Repaired: Does Israel survive? Do Jews want to be hated? Jews Contra Christians; Jews Contra Jews

Friends,

Somehow this article was replaced by another. I've now restored it:

Israeli Defense Forces recently killed some Egyptian border guards, of some type, somehow. If the Israelis want a much wider war, they can hardly do more to start one. 

Inshallah, if Allah wills it

The Muslim people of Egypt want war, or are at least, in classical Muslim fatalism, ready for it. "Inshallah" means pretty much whatever happens, Allah has willed it. This is the famous Muslim fatalism. The Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, is in Peking (I know, old spelling) begging the ravenous Red Dragon for help, along with Saudi Arabia, etc. Isn't that nice? (Sisi knows he's hated by the "Muslim-on-the-Street".) Ironically, the Chinese slaughter the Muslim Uighurs for their organs, and the Muslim world ignores that. Inshallah. Instead, they focus on Israelis killing Muslims "closer to home". That's a lot less acceptable. Whatever.

Muslims-on-the-Street seem to only care about violence to Muslims if Jews or Christians are somehow involved. All the Middle East is seething over Israel's smashing of Gaza. Their rulers bide their time; if the opportunity arrives, however, they themselves would slaughter every Jew "from the River Jordan to the Mediterranean sea." In a heartbeat. Inshallah! Other than that, they talk nicely about peace. "Taqiyya" is another Islamic doctrine: to dissimulate or openly lie for the good of Islam.

As for Israel, and for Jews in the USA, sometimes having too much is just too much. Having too much money, too much influence, too much self-confident chutzpah can bring one down. Hard. Yet to even survive in an area that hates them so, Israelis have to have all three: more money, power, pride. The Jews and Israel are in this doom cycle; and, as I've written before, Jews need Jesus now more than ever. (See my essay on that: https://corvinescatholiccorner.blogspot.com/2024/04/they-need-christ-more-than-ever-instead.html) Of course, Our Lord, a Jew Himself, is the last person either Jews or Muslims would turn to in order to escape all this "blood sacrifice" both sides are engaging in, and escalating. In this essay, I'll consider the Jews and Israel. In a subsequent one, the Muslims.

Israel

Israel is in dire straights, on many levels. The goals of the Hamas terror attack on October 7 attack last year are still being fulfilled as Israel in retaliation reduces the Gaza strip to rubble, and accounts multiply of Israeli atrocities going on there of the worst kind – and growing revelations of Israeli bad behavior in the West Bank – as bad as anything the Israelis have been on the receiving end of. That was a Muslim goal of the attack. All of which attracts renewed world attention in the unique Israeli apartheid state (i.e. the privileged position of Jews in Israel, which, after all, was founded precisely to be a Jewish state). This is another Hamas goal. The war is not going the way Israel wants it, either; in other words, it is dragging on and on. Hamas is quite pleased. Sun Tzu said a long war benefits no one. Gazans of all ages die, starve, and suffer, and Israel's casualties increase as well. They're paying the Gazans back for October 7. "Turn the other cheek" is not an option with either people. And of course, Hamas is VERY pleased.

As fighting in Gaza itself breaks out behind the Israeli advance, Israel is also attacked by Hezbollah from the north and Iran in the east. (Foolish American commentators boast how Israel shot down Iran's missiles, but now Iran knows where Israel's missile counter batteries are, A, and B, Israel spent incredible amounts of money on its missile counter attack and it will be difficult to replace its counter-fire missiles.) Israel's economy is under great stress, if not near meltdown, its people tied up in the various military fronts, all of which temporarily covers up deep splits in Israeli society and body politic between its own factions. 

• Now the International Criminal Court is seeking indictments of Prime Minister Netanyahu and his defense minister. Little will come of this except bad publicity for Israel. The prosecutor also seeks indictments against Hamas leaders, but he has been careful to have arranged for a committee of international lawyers to investigate "genocide" allegations against Israel, and this committee has now unanimously stated genocide exists in Gaza. Whether true or not, it is very damaging to Israel's credibility.
  
• Israel's neighboring Arab states offer only an old two-state solution (i.e. the creation of a Palestinian state out of Gaza, the West Bank, and bits of Israel, like East Jerusalem) that almost all Israelis categorically reject. As long as Israel exists, no two-state solution will exist. As long as Israel is the toughest dog in the yard, however, these other countries will not attack – but if Israel loses or even falters much further in this Gaza war, then all bets are off. Inshallah!
  
• The leaders of these states could not care less about the actual Gazans and West Bank Arabs – they care about their own people no more than any Muslim terrorist does; this is traditionally true. There's not much "love" of Arabs for Arabs. Taqiyya, and all that. Their own Arab populations, however, the non-terrorist Muslims-on-the-Street, are growing extremely outraged in a Muslim-level pan-Arab/Muslim sympathy for Palestinian Arabs and traditional Muslim hatred of Jews. How long can the governments therefore "keep the lid on"?
  

America

Meanwhile, in the USA. the most supportive country of Israel, the Jews are demanding that Christianity shut down by changing its central teachings. That's the result of their Congressional Bill in the U.S. that would label as "antisemitism" any sort of criticism regarding Jews or Israel. How in the world could Jews do that, and why would they, you might ask. Is this the time to outrage the average American Christian against Jews? Again, the American government is committed to Israel, for the crappy reason of being paid to be so, as I detail below. But the people? The U.S. Congress is trying to pass a law that would essentially outlaw Christianity. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face!

House Bill 6090

OnePeterFive has a great article (yes, I know, but it is not written by Tim Flanders) on this issue: https://onepeterfive.com/the-house-endorsed-definition-of-antisemitism-provokes-a-rift-with-christianity/. The author, Carina Benton, gives a succinct overview of the problem. The American government seems about to make Christianity – and certainly orthodox, Traditional Catholicism – illegal because of "antisemitism". They want to make the core teachings of Christianity into "Thought Crimes" by labeling them "antisemitic", a "phobia" of Jews. We can add that to Islamophobia and Homophobia and Trannyphobia, all "thought crimes" that government must pass laws against. And of course free speech and civil rights be damned. But notice there's never a Christophobia or Catholicphobia?

We Catholics hardly need this problem as we have Bergoglio constantly trying to incinerate us as it is. His recent 60 Minutes interview was simply grotesque: Bergoglio's silly double-talk makes a laughing stock of the Church; just about everything out of his mouth screams "I am not a pope, haha!" so of course the hierarchy keeps the Toad in place, to the detriment of the entire world and the Church's own demise. Though he'll never be charged with it, Bergoglio exhibits a perfect Catholicphobia, all right.

Now we have Jews telling us, as a certain Rabbi Michael Barclay told conservative pundit Candace Owens that essential Christian teaching – from the beginning of the Faith, you understand – is the reason for the world's antisemitism. (Owens rebelled at that, and eventually after various twists and turns, got fired from where she worked.) Basically, if this Bill 6090 becomes law, then the Gospels, especially the Gospel of St. John and much of the writing of St. Paul, etc., becomes illegal antisemitism because they teach that the Jews got the Romans to kill Christ, and are described generally as religiously blind and lost souls cut off from the ancient covenants that define them as a people. (For details on how religious Jews view Christianity, which they consider an anti-Jewish pagan idolatry, see: https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-noahide-laws-a-universal-religion-without-christ/; the Noahide Laws are what they want to replace Christianity and Islam with.)

Even strongly pro-Israel and yet conservative American pundits like John Zmirak are opposed to H.B. 6090. Its passage caused him to write this article: https://stream.org/unconstitutional-speech-ban-it-may-sound-good-but-dont-fall-into-this-hate-speech-booby-trap/ Zmirak might well condemn me as a vile Jew hater, but he still protests this anti-free speech bill that the Jewish lobby is buying from Congress. I think this thought-police ploy just backfires on everyone, however, especially the people paying for it. It's all so self-defeating, an "own goal".

So, why do it?

1. Ostensibly, this is about the raging antisemitism on America's elite college campuses, Academia's mix of Israeli politics and war as way to "tar and feather" American Jews, and the general social violence and rising crime and open assault on American streets.
2. Jewish students have been harassed or beat up or threatened, and riots ensue. It's been developing over time. In New York, Blacks have attacked Jews often enough that it has become a problem before the latest Israeli war.
   
3. Basically, for modern-day Jews in urban America it is become about like what it was for Catholics during the Know-Nothing era before the U.S. Civil War. Back then, no "phobia" gambit existed; now, however, we get House Bill 6090. 
4. One would deduce the importation of Muslims into America has a lot to do with this, and it massively does – the extreme antisemitism in Europe is a direct result of the Islamification of Europe – but you can't say that without being politically incorrect and perhaps investigated by the FBI. Taqiyya has Deep State teeth! In England, they appear to be going to pass an "anti-Islamophobia" law as strict at H.B. 6090. What irony! A world in which neither Jews nor Muslims can be criticized! But Christianity can be emasculated. Literally, with Christ reduced entirely.
   

Do Jews Want To Be Hated?

The burden of this essay weighs the question: Do the Jews who are getting Congress to pass this House Bill 6090 (as they have done in a number of states already with something similar) want to make themselves hated – actually hated, as opposed to just resented or considered an annoyance. I ask because this legislation attacks directly their strongest U.S. supporters, Evangelical Christians. Oh, sure, the American Jewish Lobby, AIPAC, owns most politicians and can buy their "support". But real support, emotional and spiritual support, the true "friends of Israel" are the Christians. And this attempt at thought control will just tick them off. 

• The Catholic Church's Vatican II hierarchy has bent over backwards to be nice to the Jews, doing a series of mea culpas for the Holocaust (even though pagan Nazis inflicted that horror and Christians saved many Jews, something Pope Pius XII personally did). All that, only for all Christians to be formally told, "You guys and your false religion is the root of the whole antisemitic phenomenon, and we need to pass that into law."

Human Nature, People; It Isn't Nice, But it IS predictable

Jews – i.e. speaking collectively of Jewish movers and shakers, opinion and policy makers – don't seem to realize that being the single most privilege ethnic group in the U.S. and in the West generally – as they most certainly are on many levels, in terms of influence, education, and income – people can get very tired of an ethnic group bearing such weighty influence that yet also claims victimization status. I refer to their constant "wailing and gnashing of teeth" shtick about how the world hates Jews. This is, after all, the rationale for Israel: a safe-haven for Jews in a hostile world. Well, beware of human nature. Keep telling the world they hate you and they might just develop a hatred for you! That's not news; it is hardly antisemitic. It's human nature. And it is predictable.

• The Black Americans a century and a half ago were literally slaves, then 3rd class citizens for another century. 
• Beginning in the 1960s, they began to be placed on a pedestal by Democrats, given welfare money and Affirmative Action. The Democrats ironically are the ones who enslaved them and kept they on cotton plantations; a century later they re-enslaved them and stuck them on asphalt plantations. And equally incongruous, at the same time, the Democrats made them feel privileged, in perpetual need of assistance.
  
• So, after decades of special status, hiring, college admissions, etc., human nature kicked in and Whites (and certainly Asians and Latinos) began to resent all that special status, and began to seriously tire of the 'We're so oppressed" shtick. Again, that's human nature. Again, it is predictable.
  

Persecution Is Now Real

Now Jews are facing a serious rise in actual, real-time true Jew-hating antisemitism throughout the entire West – mainly because of Israel's wars in the Mideast. But other causes exist, as well. They are now running out of friends, both Israel as a country and Jews in general. They can buy political support – to a point. But real friends? They seem to endorse Lord Palmerston's famous comment (short version): "England has no friends, only interests." And "interests" are fickle, especially bought ones.

So, sensing the mood changing indeed, the Jews now will antagonize even more people. And again, remember, they are the most privileged minority group in the Western world. Jewish bankers actually won the Russo-Japanese War for the Japanese, for a well-known example. The Japanese won the battles at sea and on land, but were bankrupt. Jewish bankers in New York, hating the Imperial Russians for persecuting Jews, loaned the Japanese government the money keeping the war going long enough for advantageous negotiations. Now, that is clout!

• In the U.S. Congress, House of Representatives, they've produced this House Bill 6090 that's gone to the Senate. It casts an extremely wide net about "antisemitism": talking or writing in any way that is critical or maliciously critical of Jews, like, you know, Jews run the banks! Jews run entertainment! Jews run academia! Jews run the American Government! Israel bosses the U.S. around! Myself just writing this essay, the law would make me an antisemite. And soon it might land me in jail.
  

Oh, wait, you thought all that was true? That some privileged Jews, and no, hardly all Jews all the time, but their power brokers, have stupendous influence in everyone's lives? You thought that was self-evident?

1. Well, regarding banking, it is true in the sense that banks have traditionally been Jewish strongholds because in Medieval times, Christians couldn't charge each other interest, but Jews could. (The Reformation changed that, and thus the Protestant countries developed capitalism economically faster than the Catholic ones could.) And also Jews were restricted in the occupations they were allowed to do, so many went into banking. Think of the international banking family of Rothschild; that's how they started. Or think of George Soros today. Not all bankers are Jews, obviously, but still even now they have a tremendous deal of financial clout. They've been on the inside of that business for literally centuries. And Congressmen dance to the tune of those who give them money, not "the folks back home".
   
2. Jews also indeed are influential in the entertainment industry, which caused the Catholics to form the Legion of Decency, an organization that Archbishop of Cincinnati John T. McNicholas founded in 1933. Why was this so? Hollywood and movies were a big deal in the 1920s and '30s, of course, but Jewish producers and writers always tended to push the carnal envelope simply because the "Judeo-Christian" morality is something of a myth. 
3. It's a myth because many versions and types of Judaism exist, so which "Judeo" does the phrase refer to? Clearly, for every straight-laced Orthodox Jew there's a large number not so "inhibited" by Judaism's 613 laws. These less religious or non-religious Jews – most Jews are "non-religious" – saw sex-related things a bit differently than Christians did, which is an understatement. Sex sells, and they sold it.
   
4. Archbishop McNicholas was opposed to that. So, Catholics created an organization to oppose their influence and try to restrict what the Church saw as immoral or irreverent content. It is a simple equation: in its heart, Western Civilization is the product of Medieval and Counter-Reformation Catholicism, which had a fading echo effect in Protestantism. (I.e. Protestant countries became more sexually "progressive" than Catholic ones.) Judaism had a completely different culture and religion to begin with. (The Torah allows divorce, for example, and even polygamy; see: https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/770990/jewish/Why-Does-Torah-Law-Allow-Polygamy.htm) And on top of that, non-religious Jews carried the day culturally. They had their own much more materialistic culture than religious Jews did. A powerful dynamic of cultural change brought on by making money, and a warping of cultural standards, resulted, such that when one considers the entertainment industry of today: it produces by and large either mindless titillating trash or a constant engine of violence and an obscene sexualizing of the kids.
5. And the same could be said of academia, too. Although Orthodox Jews, like Catholics, created their own educational institutions, less religious Jews, many of them Socialist or Communist, coming into the country at the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries, had by the 1950s and '60s changed American academia massively from what it had been. But that's not from JEWISH believers' perspective, you see? Again, most Jews are not "religious", actually. And a lot of Jews were Socialist because they had abandoned their religion over in Europe.
   
6. Then, finally, of course the American Government. It is heavily influenced by The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the Jewish lobbying group. On a recent show of his, Judge Andrew Napolitano discussed with Colonel Douglas Macgregor how those Republican Congressmen, about 15 or 20, who recently voted against House Bill 6090 and also against more money for Israel were removed from AIPAC's website as punishment for their vote. (See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uswQ9w5wETI at 33:15 minutes in.)
7. At AKA Catholic, Louie Verrecchio has an article: https://akacatholic.com/antisemitism-awareness-attempt-to-silence-god/ on this, and mentions one Benjamin Freedman, a Jewish convert to Christianity, who said back in 1961 that: "Here in the United States, the Zionists and their coreligionists have complete control of our government." Listen to Freedman's speech here: https://soundcloud.com/zionistreport/benjamin-freedmans-1961-speech-at-the-willard-hotel-complete/sets.
   

So, round and round it goes. The most privileged ethnic (some might say religious but they're not really that "religious") group in the Western world is wealthy enough to buy legislation that not only silences critics, but makes illegal the core tenants of the world largest religion (assuming Christianity has more believers than Islam, which is a question these days). Certainly, I would be considered an antisemite for even writing this, or at least not in condemning antisemitism every other sentence. It's absurd, and that very absurdity will hurt the Jews themselves, like an ancient Greek drama where the hero does something to avoid a nasty fate, but the thing he does is the very act that makes the fate inevitable.

So, does Israel survive? It has lasted about as long as the Crusader States did in the Middle Ages. That's something, I guess.

AnP

They need Christ more than ever; instead, they seem to have Simon bar Kokhba come again

Friends, and
To all those defending Israel:

Every time I write one of my essays here, the world is exponentially worse than it was when I wrote the last epistle. I despair of it. God is gonna have to fix it.

• The American government is a disaster; it is totally NOT representing the American people.
• The Catholic Church is a disaster, if you count the official Church as the full Catholic Church, that is. If you think Bergoglio is pope or his regime in remotely CATHOLIC, then I despair for you.
• But I certainly despair of the Israeli-Arab conflict. It's a hopeless mess, and has been that way since the declaration of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948. For Israel, it would take a King Solomon come again to try to bring either justice or peace to this fiasco, or most importantly of all, they need Jesus. (I'll probably be labeled an "antisemite" for saying that. Imagine my response.)
  

If anyone ever needed Jesus...

If anyone anywhere ever "needed Jesus", it is the Jews and Arabs. But instead of Jesus, the Israelis got Simon bar Kokhba come again.

1. Ok, so who was Simon bar Kokhba? A warrior, the last of the Zealot types Our Lord Christ knew a century earlier. Zealots were those Jews who wanted to fight the Romans with war (or terror, however you want to put it), like the Irish Republican Army wanted to fight the British. They had their big moment in 66 A.D. when the First Jewish War began. Zealots held Jerusalem for four years before the Romans destroyed it – and most of them, along with a million or so other Jews – in 70 A.D.
2. Barabbas was one of these insurrectionists 40 years earlier in Jesus' time. St. Mark, St. Peter's secretary and the composer of St. Mark's gospel, describes Barabbas (in 15:7) as “The man named Barabbas [who] had been imprisoned with the insurrectionists who had committed murder in the insurrection.” That would definitely be a Zealot.
3. Simon bar Kokhba himself was the last and maybe the greatest – in terms of power and cruelty, if not military skill – of all Zealots. He fought the Romans (when they tried to ban circumcision and force Jewish assimilation) and "the greatest rabbi of the time", Akiva ben Yosef, apparently claimed for him Davidic descent and might have given him the name bar Kokhba, which means son of the star, a messianic reference. 

Whatever about all that, when the Romans finally defeated bar Kokhba in 135 A.D., they killed 800,000 of his followers, and probably more than a million Jews died, all told. So, the Jewish people collectively chose Barabbas instead of Jesus, and 40 years later the Zealot leaders of 66 A.D., and in 132 A.D., Simon bar Kokhba. All these Zealots did was lead the Jews to catastrophe. Now they have Benjamin Netanyahu. 

The Jewish perspective

From the Jewish perspective, it ought to be a simple calculus. "We want our own nation, and we want it to be a Jewish nation, not a country where 'Jews also live'". After the bar Kokhba revolt, Jews remained scattered for two millennia, basically, and while often persecuted, they also took advantage of what opportunities they could, as well. That in itself caused them to be hated. It was like a curse: they're dispossessed and despoiled, a stateless nation who thereby incur contempt and loathing; yet when they become wealthy bankers and powerful influencers, they're hated all the more. A no-win situation.

Maybe they should not have chosen Barabbas. Or the Zealots of 66 A.D. Or Simon son of the Star, heir of David. Or just maybe Pontius Pilate got the last laugh when he maneuvered them into shouting "Crucify the Peacenik and give us the terrorist!" 

Zionism

Eventually, toward the end of the 19th century, European Jews began the Zionist Movement. The Jews supporting this romantic colonization theory (not all that many did, actually) left Europe and entered the Ottoman lower Syrian desert by hook and crook and began removing – none too gently one can surmise – many of the native inhabitants. (Jews in Europe often bought the land from Turkish absentee landlords living in Istanbul, and then European settlers showed up who told the locals to clear off.)  

1. Again, they wanted their own state – a JEWISH one – and European Jews who embraced Zionism planted European Jews in the southern Levant. 
2. Did the Zionist promoters have a plan about the Arabs? I don't know. Did they suspect the locals would rebel? I don't know.
3. The whole Zionist idea was so quixotic that most everyone probably thought it would fail, I would guess.
   
4. Events in Europe under the Nazis and the horrors of the Holocaust sort of eventually proved the Zionist argument, however, or so the non-Muslim world thought. The Catholic Vatican II Church has certainly bent over backwards to apologize to Jews for the Holocaust, that's for sure. But the problem was, the Jews had planted their colony among Muslims (originally the area had numerous Christian Arabs). 
5. And the Muslims had an insane, religiously founded hatred of Jews. That was the kicker. (Why Muslimsfrom their beginning hate Jews more than Christians is the subject for another essay. Suffice it to say "Muslim Judgement Day" is the day they get to kill all the world's remaining Jews.)
   
6. But as the Nazi tide rose, the Jews kept coming and "making the desert bloom", even as the British occupiers of the region after World War I opposed them. 
7. Eventually, when the British "mandate" expired, the Jews declared the State of Israel after WWII. At first and for many decades, it was a Socialist Eastern European-style "state", mirroring the ideas of it settlers, many of whom were from Eastern Europe. Ideological, yes; romantic, maybe, but not the booming economy it has since become.
   

The Return of the Crusader States?

Though the Muslims often enough bring them up, I'm always amazed that Westerners – especially Jews – never mention the Crusader States. That's probably because Israelis don't want to be considered associated with "Crusaders" under any circumstances, and because of the sad fate of those states.

Going on almost 1000 years ago, Western Europeans invaded the Levant in their Crusades. They wanted to free the Holy Land from Turkish Muslims who had recently set up shop. Their success was so-so, but they did capture territory (killing Jews and Muslims in the process, which both Jews and Muslims insist we remember: there's no "forgive and forget" with either) and so they set up a series of Crusader Sates – one was the "Kingdom of Jerusalem". These began to create a Little Europe in the desert heart of Islam. They implanted European law, counties, sheriffs, the whole shebang. The Muslim powers of all stripes could not tolerate that, so they kept attacking the Europeans and over 100 years or so, destroyed them. Every single one of the would-be colonists that weren't killed or didn't flee, were enslaved. Always remember Islam was founded on slavery and was and is essentially, quintessentially a slaver system. 

• Medieval Europe was essentially different than Ancient Europe in that
• A, the Medievals had Christianity and 
• B, they didn't have slavery (except in rare instances, like pre-Norman Gaelic Ireland). On the other hand...
  
• Islam has ALWAYS had slavery and it always will. Why? That's because while Christianity didn't condemn slavery in its beginnings, it became repugnant to own fellow Christians as slaves: we're all parts of the Body of Christ, after all; whereas... 
• Islam's raison d'être was to bestow on the original Arabs – a violent minority in the vast seas of people they conquered – the divine right to steal everything everyone else had: including the people themselves.
• N.B. This violence works for Muslims. It always has. It does now throughout the world (except in China: see Uyghurs, Chinese treatment of and Islam's ignoring of). One example: Muslim immigrants into England have enslaved hundreds of girls, especially; it is a national tragedy and horrific scandal, though you don't hear the mainstream media howling about it because everyone fears Muslim VIOLENCE. Anyway, slavery: that's why Islam was founded, really, to be honest.

Judaism and Islam for Outsiders

While Judaism has always maintained its separateness from surrounding cultures, basing that on its religious identity and beliefs, its special covenant relationship with God, Islam sort of mirrors that in a darker mode. Islam has always been a consensus-driven, self-isolated monocultural civilization living off the theft of entire nations, a herrenvolk taxing Christians and Jews to death, and so of course after the initial seventh-century conquest, Islam turned the Fertile Crescent region of the Near East into desert. (The conquerors were allowed to graze their herds of goats and camels wherever they wanted, you see?) 

In effect, the Muslim powers had destroyed the previous "Europeanized" Levant after their initial Muslim conquest in the 700s. That area was once the HEARTLAND of Christianity, and a rich region on every level: cultural, agricultural, linguistic. The Muslims invaded, conquered, dispersed and enslaved. And monoculturalized. Example: Alexandria on the Egyptian coast was always the second largest city of the ancient Greco-Roman world, vying with Rome or Antioch or later Constantinople. Yet within a generation of the Muslim Conquest, it was a fishing village. That's history.

So the modern-day Jews, seeking a Jewish nation-state "Tackled the Islamic Camel", as it were. In essence, they actually "stole something back" from the Islamic Empire and wow, THAT is NOT allowed. 

And also, in so doing, they revived the ancient rivalry between the brothers Isaac and Ishmael. Religious Jews (a minority of Jews, you know) still claim to be direct descendants of Isaac through his second son, Jacob, whom God renamed "Israel". Arabs claim Ishmael, Abraham's first born, as their ancestor. Both sides base their claim to the land on being heirs of these two sons of Abraham. Of course, the kicker to that is:

• A: Jesus Christ came along and said the "Chosen People" were chosen precisely to be the womb of the Messiah, i.e. to birth the young Jewish girl who said yes to Gabriel. So, their long existence was fulfilled in her Fiat to God.
• B: From a Jewish perspective rejecting such theology, they base their claim to the land on God's giving it to Abraham's descendants through Isaac. The kicker to that is Moses warned them they were to be careful to obey all of God's strict moral laws. They only ever did that for a few generations at a stretch, however; most of the time, they lived as they live in Israel now: it is a modern culture, meaning one with lots of sex behavior against the ancient commandments, like homosexuality, abortion, and so on. That concert that was attacked on October 7 exhibited a huge Buddha statue, for example. That doesn't justify the Hamas attack, but the God of Moses would zap them for it as He did of old. And maybe He is. Or if a modern-thinking person argues God is not concerned about their behavior against His ancient Covenants, then the God of revelation no longer exists. And if He has "evolved" or no longer exists, then what right can they claim to the land? See the conundrum they have? (A no-win situation, again.)

Israel bears the "five minutes of hate" right now...

Right now, it is Israel bearing the "five minutes of hate" of the world's propaganda. It seems the old Jewish war cry of "Antisemitism!" doesn't work as well as it did. Like "racism" in the U.S., it has probably been used once too often. 

Importantly, though, the ultimate source of this madness lies in Muslim culture and xenophobia. Oh, to be sure, the Jews are not blameless, either. They chose to enter an ancient minefield and planted a garden in the midst of it. They planted a tree in salted earth, a rose bush in a corral of hungry goats. They dared challenge the 1700-year-old Islamic Imperialism. Look what that has brought them. 

It has brought them continual or near continual state of war – certainly global political machinations and ceaseless spycraft and behind-the-scenes maneuvering – remains perpetual. It has also affected all the rest of us, all of non-Jews. 

• Terrorism has made life in the West miserable.
• It is the justification for the infamous "Deep State/Intelligence Community" of other nations' control of their people, such as the spying on every American via the vote on this awful FISA-702 law Congress just renewed. And it just never stops because of Arab and Muslim hatred of Jews, traditionally ingrained in that religion, and spreading terrorism far and wide nowadays, giving the "spies" the right to seize control. But also because of Islam's intrinsic xenophobia.

Islam

Muslims hate Christianity & Christian civilization. Not as much as they hate Jews, but still, it is enough. Read John Zmirak on the attack of that bishop in Australia, and why the bishop and his people are in Australia in the first place at The Stream. A most excellent, and depressing, article.

Right now, it is self-evident that Israel is losing the Gaza war (or front or operation or whatever one calls it) – many insist it is genocide, which the Israelis consider a "blood libel", but the claim of genoide is being made, nonetheless. If true, Israel has lost what it cannot regain. Meanwhile, the West Bank is hyper-tense and war is breaking out with Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the Persians and Israelis are lobbing missiles at each other.

I certainly can't speak to allegations of Israeli genocide in Gaza. Twenty-percent of the Republic of Israel's population isn't Jewish, but Arab (Muslim and Christian). So, they obviously weren't genocidal in the past, though yes, Zionism has always wanted a JEWISH state (Islam merely wants an Islamic world). Many argue right now the new Simon bar Kokhba strives for a "Greater Israel", which would include territory (like Gaza, but much more besides) as a buffer to protect the country.

A Serious Query

What do people hating Israel want? Or what do its critics want it to do? Do they want the Jews to leave? Do they want them to confess: "Yes, we stole your desert land and created an semi-apartheid state in which we made the desert bloom as it once did before you Arabs came because after two thousand years of being robbed, murdered, and treated as pariahs, and finally slaughtered in mass by the Europeans in the Holocaust, we thought we needed a JEWISH homeland. Yet we admit we simply don't have the right to live anywhere." You want them to do that? That seems to be the idea.

Well, one can counter argue: how about we give the Americas back to the Indians. North, South, and Central – just give it back and leave. All Irish Americans can return to Ireland and all Slavic-derived Americans can go back to Russia and so forth and so on. How about that?

One can also ask quite seriously: How can any set of people mentally survive such total war, decade after decade? I don't defend genocide on either side or genocide at all in general: but in such a no-win, Hell-on-earth mess, it's no wonder they've all gone – or are going – mad. And remember that in a Muslim culture, a man can have more than one wife, and thus a LOT of children. Gaza's population explosion growth is phenomenal, and the percentage of young people is astounding. Western cultural norms, especially degenerate modern ones, can't remotely keep up in terms of number of children per father. And just how can a father be a father to 10 or 15 or 20 sons from different women?

Bottom Line
Israel either survives or it doesn't. Islam will certainly survive. Until it doesn't. But Israel? It most certainly will go the way the Crusader States did unless they nuke the Muslims. Maybe even then. It is not hard to imagine "the world" once again slaughtering Jews in rage, this time for starting a nuclear war. Iran could start using nukes and it would be a different story, somehow, wouldn't it? Or maybe the world would finally turn against Islam and decide the heirs of both Isaac and Ishmael need to depart these earthly coils.

One way or the other – unless both sides convert to Christ and forgive each other, which is, of course, very unlikely outside pure miracle and probably the Second Coming – mass slaughter will once again turn the region back into desert, and Simon bar Kokhba's unquiet ghost, and Barabbas's wandering spirit, all of the old Zealots so frustrated by Rome, will drag their chains through the empty kingdoms of Pluto once more.

AnP

Violence, Hamas attacks, Israel, Bergoglio's Church Deconstruction

Yes, all four are closely related. Five, if you include the overthrow of the U.S. government that's going on. (Beware, my friends, the officially 7 million plus illegals who have entered the U.S. under Biden are quite possibly more like double that number or more, the majority being men of military age, many from the Mid-East. See at bottom for a thought on this.*)

Amici,

Violence, Hamas attacks, Israel, Bergoglio's church deconstruction – not to mentioned the Left's ongoing seizure of power in the United States from the American people – are all indeed enmeshed in the dehumanizing will to power: to get what is wanted and to stop at nothing to get it. 

• This is pure paganism, pure Islam, itself a Gnostic religion wherein 95 percent of the Muslims have no clue they're really worshiping Aliyat, the ancient Semitic Moon Goddess, not "Allah". (See Kennedy Hall interview Lloyd De Jongh here for details.)
• Hamas has shown both an unprecedented and unbelievable level of organized sophistication in this attack. 
• They have also demonstrated an unbelievable level of pure Satanic violence. The Mainstream Media will refrain from calling it that, but it is true. They hate the Jews and Israel in classic Muslim fashion. Muhammad is said to have murdered Jews non-stop, he hated them so; the Islamic tradition makes it plain that at a certain time Jews are to be killed outright: as Sahih al-Bukhari related in an infamous hadith quoted for the past millennium, Judgment Day comes about when Muslims rise to kill Jews: "The stones and trees will say 'O Muslims, O Abdullah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him'."
  
• And they're forcing Israel to reply with unfettered violence themselves. The Israelis must do so if they are to survive. Remember, for 1300 years Islam has taught non-Muslims, especially Christians and Jews, may exist as "dhimmis", powerless third-class subjects, but that status can – and has been – rescinded at will. 
• Now new calls are being made for a general Muslim uprising en mass against Israel this Friday, October 13.
• Kill or be killed. The absolute law of the absolute jungle. All our civilized niceties done away with. World War II actually taught us all that much, but we seem to have forgotten.

This is actually our world

Hamas – which some argue Israeli Intelligence created decades ago from religious fanatics to counter Yasser Arafat's secular Palestinian group, and is obviously now a mortal enemy to Jewish people everywhere – has attacked in the most savage, barbarian seventh-century Arab pagan-Islamic extreme style, slaughtering women, children, the aged, men, all and everyone, and taking others captive to use as human shields. 

Important: No matter whatever grievances the attackers might have, or think they have, no matter the complicated and bloody history engulfing that region of the world, this utterly, utterly heartless level of atrocity has to be met with an equal savagery, if it is to be ended. Not very Christian of me, I confess; had Our Sovereign Christ been listened to 2,000 years ago, we wouldn't be in this mess. 

And I think the world would be very different indeed had Pope Paul VI not surrendered Christ's Social Kingship of the world in 1964, abandoning the Tiara Crown of the Vicar of the Universal King on the altar in the Vatican after a Mass on November 13, 1964, ostensibly to sell it to "feed the poor" (had he never read: "The poor you will always have with you, but not me"? Matt 26:11). By this act, Paul VI in reality de-enthroned both himself as Christ's vicar, and Christ Himself. The symbolism could not be missed. Abdicating kings toss off their crowns. Typical of his own idiocy and the Vatican II Church's shallow but always misinterpreted gestures, Paul thought he was being overtly pious, but in reality the hapless fool merely imitated Judas: (see John 12:5-6).

The Uses of Violence

Consider World War II. It has still lessons to teach. Had we and the Soviets not met German barbarity with its equivalent, the war might have gone on. Had we not met militaristic Japanese bloodthirstiness with its equivalent, they would have dragged out the war. They were actually counting on precisely that. They thought the more brutally they acted, the more horrified America would be. The Japanese leaders thought the USA was too multi-racial, too lazy, too interested in money (as it may now indeed be) to fight the level of warfare they calculated they needed to unleash in order to achieve their goals. 

On the other side of the world, at the same time, Hitler himself certainly thought so. It wasn't until near the end that he realized the Americans and Russians were not going to stop or be deterred, and when he did realize it, Hitler infamously ordered the destruction of Germany by the Nazis in order to punish the German people for being losers. (Albert Speer didn't carry out those orders.) Hitler also ordered Paris blown up earlier when the Allies were about to take it, but the German general involved refused to do it. This is the path of madmen: if they can't get their way, if they can't luxuriate in their narcissistic unbridled will, they'll destroy everything so no one else can have it. (What better simulacrum of Satan could there be?) Iranian leaders have boasted they'll use nuclear weapons to destroy Israel, which of course would kill millions of Palestinians. They don't care, or they think it will bring on the end of the world, Muslim Judgement Day. (It just might, but not the one they want.) Or they just say and do stupid things because they think tomorrow will be yet another copy of today. They are the damned. The "Flying Dutchman" of religions.

Where is the Church?

These are the times we live in. And in this Hell-fraught times, when the Church should be in the forefront of these crises, preaching Christ, Him Crucified, and that the world is His, and that to survive, we need to live by His teachings and repudiate our narcissistic lusts; instead of that, on the very cusp of Armageddon (this Israeli invasion of Gaza could easily lead to a much larger war, very easily, depending on how the Arab factions and states react) we have an absolute oaf in the Vatican issuing the pathetic NGO "encyclical" "Laudate Deum", a follow-up of his infamous Laudato Si' from 2015. Christ is hardly mentioned, the Faith is not mentioned, none of this Global Warming claptrap they're so besotted with has anything to do with a pope's work or the Deposit of Faith. It is all a hideous violence against EVERYTHING Catholic. And here's also this unspeakably ridiculous "Synod on Synodality" that's ditching the very Deposit of Faith – forcibly so – in favor of spoiled Westerners and their demented and deviant carnal urges. That's it. That's the dying, being replaced Vatican II Church and its successor, the limp-whispered homosexualist Synoldal Church. We are being robbed of our religious heritage, before our very eyes.

Simply insane.

Such is our world.

Pray. Fast. Recite the Rosary.

We weren't going to live forever, anyway.

Not on this Earth.

*About the flooding of America with millions of fighting-age men, many from the Middle East

Muhammad probably didn't exist. There's one reference in one ancient document (i.e. Doctrina Jacobi) contemporary to his times that references an "Arab prophet with a sword" but no details, no name, no actions does it record. For the first century of the Arab Conquest of the Persian Empire and its near conquest of the Byzantine Empire, no commentator living at that time mentions Muhammad, Islam, Muslim, or the Koran. Coins minted by the Conquerors exhibited crosses and figures of kings, all absolutely verboten by the Islam we know. So, it is likely that Islam was invented by the Umayyad leaders toward the end of that Seventh Century to give them a divine sanction for their conquest and murder and enslavement of entire peoples. (Curiously, the succeeding Abbasid dynasty, 750-1258, always said the preceding Umayyads were not real Muslims! That might be more true than we know.)

Where did the Arab conquerors come from, then? They were already there. The Arabian peninsula never at any time had the population necessary to conqueror populous and prosperous empires like the Persians and the Byzantines. Or Egypt. Or North Africa. Nor India. But we know that thousands of Arabs began migrating from the lower peninsula into both Byzantium and Persia after the Romans emptied historic Israel of its Jewish population via three horrific wars against the Jews, the first of which began forty years after Jesus Christ's death, and it destroyed the Temple and all of Jerusalem.

So, for a couple of hundred years then, parts of Persia and Byzantium, what's now Iraq and Syria and Jordan, began to host large Arab populations. Today mostly unknown or uncommented on, the great Byzantine-Sasanian War began in 602 A.D. and lasted incredibly to 628. This existential conflict had deep roots going all the way back to Alexander the Great, truth be told. It even echoed the foundational legend of the Greeks against Troy. It turned out to be the final, most devastating of all those wars, and wrecked the Sasanian Empire of Iran. Muslims begin counting their years from the Christian year of 622, which is toward the end of the Sasanian-Byzantine war. Assuming Muhammad's passage from Mecca to Medina in 622 didn't actually happen (the usual reason for starting the Muslim calendar), this date does indicate an important time for the Arabs. Certain scholars posit that this commemorates when the Arabs began to seize sections of the two empires, displacing or subjugating the indigenous peoples.

That can easily happen now in the U.S. We are broke, bitterly divided, our military is "woke" and we've given away our military resources to Ukraine and now Israel. Our country-hating Leftists are already calling for the "decolonization of America". We can have Hammas and Hezbollaha and all the rest seizing the U.S., beginning at any time now. Why can't we "get our minds around" this? The same with France. The same with Britain and Germany, Sweden and so many of the Western European countries. (Thank God for Hungary!) It could easily happen, and probably will. The invaders would be just repeating what happened in the Seventh Century.

  An Préachán