VOODOO HISTORIES: The Protocols of The Elders of Zion
Anti-Semitic Lies 120 years in the fermenting
which created
Hitler's Final Solution
and is still tainting and corrupting political
insight
in the Middle East peace process today .
By David Aaronovitch.
 Gaza City, when I visited it in May
2003, was a terrible place: its beach a parody with smashed concrete
and rusting iron, the city a warren of unfinished houses and tangled
electricity cables. On three sides, and overhead, were the Israelis,
penning a population of more than a million Palestinians into a
narrow strip of dust. The strongest political and social association
among the Palestinians had come to be the group known as the Islamic
Resistance Movement, or Hamas.
That spring I was there to see one of
the leaders of Hamas, and to ask him about a most extraordinary
aspect of his group's programme.
The Hamas Covenant is about twenty
pages long and made up of thirty-six articles. It is a mixture of
political manifesto, historical observation and exaltation to the
faithful. It begins with a quotation from the 1920s founder of the
Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Hassan al-Banna
'Israel will rise and
will remain erect until Islam eliminates it as it has eliminated its
predecessors' -
and sets out the nature and duties of the membership,
who must be good and pious Muslims.
Article Seventeen concerns 'the role
of Muslim women' but contains a digression concerning the enemies
of Hamas, who will use every effort to further their cause, including
education curricula movies and culture,
'using as their
intermediaries their craftsmen who are part of the various Zionist
organisations which take all sorts of names and shapes, such as: the
Free Masons, Rotary Clubs...and the like... Those Zionist
organisations control vast material resources which enable them to
fulfil their mission amidst societies, with a view of implementing
Zionist goals.'
By the, time the reader reaches Article
Twenty-Two, 'On The Powers That Support the Enemy'„ the
scale of this malign mission has expanded.
'This wealth [allowed the Zionists
to] take over control of the world media...
They used this wealth to
stir revolutions in parts of the globe...
They stood behind the
French and Communist Revolutions...
They stood behind World War I so
as to wipe out the lslamic Caliphate...
They obtained the Balfour
Declaration and established the League of Nations...
They also stood
behind World War II... and inspired the establishment of the United
Nations...
There' s no war that broke out anywhere without their
fingerprints on it.
And if you think you have heard all
this somewhere before, Article Thirty-Two, 'The Attempts to Isolate
Palestinian People', confirms it.
' Zionist scheming ,' the Covenant
claims 'has no end, and after Palestine they will covet expansion
from the Nile to the Euphrates... Their scheme has been laid out in
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and their present conduct is the
best proof of what is said there.'
So aPalestinian
child in a Gazan class at the beginning of the twenty-first century
may well be hearing things written by a Parisian lawyer about
Napoleon III 140 years earlier, falsified by a Russian spy three
decades later and used as a pretext for racial mass-murder in
Germany.
It is like one of those novels in which
the hero encounters an archaic or ancient legend which has somehow
managed to survive, still potent, to the modern day. So a Palestinian
child in a Gazan class at the beginning of the twenty-first century
may well be hearing things written by a Parisian lawyer about
Napoleon III 140 years earlier, falsified by a Russian spy three
decades later and used as a pretext for racial mass-murder in
Germany.
Meeting the leader of Hammas
Inside one of these concrete houses in
Gaza, its walls and stairs bare, I met the man who was then Hamas's
number two.
Abdel-Aziz Rantisi wore tan slacks and one of those
ubiquitous check shirts that are the new uniform for men in the
Middle East.
A serious-looking man with dark eyebrows, he had once
been a paediatrician, his radicalisation dating from a period he
spent exiled to a no-man's-land on the Lebanese-Israeli border with
400 others. Here in Gaza, in a room with curtains closed against
spying eyes, containing a child's model of the Dome of the Rock in
Jerusalem and a picture of al-Banna, we conducted a short interview.
He spoke partly in English and partly in Arabic.
Towards the end I asked him directly
about the Protocols and what their were doing in the Hamas Covenant.
Rantisi frowned.
'You know', he said, 'when I first heard about this
document, I didn't want to believe it.
But then I saw what was
happening in Palestine and I could see that it was genuine.'
It
fitted then, it fits now.
Reality provides the best commentary.
Hammas was then the second-largest organisation among all
Palestinians, and was growing fast as hope for peace receded.
Rantisi, however, was dead within a few months. The second attempt on
his life by a helicopter gunship succeeded. He was by that time the
leader of Hamas, having himself replaced the assassinated blind
Sheikh Yassin some weeks previously
What I learned on that Journey was that
invocations of the Protocols and other manifestations of European
anti-Semitism were rife in the Arab and wider Muslim world.
What I learned on that Journey was that
invocations of the Protocols and other manifestations of European
anti-Semitism were rife in the Arab and wider Muslim world.
Take just
one example, from the 'Political National Education' page of the
Palestinian Authority daily newspaper Al-Hayat al-Jadida (25 January
2001). There it claimed that
'disinformation has been one of the
bases of moral and psychological manipulation among the Israelis...
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion did not ignore the importance of
using propaganda to promote the Zionist goals.'
And it directly
quoted our old friend the Twelfth Protocol, though leaving out any
archaic references to the god Vishnu.
The Palestinians are few in number and
the nature of their grievance against some Jews is well understood.
The tensions in the Middle East also exemplify the danger that the
Protocols still represent. At the time of writing there is
considerable concern that the Islamic Republic of Iran might be
developing a nuclear weapon. As the prime target for such a weapon,
Israel might seek to take pre-emptive action - action which could
lead to a wider war - as it did in 1981, when it bombed the first
Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq.
In April 2004 an Iranian TV station
broadcast a documentary series entitled Al-Sameria wa al-Saher.
The
series' purpose was to explain to Iranians how the Jews control
Hollywood.
For example,
Funny Girl - starring ' the ugly Jewish
actress Barbra Streisand' - was one of a number of movies designed to
depict the Jews favourably.
Tootsie was another.
Yentl 'dealt with
the Zionists wish to benefit from feminism'.
The Matrix was 'a meeting
point between Hollywood and Jewish Zionist fundamentalism';
Lawrence
of Arabia was an attempt to 'infantilise the Arabs'; and
Alien was
designed to demonise non-Westerners.
All of this, a narrator claimed,
was ' in total compliance with The Protocols of the Elders of Zion',
But just in case the Iranian viewer of
the early twenty-first century was not fully versed in the story of
the Protocols, the documentary carefully outlined the story of the
Basle congress of 1897, with its own new twist. In this version some
Russian policemen set fire to the congress hall while the delegates
were inside*. Terrified, 'the Jews fled, and the policemen went inside
and gathered up all the documents and sent them to Moscow'. Among
these writings they found what was later called The Protocols of the
Elders of Zion. 'The Protocols were divided into twenty-four parts,'
the narrator claimed,
'and included the Satanic Jewish ideas of
taking over the world using a Jewish government, after destroying all
of Orthodox Russia, Catholic Europe, the pope's reign and Islam.'
In May and June 2008 the Iranian
television news channel IRINN showed a series entitled The Secret of
Armageddon, in which various academics and 'researchers' testified to
the truth of the Protocols. The narrator concluded the series by
tying the old conspiracy to new ones.
'Today, there are many indications that
the 'hidden hands' of world Zionism were involved in the 9/11
terrorist attack.
According to a large group of Western
intellectuals, the Zionists are the real rulers of the United States,
According to irrefutable documents published by independent American
media outlets, the Zionists used intelligence agents and spies, with
the full cooperation of agencies with[in] the country, to carry out
this terrorist operation in full view of the world, in order to
prepare the ground for taking over Afghanistan and Iraq, and to
realize the dream of a greater Israel.
The thread from Goedsche to the present
day has never properly been snapped.
Johann Von Leers died in 1965,
incidentally, but not in prison or in Germany or even in a South
American hideaway.
Somehow he had fled to the Middle East, lain low,
converted to Islam under the name of Omar Amin, and then resurfaced
in Egypt as an adviser on propaganda to the Arab nationalist
government of President Nasser.
One of Nasser's practices, while Von
Leers was with him, was to hand out, to those who wanted them, and
those who didn't, copies of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Extracted, with permission, from the chapter THE UNCANNY
NOTE OF PROPHECY pp17 - pp48 - Voodoo Histories by
David Aaronovitch 2009.
Random House publishers, ISBN: 9780099478966
For the best detailed exposition of the history of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
and how it was fraudulently invented by the Tzar's secret service to
counter communist insurgents please see the whole of chapter one of Voodoo Histories and review the SAFF's analysis of the deadly impact of the Zionist New World Order myth here: http://saff.nfshost.com/nwo.htm
To see the inherent anti-Semitism in the casual use of false Protocol
claims in modern times, spawned by internet conpiracy theorists and
misguided activists of the extreme Left, please see: http://saff.nfshost.com/davidicke.htm
* For an explanation of how setting fires to destroy Jews hiding in buildings is a historical meme and occurred in Britain see: http://saff.nfshost.com/cliffordstower.htm
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