When The Old Testament and The Talmud are Mixed…
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When The Old Testament and The Talmud are Mixed
In the above sentence I told you everything you need to know about the current ongoing extermination war on Gaza. If you want to delve into the historical, philosophical and ideological evolvement that led to this horrendous development, be my guest, just keep reading.
The other day I listened to Scott Ritter describing the Gaza theatre as a merging of Iwo Jima and Stalingrad war theatres, two catastrophic WW2 bloody battles for both the USA and the Wehrmacht. In Iwo Jima, the Japanese were fighting the Marines from tunnels. In Stalingrad the Russians were fighting from the ruins of their city.
The Israelis can’t defeat the Hamas, neither above the surface (the ruins of Gaza) nor below it (Gaza underground). The defeated IDF is taking its revenge against the Gazan civilian population. This revenge is now known globally as the Gaza Genocide. It is committed by a state that calls itself a Jewish State with a vast approval of 82% of its Jewish population.
You ask yourself, how is it possible that an entire people have lost their humanity? How is it possible that people who have suffered throughout their entire history are becoming the executioners of the most documented extermination campaign in history?
The explanation is as simple as it is devastating.
In the late 19th century, early Zionists were desperate to liberate the Jews from the Talmud, which early Zionist agitators identified as the core of Jewish diaspora malaise. The early Zionists believed that reinstating the Old Testament (OT) as the new Hebraic primary text would solve the so called ‘Jewish problem’.
What the Early Zionists failed to grasp was that the OT was at least as dangerous as the Talmud.
The (OT) contains some of the most violent lines in the history of literature. The OT is a story about a very problematic father figure, aka God, who is engaged in an abusive relationship with his favourite children. As if this is not enough to ruin the future of his (better) children, he, the Father, also orders them occasionally to commit the most heinous genocides. It is more than likely that the OT’s God wouldn’t survive the ICC once chief prosecutor presents some of the many vile Biblical segments.
Look for example, in Deuteronomy 20:16-18:**
"… in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. Completely destroy them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.”
Or Deuteronomy 2:34
"At that time we took all his towns and completely destroyed them—men, women and children. We left no survivors."
I want to believe that when you read these lines, Gaza comes to mind.
Yet, Early Zionism was a secular movement. It didn’t wish to create a monster, quite the opposite. It vowed to make the new Hebrews nice people. Early Zionists wanted to believe that they diagnosed the causes that made Diaspora Jewish existence into a problem for both Jews and everyone around them. The Early Zionist philosophy was that Jews must transition into a people, a nation, a volk instead of a ‘religious group’ controlled by Rabbis and the Talmud. However, from a Judaic perspective Zionism was an act of heresy. Not many religious Jews were convinced by the Zionist philosophy. Consequently, very few Jews made Aliya before Hitler came to power in Germany.
But there was one Rabbi in Palestine who could see the religious potential in Zionism. Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (1865 –1935) became the chief Rabbi of Palestine under the British mandate. Kook realised that Zionism and Judaism were actually complementary precepts.
In line with many orthodox interpreters of the Jewish religion, Kook believed that there was a fundamental difference between Jews and Gentiles. For him, the difference between a Jew and a Gentile soul was greater than the difference between the soul of a Gentile and an animal.
Yet, unlike most orthodox rabbis in the first three decades of the 20th century, Kook enthusiastically supported the Zionist settlement of Palestine. The Jewish messianic West Bank settlement movement that started to gain power after 1967 has seen Kook as its spiritual and religious guide. Rabbi Kook made a successful effort to integrate Zionism and Judaism into a single Jewish ideology. In rabbi Kook’s view, Judaism and Zionism were a unity. Tragically, this philosophy is now the dominant Judaic philosophy. It was Rabbi Kook who planted the seeds of the transition of Zionism from a ‘Jewish Homeland’ (State for the Jews) into a ‘Judaic State’ (a state guided by Jewish law). The hardliners who dominate Netanyahu’s government such as Ben Gvir and Smortrich are graduates of Rabbi Kook’s philosophy. The settlers who dominate the IDF’s decision making, as well as the criminal materialisation of these decisions, are vastly, if not entirely, followers of Rabbi Kook Judaic school.
What rabbi Kook did in practice was integrating the Talmud, a manual for Jewish supremacy, with the OT’s genocidal ‘homecoming’ tale.
Kook brought to life a misanthropic genocidal ideology. This is the basic Judaic ideology that dominates Israeli politics and military. In this philosophy, there is no dichotomy between Judaism and Zionism. What we see, instead, is a cohesive genocidal amalgam that will be associated with the tribe for many generations ahead.
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