TwentyFirst C Christianity

The Protocols Ride Again

The Protocols of the (Learned) Elders of Zion get re-treaded
Most historically-educated people have heard of this notorious booklet, which was even favourably referred to in Hilter’s Mein Kampf. Perhaps because of this very unsavoury past, few have read it today, or the books that continue to expose it in great detail as one of the world’s worst libels. I had not read it myself until recently when a friend put a copy in my hand. In the English translation by Victor E. Marsden it reads as a very crudely composed and repetitive forgery that could not possibly have come from the minds of Jewish scholars anywhere. It is the modern Daddy of World Conspiracy theories, purporting to be the plan of a hidden, small group of 19thC Zionists representing ancient Jewish ambitions, intent on taking over the whole world in a clever series of apparently co-ordinated coups, though no actual plan emerges from all the hate-filled verbiage. What is striking is how the rhetoric of the 24 Protocols describes, with exaggerated relish, many of the real features of totalitarian rule decades before this became the curse of the last century via the terrible revolutions that brought Stalin, Hitler, Mao and others to power.

Here I want to quote a few selected parts that eerily mimic the features of these dictators’ later methods. The full context is not so important here because so much is repeated. The hoaxers saw the international Masonic Lodges as one of the main means of control and propaganda, always being manipulated by the co-called Elders behind them. The hoaxers see all the monarchies - such as the Russian or Japanese - and all liberal democracies too, as mere pawns in this grand Jewish Conspiracy. Yet what actually occurred was not really predicted by the authors. The 1917 communist revolution was antagonistic to all religion including Judaism, and Nazi socialism was both deeply anti-semitic and semi-pagan in its imposed nationalistic ideology. They failed completely to predict the great persecutions of Judaism which were to come, while actually setting the stage for it all. Various supporters thought that by the 1920s they might already be too late to stop the nefarious Jewish world take-over coming to fruition.

So what today’s propagators of this stupid and pernicious tract want their readers to believe is that the Zionists planned a world very much like that which Hitler and Stalin almost achieved! In particular, the ‘plan’ was very similar to Hitler’s ambition of world military domination. Yet we all know that Nazi Germany was the antithesis of a Jewish-friendly regime, and the ‘wicked’ Jewish Diaspora has contributed enormously, not to totalitarianism, but to the success of all the free liberal democracies instead. Moreover, the Protocols imply that the Diaspora was permanent, allowing Jews to attain really universal control, without the encumbrance of having their own state. In fact, this tract did not envisage Zionism producing the State of Israel, which is itself the opposite of the phony Jewish model of dictatorship it glorified.
It is not surprising that the new Hamas Palestinian Authority administration has always believed in spreading the lie of the Protocols, because it contains all the repressive totalitarian elements that their inspiration -resurgent Jihad Islamism - glorifies. So study of this awful hoax is unfortnately necessary again. I believe nothing replaces actually reading evil texts like this, Mein Kampf too. We must hear the real voices of the enemies of freedom. I magine this text being spoken in the harsh tones of Hitler that we can still hear in such films as The Triumph of the Will.
My own italicised comments follow the quotations below. The term goyim or goy means Gentile. It can be understood here as ‘anyone not Jewish’. The capitalised passages were probably not in the original text, which underwent changes as it was appropriated for use by various anti-semitic groups and individuals before the 1930s. Among these was the notoriously gullible Henry Ford, who is famous for his anti-intellectual saying ‘History is Bunk’.

BRIEF SUMMARY
The Protocols of the (Learned) Elders of Zion originally a Russian creation, is a text frequently quoted and reprinted by anti-Semites in early 20th century Europe, purporting to describe a plan to achieve Jewish global domination. It has been repeatedly exposed as a hoax by numerous independent investigations during the last hundred years. The Encyclopædia Britannica describes the Protocols as a "fraudulent document that served as a pretext and rationale for anti-Semitism in the early 20th century".
Mainstream historians in the United States of America and Europe have long agreed that the text is fraudulent; this has also been stated in a number of court cases worldwide, e.g., as early as the 1930s in Bern, Switzerland. In 1993, a district court in Moscow, Russia, formally ruled that the Protocols were faked in dismissing a libel suit by the ultra-nationalist Pamyat organization, which had been criticized for using them in their anti-Semitic publications.
Despite all this, many Arab governments fund the publication of new printings of the Protocols, and teach them in their schools as historical fact. The Protocols have been accepted as fact by many Islamic extremist organizations, such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Al Qaeda.
In the past, the Protocols were publicly recommended by Presidents Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat of Egypt, one of the President Arifs of Iraq, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, and Colonel Moammar Qaddafi of Libya, among other political and intellectual leaders of the Arab world, and in March 1970, the Protocols were reported to be the top 'nonfiction' bestseller in Lebanon. [For more, see Wikipedia online.]

PROTOCOL NO. 7 [all are extracts only]
The intensification of armaments, the increase of police forces - are all essential for the completion of the aforementioned plans. What we have to get at is that there should be in all the States of the world, besides ourselves, only the masses of the proletariat, a few millionaires devoted to our interests, police and soldiers. Throughout all Europe, and by means of relations with Europe, in other continents also, we must create ferments, discords and hostility. Therein we gain a double advantage. In the first place we keep in check all countries, for they well know that we have the power whenever we like to create disorders or to restore order. All these countries are accustomed to see in us an indispensable force of coercion.

The similarity here with the secret aims of the Nazis is striking. They re-militarized quickly and kept all their concerned neighbours off balance, creating discord among Germans outside the Reich as a pretext for ‘restoring order’ by later invasion. Within the Third Reich, the military and the police were both co-opted as integral parts of state coercion.

PROTOCOL NO. 9
Our Super-Government subsists in extra-legal conditions which are described in the accepted terminology by the energetic and forcible word - Dictatorship. I am in a position to tell you with a clear conscience that at the proper time we, the law-givers shall execute judgment and sentence, we shall slay and we shall spare, we, as head of all our troops, are mounted on the steed of the leader. We rule by force of will, because in our hands are the fragments of a once powerful party, now vanquished by us. AND THE WEAPONS IN OUR HANDS ARE LIMITLESS AMBITIONS, BURNING GREEDINESS, MERCILESS VENGEANCE, HATREDS AND MALICE. IT IS FROM US THAT ALL-ENGULFING TERROR PROCEEDS.

Hitler as Fuehrer ruled by his threatening charisma and extra-legal thugs, backed by full control of the judiciary, building a society fearful of imprisonment for dissent, educated to conformity, steely in its military hardness, and Jew-hating. He saw himself as the embodiment of the Will to Power of the German Nation. It is curiously appropriate that Hitler read and admired this text, as its ideas mimic his closely.

You may say the goyim will rise upon us, arms in hand if they guess what is going on before the time comes; but in the West we have against this a maneuver of such appalling terror that the very stoutest hearts quail - the undergrounds, metropolitains, those subterranean corridors which, before the time comes, will be driven under all the capitals and from whence those capitals will be blown into the air with all their organisations and archives.

This passage shows the fanciful ‘futurism’ of terror bombers imagined by the 19th century mind, when underground urban transport was very new and seen as making its citizens vulnerable. Interestingly, the modern Jihadists also target urban train systems!

PROTOCOL NO. 10
The mob cherishes a special affection and respect for the geniuses of political power and accepts all their deeds of violence with the admiring response: "rascally, well, yes, it is rascally, but it's clever! . . a trick, if you like, but how craftily played, how magnificently done, what impudent audacity!" . . .
We count upon attracting all nations to the task of erecting the new fundamental structure, the project for which has been drawn up by us. This is why, before everything, it is indispensable for us to arm ourselves and to store up in ourselves that absolutely reckless audacity and irresistible might of the spirit which in the person of our active workers will break down all hindrances on our way.

This passage could well be a prediction of the attractions of communism and fascism worldwide in the 30s, and probably still today. Both systems seemed successful, daring, violent and unscrupulous all at once, seemingly ‘irresistible’ and ‘ mighty in spirit’ to the many sympathetic foreigners who did not live under their rule. Both promised to build a ‘ new fundamental structure’ for all social life.

WHEN WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED OUR COUP D'ETAT WE SHALL SAY THEN TO THE VARIOUS PEOPLES: EVERYTHING HAS GONE TERRIBLY BADLY, ALL HAVE BEEN WORN OUT WITH SUFFERINGS. WE ARE DESTROYING THE CAUSES OF YOUR TORMENT - NATIONALITIES, FRONTIERS, DIFFERENCES OF COINAGES.
TO SECURE THIS WE MUST HAVE EVERYBODY VOTE WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF CLASSES AND QUALIFICATIONS, in order to establish an absolute majority, which cannot be got from the educated propertied classes. In this way by inculcating in all a sense of self-importance, we shall destroy among the goyim the importance of the family and its educational value and remove the possibility of individual minds splitting off, for the mob, handled by us, will not let them come to the front nor even give them a hearing; it is accustomed to listen to us only who pay it for obedience and attention. …The people will submit to this regime because it will know that upon these leaders will depend its earnings, gratifications and the receipt of all kinds of benefits.
Liberalism produced Constitutional States, which took the place of what was the only safeguard of the goyim, namely, Despotism; and a CONSTITUTION, AS YOU WELL KNOW, IS NOTHING ELSE BUT A SCHOOL OF DISCORDS, misunderstandings, quarrels, disagreements, fruitless party agitations, party whims - in a word, a school of everything that serves to destroy the personality of State activity.

This account was predictive of the Nazis as they constructed their growing German Reich, which abolished regional governments, class, applied censorship and propaganda in schools and all government, set children against their non-conforming parents with the Hitler Youth, and like communism, taught an absolute unquestioning obedience to the state. All this was justified by an exaggerated deriding of the immediate past societies, and an ideology of absolute equality in exchange for building the New Order.

PROTOCOL NO. 11
The goyim are a flock of sheep, and we are their wolves. And you know what happens when the wolves get hold of the flock? . . There is another reason also why they will close their eyes: for we shall keep promising them to give back all the liberties we have taken away as soon as we have quelled the enemies of peace and tamed all parties....
For what purpose then have we invented this whole policy and insinuated it into the minds of the goys without giving them any chance to examine its underlying meaning? For what, indeed, if not in order to obtain in a roundabout way what is for our scattered tribe unattainable by the direct road? It Is this which has served as the basis for our organisation of secret masonry which is not known to, and aims which are not even so much as suspected by, these GOY cattle, attracted by us into the "show" army of Masonic lodges in order to throw dust in the eyes of their fellows.
God has granted to us, His Chosen People, the gift of the dispersion, and in this which appears in all eyes to be our weakness, has come forth all our strength, which has now brought us to the threshold of sovereignty over all the world.

I include this passage as typical of the Protocols’ claim that only a dispersed Jewry could have the power to succeed in its world aims, using ‘secret masonry’. It also includes the demeaning animalistic language actually used by the Nazis against all Jews, another ‘mirror image lie’. Ironically, today’s anti-semitism again targets the Zionists for possessing the focus of the State of Israel, being now the ‘real’ danger to the world peace. The Protocols failed to predict this non-conspiratorial national aspect of Judaism, which followed the Holocaust and repression under communism too.

The word "freedom" which can be interpreted in various ways, is defined by us as follows: - Freedom is the right to do that which the law allows. This interpretation of the word will at the proper time be of service to us because all freedom will thus be in our hands, since the laws will abolish or create only that which is desirable for us according to the aforesaid programme.
We shall deal with the press in the following way: What is the part played by the press to-day? It serves to excite and inflame those passions which are needed for our purpose or else it serves selfish ends of parties. It is often vapid, unjust, mendacious, and the majority of the public have not the slightest idea what ends the press really serves. We shall saddle and bridle it with a tight curb: we shall do the same also with all productions of the printing press.. NOT A SINGLE ANNOUNCEMENT WILL REACH THE PUBLIC WITHOUT OUR CONTROL.

A clearer description of the regimes of Stalin and Hitler could hardly be imagined. ‘Inflaming passions’ is always the role of one-party state propaganda. Legalism becomes a tool of repression, not ‘freedom under the rule of law’.

PROTOCOL NO. 13
In order that the masses themselves may not guess what they are about WE FURTHER DISTRACT THEM WITH AMUSEMENTS, GAMES, PASTIMES, PASSIONS, PEOPLE'S PALACES... SOON WE SHALL BEGIN THROUGH THE PRESS TO PROPOSE COMPETITIONS IN ART, IN SPORT OF ALL KINDS..

Hitler’s cleverly-staged Olympic Games is an example, and ‘people’s palaces’ were actually so named by Stalin’s regime. Both dictators sought to control the people’s tastes in leisure, art and literature with zeal, but with mixed success

PROTOCOL NO. 15
OUR GOVERNMENT WILL HAVE THE APPEARANCE OF A PATRIARCHAL PATERNAL GUARDIANSHIP ON THE PART OF OUR RULER. Our own nation and our own subjects will discern in his person a father caring for their every need, their every act, their every inter-relation as subjects one with another, as well as their relations to the ruler. They will then be so thoroughly imbued with the thought that it is impossible for them to dispense with this wardship and guidance, if they wish to live in peace and quiet, THAT THEY WILL ACKNOWLEDGE THE AUTOCRACY OF OUR RULER WITH A DEVOTION BORDERING ON APOTHEOSIS..

How true of both Stalin and Hitler, and the later Mao and Castro! The religiosity and paternalism of totalitarianism is a feature well noted also by George Orwell.

PROTOCOL NO. 16
Classicism, as also any form of study of ancient history, in which there are more bad than good examples, we shall replace with the study of the programme of the future. We shall erase from the memory of men all facts of previous centuries which are undesirable to us, and leave only those which depict all the errors of the government of the goyim. The study of practical life, of the obligations of order, of the relations of people one to another, of avoiding bad and selfish examples..

‘He who controls the past controls the present. He who controls the present controls the future’. George Orwell understood that totalitarians must obliterate any real history, as its truths condemn such rule as inhumane. It is anti-intellectual in the proper sense of the term, though it encourages ‘practical’ pseudo-intellectuals.

PROTOCOL NO. 19
In order to destroy the prestige of heroism for political crime we shall send it for trial in the category of thieving, murder, and every kind of abominable and filthy crime. Public opinion will then confuse in its conception this category of crime with the disgrace attaching to every other and will brand it with the same contempt.

True heroism, like truth itself, will be crushed by horrible slander and unjust suppression, and state propaganda will ensure that the public believe the lies it is told about the evils of the dissidents. The gulags and concentration camps were essential elements of this process. The authors and promoters of the Protocols knew that the viciousness of its anti-semitic rhetoric was an integral part of the intentions of their own racism.

So we see how remarkably the Protocols understood the full intentions and nature of the real totalitarian dictatorships that followed. No wonder Hitler liked them. This is a clue both to its hoax nature, as well as to the mindset of the anti-semitic authors themselves

posted by Barrie @ 1/28/2006 05:16:00 PM