“In the last 40 years the number of non-Jews killed by Jews is by far greater than the number of the Jews killed by non-Jews. The extent of the persecution and discrimination aginst non-Jews inflicted by the “Jewish state” with the support of organized diaspora Jews is also enormously greater than the suffering inflicted on Jews by regimes hostile to them. Although the struggle against antisemitism (and of all other forms of racism) should never cease, the struggle againt Jewish chauvinism and exclusivism, which must include a critique of classical Judaism, is now of equal or greater importance.” ~ Israel Shahak
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Israel Shahak was an Israeli professor of organic chemistry at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Shahak was born in the Warsaw ghetto and was a survivor of Belsen who settled in Israel after WWII. Playing an increasing role in Israel as a humanist and rights activist, he published Jewish History, Jewish Religion – the Weight of Three Thousand Years in 1994 with a foreward from Gore Vidal. The book was reissued in 1997 and in 2002 and 2008 after Shahak’s unexpected death in June 2001, shortly before 9-11.
In Jewish History, Jewish Relgion, Shahak asks whether, as described in the book promotion, “the secular state of Israel has been shaped by religious orthodoxies of an invidious and potentially lethal nature. Drawing on the Talmud and rabbinical laws, Shahak argues that the roots of Jewish chauvinism and religious fanaticism must be understood before it is too late.”
The challenge before us is whether we can maintain the rule of law as a society – whether domestically in our individual countries as well as globally. If anything stands in the way of doing that it is the privilege nurtured by numerous cultures and societies to compromise the sovereignty of others. Consequently the history and questions Shahak raises are of the utmost importance to our present age.
I was once at an investment conference in London listening to a speaker discuss the US national security risks and their impact on investment. He quoted a former FBI director saying that Israel posed the single greatest risk to US security. That risk is now significantly greater given what appears to be the growing committment to the Ziocons by the current US administration.
Ever notice that in in the United States the immediate result of Presidential impeachments is a significant increase in money disappearing and the drums of war?
Someone is trying to start WW III. Reading Shahak will inform your thinking on this topic and what we might do to prevent it. In my opinion, step one is to outlaw dual passport citizens from holding positions in the US Congress or Administration. Step two, until we do, all dual passport citizens should be recused from discussions or votes that benefit the country of their other passport(s).
As to the responsible dispora in Beverly Hills and on Wall Street, my question is why the children of the Southern States should die so that you can own and control the private equity on the Silk Road? Seems like a bad trade to me.
Israel Shahak is this week’s Hero of the Week – a brave and brilliant man.
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The quote above by Israel Shahak might be literally true but like something that Nancy Pelosi or another democrat might say, is very misleading. There are thousands/millions of non-jews in Israeli controlled territory but next to no Jews living in neighboring lands to Israel. Why would that be? One reason is that all the Jews that did not escape to Israel in 1948 are dead. Once you kill them you cannot be guilty of continuing to mistreat them. It would be far better being a non-jew in Israel than being a Jew stuck in a nearby country.
I would agree that no one with a Israeli passport should be in Congress or national defense/homeland security. It very well might be that there are bad actors in Mossad/Israeli defense forces. However one thing I would be willing to bet on is that most Israelis would be a lot more closely aligned with Israel Shahak if they could find any reason to trust that their neighbors would not just slit their throats as soon as they got the chance.
I think Catherin has some very eye opening, critical things to say, I just do not understand such a strong anti-Israeli sentiment. I just see a few million people trying to survice in a sea of hostility.
Phillip:
Have you watched Defamation? I recommended it a while ago. It is by a wonderful Israeli filmmaker. I think it would help you understand.
My perception is that Israel and their military and intelligence capacity has been instrumental on behalf of a very wealthy network on engineering US policies which have a good chance of destroying both Israel and the US. They are highly violent and act consistently outside the law. More than a few of my Jewish friends refuse to go to Israel because they say the place is run by the equivalent of organized crime. I am not anti-Israel. I am anti-lawlessness. My guess is that Netanyahu was likely one of the lead perpetrators of 9-11. Things seemed hopeful when he was indicted – I thought perhaps the Israeli people can clean house. Looks like the impeachment is sending it back the other way.
It well may be that the Israeli people have allowed their government to be hijacked in the way that the American people have allowed our government to be hijacked. Both of our people will pay the piper if we don’t clean house. The bill is coming due. This is not a few bad characters. This is about systemic organized crime – human trafficking, organ harvesting, pornography entrapment, assassination, illegal covert operations, drug running, pedophilia, unimaginable compromise of digital systems, including with entrainment and mind control, horrible media designed to intentionally destroy childrens minds and culture, and $21 trillion of financial fraud as well as the bailouts. This is about lawfulness vs. lawlessness.
I believe that after many decades of everyone going along with this and pretending that organized crime in not out of control that organized crime and corruption is in the process of completely sabotaging our food system – Now we are talking about widespread poisoning on an unfathomable scale.
I vote with Norm Finkelstein – Israel is a rogue state. And it is a state controlled by global investors that are trying to start WW III. One of my questions is whether they are burning down a large area of land in Australia to make room for their boltholes so they are safe when the bombs start flying in the Northern Hemisphere.
This is not about nation states. This is not about religions. It is not even about tribes. It is about lawlessness – and whether or not the lawful can find each other and find ways of reducing and preventing lawlessness – whether local, national or international. The lawful can not be indentified by our passport or by our DNA. So we need another way to find each other and collaborate.
If you have watched Yellowstone, the question comes down to “What are we going to do about the Beck Brothers?” I will discuss on Money & Markets this week.
Catherine
Catherine, thank you for this astute analysis.
Hello Catherin,
I have not watched or heard of the film Defamation. I will see if I can find it. I don’t watch TV and have not watched Yellowstone. If I understand correctly, it is fiction even if it is realistic in a lot of ways.
I am not Jewish and have never been to Israel. Years ago our company was pretty close to an Israeli that sold compatible equipment to our own. They were very clever and tenacious. They started with very little cash but were pretty well cleaned a well funded US defense contractors’ clock with better equipment and better service.
A 6 or 7 of them came to visit a dozen years ago or so and started taking politics. They were all secular and very educated. 2 or 3 of them had very similar views as Mr. Shahak. Most of the others were inclined to vote for Netenyahu but they were not enthusiastic about it at all. They did not like him but the knew that if Israel did not take a very tough position their country would be crushed and those that did not flee would be killed. I am certain that all of them would have been willing to give up all the territory they conquered in 1968 or even before that if their neighbors would have even pretended to be willing to live at peace with them after that. Those people had a passion and desire for peace that is hard to even comprehend in the US.
On the other hand the word is out in the conservative new at least the Epstein was a Mossad agent. That should be the dominant national scandal in Israel as well as here. Our own government is so corrupt they don’t seem to be able to investigate it. If that happened it sure seems that Mossad has gone rogue. But I am not ready to condemn the whole country if Mossad went rogue just like I am not ready to condemn the whole US just because our intelligence agencies have gone rogue.
Phillip:
What a fascinating report. Appreciate your posting.
Here is Defamation – it is now available for free on line.
Very curious to know what you think of it.
Totally agree. You can not judge millions of people by the corruption of their leadership. Nonetheless, I believe we are responsible to do our best to stop it – in US and Israel. Needless to say, we could do better! 🙂
https://home.solari.com/lets-go-to-the-movies-april-25-2019/
I must say our problem is not a few rogue intelligence agencies in the US – the central banking warfare system is engrained throughout the entire governance and financial system.
Catherine
Hello Catherine,
Thank you for the link. I watched the video there. I can certainly understand the filmmaker challenging some of the stuff they all seem to be taught about the insidiousness of antisemitism in the rest of the world. It seems that young Israelis get taught that all gentiles are born with antisemitism and unless the stay eternally vigilant that another holocaust is right around the corner.
It is not hard to believe that the anti-defamation league build antisemitism into more of a threat that it really is and that they have an incentive to do that. I was wishing the filmmaker would interview Ben Shapiro. There is someone that has experienced a lot of antisemitic hostility but is in a good position to fit it into the big picture.
I do not think you can use that video to say much about Israel as a whole because is really does not address the fundamental problem. The fundamental problem is that Israel is surrounded by and outnumbered by people that are very hostile to it. Is it possible to make peace with their neighbors? I remember President Clinton at the end of his term hosted Yasser Arafat and the Israeli PM in a peace conference. It was reported that the Israelis agreed to almost every demand that Arafat made but in the end he was unwilling to make peace with Israel. Is it possible to the Palestinians live in peace with Israel under any conditions? The video does not deal with that at all.
I think a good question for the Saker is it possible for Israel to do anything to get the Palestinians to stop hating them and live in peace?
Amazing how much of the world this applies to today.
“It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for if he reiterates it frequently enough and makes it the background of his conduct he is bound eventually to be right.” ― George F. Kennan
Catherine cares about the US, it’s tall buildings, navy ships, wonderful young men and women in the military, its budget and its international reputation. She also cares about people in general, including 5-6million Arabs who live under different degrees of apartheid in Palestine. And also cares about Lebanese, Syrian, Iraki and Iranian people. Caring about those people means a willingness to look at troubling facts. Talking about those troubling facts may appear as being anti-Israeli to you and other people who seem to not have been willing to have a closer and braver look. Speaking up on Israel is courageous, highly necessary and laudable in an age where the general population and politicians in Israel are moving away from the likes of Shahak towards the likes of Meir Kahane. The Solari website is for grown-ups willing to face reality. Catherine’s choice and duty is to inform her readers about reality and in this she is doing a fantastic job! What you call anti-Israeli is not anti Israeli people or anti Jews. It is pro peace!
Martin:
Thank you for weighing in. I do believe that the current leadership of Israel and their backers (who are global) are destroying Israel – and may contribute to destroying the US and – with the help of the US military – possibly the world. I struggle to come up with a hypothesis for the people who financed and implemented 9-11 that does not include that group. And don’t see a way to get to out of the existing win-loses models without significant transparency about what is driving violence and war on this planet- which includes transparency on this issue. Far from the only one – but on the list and can not be avoided just because they are very good at protecting themselves with the weaponization of false opposition to stop legitimate transparency.
Catherine