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

Kennedy Hall's Litany of Truth, with My Comments

Amici,

Mr Kennedy Hall, traditional Catholic apologist and podcaster, has up on his Substack the following "Litany of Truth" and challenges his readers to put it up. I gladly accept the challenge as I agree with a lot of what he writes anyway, though I don't think Bergoglio is an actual Pope, as Mr Hall does, and I refuse to call that, ahem, individual, anything but his actual name. (I.e. "The Old Devil" or "The Ogre" and other such.) But, whatever. I assume Mr Hall takes this position because it is the SSPX's position on Bergoglio. (And Mr Hall is 110 percent SSPX.)

So, here it is in boldcase. My comments – exhibiting my rather morbid, off-the-wall humor – are in parens; ().

Litany of Truth

I have a challenge for you. (Mr Kennedy writes.) Over the next few weeks, I challenge my readers to utter any of these truths in mixed company or online in an open forum.

• Feminism is transgenderism (Ah, and here I've always wondered why some feminists were so darned ugly.)
  
• Judaism is definitionally the religion of Antichrist (First off, any organized group that rejects Christ can be said to be "anti-Christ" to begin with. Islam certainly is. Secondly, this is a way to target Jews and in turn is a great way to get targeted by Jews. One can also ask: Which Judaism? There are so many Judaisms to choose from. Most of them "not-religious". I know, I know, but hey, that's Judaism today. And anyway, if you have four Jews, you have five opinions, goes the old saying. This is, truly, a quagmire.)
  
• The Novus Ordo is an abomination and should be destroyed (I think it died 30 years ago and it has been rattling chains ever since. For myself, I often wonder what my life would have been been like were I to have had unfettered access to the TLM from 1965 to 1985, instead of all those decades of spiritual "junk food". We were all robbed, AND LIED TO, and now Bergoglio is apparently going to change it all again. I hope he does, because that will FINALLY blow it all up. Good riddance.)
  
• Sodomy cries out to heaven (Isn't that called "squeaking from the feeling"? Sorry, couldn't resist. Sodomy is more than carnal depravity: it's the deepest anti-Life heresy.)
• Mohammed is in Hell with Martin Luther and Maimonides (As a cousin of You-Know-Who, I suspect Maimonides now has a luxury car dealership in Upper Purgatory. Seriously, Muhammad [proper spelling] and Luther did true and lasting harm to the Body of Christ resulting in the loss of millions of souls; Maimonides was a physician and philosopher quoted by Aquinas, who called him "The Rabbi".)
• There is no salvation outside the Catholic Church (And Mr Kennedy Hall, there's supposed to be salvation within THIS Bergoglioan Catholic Church?!?)
• Surrogacy is human trafficking (No argument here! And U.S. Catholic Charities is up to its eyebrows in trafficking kids across the U.S. Southern Border. It's wicked, wicked, and evil altogether.)
• Justin Trudeau is Fidel Castro’s son (And both just as stupid AND as ugly as his pa.)
• Freedom of speech is a liberal heresy and is unacceptable to Catholics (And...? And? Then what? Are Catholics supposed to let BERGOGLIO tell them what to think? Or Paul VI? All censorship raises the question of who does the censoring: there's no way to confirm the good being censored as well as the bad. But also, who is going to take it from me? Bergoglio? Tucho? Leftists in general? They'd better not. I, for one, can become suddenly very pagan, indeed.)
  
• Vatican II was a complete disaster and should be done away with (No argument here, either.)
• There is no such thing as religious liberty because there is no such thing as liberty for heresy (Then there's no crown for having Faith, either. Think about it.)
• Porn addiction is rampant amongst most men, even many trad Catholics, and men who watch porn should be slapped silly until they wise up (This is another truth of this Satan-begotten Age, but God has always kept a pretty large Remnant.)
• The bishops who have covered up for perverts or promoted sodomy would be exiled to the desert — or worse — in a saner time (St John Chrysostom, died 407 A.D., wrote that the road to Hell was paved with bishops' skulls. This is a problem that is always with us.)
  
• Israel is a genocidal state, and Hamas is following Islam to the letter (Regarding Islam: That's what you get when you worship the Moon and murder people. Otherwise, nope, sorry. Know that a little over 7 million Israeli citizens are Jews, with around 2,080,000 people who are Israeli citizens being Arabs, whether Muslim or Christian or whatever. If Israel was "genocidal", none of these would exist: hence, it is not genocidal. This I cannot emphasize enough. If one cannot be scrupulous in telling the truth in one thing, who will trust them saying anything else? [Yes, Gaza, Gaza, Gaza; but that's an entire article by itself.])
• Zionism is Satanic (That just gives insane fuel to every radical Muslim who wants to kill all the Jews on Earth. And 100s of millions of Muslims want to do just that. Christians do not want to kill Jews and Jews do not want to kill Christians. Muslims want to liquidate both. The bottom line is simple: Should God not be with Zionism, as many hyper-Orthodox rabbis argue He is not, then it will fail. Gamaliel would state that. On the other hand, if they ever start rebuilding the Temple, we can expect Armageddon, from any number of different angles.)
• Any bishop who works against Tradition is doing the work of Satan (Vatican II bishops have disregarded Tradition; Tradition is defined by St. Paul in First Corinthians, chapters 11 and 15. So, this is painfully obvious.)
• Popesplainers suffer from cult-like psychology and metaphysically view the pope like Muslims view Allah — he can contradict himself and change his will at any time (Yep. Yet YOU accept Bergoglio as pope, too. That's simply crazy.)
• People who want to force you to get vaccinated are perverts who want to stick you with something that you don’t want in your body (Definitely.)
• Evolution is a Gnostic creation myth that has no support from sound natural science and any Catholic “apologist” who promotes it is doing the work of the Devil, whether he knows it or not (Evolution is a lot of things, and all of them are bad.)
• Come on guys, I say these things on a routine basis on my podcast, it shouldn’t be so hard to say at least one of these things.

AnP again:

Well, I've listed them, with my comments. FWIW.

 Pax vobiscum.

  An Préachán

Ireland in Uproar; the Reality of Population Replacement: Irish Edition

A Chairde, Friends, Amici,

Ireland is a microcosm of Europe.

And as with France a few months ago, Ireland, specifically Dublin, is in chaos.

A broad daylight knife attack on a woman and three children (and a man) has started riots in North Dublin.

1. And it is brought on by the insane government policy of stuffing the country full of "immigrants" from far-flung countries having completely different cultures and religious beliefs.
   
2. All Western Europe is roiling with this utter insanity, this Replace the Indigenous Population Program that is swamping the USA, as well. 
3. But the Globalists are insisting on replacing native populations in a Great Migration 2.0 (the last one occurring after the fall of the Roman Empire). And no matter what the original citizens think, they are being steamrolled. That's true wherever this phenomenon occurs.
   

It is truly insane. Unskilled, backward, Muslim invaders into Europe – for the most part, though this does involve others, such as Chinese and sub-Saharan Africans, etc. – and into the USA, an endless torrent of mostly Meso- and South Americans, but lately with a very large dose of Chinese and Islamists. Why?

1. Extreme numbers of immigrants not only overwhelm culture, they overwhelm the economic system. 
2. They drive wages down but social costs of every kind up. It's nuts. 
3. This program only makes sense as a Civilization Snuffing invasion scheme, of course: Crash the nation-state, crash national identity constitutes the over-all program while traditional Western family structures are also trashed out via carnal perversions – mainly by Marxism in Entertainment and psychology, and in large part by bewildered and befuddled Social Gospel Protestant Churches and a hideously faux-Catholic Church that Bergoglio is flooding us with like an overflowing septic tank. See this story for an example of how Bergoglio and his creatures work. This story is the ecclesiastical mirror image of what the secular governments are doing to their people. The mirror image.

The Irish Story

If you've been following the news, you know that Irish people are rioting in Dublin about this stabbing attack on children (and two adults) by a Muslim immigrant, said to be Algerian. Algeria is a backward, brutal Islamic hell. This individual is a naturalized Irish citizen, apparently, and has been in the country some 20 years. Yet even so the officials are reticent to release information about him. They desperately want to control the narrative yet people are fed up with the manipulation.

Three children were knifed, and a woman who worked at their school. Ironically, it was an Irish-language school, ‘Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire’. That's Mary Mother of God's Irish school. The image of a Muslim maniac knifing Irish-language primary schoolers at a school named for the Mother of God – whom you may remember Muslims teach Muhammad daily rapes in Allah's paradise – is a sign that signifies. If you know Dublin, this is in the near north Dublin, just off Parnell Square, close to the northern end of the city’s main thoroughfare, O’Connell Street. The attack occurred a little after 2 p.m., and the knife, which passersby wrestled away from the lunatic, was thrown into the greenery of the Garden of Remembrance (An Gairdín Cuimhneacháin) that commemorates the various Irish "Risings" against the English. How ironic. How symbolic. The Garden features a wonderful bronze, The Children of Lir. See photos here of it. 

Again, the significance! What with three children harmed in the attack, one critically wounded, a girl, this couldn't get more poignant. If you don't know the legend of the Clann Lir, look it up. Three kids. The oldest a girl. Lost nearly forever.

Rair has more info. Apparently one of the passersby was a Brazilian. This follows the death over a year ago of an Irish woman, a teacher, one Aishling Murphy, killed by a Slovakian immigrant. It took them a year to convict this murderer and he'll reside in incarcerated splendor at the largess of the Irish taxpayer for the rest of his damnable life.

When I was there 16 years ago or so now (tempus fugit), some Lithuanian immigrant got drugged up and used a knife to try to slit a young woman's throat because he wanted to rob her for money pay for his drug habit. The judge tried to get her to forgive her attacker so he wouldn't spend so much time in jail. I'm not making this up. You can imagine what I would have liked to do to the judge, 1500 years of Christianity or no; or to the assailant. That's a father of kids writing.

Another link to the current story exists here. And two older headlines to give you an idea of what Ireland is like now:

• African Gangs Attack Irish People After Knife-Wielding Criminal Shot Dead By Police
• An Irish teen protects a friend from an invader's knife attack.

An Irish sports hero, Conor McGregor, has been commenting on this current atrocity, and he is exactly right. For example:

Conor McGregor: Isn’t that something. The absolute picture of weak and feeble. The most divisive of all is the weak man. One of the most horrific crimes this nation ever seen has occurred, we do not care anymore what you sad cases have got to say. In a war you are nothing. We are not backing down, we are only warming up. There will be no backing down until real change is implemented for the safety of our nation. We are not losing any more of our woman and children to sick and twisted people who should not even be in Ireland in the first place. Call it what you want. We do not care. May God help us all. Ireland for victory.

Commentary

Look, everyone. This evil is intolerable. It's happening everywhere. The occurrences are increasing rapidly. The Mainstream Media howls that anyone who opposed this population replacement and indigenous demoralization and civilizational alienation scheme is a "Right-wing Extremist." This is standard, but the level of lies is rising now to a Krakatoa-level reaction.

• They're saying about Geert Wilders new electoral victory in the Netherlands that this mainstay of the Dutch political scene is a right-wing fanatic...
  
• And they keep repeating the same about Javier Milei's victory in Argentina. 
• And not just Milei. Javier Milei's vice-president happens to be a SSPX Latin Mass devotee, and the press is saying, according to Fr. Z, "Victoria Villarruel, 48, who was elected with the recent victory of her running-mate Milei, has been described as a member of “a marginal and ultra-conservative Catholic faction” and someone who engages in “secret rituals” (the ancient Latin liturgy) by the Argentine press. She particularly drew criticism for her reported attendance of a Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) chapel in downtown Buenos Aires...". Fr Z links to the original story in the Catholic Herald.
  
• If you read the American Mainstream Media, you get all sorts of crazy lies about Donald Trump mass arresting or shooting people en masse when he is re-elected. 

N.B. I worked for a while as a substitute teacher in Columbus, Ohio's public schools, back when Bill Clinton was dumping Somalian "refugees" in Milwaukee and some in Columbus. The African-American teachers were in utter despair. Most of them were women and they could not control these "kids", the boys, who thought women were slaves and cretins. These "students" would just wander from room to room during class. Rape was common. I remember one lady saying to me in despair, "They don't even know what a toilet is for!" Right, the USA or European nations need "immigrants" like these?

The Crescendo

The tide seems to be turning, what with important elections in The Netherlands and in Argentina. Unless they murder him or try to steal the election again, Trump will triumph over any Democrat who runs. The Left is truly "freaking out". They are using Saul Alinksy's program to the point where everyone who is not a zombie is laughing at them. Remember the four years of lies about Trump we had to endure? And three (was it three?) impeachments, and now four indictments or so. They want that man destroyed. This is how unhinged the Left is.

Or is it the Left? Who is running the show? The World Economic Forum? Klaus Schwab and Yuval Harari are pathetic. They're jokes. Look at them. Listen to them. James Bond movie villains. So who? Xi, the dictator-for-life of China? Is it the big bankers, or BlackRock and Vanguard, who own the world? Is it the Intelligence Services, like the CIA, FBI, Mossad, or whatever the Chinese call their version of these? 

Whatever else these Hidden Big Shots are, they are Globalists, and they control Western governments. Neither the USA nor Canada nor the countries of the EU rule themselves, except scattered bits here and there, and for a handful of outlier nations, such as Hungary under Viktor Orbán. He's kept Hungary from being inundated with crazed foreigners, as Ireland is.

I lived in Ireland off and on for years. Met a few politicians. The national-level ones were store mannequins, like the media and police and bureaucrat idiots that Conor McGregor excoriates today. They gave every indication of being actors, front men, playing roles written for them.

Irish History

The whole point of having an independent Ireland, so thought all those idealists and revolutionaries and statesmen of the past, was that an Irish government would govern FOR the Irish people, and not exploit them. Certainly not REPLACE THEM. The English tried to do exactly that a number of times, such as the infamous Plantation of Ulster, and finally allowed the 1840s potato blight to create a famine while withholding food from the starving Irish. That, finally, worked. Sort of. 

They wrecked the country, killing one million out of eight, and forcing another million to immigrate. The psychological trauma was profound. Mass EMIGRATION became the norm. The population fell to five million for the next 100 years. The Irish gave up (not entirely, but to a large extent) their language and their identity. Even laid as low as that, however, the people still forced the creation of the "Free State" in the 1920s, and post-World War II, the "republic" (never called that; merely "the state"). 

But the English had spent hundreds of years centralizing Ireland and creating a centralized and very British bureaucracy. That stayed behind after the English left; only a handful of bureaucrats exited, and Ireland became a purely bureaucratic state run in such a way to keep the people from developing the country themselves, and forcing continued emigration. Then they joined the EU, started up the "Celtic Tiger" economy, developed a lot of jobs and imported more, but even then, the system was sick. I remember seeing a government pamphlet addressed to the Irish who had emigrated in the previous few decades asking them NOT TO COME BACK! Telling them that although the economy was better, they would not be welcome because Ireland had changed since they left, and they would not fit into the "new Ireland."

It is going to take a true revolution to drive such evil manipulators from the Irish government, and a true revolution to exorcise the demons Ireland has let in. But the people won't get help from the Irish Church. That's a wound that keeps on cursing.

   An Préachán 

Part III Dr. Bryan Ardis, Catholics, and Jews, and just about everybody else...

Friends,

Here's Part III of my rant involving Bryan Ardis and Catholics. It is also the end of the rant.

In these dire, dire times, it is sanity we need, not Jack Chick. Oh, yeah: And it's wrong to scapegoat.

Dr. Bryan Ardis asserting the Church is the mastermind behind the Covid farce and that it is "evil, pure and simple, from the eighth dimension" (if I may quote the famous Buckaroo Banzai comment out of context) stands as a truly lunatic observation. It's like saying Jews, as a group, are behind all the evil in the world. But "Those Jews! They did it!" remains a widely held theory about a lot of things because, like the Church and unlike the Freemasons (or since the latter are so secretive, maybe so), Jews are everywhere and often in positions of power and influence. (Freemasons might be, but they work to occlude themselves from sight.) Right now, Jews constitute the Biden Regime's top people, while in comparison, all most all U.S. Supreme Court justices are Catholics. Representatives of both groups seem concentrated in positions of great power and influence. That gets noticed.

Yet what does that prove, exactly?

Does it prove it is religion that's the issue? Very religious groups of Jews exist, but they are no more likely to be found in high levels of power than Trad Catholics would be. The "System", the "Deep State" loathes them. Thus, the more Orthodox Jew or Trad Catholic you are, the less likely you'll find yourself in "The Club". Biden himself, an immorally putrid man, is (supposed to be) a Catholic. Anthony Fauci was a Catholic at some point. George Soros was born a Jew. In any event, those kinds of bad Catholics rise to the top levels of power.

And all that is just one reason why many scapegoat either Jews and Catholics. The "religious" among them are spotlighted while the anti-religious ones (Soros is an example) are ignored. Interesting they're both also often accused of destroying the "Christian World", isn't it?

• And regarding Jews and Covid: the classic paradigm of every Jewish mother is that she wants her son to be a doctor.
  
• Jews play a stupendous role in both mainstream and non-mainstream medicine.
  
• So, Dr. Ardis, why don't you suspect Jewish medical elites with foul play? Would that be racist? Or anti-Semitic?
  
• It's no wonder Dr. Ardis demonizes Catholics and not Jews, any more than he why he refrains from demonizing Muslims. Neither Jews nor Muslims nor tolerate this paranoia, even in those cases where it isn't paranoid at all. (Evil people exist in every ethnic/religious group!) With the Muslims, such a accusations as Ardis makes will lose you your head; with the Jews, expect to be a lot poorer and marginalized. Alas, as E. Michael Jones knows all too well, any criticism of any Jews brings harassment and headaches only the strongest-willed can endure.
  
• Yet it is precisely that sort of Jewish defense which only makes people who really hate Jews qua Jews hate them all the more. Bad players can use it as a get-out-of-jail-card. It is badly self-defeating for Jews, as Jones has so often pointed out. It was self-defeating for the Church to cover up the sex scandals. It is self-defeating for Black Americans to use it, as well, as in the case of George Floyd. (Actually, Freemasons used to do the same thing: my mother told me about a child-molester back in 1920s Columbus, Ohio, who was caught molesting children but he got off completely because he was a Mason.)
  

"Human shields"

Individual or groups of immoral men can use either the Church or the Jewish community or being Black to shield themselves from scrutiny or even the law. This is truly using fellow humans as "human shields". They know they'll be defended. That no longer works for the Church because the sex scandals were so indefensible and because the Church is so openly loathed by our hedonistic society. But Jews will stop at nothing to defend Jews, no matter how bad certain individuals or groups might be, because they think – or claim to believe – examples of Jews doing bad things will trigger the Holocaust all over again.

 

Catholic and Jewish parallels

Ironically, except that Catholics usually submit profusely to criticism, as exampled by Bergoglio apologizing to Canadian Indians recently, Catholics and Jews have a lot in common, to be sure. They're both "elitist" in a sense. Religious Jews claim they have a special and absolutely one-off relationship with God no one else has, and Trad Catholics claim to be the one, true Church that Our Lord personally founded. (Vatican II Catholics are all over the board on that, and probably most don't believe it. Talk to Bishop Barron if you want more weasel words about Catholic belief in your life.)

So why the age-old fight between Jews and Catholics? An essential parallel between them actually holds the answer:

1. As Jews claim to be the one and only "Israel of God", so Catholics indeed claim to BE Jews, the "Israel of God", themselves – a claim going back to St. Paul. (Protestants have always hated that, as do the Orthodox. If Ardis is either of those, that might explain a lot.)
   
2. That was the origin of the eternal fight between Jews and Catholics, that and the obvious corollary in Catholic thinking that if Jews want to be true Jews, they need to convert.
   
3. But the Vatican II Church has absolutely flat-out run away from this ancient dogma...
4. ...Yet the Church can't. Why? To do so is to deny the point of the Church: to blaspheme the Incarnation, Christ, and His Sacrifice, which establish the Seventh Covenant. And that is because:
   
5. The whole point of the religion: i.e. Christianity (Historical, sacrament-based Christianity) is the Seventh Covenant, the capstone Covenant of the Six Old Testament Covenants, and the reason God established them.
   
6. To say certain groups need not covert is ipso-facto to damn the Church's entire raison d'être for existence in the first place. And it is that that serves as the kernel of the trouble Modernist Catholicism has – and that ruined the Vat2 Church. As they don't believe the ancient dogma, they can hardly get anyone else to believe it, either.
   
7. In any event, the two-millennia-long contention between Jews and orthodox, Catholic Christians is unfortunately just baked into the cake from the beginning. But it need not be – ever – violent. And in any case, of course, Jews born to Jewish mothers – the best possible way to be a Jew – do convert to Catholicism from time to time. Look at the Twelve Apostles. Or Saul of Tarsus, a.k.a. St. Paul. Our Lord Christ Himself, Who was born to a Jewish mother, and it from her he received both His humanity and His Jewishness. It is hardly a new thing, and were the Vatican II Church's 60-year-old "protocols" about converting Jews had been practiced from the beginning, we'd have no Church at all!)

The Nazis and Communists

So, that's the theology behind the fight between Jews and Catholics. It's an exclusivity Protestants have always rejected. Totally unrelated to all that, however, new problems arose in the modern world in the last 100-plus years, such as the Theory of Evolution and the resultant Nazis and the Communists. Nazis want to kill all Jews to improve the evolution of the human race. Literally murder them all. (The original Fascists, like Mussolini or Franco, were not anti-Semitic. Hitler had to order the Italian Fascists to kill Jews.) Communists want to absorb them into new Socialist Man. "A Jew who is a Socialist is a Socialist first", goes an old saying. Same with Catholics, as per the example of Bella Dodd.

Since the Holocaust that the Nazis perpetrated on millions of Jews (and other groups) in their worship of Darwin, however, the Western collective guilt regarding the Jew was – and is today – very powerful, and in this guilt abides a the major reason why modern Israel exists. Had there been no Hitler, there probably wouldn't be a Republic of Israel. Antagonism between Jews and Christians would still have existed, sure, since that seems endemic for the two religions, as explained above.

But the Nazis did exist. Some Jews (by no means all) insist that "Christian Europe" either gave rise to Nazism, that Nazis constituted a form of Christian, or that the Nazis were caused by Christianity's traditional attitudes toward Jews. These want to see Christianity crippled and thus no longer a threat to them. Yet oddly, when it comes to Islam, which from time to time would simply slaughter entire populations of Jews, or force them to convert to Islam en masse, as Muhammad himself did, this sort of query never seems to arise.

1. Whether any postwar churchmen believed that Nazi origin tale (it wasn't true; the Nazis were narcissistic, sexually and morally perverted pagans motivated far more by Charles Darwin and self-love), by the early 1960s, Christians certainly felt guilt about what happened, and many Churchmen, (as I keep saying in other posts), felt the impotence of the Church in having positive effect on the world.
   
2. Had the Church "declared war" on Nazism, doing continent-wide what the Dutch Christians (Protestant and Catholic) tried to do in 1941-42, the Nazis would have shot every priest and nun they could get their claws on. Staring with Pius XII.
   
3. It would have been horrific, and yet afterward, the Church's sacrifice would have elevated its standing in the world tremendously. "The blood of the martyrs would have been the seed of the Church's renaissance." Vatican II would never have been called.

But that's not what happened, and today any criticism of Jews remains taboo; it is immediately condemned as being "anti-Semitic". (Except, of course, when Muslims do it.)

• But no one and no group is above criticism. It's a mistake to try to single out anyone for being beyond any sort of reproach.

Dr. Bryan Ardis

So Dr. Bryan Ardis avoids accusing the Jews, even though, of all groups of people, they are truly major players in "Big Med", and government, etc. Dr. Ardis is also clearly ignorant of ALL of these modern Catholic problems I've mentioned above. For whatever reason, whether raised anti-Catholic or just burned out after a lifetime of fighting hopelessly against "Big Med" (he was a chiropractor), Ardis comes across as utterly exhausted and a bit crazy.

And he certainly believes the whole Church is evil. He thinks it has always been evil. He refers to dates in the 1850s about the Church trying to take over America – that's pure Know Nothing/American Party (1844-1860) Protestant boilerplate. Yet despite all this, Ardis is a major player in fighting against the deadly Covid tyranny that threatens to enslave us all.

 

That he thinks the way he does is outrageous and depressing; that it isn't answered is intolerable, but Ardis himself is necessary. That puts us in a non-kosher pickle, doesn't it?

An Préachán