Cornerstone of Violence
August 13, 2001
As F-16’s again bomb cities of Palestine, and young men
again sacrifice their lives and the lives of others,
Martin Indyk, writing in the New York Times, proclaims
that the ‘Violence is worsening". The BBC and CNN
reports, like a Greek chorus, echo Indyk with their
reports of ‘Violence in Palestine’. The White House
issues another plea to ‘break the cycle of Violence’.
This faceless and causeless ‘Violence’ should probably
be capitalized, as the ‘Wrath’ in the first line of
Iliad. This eternal poem begins with a call to ‘sing the
Wrath of Achilles’. In Homer’s world the Wrath (or Fury,
War, Love, Hope) was a condition personified. Nowadays,
we tend to see an angry Achilles or a violent husband,
rather than Wrath or Violence per se. Unless, the abuser
is the Jewish state. In which case, we revert to the
Homeric concept of Violence as an independent being,
rather then a man-made action. People seriously discuss,
how to ‘deal with’ Violence in order to bring Peace.
In the real world, Violence is not like the weather.
Somebody does it, and we can usually identify the patch
of clouds responsible for the rain. So it was, that when
the ‘Mitchell’ process was invoked and the daily quota
of killed slowly crawled down, the Jewish supremacists
replayed the provocative visit of Sharon to the Haram a-Sharif
by laying the cornerstone of the Third Temple.
Immediately after the cornerstone provocation, Israel
followed up with a wave of assassinations in Nablus,
Ramallah and elsewhere, trying to get Palestinians to
respond in kind. It seems to be a pattern. Last
September, after Sharon’s visit to Haram a-Sharif,
Israeli Border Police murdered seven worshippers in the
Jerusalem mosque and ushered in the second Intifada.
Sharon’s assassins did not stop murders until a suicide
bomber obliged by responding.
It is no coincidence. Israel wants the Palestinian
uprising to go on. Israel wants not peace, but low
intensity conflict. A war with Palestinians allows the
Israeli leaders to keep their heterogeneous communities
together, away from each other’s throat. What is more
important, the war allows the Jewish leaders over the
world to continue their arduous task of reviving World
Jewry, a medieval run-down construct. That is why it
makes no sense to speak against ‘Violence’ and for
‘Peace’. As long as the supremacist Jewish state exists,
it will ensure violence and avoid peace.
The recent assassinations also had the intent of
covering up the cornerstone provocation under a heap of
corpses. The meaning of this obscure ceremony was
further obscured by the mainstream media, and all
references to it mysteriously vaporized. For instance,
Reuters reported on August 3, 2001: ‘Israeli police
stormed the Temple Mount, revered by Muslims as al-Haram
al-Sharif, after Palestinians threw stones at Jews
worshipping at the Western Wall below’.
Why, all of a sudden, did Palestinians begin to stone
Jews? The cornerstone story was omitted, and the average
American or European was left with the impression that
the ‘wild‘ Muslims attacked peaceful worshipping Jews
just out of spite. On this count, the unanimity of the
English-language media was horrifying. The BBC, once
more objective than American networks, closed the gap.
They also reported of ‘Israeli soldiers who entered the
mosques responding to the Muslim stone throwers’, moving
a reference to the cornerstone to the end of the item.
It now appears that the airing of the BBC documentary on
Sharon was a singular act of courage that will not soon
be repeated.
As for the American networks, their coverage continues
to be consistent. They market the Israeli line without
hesitation. That is why we shall revisit the details of
the strange, already forgotten story of the cornerstone.
This was not your average Israeli provocation. It
brought to mind the black magic incantations of Pulsa
diNura, the cabbalistic formula used on the Prime
Minister, Yitzhak Rabin. In 1995, the Israeli media
covered a gathering of the important Cabbalists who
invoked evil spirits and beseeched them to extinguish
the Prime Minister’s life. Soon afterwards, Rabin was
assassinated by a Jewish religious fanatic. An organizer
of the Pulsa diNura ceremony was tried by Israeli court
of law and sent to jail, for incitement to murder. You
do not have to believe in black magic in order to
understand the logic of the judge.
In order to comprehend the idea of the cornerstone
laying, imagine: you wake up one beautiful Sunday
morning in your suburban home, have your coffee and
proceed to your church. There you encounter a commotion.
In front of the church, a band of men, well protected by
armed soldiers and police, are busy installing a huge
billboard saying ‘On this place, a synagogue will be
erected in 2001’. On the background, there is the roar
of bulldozer engines and the amplified voice of a Rabbi
blessing the new synagogue. You would probably feel as
hysterical as the hero of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to The
Galaxy. Supplant your parish church by St Peter or the
Holy Sepulchre, and you will understand the feelings of
Jerusalemites.
Though the Temple Mount Loyalists, the group that
performed this magic ceremony, is tiny and hardly
mainstream, one can’t say that about the body that gave
them the green light. Overruling the police’ objection,
the Supreme Court, the highest Jewish legal authority,
permitted them to do their act on an auspicious date,
the 9th day of the Moon month of Ab, with all its mystic
meaning. All the might of the Jewish state, including
thousands of policemen and army, was mobilized to allow
the ceremony to take place. That is why one can compare
the pithy Loyalist band with the sharp thin end of the
dental pick in the hands of a dentist, pushing it far
inside the tooth, in order to check whether the nerve is
dead.
The results of this painful examination were
unambiguous. The nerve was apparently alive, and the
quick mobilization of the Palestinians forced the Jews
to re-route the Loyalists’ procession. The ceremony took
place outside the Old City, a little earlier than
planned. It lasted for a few minutes, and the stone was
returned to its usual place, in the deep protective
shadow of the US Consulate. This push of the pick caused
sharp pain and the predictable response of the
Jerusalemites, and afterwards, the vicious attack of the
police on the believers in the mosque. What was the
reason of all the trouble? Why did the Palestinian kids
dare to confront the Border Police, famous for their
brutality? Why was the cornerstone so important?
Many Jews and their Christian-Zionist allies believe the
precious beauty of Haram a-Sharif, the 7th century
mosques of Jerusalem should be destroyed and on their
ruins, a Jewish temple should be erected. Why should
this be done? people provide different explanations,
historical and eschatological. It is not for some
historical justice, or for the purpose of prayer, as
traditional Judaism forbade all interaction with the
Mountain of the Lord. Some mystically inclined Jews
believe this act will make Jewish domination of the
world total and irreversible. This belief is not an
exclusive domain of kooks and freaks, nor even of
Zionists only, but rather a widespread conviction.
The mainstream media of the West usually presents the
conflict in terms of Muslims vs. Jews. But the conflict
as seen by these Jews, is Jews vs. Gentiles. In their
minds, the Temple Mount is a magic Ring of Power, one
they should assume when the time is right. As the Ring
in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings (the British professor
was a very learned man), it should bring forth the
Messiah. For the Jewish mystics, this Messiah is not the
Christian Messiah. In their book, the Messiah is not a
gentle Jesus with a message for all mankind. Their
Messiah would forever enslave the nations of the earth
and make the Chosen people the masters of the universe.
Their Messiah, Lord Enslaver of the Peoples of Earth, is
the Antichrist of prophecies.
As the digits of millennia jump from 1 to 2 on the meter
of our Cosmic Cabby, apocalyptic thoughts come into
otherwise sane heads. This is not the first time some
Jews dream of world domination and of the eternal
kingdom of Antichrist. Only now, they have in their
possession nuclear weapons, the latest jets and
battleships, huge wealth, the blind support of the US,
tens of millions of willing ‘Christian Zionist’ slaves,
and a broad web of tame and docile international media.
It is not mystics only. Ten years ago, a leading Israeli
journalist, Nahum Barnea, wrote in Yediot Aharonot: ‘For
decades the Jews tried hard to refute the myth (of
Jewish domination of the world and of enslavement of
Gentiles) treating it as a morbid manifestation of
anti-Semitism. Now some Jews even believe it’. The late
Jewish thinker, Israel Shahak commented: ‘The ruling
Likud party (let alone the extreme right-wing) genuinely
believes in the myth’.
The leading Israeli daily, Haaretz reported that Sharon,
like Barak before him, sneaks out to visit the wizards
of Cabbala for advice. It is all quite fashionable;
Cabbala schools, courses and shops drew their net over
the Jewish state. The Holy Land turns into a Waste Land
according to their guidelines. This is not a matter of
chance. Cabbala is ascribed to the first century mystic
Simeon b. Yohai, whose best known maxim reads, ‘Smash
the head of the best of snakes, kill the best of
Gentiles’.
This archaic model of domination, genocide and
enslavement calls for archaic religious content. Many
Israelis sense the re-emergence of the ancient spirit of
hate and dominance. The weekend supplement of Haaretz
published a short story of an American president who
tried to disobey the orders of the Cabbalists and was
removed by his subordinates. The Jews are destined to
rule the world, preached Rabbi Leichtman, a leading
Cabbalist, in a long article printed in Vesti, a
Russian-Israeli paper. In the chat rooms of the Israeli
Internet, one can find more heady stuff. They quote an
old poem by Uri Zvi Greenberg, a late Hebrew poet, who
called for extermination of the Gentiles. Greenberg did
not limit himself to Palestinians, like the late
Menachem Begin, nor only to Arabs, like the highest
spiritual authority in Israel, Rabbi Obadiah Joseph. The
extermination of Edom, a traditional code word for
European and American Gentiles, appears as a plausible
option in the feverish minds of Cabbala followers.
This feeling spills into the Jewish diaspora. In the
heart of the US, in Atlanta, there was a recent debate
in the Jewish Community Centre in presence of the
Israeli Consul, a Jewish businessman, a prominent
Atlanta rabbi and a NY Times reporter. An observer wrote
to me, ‘I was struck mostly by the comments of the
rabbi. While claiming to be a non-Zionist, he declared
(we have him on tape) that the ultimate reason for
creating Israel, as he interprets it, is to become the
world's controller of power and wealth. Jews will
eventually overthrow world governments and be assigned
positions to lead the world. This, he felt, will occur
in a short number of years’.
At the other end of the world, in Russia, a Jewish
follower of Sharon’s own ultra-Nationalist Jabotinsky
movement, ‘Eliezer Dacevich-Voronel’, who described
himself as a Jewish University Professor, composed a
poem: ‘We, the Chosen Ones, are united by hatred to the
slave tribes that rose, dethroned our ancestors and
rejected our God. Once you knew of your place in the
world, a swine must stay in its sty. You revolted, and
forced us to serve you, but now your end is nigh. We are
your masters. You are our slaves. This is God’s design.
Soon our sun will rise again, and the slaves would not
dare to look at it. And then, the Lord of My People will
appear in Heaven, while we, the dozen of dozen thousands
(i.e. 144,000) of Chosen Ones will sit it the great
amphitheatre and watch the miserable columns of souls
crawling into their paradise. By God’s will, we shall
name it Auschwitz’.
They even speak of genetically re-constructing the King
of the Antichrist. The brilliant maverick, Dr Avi Ben
Abraham, seems to be the man behind the project. This
unusual man recently returned to Israel after some years
in California, where he worked on a Star Trek-like Deep
Freeze project for very wealthy Jews. Loaded with money,
Ben Abraham built a palace in Caesarea on the seashore
of Mediterranean, some 50 km north of Tel Aviv, and
contacted the Italian genetic expert, Dr Severino
Antinori. Ben Abraham, who received his doctor of
medicine degree at the unheard of age of 18, hinted at
his plans in an interview with Haaretz. A few days ago,
his project received some benign attention from The New
York Daily News, the newspaper of Mortimer Zuckerman, a
Jewish supremacist billionaire and the head of
Conference of Jewish American Organisations.
The men of hate and vengeance are ready to seize the
magic ring of power, the Temple Mount, to enforce and
perpetuate the rule of the Antichrist. But it can not be
done by brute force, due to a medieval prohibition,
Issur Homah. A premature action could backfire. A Jewish
religious leader from Brooklyn, Lubavitcher Rebbe, was
considered by his disciples a potential Messiah, and
that is why he never ever came to the Holy Land. He did
not feel himself ready for the trial of forces.
Meanwhile, the children of Palestine, brothers of Faris
Ode, nephews of Christ keep these religious fanatics at
bay. Now, Sharon and his band of mad believers try their
hand by snatching the Orient House, a Husseini mansion
in Jerusalem. If this is allowed to quietly pass, it
will make for one more step to the Ring of Power.
The soul-searching Russian writer, Eugene Zamyatin,
composed a short fable of Gospel quality. It is a story
of a man who decided to build a temple, but had no
money. He waylaid a merchant on the highway, tortured
him to death, extracted a lot of cash and built the
temple. He invited a Bishop and many priests and
ordinary folks, but in a short time they left the
church: the place stank of murder. One can not build the
temple on the blood of innocents. An elder contemporary
of Zamyatin, a Jewish thinker from Odessa, the
‘spiritual Zionist’ Ahad HaAm, put it in simple and
beautiful words:
- If this be the Messiah, I do not wish to see his
coming.