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Zionism Unmasked
February 10, 2010 by Jeff Gates · 10 Comments
While Zionism is clearly a nationalist ideology, that narrow framing does the term an injustice as it is so much more.
Zionism is more accurately described as a strategy for targeting thought and emotion as a means to influence behavior. Naïve Jews were its first victims when induced to identify with an enclave in the Middle East that President Harry Truman, a Christian Zionist, was induced to recognize as a “state.”
Zionism is first and foremost a mental state that manifests as a dispersed form of internalized nationalism—a Diaspora—that binds to an extremist enclave those who may never set foot there. After 1967, this “state” became the “Land of Israel” based on a more expansive area seized by Israel Defense Forces along with other occupied lands that Zionists claim a god gave them.
Zionism recruits by sustaining a shared sense of insecurity within the broader Jewish community. It progresses by marketing its perceived vulnerability and victimhood among those on whom it relies for financial, military and diplomatic support.
When, as now, policies of the Zionist state come under attack, media campaigns herald an outbreak of anti-Semitism and hatred—not for Zionism but for Jews, enhancing recruitment.
By choosing to identify their interests with those of Zionism, Jews choose to make themselves feel insecure. Zionism relies for its success not only on deception but also on self-deceit.
Many well-informed Jews opposed Israel’s founding in 1948. By 1967, Jewish-Americans were active in the civil rights movement. With the Six-Day War, that activism became problematic. How could Jews back civil rights for Blacks while Zionism denied those rights to Palestinians?
That era marked a turning point both for Zionism and legitimate Judaism as many Jews abandoned civil rights activism when they could no longer reconcile their activism with Israeli oppression. Thus the present mental state of Barack Obama’s many Jewish Zionist advisers.
The Six-Day War induced more Jews to identify with Zionism as a defender of Jews. Yet now we know that war was a long-planned land grab destined to outrage Arabs and Muslims. When combined with a murderous occupation, decades of Israeli provocations were guaranteed to evoke the violent reactions required to rationalize a “war on terrorism.”
In terms of game theory war planning, today’s results were perfectly predictable—mathematically model-able within an acceptable range of probabilities. Once again Zionism targeted thought and emotion to manipulate behavior by provoking antagonism and evoking extremism—the two key ingredients required to plausibly proclaim their insecurity.
When your numbers are few and your ambitions vast, what choice did Zionists have but to seduce and deceive a super power so that our military would wage their wars for Greater Israel?
Peace is the Opponent
Peace is a perilous ‘state’ to be avoided at any cost by a nationalist ideology that thrives on serial crises wed to a perpetual state of conflict and fear. To realize the Zionist goal of hegemony over the Middle East requires a series of plausible Evil Doers and a persuasive narrative. Could Zionism be the reason we segued so seamlessly from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism? See: How Israel Wages War on the U.S.
Instead of the anticipated post-Cold War “peace dividend, the U.S. finds itself waging what Nobel economist Joe Stiglitz calls The $3 Trillion War—all of it borrowed, including $700 billion in interest expense.
In hindsight, the phony intelligence that induced us to war in the Middle East was traceable to Israelis, pro-Israelis or assets developed for that purpose such as Iraqi liar Ahmad Chalabi.
Other than those sharing a Zionist mental state, who had the means, motive, opportunity and, importantly, the stable nation-state intelligence to conduct such operations inside the U.S.?
Yet even now those responsible elude accountability and even scrutiny as cries of “anti-Semitism” are deployed to intimidate and misdirect—by manipulating thought and emotion.
At the end of World War II, the U.S. claimed 50% of the world’s productive power, ensuring we would have the world’s top-rated government bonds for at least two generations. When the Cold War drew to a costly close in 1989, the U.S. had spent $15.9 trillion on defense since 1948 (in 2010 dollars). Now a potential war without end has taken its place.
Americans have been induced to believe that the Zionist state is an ally. We are not alone in viewing Israel as a legitimate nation and a noble experiment to provide a “homeland” for a victimized people. That alluring storyline victimized the broader Jewish community while also laying waste to the nation that was first deceived to extend to Zionists the hand of friendship.
To escape the ravages of Zionism requires that we concede its duplicitous nature and make its operations transparent so that its perpetrators become apparent. As a long-deceived global public grasps its costs in blood and treasure, this mental state will be seen for what it is: a criminal state.
The Psychopath Within
In the clinical psychiatric literature, this “state” features interpersonal traits such as superficial charm, pathological lying, egocentricity, lack of remorse, and callousness that are regarded as characteristic of psychopaths. In order to betray, psychopaths first befriend. In order to defraud, they first establish a relationship of trust. Sound familiar?
Those who share such a mental state will happily incite hatred to catalyze a reaction and then claim they are the victims of hate. For those inhabiting this mental state, it appears rational and even desirable to provoke a response and then claim to be a target of anti-Semites. Inside this internal state, self-absorption is all-encompassing with arrogance its most visible trait.
Law is irrelevant to those who consider themselves above the law. Morality and conscience are of no concern to those who consider themselves The Chosen—by a god of their own choosing. Such a nationalist ideology has no place in a system of nation states dedicated to the rule of law.
Those sharing such a “state” pose too great a peril to be an object of pity or compassion. Accountability is the only appropriate response along with an initiative—deploying force as required—to secure any weapons of mass destruction that may be in their possession.
Such a state cannot be delegitimized because any legitimacy attained was integral to the fraud it inflicted on the community of nations. The issue at hand is how best to protect a peace-seeking world from a psychopathic ideology that assumed the appearance of legitimacy so that a Christian Zionist president could be deceived to recognize as a nation a criminal state.
It was also during Truman’s administration that the decision was made that the economy of the USA would be based on military expenditures, as research would explain. By the end of his term, his successor, Eisenhower, was rightfully extremely frightened by what he foresaw would be the end result. And here we are today, with the decline of the power of the US, just as Petras explained in his book, ZIONISM AND MILITARISM, …. .
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MarycatherineBarton:
Somehow marrying Israel to the American military industrial complex feared by Eisenhower is puzzling. Israel miraculously won its war of independence without American aid. From 1948-1967, Israel’s military was unassisted by USGovernment resources. Early on arms were of Czech not US origin. In the 1967 war, the preemptive attack on the Egyptian air force was conducted with French Mirage fighters.
Jeff Gates:
One of the byproducts of keen intellect is the genius in establishing a hypothesis and then proving it through selective bias. Unlike physics or chemistry, social science and worse political science cannot fulfill scientific rigor when seeking to explain facts that cannot be experimentally replicated. Ultimately such research is selective validation of opinion not science.
The authors isogesis of shoehorning the nation of Israel into his definition of psychopathy is a misinformed mixture of metaphores. Individual psychology is as misapplied to nations as the laws of chemistry can be applied to social behavior! To say one does not like the behavior of the State of Israel is one thing, but to connect it with psychopathology is intellectually dishonest.
The theories advanced here are highly imaginative, but untrue. Those governing the State of Israel do not seek crisis. They do not invite missiles and mortar fire on Sderot or Iranian shipment of arms to Hezzbollah or Hamas. Israel withdrew from both South Lebanon and Gaza. It is not the Jews who create the peril. The shoe is on the other foot.
I admit that this is my first reading of Jeff Gates work; however, an attack upon Zionism is a defacto endorsement of the enemies of Israel, who are coincidentally the enemies of civilization as Jeffrey knows it.No amount of moral equivalency can disguise what Sir Winston Churchill thought about Islam and its adherants.
By portraying Israel and Zionists as provocateurs and manipulators I would see the right label being applied to the wrong party. The Muslim brotherhood produced an Islamic battleplan that was accepted into evidence at the recent Holyland trial involving fundraising in the US for jihadist activities. There are no reality to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Nor does the God of the Bible tell the Jewish people to practice ethnic cleansing in all circumstances (and that is His call not that of Jeff Gates). On the other hand a serious reading of the Quran and Hadith attending to the principles of abrogation, shows that Islam is a religion centered around a violent, triumphalistic ideology. The present behavior of its adherents seems to flow not from oppression but from theology.
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Jeff Gates Reply:
February 15th, 2010 at 2:31 pm
Thanks for taking the time to pen a thoughtful comment. Very much appreciate it. We routinely have Jews and well-informed Israelis writing with thanks for distinguishing this psychopathy from the broader community. Should you choose to read Guilt By Association, I am confident you will find an answer to the questions you raise and, more importantly, an in-depth analysis of how those chronicled in this first release in the Criminal State series displace facts with what “the mark” can be induced to believe. The first victim was naive Jews who believe (Truly Believe) in much that is outright fiction. Of course so do the other two derivatives of this initial faith of “the book.” By choosing to externalize, one creates a “spatial void” between one’s own consciousness and that of the authority. It’s in that “in between” space that this warfare has long been waged. Those who are members of the oldest One True Faith naturally have had longer to craft those skills essential to waging war by way of deception. Israel is the modern manifestation of that criminal state (of mind). Hope this helps. Please read those commentaries that commenced with “how” on the site and review the introduction to Guilt By Association — which is posted on the order page for the book. Again, many thanks.
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James Reply:
May 19th, 2010 at 6:22 am
“Those governing the State of Israel do not seek crisis”
1- The mere aspiration to colonize another people’s land (Palestine) through occupation by a foreign force (British Empire) is an invitation for crisis. I refer you to the writings of many early Zionists.
2- The contemplation and act of ethnically cleansing Palestine, kicking out 800,000 people, and destroying more than 400 towns and villages is not exactly trying to prevent a crisis. I refer you to the British, American and other archives, as well as, the new historians’ of Israel, including Benny Morris looks at ethnic cleansing in a favorable way as opposed to genocide.
3- The massacres that were committed by Shamir, Begin, Sharon and other high ranked Israeli officials from the 40s till now weren’t exactly peaceful or not seeking crisis. The victims ranged from peaceful jewish people, to British soldiers, to UN delegates, to Palestinian women and children.
4- The occupation of the Golan, the Palestinian territories, and Lebanese land defying UN resolutions isn’t exactly solving the crisis. So, as ignoring the Arab Peace Initiative and continuing the land theft and settlement building in whatever is left in Palestine.
5- This is not to mention the Zionists around the world who take us from a humanitarian crisis to a financial crisis, back n’ forth.
“. Israel withdrew from both South Lebanon and Gaza.”
1- Israel withdrew from Southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation, and only because the cost was too high, not because it’s a peace loving country, it withdrew unilaterally with no peace agreement or truce, holding Sheba’a land as hostage as well as a number of Lebanese prisoners, not to mention the breaches by sea, land and air. If Southern Lebanon was as quiet as the Golan, rest assure you would see settlements there; let’s not forget greed for Lebanese water, and that South of the Litani is part of Great Israel promised by God. Also, lets not forget the atrocities committed in Lebanon since 1948.
2- The same goes for Gaza, after more than years of occupation. Let’s not forget how many Israeli officials wished to wake up and see that Gaza has drowned in the Mediterranean.
“an attack upon Zionism is a defacto endorsement of the enemies of Israel, who are coincidentally the enemies of civilization”
If you mean by civilization, the western civilization, then, tell me, how many Americans did Hamas kill? Or how many British people did Hizbollah kill? And how many westerners did Israel kill since the 40s? Did Hamas or Hizbollah officials say they target western people or western interests?
Levon Affair, USS Liberty, King David Hotel, Samiramis Hotel, Hanging British soldiers, Rachel Corrie, and the list goes on and on..
“No amount of moral equivalency can disguise what Sir Winston Churchill thought about Islam and its adherants.”
It seems that Israelis all over the net and the news are trying to advertise the “Civlization Clash” in order to legitimize their land theft agenda and their crimes against humanity. What about what Churchil said about the crimes committed against the Brits by your founding fathers and the level of disgust he felt?
What about the chrisitans who were between 30-40% of Historical Palestine, and are only 1-2% now? What about those people who either fought against Israel or spoke against with great devout passion, who are Christians?
• Archbishop Theodosios (Hanna) of Sebastia: gained renown for his high-profile political activism, his outspoken denunciation of the occupation,[3] and his stress upon the importance of Palestinian identity – positions that have made him popular with Arabs and unpopular with the Israeli authorities.[2] Before being ordained Archbishop, Theodosios had been arrested, detained and interrogated more than once by the Israeli authorities under various allegations of ‘incitement’.
• Azmi Bishara: The most outspoken Arab intellectual against Israel and an avid supporter of Hamas and Hizbollah.
• George Habash: Politician, founder of the PFLP and the Arab Nationalist Movement
• Nayif Hawatmeh: Palestinian politician, founder and General Secretary of the DFLP
• Dr Hanan Ashrawi: Politician, legislator, activist, and scholar. Currently, she is a leader of the Third Way party.
• Edward Said: Palestinian literary theorist, cultural critic, political activist. Always against Israel.
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Jeff Gates Reply:
June 16th, 2010 at 10:03 am
Thanks for your comment and for referring readers to other sources.
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Every American should read Einstein’s Dec 4, 1948 letter signed by about twenty five Jewish intellectuals warning us (the USA) of Israel’s “psychopathic” political party that still governs the criminal state today; letter’s main paragraphs :
Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the
emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the “Freedom Party”
(Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization,
methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist
parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the
former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist
organization in Palestine.
The current visit of Menachem Begin, leader of this party, to the United
States is obviously calculated to give the impression of American
support for his party in the coming Israeli elections, and to cement
political ties with conservative Zionist elements in the United States.
Several Americans of national repute have lent their names to welcome
his visit. It is inconceivable that those who oppose fascism throughout
the world, if correctly informed as to Mr. Begin’s political record and
perspectives, could add their names and support to the movement he
represents.
Before irreparable damage is done by way of financial contributions,
public manifestations in Begin’s behalf, and the creation in Palestine
of the impression that a large segment of America supports Fascist
elements in Israel, the American public must be informed as to the
record and objectives of Mr. Begin and his movement.
The public avowals of Begin’s party are no guide whatever to its actual
character. Today they speak of freedom, democracy and anti-imperialism,
whereas until recently they openly preached the doctrine of the Fascist
state. It is in its actions that the terrorist party betrays its real
character; from its past actions we can judge what it may be expected to
do in the future.
The discrepancies between the bold claims now being made by Begin and
his party, and their record of past performance in Palestine bear the
imprint of no ordinary political party. This is the unmistakable stamp
of a Fascist party for whom terrorism (against Jews, Arabs, and British
alike), and misrepresentation are means, and a “Leader State” is the
goal.
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THE EARLIEST “HATE” CRIMINALS
If you can’t guess the people I have in mind, I’ll give you
some clues—clues found in a major world religion that is many
centuries old. I’ll call it Religion X.
Religion X traces its roots back to the First Couple, Adam and
Eve. They were on earth before any other form of worship—before
Islam (appearing 14 centuries ago), before Hinduism or Buddhism
(appearing 25 centuries ago), before even the worship of various
gods in Mesopotamia (60 centuries ago).
Early on, Religion X’ers were told by their God: “Love your
neighbor—and even the stranger who dwells among you—as much as
you love yourself.” But it wasn’t long before Religion X began
rebelling against the laws of the One who had blessed and
preserved it so much. In response God warned: “All those who hate
me love death.”
After centuries of hating their God (which predictably led to
hatred of fellow humans, God’s creations), Religion X’ers were
allowed by God to be conquered and transported to ancient Babylon
where they experienced a 1,600-year-long “vacation.”
If you haven’t guessed yet, the religion I’m describing is
Judaism. But don’t stop reading. The
most shocking stuff is just ahead!
While in Babylon, the “wise men” among the people began
formulating new laws which supposedly supplemented and explained
the time-tested Old Testament writings. But the new rules actually
contradicted and eventually replaced the original laws!
The “new and improved” laws are collectively known as the
Talmud. Even though rabbis are Talmudic experts, probably not one
Jew in a thousand (and not one non-Jew in ten thousand) knows what
is in the Talmud. Without further delay, here’s some of the
Talmud’s “wisdom” (plus sources):
(I) THE TALMUD HATES SCIENCE:
Hyenas turn into bats after seven years, and later on turn into
thorns and demons (Baba Kamma, 16a).
Being naked in front of a lamp causes epilepsy (Pesahim, 112b).
There’s medicinal value in dirt found in an outhouse’s shadow,
also in a white dog’s excrement (Gittin, 69a,b).
(II) THE TALMUD HATES FEMALES:
The birth of a girl is an unhappy event (Baba Bathra, 16b).
It is never good to talk too much to women including one’s own
wife (Aboth, 1.5).
All women are “temperamentally light-headed” (Kiddushin, 80b).
It is okay to divorce your wife if she spoils your food, or if
you find a more beautiful woman (Gittin, 91a).
(III) THE TALMUD HATES CHILDREN:
It is lawful for a girl three years old to have sexual
intercourse (Abodah Zarah, 37a; Kethuboth, 11b,39a; Sanhedrin,
55b,69a,b; Yebamoth, 12a,57b,58a,60b).
When a man commits sodomy with a boy under nine years of age,
it “is not deemed as pederasty” (Sanhedrin, 54b,55a).
Sexual intercourse with a boy under the age of eight is lawful
since it isn’t fornication (Sanhedrin, 69b).
(In other words, Religion X became X-rated! Is it any wonder
that many Jewish persons today are liberally involved with the
current sexual revolution and are even favorable towards
legalization of adult-child sex?)
(IV) THE TALMUD HATES ALL NON-JEWS:
Since all Gentiles are only animals, all Gentile children are
bastards (Yebamoth, 98a).
When a non-Jew robs a Jew, he has to pay him back, but if a Jew
robs a non-Jew, he doesn’t have to pay him back. Moreover, when a
Gentile kills a Jew, the Gentile must be killed, but when a Jew
kills a Gentile, “there is no death penalty” (Sanhedrin, 57a).
It is okay to “use subterfuges” in a court of law in order to
cheat a non-Jew (Baba Kamma, 113a).
(V) THE TALMUD HATES CHRIST AND CHRISTIANS:
Jesus was born a bastard (Jewish Encyclopedia, “Jesus”;
Yebamoth, 49b).
Mary, the mother of Jesus, was a whore and “played the harlot
with carpenters” (Sanhedrin, 106a,b).
Jesus “practised sorcery and enticed Israel to apostacy”
(Sanhedrin, 43a).
Jesus was punished and sent to Hell where he ended up in
“boiling hot excrement” (Gittin, 56b,57a).
Christians will go to Hell “and be punished there for all
generations” (Rosh Hashanah, 17a).
Those who read “the works of the Judeo-Christians, i.e., the
New Testament” will end up in Hell (Sanhedrin, 90a).
The books of the Christians “may not be saved from a fire, but
they must be burnt in their place, they and the Divine Names
occurring in them” (Shabbath, 116a).
(Now you know what’s been inspiring many of the anti-Christian
attitudes and actions these days.)
By roughly 500 A.D. Jewish scribes had completed the voluminous
Talmud, the written version of what had long been the Jews’ oral
tradition—the tradition that Jesus condemns in the 23rd chapter
of Matthew and other parts of the New Testament.
Whenever anyone claims that for 1500 years the Talmud
needlessly aggravated Gentiles (who in turn put Jews into ghettos
and even the Holocaust), Jews can look at even earlier history and
claim that the “anti-Jewishness” of the New Testament forced Jews
to hit back with their printed version of the Talmud.
Actually the New Testament, like a newspaper, merely reflects
the true condition of Judaism at that time. If someone could prove
that damaging descriptions of Jews never appeared before the New
Testament, that would be one thing. But during many centuries
prior to Jesus or any Christians, Jews were saying and doing the
same things that we find them still saying and doing during New
Testament days!
If the New Testament record of their words and works is
“anti-Semitic,” is the Old Testament record of the same
rebelliousness just as “anti-Semitic”?
A while ago I was talking with a young woman in Los Angeles who
is training to become a rabbi. I asked her about the Talmud. (She
seemed shocked I should know so much about it already!) “Oh,” she
said, “I don’t think it’s as relevant as it once was.” When I told
her that the “hate” movie “The Last Temptation of Christ” was an
amazingly accurate reflection of the Talmud—and that more such
“hate” films are in the works because Hollywood takes the Talmud
seriously—she had no explanation.
In the future when “hate” laws are passed, will the incredibly
hate-filled Talmud and some hate-promoting film studios be swept
under the rug?
[You are allowed to publish this non-copyrighted article. To avoid the prevalent internet censorship, feel free to change the title to "The Original 'Hate' Criminals" (or Crooks, etc.) or "The Earliest 'Hate' Rebels" (or People, Persons, etc.) or "The History of Hate" (or the Jews, the Hebrews, Judaism, etc.) or any other meaningful title, or no title.]
[Also Google "David Letterman's Hate, Etc."]
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More about the birth of Zionism and its development to the present :
History of the Founders :
http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/house-of-rothschild-no-one-can-understand-what-has-happened-to-the-planet-without-reading-this/
Their thinking foundation ( make sure you are seating down when reading it ) :
http://www.rense.com/general79/talmud.htm
And their present doings and connections in the world :
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/how-goldman-sachs-took-over-the-world-873869.html
On the bright side , they would make perfect medical studies for researching ” psychopaths ” …
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The Statist is not interested in what the Framers of the Constitution said or intended. He is interested only in what he says and he intends. Consider the judiciary, which has seized for itself the most dominant role in interpreting the Constitution. When asked by a law clerk to explain his judicial philosophy, the late Associate Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall responded, “You do what you think is right tnd let the law catch up.” The late Associate justice Arthur Goldberg’s answer was no better. A law clerk recounts Goldberg telling him that his approach was to determine “what is the just result.” Still others are persuaded by the Statist’s semantic distortions, arguing that the judge’s job is to spread democracy or liberty. Lawlessness begets lawlessness. This governing body in Washington is a Statist force.
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kevin macdonald would characterize organized jewry’s involvement in the civil rights movement as a tactical group-survival-play. by way of contrast, individual jews who participated in that movement may have had entirely altruistic motivations. see the culture of critique.
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