the Almighty protected me on that day is something I regard as a confirmation of the mission I was assigned. I will therefore continue in the coming years to follow the path of the uncompromising representation of the interests of my Volk, ignoring all need and danger, and filled with the sacred conviction that the Almighty will in the end not abandon him who wanted nothing other all his life than to spare his Volk a fate it never deserved in terms of its numbers and significance.

 

I therefore appeal in this hour to the entire German Volk, but especially to my old comrades in arms and all soldiers who are at its head, to arm themselves with an even greater, hardened spirit of resistance, until, as once before, we can lay on the grave of the dead of this mighty struggle a wreath with a bow inscribed: But you have triumphed in the end! I expect every German therefore to fulfil his duty to the utmost, and to take on every sacrifice that will be and must be demanded of him. I expect of every healthy man that he risk life and limb in this battle. I expect every ill, infirm, or otherwise indispensable man to work with the utmost effort. I expect the inhabitants of the cities to forge the weapons for this fight, and I expect every farmer to give bread to the soldiers and workers of this fight by limiting his own consumption as much as possible. I expect all women and girls to support this fight with the utmost zeal, as they have done up to now. I turn to the German youth with particular confidence. By forming such a committed community, we have the right to step before the Almighty and ask Him for His mercy and blessings. After all, a nation cannot do more than this: those who can fight, fight; those who can work, work; and all come together to sacrifice with only one thought in mind: to secure freedom, national honour, and a future for life.

 

No matter how grave the crisis may be at this moment, we will overcome it in the end, in spite of everything, thanks to our unchangeable will, our readiness to sacrifice, and our abilities. We will survive this misery. In this fight, too, it is not Central Asia that will win but Europe! And at its head will be the one nation which, for one-and-a-half millennia, has represented Europe as its hegemonic power against the east and will represent it in the future: our Greater German Reich, the German nation!

Monday, January 27, 2025

The Jewish Religion – Part II

Part II

 

„The sources of our knowledge of the kabalistic doctrines are the books of Yetzirah and Zohar, the former drawn up in the second century, and the latter a little later; but they contain materials much older than themselves... In them, as in the teachings of Zoroaster, everything that exists emanates from a source of infinite Light.“ (Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma).


„Alexandria, newly built, was colonized by the Jews, who came in crowds to people the new town. The result was a mixture of men of different nations and religions, who gave rise to several philosophical and religious associations. Platonism was publicly taught by the Greeks in Alexandria, it was eagerly received by the Alexandrian Jews, who communicated it to the Jews of Judea and Palestine...In Egypt and Judea, before the commencement of Christianity the philosophy of Pythagoras and Plato had thrust deep roots among the Jews, which gave rise to the dogmas of the Essenes, Therapeuts, Sadducees, Carpocratians, Cabalistic-Gnostics, Basilideans, and Manichaeans; all these dogmatists adapted part of the doctrine of the Egyptian Magi and Priests of the above philosophy. They spread in time into Asia, Africa, and Europe. These different Jews preserved the mysteries of the Temple of Solomon with the allegory of the Grand Architect, who was the Jewish Messiah, an idea still preserved by the Jew today.“ (Reghellini de Schio, in 1833).


„Judaism: Judaism denotes the Jewish faith in its extravagant form of blind attachment to rites and traditions, and national exclusiveness. This must have been prevalent in the time of Christ, because of His constant exposure of their formalism and self-assumption, and because in John's Gospel 'the Jews' is used as synonymous with opposers of Christ and His teachings.“ (The Popular and Critical Bible Encyclopedia, Vol. II, (1901), p. 999).


„Judaism was not a religion but a law.“ (Moses Mendeissohn, The Jewish Plato).


„When only Jews are present we admit that Satan is our god.“ (Harold Rosenthal, former administrative aide to Sen. Jacob Javits, in a recorded interview).


„It is the Jew who lies when he swears allegiance to another faith; who becomes a danger to the world.“ (Rabbi Stephen Wise, New York Tribune, March 2, 1920).


„The principal characteristic of the Jewish religion consists in its being alien to the Hereafter, a religion, as it were, solely and essentially worldly. (Werner Sombart, Les Juifs et la vie économique, p. 291).


„Man can only experience good or evil in this world; if God wishes to punish or reward he can only do so during the life of man. it is therefore here below that the just must prosper and the impious suffer.“ (Kadmi Kohen: Nomades, F. Alcan, Paris, 1929 p. 277; The Secret Powers Behind Revolution, by Vicomte Leon De Poncins, p. 164).


„To his unsociability the Jew added exclusiveness. Without the Law, without Judaism to practice it, the world would not exist, God would make it return again into a state of nothing; and the world will not know happiness until it is subjected to the universal empire of that [Jewish] law, that is to say, to the Empire of the Jews. In consequence the Jewish people is the people chosen by God as the trustee of his wishes and desires; it is the only one with which the Divinity has made a pact, it is the elected of the Lord...This faith in their predestination, in their election, developed in the Jews an immense pride; They come to look upon non-Jews with contempt and often with hatred, when patriotic reasons were added to theological ones.“ (B. Lazare, L'Antisémitisme, pp. 8-9; The Secret Powers Behind Revolution, by Vicomte Leon De Poncins, 184-185).


„Judaism presents a unique phenomenon in the annals of the world, of an indissoluble alliance, of an intimate alloy, of a close combination of the religious and national principles...

There is not only an ethical difference between Judaism and all other contemporary religions, but also a difference in kind and nature, a fundamental contradiction. We are not face to face with a national religion but with a religious nationality.“ (G. Batault, Le problème juif, pp. 65-66; The Secret Powers Behind Revolution, by Vicomte Leon de Poncins, 197).


„The idea of God, the image of God, such as it is reflected in the Bible, goes through three distinct phases. The first stage is the Higher Being, thirsty for blood, jealous, terrible, war-like. The intercourse between the Hebrew and his God is that of an inferior with s superior whom he fears and seeks to appease.

The second phase the conditions are becoming more equal. The pact concluded between God and Abraham develops its consequences, and the intercourse becomes, so to speak, according to stipulation. In the Talmudic Hagada, the Patriarchs engage in controversies and judicial arguments with the Lord. The Tora and the Bible enter into these debate and their intervention is preponderant. God pleading against Israel sometimes loses the lawsuit. The equality of the contracting parties is asserted. Finally the third phase the subjectively divine character of God is lost. God becomes a kind of fictitious Being. These very legends, one of which we have just quoted, for those who know the keen minds of the authors, give the impression, that they, like their readers, of their listeners, look upon God in the manner of a fictitious being and divinity, at heart, from the angle of a personification, of a symbol of the race [This religion has a code: The Talmud].“ (Kadmi Cohen, Nomades, p. 138; The Secret Powers Behind Revolution, by Vicomte Leon de Poncins, 197-198).

Friday, January 24, 2025

Israel, Iran and Nuclear Weapons

 

Source: https://www.renegadetribune.com/israel-iran-and-nuclear-weapons/

 

by Karl Radl

 

Back in 2008 quite a few significant days for Israel Lobby watchers occurred with the AIPAC conference speeches of Bibi and Obama to listen to and watch as well as looking at the relevant opinion pieces. The central theme of that conference was to present Obama as the ‘Candidate for Israel’ (and who says there isn’t an Israel Lobby in the US): in much the same way as in the 1950s Eisenhower branded himself the anti-communist candidate. However the distinction between the two positions – deliberately confused by most pro-Israel authors – is that being say anti-communist is simply a position of ideology: saying you are the best candidate to help a foreign government is something very different. It is effectively an overt form of the Manchurian Candidate: where an enemy agent has been elected the President of the USA.

 

Now it should be understood that I am not suggesting that Obama was an espionage agent in the pay of the Mossad, but rather that the influence of the Israel Lobby on successive administrations – be they Republican or Democrat – has been effectively the same thing as having an enemy agent in power making all the wrong decisions for your country. The irony is that it isn’t an espionage network that is doing the damage – although we know Israel does have a substantial network of this kind – but rather it is a propaganda and influence network which operates in almost direct parallel to how the Comintern and the GRU operated their innocents committees, secret organisations, intelligence networks and espionage agents during the early twentieth century.

 

The essential difference between Israel’s position at the start of the twenty first century and the USSR in the early twentieth century is that Israel has been able to somewhat successfully cast itself as the victim and as a non-aggressive entity. While the USSR in comparison was successful in doing this in its first few years, but was always held – particularly after several failed (jewish-led) European revolutions – to be a subversive threat. So in effect the difference is that Western intelligence and politicians regarded the USSR as a threat, while they don’t really regard Israel as one or didn’t until relatively recently: by which time Israel’s friends are in strong enough positions to clamp down on political dissent away from Israeli and towards actual American interests in terms of domestic and foreign policy.

 

This is more or less the thesis that has been extensively argued by the anti-Israel Lobby position but particularly by Paul Findley, (1) Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer. (2) The whole debate has for some years seemed relatively distant as the only real consequence of the battles between the Israel Lobby and its critics was over the US funding and turning a blind eye to Israeli activities as well as – to a lesser extent – the convergence of pro-Israeli interests with promoting George W. Bush’s ‘revenge war’ in Iraq for which numerous brave men and women have died or been scarred for life.

 

However as any seasoned Israel observer well knows over the last two to three decades we have heard the steady propagandistic drumbeat from Tel Aviv and its proxies in the United States and Europe about the ‘Iranian Nuclear Threat’. It hasn’t exactly been intense, but for the last two decades for example the Jerusalem Post has even had its own special section on the front page devoted to the ‘Iranian Threat’. However in spite of this lack of intensity it has begun to take hold as a form of ‘Chinese Whispers’ by way of the media consumer being consistently – although not constantly (unless you watch Fox News) – told about the ‘Iranian Threat’ and how Iran is an ‘Islamist state’ seeking nuclear weapons.

 

The logic behind the propaganda is beautiful in its simplicity as well as its stupidity in that: it suggests that because Iran is an Islamic state which is strongly engaged in promoting its interests in the region: it will launch an invasion or an attack on all those around it as part of an expansionist Islamic program. Thus should Iran gain nuclear weapon capability it would therefore be a threat to American interests in the Middle East, because Iran could play brinkmanship with the US as the Iranian leadership believe they would all receive their houris if it came to nuclear war.

 

The problem with this position is that is essentially ignores several key issues all at once:

 

A) The Iranian leadership might be Islamist, but even the most devout Islamist cleric still fundamentally wishes to live. If they did not wish to live or wished to die as Islamic martyrs then it would be rather simple for them to achieve that wish by for example joining Hezbollah in Lebanon or fighting with Shia anti-American militants against the US in Iraq. The fact they do not do so suggests that their motivation is more real politik than religious with the latter being used as a crutch to justify the former. Thus why would they create a Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) scenario if they weren’t attacked first? Iran isn’t strong enough to take on Israel let alone the US in a direct fight precisely because their arms and armour is heavily out-of-date and they are utterly out-gunned in terms of fire power.

 

B) Iran isn’t expansionist in any obvious sense. To suggest it is Israel Lobby propagandists often cite the role Iran plays as Hezbollah’s ‘sugar daddy’: however this is only regional power politics and nothing different from Israel’s own support of the Lebanese Christian Falangists in the same country. Also pro-Israel propagandists conveniently forget that Iran is heavily en hoc to its Russian neighbour to the north who effectively pull the strings and will not allow Iran to do anything unapproved let alone ignite World War III in an Islamic jihad against the West.

 

C) Numerous ‘rogue’ states have nuclear weapons such as North Korea and they are yet to use them in spite of actually being expansionist political regimes. There is no evidence to suggest that just because a state wants to expand its geographic borders and/or sphere of influence that it is thus prone to firing off nuclear devices.

 

D) Israel itself is the only state currently extant that has actually threatened nuclear holocaust on the world as a serious policy option for its own failure in wars that it itself created in the first place. Israel – if Avner Cohen’s estimates are to be believed – (3) holds circa 200 nuclear devices and has at least two ranged forms of delivery: land-based missiles and submarine-based missiles. (4) Iran by contrast has neither nuclear weapons at present nor the ability to send them even as far as Israel let alone beat Israel’s US-built air defence system.

 

Thus Israel – unlike Iran – actually has nuclear weapons, the ability to deliver them as nuclear strikes on a large portion of the known world and – most importantly – the track record of threatening their use as a viable policy option. None of these Iran has and nor does Iran have the same sense of entitlement and victim hood that have been bred into Israelis both from their jewish heritage (which focuses heavily on this) but also from Israeli Sabra culture which separates them from the Palestinians and thus tends to dehumanize them in jewish eyes leading very quickly to the strong nationalist slant in all Israeli politics apart from in the Arab bloc and the Israeli Communist Party in the Knesset. (5)

 

So if we then understand this it becomes clear that it isn’t Iran we need be concerned about so much: it is Israel’s attitude to Iran. As if Israel does decide – as seems increasingly likely given its rising paranoia about the ousting of numerous Israeli client kings in the region – to launch a ‘pre-emptive’ strike on Iran then it will provoke Iran – and quite possibly other states – to retaliate against Israel in substantial form. It would not surprise me if Iran began – in retaliation – to massively encourage and underwrite suicide bombings in Israel much as Saddam Hussein did before he was toppled from power or launched anti-Israel missile strikes using Hezbollah as a proxy. Or as another example: Iran could provide Hezbollah with chemical and/or biological weapons to use in strikes against Israel; thus upping the ante even further.

 

This might not be enough to provoke outright war, but it certainly isn’t going to do the region any favours. In fact if Israel did attack Iran then I tend to think that – although it would certainly get away with it – there would be an increasing polarisation on the right and left against Israel. After all how can you justify attacking countries over nuclear weapons over imagined scenarios when the country doing the attacking is utterly irresponsible at the best of times and outright criminal at worst, but yet has a large nuclear arsenal of its own?

 

The fact is very simply this: Israel is the threat to peace and stability in the Middle East not Iran. If you remove Israel then a lot of the tension goes away and if you include it – and its very aggressive outlook – then it becomes very clear that it is the proverbial bull in the Middle Eastern china shop.

 

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References

 

(1) Paul Findley, 1985, ‘They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel’s Lobby’, 1st Edition, Lawrence Hill: Westport

 

(2) Stephen Walt, John Mearsheimer, 2007, ‘The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy’, 1st Edition, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux: New York

 

(3) Avner Cohen, 1999, ‘Israel and the Bomb’, 2nd Edition, Columbia University Press: New York; Avner Cohen, 2011, ‘The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel’s Bargain with the Bomb’, 1st Edition, Columbia University Press: New York

 

(4) Ironically Israel’s ability to launch these missiles from submarines has been created because they demanded that the occupation – sorry ‘German’ – government give them to them free in tribute for not mentioning the ‘Holocaust’ again. Of course within a matter of mere weeks it was being brought up again by the Israeli government and its proxies in North America and Europe.

 

(5) Summarised excellently in Israel Shahak, Norton Mezvinsky, 1999, ‘Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel’, 1st Edition, Pluto Press: London.

 

via Karl Radl’s Substack