Who invented this idea of Jews and for what purpose?..........Is it the Rothschilds of Europe, to anoint themselves as the new Kings of Israel? Aren't they already "kings" and "Queens" in Europe running the show there?
Is Israel a safe haven for Jews? Has it indeed been so for the last 60 odd years? Is Israel a place where Jews can feel comfortable with being Jews? Aren't the Jews prosperous and comfortable in North America, Europe and else where?
Do we need perpetual global war to sustain this myth of Israel, and even to expand it into an empire called Eretz Israel?
Do we need to skewer the politics of great nations to sustain this myth?
Do we need false flag ops in America, and else where to sustain the myth of Israel?
Is there a solution to the Israeli problem, or must it continue into eternity, and be a burden on the natural development of mankind into greater things?
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Israeli Bestseller Breaks National Taboo: Idea of a Jewish people invented, says historian
by Jonathan Cook The National.
No one is more surprised than Shlomo Sand that his latest academic work has spent 19 weeks on Israel's bestseller list – and that success has come to the history professor despite his book challenging Israel's biggest taboo.
Dr. Sand argues that the idea of a Jewish nation – whose need for a safe haven was originally used to justify the founding of the state of Israel – is a myth invented little more than a century ago.
An expert on European history at Tel Aviv University, Dr. Sand drew on extensive historical and archaeological research to support not only this claim but several more – all equally controversial.
In addition, he argues that the Jews were never exiled from the Holy Land, that most of today's Jews have no historical connection to the land called Israel and that the only political solution to the country's conflict with the Palestinians is to abolish the Jewish state.
The success of When and How Was the Jewish People Invented? looks likely to be repeated around the world. A French edition, launched last month, is selling so fast that it has already had three print runs.
Translations are under way into a dozen languages, including Arabic and English. But he predicted a rough ride from the pro-Israel lobby when the book is launched by his English publisher, Verso, in the United States next year.
In contrast, he said Israelis had been, if not exactly supportive, at least curious about his argument. Tom Segev, one of the country's leading journalists, has called the book "fascinating and challenging."
Surprisingly, Dr. Sand said, most of his academic colleagues in Israel have shied away from tackling his arguments. One exception is Israel Bartal, a professor of Jewish history at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Writing in Haaretz, the Israeli daily newspaper, Dr. Bartal made little effort to rebut Dr. Sand's claims. He dedicated much of his article instead to defending his profession, suggesting that Israeli historians were not as ignorant about the invented nature of Jewish history as Dr. Sand contends.
The idea for the book came to him many years ago, Dr. Sand said, but he waited until recently to start working on it. "I cannot claim to be particularly courageous in publishing the book now," he said. "I waited until I was a full professor. There is a price to be paid in Israeli academia for expressing views of this sort."
Dr. Sand's main argument is that until little more than a century ago, Jews thought of themselves as Jews only because they shared a common religion. At the turn of the 20th century, he said, Zionist Jews challenged this idea and started creating a national history by inventing the idea that Jews existed as a people separate from their religion.
Equally, the modern Zionist idea of Jews being obligated to return from exile to the Promised Land was entirely alien to Judaism, he added.
"Zionism changed the idea of Jerusalem. Before, the holy places were seen as places to long for, not to be lived in. For 2,000 years Jews stayed away from Jerusalem not because they could not return but because their religion forbade them from returning until the messiah came."
The biggest surprise during his research came when he started looking at the archaeological evidence from the biblical era.
"I was not raised as a Zionist, but like all other Israelis I took it for granted that the Jews were a people living in Judea and that they were exiled by the Romans in 70AD.
"But once I started looking at the evidence, I discovered that the kingdoms of David and Solomon were legends.
(Why stop there?
One could say the whole show was a myth...Adam and Eve, Moses, Abraham...........40 years in the desert of Sinai, Flight from Egypt)
"Similarly with the exile. In fact, you can't explain Jewishness without exile. But when I started to look for history books describing the events of this exile, I couldn't find any. Not one.
"That was because the Romans did not exile people. In fact, Jews in Palestine were overwhelming peasants and all the evidence suggests they stayed on their lands."
Instead, he believes an alternative theory is more plausible: the exile was a myth promoted by early Christians to recruit Jews to the new faith. "Christians wanted later generations of Jews to believe that their ancestors had been exiled as a punishment from God."
So if there was no exile, how is it that so many Jews ended up scattered around the globe before the modern state of Israel began encouraging them to "return"?
Dr. Sand said that, in the centuries immediately preceding and following the Christian era, Judaism was a proselytizing religion, desperate for converts. "This is mentioned in the Roman literature of the time."
Jews traveled to other regions seeking converts, particularly in Yemen and among the Berber tribes of North Africa. Centuries later, the people of the Khazar kingdom in what is today south Russia, would convert en masse to Judaism, becoming the genesis of the Ashkenazi Jews of central and eastern Europe.
(The Khazar Jews, which have created the most havoc for mankind are a hybrid race of Uighur-Altaic people from Siberia migrating and mixing with Indo-Europeans (Germans and Iranians) living in the Steppes during the "Dark-ages" 500 A.D to 800 A.D, during the "Great Migrations"................some writers "Focused" on the Jewish question attribute the worlds woes to this particular race (think of Jack Palance, Hugh Hefner). I don't know, I think the fundamental problem with Jews is their religion, and not so much their race, after all people are people:
The priest from Byzantium is sent and he presents himself to the Khazar Khan.
"Oh great Khan, I bring you great tidings and gifts from Constaninople, greetings from Emperor Justinian. I present to you this Golden Bible, written specifically for you.......We present to you the words and wisdom of our Lord Jesus Christ, the savior of mankind....he teaches us that we should love one another, should not covet money and possession, and practice forgiveness to those who might smite us"
Khazar Khan: "Keep his things..........but send him away"
The Mullah from the Bagdad Caliphate arrives.
" Oh Great Khan, I bring you great tidings and gifts from the Caliphate, and our Caliph Haroon al Rashid sends you greetings, and requests that you adopt the great religion of Islam, and the teachings of the Koran; Mohammad is the only and last Prophet of GOD; you must pray 5 times a day towards Mecca; you must give alms to the poor; you must make a pilgrimage to Mecca; you must fast during Ramadan.....and you should not drink alcohol or eat pig meat"
Khazar Khan: " Put this bastard on the camel and send him back"
The Rabbi from Antioch arrives.
" Oh great Khan I see that your people worship the great Phallic symbol over there. That is most coincidental, as we do too to an extent in other ways. We in our religion believe that there is no after life, or that we must answer to God for wrongful actions against non-Jews, no repentence. One should enjoy, and gather as much here on earth.....and live for the moment, and to hell with the consequencies. We believe in, lying, cheating stealing from non-Jews as it is permissible as a means of advancement......and the greatest feat and skill for the Jew is to live off the labor of others. We also believe in child sacrifices of Goy children, and to use their blood to make holy bread............"
The Khan looked interested, "Where do I sign?"
And lo the Khazar Jew Kindom was created.
And the most dangerous types of Jews are those who pretend to be "liberal", or adopt other religions as a cover....John Kerry etc.)
Dr. Sand pointed to the strange state of denial in which most Israelis live, noting that papers offered extensive coverage recently to the discovery of the capital of the Khazar kingdom next to the Caspian Sea.
Ynet, the website of Israel's most popular newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, headlined the story: "Russian archaeologists find long-lost Jewish capital." And yet none of the papers, he added, had considered the significance of this find to standard accounts of Jewish history.
One further question is prompted by Dr. Sand's account, as he himself notes: if most Jews never left the Holy Land, what became of them?
"It is not taught in Israeli schools but most of the early Zionist leaders, including David Ben Gurion [Israel's first prime minister], believed that the Palestinians were the descendants of the area's original Jews. They believed the Jews had later converted to Islam."
(The Palestinians are an interesting mix of people, and are not homogeneous.........they of course have their Jewish convert Semitics, but one also notices Indo-European faces amongst them, Mediterranean faces, and Hamitic faces.
Islam is in many ways a Jewish/Semitic religion, and if we observe the Samaritans of today in Israel, and the way they pray, then we can understand how Islam and Mohammad the merchant on his early visits to the Levant, borrowed many ideas from Judaism in the 7th century.......the Samaritans follow an old form of Judaism that came out of Egypt, which the greater majority of Jews followed 2,000 years ago, so that for many "conversion" to Islam was very natural, and especially during the Crusades, to bond with Muslims, and when Muslims domninated that part of the world after the 13th century.........
However in addition in the Greater Middle East, there are many closely knitt Jewish communities who outwardly perform all the religious rituals of Islam, but to all intents and purposes are Jewish, and whilst this was not an issue in previous centuries given the myriad of Muslim faiths and beliefs in that part of the world, it is an issue now with the creation of the state of Israel, which now intends to be the latest world empire, "Eretz Israel"............
We do not have a full list of these groups residing in Muslim countries, but we can take rough guesses based on a variety of factors........Yemen must still have a good deal of such people still given the number of false flag ops by the Israelis there; North African countries; the House of Saud; the Turkish security state, and finally of course mullah Iran where the deputy head of VEVAK was Jewish pretending to be a Muslim, and one imagines many other members of the mullah regime are also Jewish.......Ahmedinejad. )
Dr. Sand attributed his colleagues' reticence to engage with him to an implicit acknowledgment by many that the whole edifice of "Jewish history" taught at Israeli universities is built like a house of cards.
The problem with the teaching of history in Israel, Dr. Sand said, dates to a decision in the 1930s to separate history into two disciplines: general history and Jewish history. Jewish history was assumed to need its own field of study because Jewish experience was considered unique.
"There's no Jewish department of politics or sociology at the universities. Only history is taught in this way, and it has allowed specialists in Jewish history to live in a very insular and conservative world where they are not touched by modern developments in historical research.
"I've been criticized in Israel for writing about Jewish history when European history is my specialty. But a book like this needed a historian who is familiar with the standard concepts of historical inquiry used by academia in the rest of the world."
(The "Jew" has had an impact on the world especially in the last 200 years through the West.
Perhaps the good professor can write a new book, "Judaism: The most evil North African religion created by man")
