Easter Offensive 2
By Israel
Shamir
The war in Palestine
became a part of the global war between followers and deniers of
Christ. It is not an accident that at the same time, the Virgin in
Bethlehem was shelled[i] by Jewish tanks; in the US and
elsewhere, the Jewish-dominated media[ii] began a vicious smear campaign
against Catholic clergy; while in France, a film Amen
denigrating the late Pope Pius came to cinemas. Suggestively, the
Cross on the movie’s posters turns into Nazi swastika.
I
Wait, - a reader
proclaims. The Virgin was indeed shelled at fifty yards, but do not
get carried away. The media just reported real or alleged sexual
transgressions committed recently by Catholic priests in a few
countries. That is the duty of the press.
While report of every
single misdeed may be true or not, their grouping lies in the eye of
the beholder, i.e. the media. The media grouped the events into a
single tendency, by picking separate events and creating a
world-wide conspiracy of the priests to abuse children, a par with
the blood libel of old. While they did it to priests, they carefully
avoid doing it to the Nation of Priests.
We read of ‘the wave of priests’ rapes”, but we never read
of ‘Jewish financial machinations’. In such a case, there are
‘separate misdeeds of separate persons who happened to be Jews’. For
instance, a small item in NY Times reported on alleged conspiracy
between Goldman, Saks investment bankers and Robert Maxwell. These
Jewish tycoons joined forces and swindled thousand English employees
of Maxwell’s media empire. The workers lost their pension funds;
Goldman and Maxwell pocketed the cash and shipped a share of it to
Israel. While giving the facts, the NY Times avoided a reference to
the perpetrators’ Jewishness. This praiseworthy political
correctness is dropped when it comes to the Church.
The present crisis in
Zimbabwe provides another example. The media reported at length
about the attempted framing of the opposition leader into an
assassination plot against the president Mr Robert Mugabe, but the
personality standing behind the plot and/or the frame-up remained
unknown. Very few papers, among them a British weekly, the
Economist, told its readers that it was an Israeli officer who
claimed expertise on political assassinations. But the Economist
avoided bringing up a long line of politicians who were kidnapped
and/or assassinated by Jews and Israelis. Among them we would find
not only old cases of a German ambassador in Paris in 1938, or
attempt at Lenin’s life in 1918, or assassination of Lord Moyne in
Cairo in 1944, and the UN Swedish envoy Count Folke Bernadotte in
1948, but fresh cases of kidnapping and assassination of the
Moroccan opposition leader Ben Barka and a failed kidnapping attempt
of a Nigerian minister in 1970s. The list of assassinated
Palestinians would be too long for the article. Still, the
newspapers did not write ‘Jews again at assassination games’,
rightly avoiding generalisations. It is just for the clergy the
generalising headline implying that ‘priests are paedophiles’ was
found suitable. Thus, the Jewish-dominated media continues its
struggle against the church, by applying double standard to
misbehaving priests and misbehaving Jews.
II
The factual side of Pope
Pius controversy was described many times: accusations of Mad
Goldhagen, reduction of Goldhagen’s arguments by Norman Finkelstein,
many articles pro and contra, make it unnecessary to enter the
subject. It is enough to say that during WWII, the NY Times praised
Pius for being the only major figure in Europe who was not silent
about racial persecution: “a lonely voice crying out in the silence
of a continent.”
The attack on the Pope
fits too neatly into general anti-Christian rant of the Jewish
Hollywood, where Christianity is typically portrayed as evil. ‘For
example, in the film Monsignor (1982), a Catholic priest
commits every imaginable sin, including the seduction of a glamorous
nun and then is involved in her death. In Agnes of God
(1985), a disturbed young nun gives birth in a convent, murders her
baby, and then flushes the tiny, bloody corpse down the toilet.
There are also many subtle anti-Christian scenes in Hollywood films,
such as when the director Rob Reiner repeatedly focuses on the tiny
gold crosses worn by Kathy Bates, the sadistic villain in
Misery[iii].
“Hollywood has portrayed
Christians as sexually rigid, devil worshipping cultists, disturbed,
hypocritical, fanatical, psychotic, dishonest, murder suspects,
Bible quoting Nazis, slick hucksters, deranged preachers etc”, wrote
J.W.Cones[iv], while Joe Sobran rightly
concluded, ‘Pius XII isn't Goldhagen's ultimate target; Christianity
is”.
Here again, one is
rather worried by lack of response. Instead of discussing whether
the Pope spoke loud enough about the Jewish holocaust, why we do not
discuss and do not see movies about active involvement of leading
Rabbis with the current Palestinian holocaust? Lubavitcher Rabbi did
not keep quiet, but called to genocide, and his call was supported
by dozens of Rabbis in an ad in Haaretz. Why a poster with
the Star of David and Swastika would be condemned by the US senate,
while Cross and Swastika poster is displayed on the streets? Why
Vatican lawyers do not activate ‘hate legislation’ of Europe against
its creators?
III
The Church’s
desire for peace was misinterpreted by the supporters of the Jewish
idea. After the Pope, while in the Holy Land, said the Catholic
Church "is deeply saddened by the hatred, acts of persecution and
displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews by Christians at
any time and in any place," the Washington Post's London
correspondent T. R. Reid called the Church to scrap the Passion
narrative, or re-write it totally. This call was repeated by a
Conrad Black newspaper, Boston Globe columnist. But the media
just repeats what some Christian clergy say. Richard Harries, the
Anglican Bishop of Oxford and chairman of the Council of Christians
and Jews, told The Times, “I would far rather people come to
belief in the living God through Judaism than have no spiritual home
at all”.
I am not too surprised.
The councils and other dialog groups between Jews and Christians
became an arena of fierce competition: who is more pro-Jewish of the
two.[v] There is no reciprocity. While the
Bishop practically calls his flock to renounce Christ,
Israeli
Parliament (Knesset)
debates the
Zvili&Gafni Bill proposing up to a year of jail for quoting the
New Testament or even referring to Christ and Christianity in a
positive way, let alone joining the Church. The Christian clergy,
who gave up Christ and preferred the Jewish paradigm, should
contemplate the words of Christ: ‘You are the salt of the world, but
if salt loses its saltiness, it is thrown away’. They are not
needed, as Rabbis would manage without them as well.
IV
Nothing attracts as much
as success, and these are years of spectacular
success for the Jewish paradigm. More Holocaust museums were built,
stronger became the US support for Israel. In 1956, a Jew in the US
earned as much as a Christian, and the US could order Israeli troops
to leave Sinai. Now the average income of a Jewish community member
became twice that of a WASP, and the US administration obediently
jumps the loop for Sharon.
‘Is it good for the
Jews?’ was the standard question of my grandmother. A radical Jewish
kid, I rejected this question, saying, ‘What is good for everybody
is good for Jews as well’. My grandmother was not so sure. Now I am
not so sure myself. It seems the trends and interests of the people
and of the corporate Jews diverge again, after a hundred year long
interlude. After all, traditionally ‘the Jews’ sided with the king
against the people.
While ‘the Jews’ made
this U-turn, there are many Jews who remained with the people,
against corporate Jewry. They are our wonderful comrades in arms.
Finkelstein and Chomsky, to name just a few, supplied excellent
weapons for the people in the war of ideas. Our situation is not
unique. Many Whites in South Africa choose to be for the people, not
just for Whites. Many aristocrats choose to be for the people, not
just for their class. Many Americans struggled against America
during the Vietnam War. Now it is our turn to be ‘against our own
people’, with the people and for the people.
[iii] Medved, M. (1992/1993). Hollywood Vs.
America. New York: Harperperennial Library.