Amici,
The Muslims smell blood in the water. Like sharks, they're beginning to swim around Israel in ever closer circles.
And
the USA are about at war with the world. Should Israel go into Gaza to
wipe out Hamas (remember, an organization that certain Israelis helped in
some way to form), it will potentially be like Stalingrad, a fighting step-by-step through a pile of ruins. House to house, and of course, civilians will
be killed. As Col. Macgregor says, no soldier will try to ask first,
"Excuse me, are you a Hamas terrorist or...?" No one can expect soldiers
to do that. It would be a repeat of trying to figure out who was a Viet
Cong guerilla and who a Vietnamese peasant. And as for the Jihadi
Muslims, the two million Gazans are already dead, martyrs for Allah. The
men among them will get to spend Eternity in carnal relations with the
legendary 72 virgins per Muslim man, while their women can look on from
the sidelines.
Since the U.S. is stitched cheek by jowl to Israel – well, the Obama/Biden Regine is cheek by jowl with Iran, insanely enough – the Americans will get dragged into whatever war develops. It all depends on what Israel does, but nothing stays the same
forever, as the old saying goes. And Israel is badly, badly divided in
many ways, a large segment of the population was enraged about the
government's attempt to reign in their out-of-control supreme court.
Many reservists were not showing up for duty, and air force pilots
wouldn't fly. So no wonder the Muslims scented blood in the water, all right. They're
now in it for the kill. (And the American's pending collapse will be icing on
their cake.) Ironically, Israel has lasted about as long as the Crusader
states in the same exact region. A bitter irony, indeed, for them, and for us Catholics with long memories.
Meanwhile,
we must seemingly blindly follow the Biden Regime into war, but I don't
think
they're going to war for Israel. And anyway, Israel, so loved by
evangelical
Christians in America, loathes Christians. A controversial statemet? Yes, but
let's see the celebrated American Jew David Mamet has to say in his essay about it.
I
read it. “Very intense” is one way to describe it. Mamet's angry and
he
doesn't "hold back". No doubt he, too, senses this is a critical time
for Israel, and its survival is at stake. First, Mamet clearly points out
how the Democrats in the USA have
betrayed Jews in various way, and that’s all too true, in various ways.
Especially about that evil man, FDR.
But then the playwright points out that the American Jews tended to
vote in a block for Democrats. There's an old joke that Jews live like
Episcopalians yet vote like Puerto Ricans. Somehow – like the American
Negroes – the Democrats keep Jews "down on the plantation" too.
Mamet and Christianity
Mamet also writes of Christianity that “Christianity came into
being with the destruction of the Jewish State — the adherents were Jews
whose Temple and culture had been destroyed. Every new religion, in its
foundation myths, slanders its parent faith.”
Lovely.
Let's get this straight. So
Christianity, founded on a myth, only exists because the Romans
destroyed
the Temple and murdered up to a million Jews (some historians estimate
that high a number for the 70 A.D. war, and a like number later with the later Bar Kochba revolt, when the Romans renamed the region "Palestine") and
scattered the rest, and some of these traumatized survivors formed the
first the Christian Jews? Most
Christians of that first generation were indeed Jews. St Luke is the
only
Gentile writer of the New Testament (though some claim he was a
Hellenized Jew). But nothing supernatural about the origin of Christianity occurred, Mamet seems to say; they only
became Christians because they were depressed that
the Temple was destroyed, so they made up the Jesus Myth. Nice.
And remember as you contemplate that bit of insight that Mamet is a
famous playwright and not supposedly some
ignorant yahoo.
Mamet also writes: “Afterwards, we find
the Christian libel that the Jews killed Christ, the medieval
information that we slay Christian children to bake their blood into
matzoh, that we were the cause of the Second World War; and, currently,
that we exist to murder Moslems.”
- Well, well. Sadly, the “blood libel” has indeed been around for ages, and it is a great evil. Mamet left off that many Medieval people blamed Jews for the Black Death, by the way. And Muslims hate Jews for a host of reasons, and certainly slander them. When they're not killing them.
So, to sum up, the
Jewish leaders of
Christ's day didn’t kill Christ. (Maybe it was the Buddhists?) I suppose
the
Romans did the deed just for the heck of it. Pontius Pilot got up that
morning and said, "I'm feeling bad today. Go round
up some harmless Jewish dreamer and crucify him for me. I'll feel
better." "But hey, boss, we got Barabbas. We can crucify him. He's a
murderer!" "Naw, an innocent day dreamer is who I want to see
crucified today."
And Christians have been slandering Jews ever since? In fact, Mamet quotes St John's Gospel, 8:44: “You
are of your father, the Devil, and your will is to do your father’s
desires. He was a murderer from the Beginning, and has nothing to do
with the truth because the truth is not in him. When he lies, he speaks
according to his nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.”
Ouch. But curiously
enough, gee whiz, Mamet the playwright doesn't bother to stage the scene. So, allow
me to do so.
- Jesus of Nazareth is brought the "woman caught in the act of adultery" at the beginning of St. John 8.
- He says His famous, "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone."
- So the whole trap they had set blew up in the Pharisees' faces. I suppose Mamet would say that whole scene didn't actually occur. Part of that Christian mythology, dontcha know?
- Then Our Lord says, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”
The
Pharisees immediately dispute His self-witness, and assert that "Your
witness is not true." So Our Lord Christ goes into long conversation
where after much give and take, they insist “Abraham
is our father.” (In St Matthew 3:9 the Jews are saying the same thing,
"Abraham is our father" so often that St John the Baptist shouts out, "God
could raise up children to Abraham from these very stones!") In St
John's Gospel scene, Jesus tells them no, they are not Abraham's children for were they Abraham's descendants, "You would do the works of Abraham. But now you seek to kill Me, a Man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this."
By this time they're really angry, not least because He obviously knows they plan to kill him (oh, right; it wasn't the Jews!) and they say, “We were not born of fornication; we have one Father—God.” Notice how they've moved from Abraham to God? We're now up to verses 42 and 43, and Our Lord says, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me. Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word." It is then with verse 44 that He begins the speech Mamet quoted.
This
dramatic scene builds and builds, and is excellent dialogue. It would
be fantastic on a stage. Doesn't the playwright notice that? In any
event, the whole confrontation goes on until they say, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?” Jesus answers them with his famous “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.”
That's it for the Jews He has been speaking with. Without ever uttering
it themselves, they know the Sacred Tetragrammaton, the "I Am Who Am."
This unemployed wanderer Who performs endless miracles is claiming to be God Himself, so they take up
stones to stone him with, and He disappears from the Temple.
Now, wouldn't that make a fantastic drama on the stage, Mr. Playwright? Oh, yeah, it's mythology. Um, but still...
A Revelation
Perhaps
an article like this gives insight
for those who might be interested into the intractable separation
between Judaism and
Christianity. They are non-negotiable. No middle ground can be reached
except to go their separate ways, a lot like Abraham and Lot. The
average Christian has no idea of how Jews loathe
Christians who take their religion seriously. It is widely taught by
Jews that a gentile who obeys the Noahide covenant might have some share
in the afterlife, but a Christian who tries to convert a Jew will go to
the deepest part of Hell for eternity. A wise rabbi, Rabbi Abraham
Heschel, famously said “Christianity is Judaism for Gentiles” But his
was a rare wisdom, and sorely missed in these times.
But I digress. Armageddon does that to me.
God bless them and have mercy on all of us.
Fr Mawdsley going to get himself banned from YouTube, no matter how pro-Jewish he
otherwise is. The other day he had one where he showed video clips of an
altar they erected somewhere in Jerusalem (IIRC) where newly
reconstituted Levitical priests offered the carcass of a freshly slain
lamb up in the fire. The lamb had been butchered somewhere else, but it
was a pathetic – truly the word for it – sight. Skinned carcass. Guys in robes awkwardly leaning toward fire. THAT's the religion religious Jews want to bring back?
Most Jews are not "religious observant". I read a Times of Israel article recently about just how religious Israeli Jews actually are. Most Jews in the U.S., which some say has 51 percent of the world's
Jews, are not "religious" either. Note this doesn't necessarily mean
they're atheists, just not that into God. Being Jewish without God can
great if no Muslims are around. Fun festivals, a strong identity, lots
of connections. But to really believe it...? Those poor kids at the
music festival had a huge statue of the Buddha there. Isn't that like
setting up a pillar to Baal or an Asherah? Does anyone besides the
religious observant in Israel know about false idols? Do they ever
wonder, "Gee, maybe...?"
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