CHRONOLOGY – SUBMIT TO SELF-APPOINTED LEADERSHIP

• 621 BC (?) onwards and AD 610-632; Texts used to back the call to SUBMIT TO SELF-APPOINTED LEADERSHIP. NEAR EAST: To support some of the actions of warriors taking land, possessions, power, and life itself from other people, and to obtain the subservience of their followers, some leaders use ancient messages said to have been handed down from Heaven. In two such groups under study here (the Judaists and the Muslims), the themes are similar: Other groups are to be cleared out of some lands, and/or kept in subjection, spread fear and dread, utterly destroy, execute by cruel and unusual methods, kill even the little children, exterminate, strike down, enslave, fell trees, domination, do not show pity, eye for eye and tooth for tooth, and seek revenge.
   Many of the followers in these groups, and even people outside them, do not fully appreciate the actual meaning of the formulae they recite in regular ceremonies, or the readings they hear from their leaders or learn off by heart. It can be recommended that people THINK more about what the words mean to the victims of some of these supposed exploits and "divine" commands. (More entries, and different translations or viewpoints are always welcome.)
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Once the seeds are sown, see History unfold.
• A.D. 600s onwards: Muslim conquests, Judaists convert Khazar / Chazar empire, Eastern Orthodox Christians convert Viking-led Slav kingdoms called Rus, who slowly destroy the Jewish Khazar buffer state, and are later conquered by Mongols, and Muslims hammer Christian Constantinople / Byzantium until it is conquered. 
   In the 600s Muslim armies started attacking their neighbours in Arabia, conquering the Hejaz by 632, then began stealing the rest of Arabia, then the Persian empire and nearby Christian countries, forcing "conversion" and forced multi-woman marriages on the inhabitants.  These peoples are among the forefathers of many millions of "Arabs" in countries far from Arabia to this day.  Note that the new religion attacked Orthodox Christian Constantinople / Byzantium / Eastern Roman Empire 673-8, and 717-8, as well as later.
   Judaist rabbis from Babylon converted the rulers of Khazaria /Chazaria (north of the Black Sea), a Turkic-speaking empire, which had to fight to retain independence.  The Khazars are reputedly the forefathers of millions of people whose mother tongue is or was Yiddish (not Hebrew), identifying as Jews throughout the Middle Ages and into the future.
   The Varangian (Viking / Norsemen) rulers of Slav states (the Rus) were converted to Orthodox Christianity by clergy from the old Eastern Roman Empire (Constantinople, or Byzantium) and Christianised Bulgaria, retaining many warrior ways.  This is why most Russians and their satellite peoples are members of various Orthodox Churches (which have a married clergy for parishes, plus monasteries and unmarried bishops).
   The Pecheneg people were a buffer state between the Rus and the Khazars. Similarly, as history unfolded, the Judaised Khazars were a buffer state that held back various attacks and attempted conquests for ages.  The Orthodox Christian Russians attacked Khazaria for centuries, one group making their city Kiev (in the Ukraine) their capital, forced them back eastwards to between the Don and Volga Rivers, and finally seized the last of their fortress cities.  The Rus had thus removed an important buffer against various raiders and conquests. 
   The Khazars would have resisted strongly when the Mongol hordes came -- but the greed and "religious" fervour of the Rus had removed the Khazars as a fighting force, leaving them as a persecuted subject people under the label "Jews", many gradually migrating westwards into Poland, Germany, and other lands.  The Mongols made the Rus (later called Russians) pay tribute for centuries.
   The Western Christians (Roman Catholics), supposedly on a Crusade to restore the freedom to go as pilgrims to Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Nazareth, etc. and restore the Near East and Middle East to Christianity, turned on their "schismatic" or "heretic" hosts, the Christian Greek-speaking "Roman" Empire based at Constantinople (Byzantium), and sacked the city in 1204.  The Persians had also ruined many of the Orthodox Byzantine cities.  In its weakened state, as the years rolled on, the Orthodox Christians lost most of their lands to Westerners, Christianised Serbians and other peoples, and to the Islamicised Turks. 
   In 1453 Constantinople / Byzantium itself fell to Turkish Muslims, the capital being renamed Istanbul, and the area "Rom", "Rum", or "Asia Minor" being renamed "Turkey".  Many Christians and others were to die in the ensuing conquests and attacks.  Some of the hate goes on to this day.  Stupidity and evil engender grief!
   [MAP: The map is from p 549 of Ancient History -- from the first civilisations to the Renaissance, J.M.Roberts, 2004, Castle Hill (NSW), Lifetime Distributors; ISBN-10: 1-84483-212-0  (First published as The New Penguin History of the World, Penguin Press/Allen Lane, 2002.)  See also map on page 613. For conversion of Khazars read pp 540 and 584.  Or read The Thirteenth Tribe, by Koestler. ENDS.]
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• 635, Damascus falls to Islamic forces. SYRIA.
• 638, February. Muslim armies take Jerusalem. JUDEA, Palestine.
• 643, Alexandria falls. EGYPT: The fall of Alexandria in 643 sounded the death knell of more than a thousand years of Hellenic civilization that once enriched the whole of the Near East with its scholarship and culture.
• 648-9, The island of Cyprus is seized from Christians. (Offshore from SYRIA and ASIA MINOR.)
• 653, Rhodes is taken from Christians. (Offshore from ANATOLIA in ASIA MINOR.
• 673 onwards, Constantinople is attacked for five years.  Byzantium, east of GREECE.
• By 698 the whole of North Africa is conquered, now Muslim, not Christian.
• 711, Muslims from Tangiers pour across the 13 km-wide strait of Gibraltar into SPAIN.
• 717, Muslims return to the attack against the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium).
• By 721 the Arab-Berber horde from Africa has overthrown the ruling Catholic Visigoths of SPAIN and, with the fall of Saragossa, set their sights on southern France.
• By 720 Narbonne has fallen. FRANCE.
• 732, early spring, Bordeaux is stormed and its churches burnt down by 'Abd al-Rahman ibn 'Abdullah al-Ghafiqi. FRANCE.
• 732, October, Charles Martel and his Frankish army defeated the army of 'Abd al-Rahman and killed him on the road from Poitiers to Tours. A turning-point in history. FRANCE.
• 734, Avignon is captured by an Arab force. FRANCE.
• 734, Lyons is sacked. FRANCE.
• 759, the Arabs are driven out of Narbonne. FRANCE.
• 838, Marseilles is plundered by Arabs. FRANCE.
• Early 800s Muslim incursions into Italy. The islands of Ponza (off Gaeta) and Ischia (off Naples) are plundered. ITALY.
• 813, Civitavecchia, the port of Rome, is sacked by the Arabs. ITALY.
• 826, the island of Crete falls to Muslim forces, which retained it as their base until 961. (Offshore from GREECE and ASIA MINOR.)
• Around 827 they then begin nibbling at the island of Sicily. (Offshore from ITALY and TUNISIA.)
• 837, Naples beats off a Muslim attack. ITALY.
• By 842 Arabs capture Messina and control the Strait of Messina. SICILY, offshore from ITALY.
• In 836 the rulers of Naples knavishly invite the Muslim forces to help them against the Lombards, and so set the stage for more than a century of Muslims raids around the coasts of ITALY.
• 840, Bari falls to Khalfun, a Berber chieftain, by another act of treachery. ITALY.
• 846, Raid on St Peter's, Rome.  ITALY: In 846 some Muslim Arabs arrive in a fleet at the mouth of the Tiber, make their way to Rome, sack the city, and carry away from the basilica of St. Peter all of the gold and silver it contains. -- Annals Australasia, annalsaust ralasia@nareg. com.au , by Sandro MAGISTER, pp 6-7, January-February 2006. [846]
• 846, Taranto in Apulia is conquered by Arab forces, who hold it until 880. ITALY.
• 849, a Saracen fleet again appears at the mouth of the Tiber, but is beaten off by the combined forces of four states, and destroyed in a storm. ITALY.
• 852, Leonine Wall around the Vatican, Rome, finished, blessed by Pope Leo IV. ITALY.
• From 853-871 the notorious Muslim brigand al-Mufarraj bin Sallam, and his successor, Sawdan, control all the coast from Bari down to Reggio Calabria, and terrorize Southern ITALY.
• 859, Arabs finally take the rest of Sicily. (Offshore from ITALY.)
• 870, Island of Malta captured by the Muslims. (Offshore from SICILY.)
• In 871 Bari, the Saracens' capital on mainland Italy, is recaptured from the Muslims by Emperor Louis II. ITALY.
• 872, Louis II defeats a Saracen fleet off Capua. ITALY.
• 873, Muslim forces devastate Calabria in southern ITALY.
• 878, Syracuse, a Byzantine city, falls to the Muslims after a nine-month siege.
• 879, upon the Emperor's death, the Duke of Spoleto turned on the Pope.  John VIII, unable to cope with both Saracens and Spoleto at once, had to pay tribute of 25,000 mancuses annually to the Arabs. A silver mancus was worth roughly AUD$25. This situation lasted for two years. ITALY.
• 880, victory over Saracen forces at Naples by Byzantine (Orthodox Christian) Commanders. ITALY.
• In 881 the Muslim allies of the Neapolitans capture the fortress on the Garigliano (the ancient Liris) 14 km east of Gaeta close to Anzio, just north of Naples, and plunder the surrounding countryside with impunity for forty years. ITALY.
• 887, Muslim armies take Hysela in Carsiana, and Amasia, the metropolitan city of Pontus in Asia Minor. BYZANTINE CITIES.
• 889, Muslims capture Fraxineto or Fréjus, not far from Toulon, which becomes their most important base to ravage Provence and North Italy. from their bases in the Alps. FRANCE, ITALY.
• 902, Muslim fleets destroy Demetrias in Thessaly, Central GREECE.
• 904, Thessalonica, the second city of the Byzantine Empire, falls to Islam. GREECE.
• In 921 a large band of Englishmen, on pilgrimage to the tombs of the Apostles in Rome, are crushed to death under rocks rolled down on them by Saracens in the passes of the Alps. EUROPE.
• In 934 Ya‘kub bin Ishaq attacks Genoa, and takes it in 935. ITALY.
• 942, Muslims removed temporarily from Fraxineto by Hugh of Aries attacking by land while a Byzantine fleet harries them from the sea. FRANCE.
• 972 - almost one hundred years after capturing Fraxineto, Muslims are driven from this lair by a league of Italian and Provencal princes, led by Duke William of Provence. FRANCE.
• 976, the Fatimid Caliphs send fresh Muslim expeditions into southern Italy. Initially the German emperor Otho II, with his headquarters in Rome, successfully defeats these Saracen forces. ITALY.
• In 977 Sergius, Archbishop of Damascus, is expelled by the Muslims. SYRIA.
• In July 982 Otho II is ambushed and his army is almost cut to pieces. ITALY.

• 1001 +. Successive invasions of northern India begin. INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT. Hindus, Bhuddists, and Christians in the northern part of India began to face severe difficulties as successive bloody Muslim invasions occurred from 1001 onwards.  Gradually more and more territory was conquered.  When Marco Polo visited central India around the end of the thirteenth century, he reported not only three Christian kingdoms, but also three "Saracen" kingdoms. -- see Patrick SOOKHDEO, 2002, A people betrayed; The impact of Islamization on the Christian community in Pakistan, Christian Focus Publications (Fearn) and Isaac Publishing (Pewsey), p 42. [1001 +]
• 1003, Muslims from Spain sack Antibes.
• 1005, Muslims from Spain sack Pisa. ITALY.
• 1016, Muslims from Spain again sack Pisa. ITALY.
• 1008, Palm Sunday celebrations outlawed.  EGYPT, SYRIA: In 1008 a Muslim ruler, the Fatimid caliph Hakim bin-Amr Allah, outlawed the celebrations of Palm Sunday by Christians of Egypt and Syria (which might have included Palestine). [1008]
• 1009, Christians' property confiscated, Jesus Sepulchre church and others utterly destroyed. PALESTINE, EGYPT: In 1009 caliph Hakim bin-Amr Allah ordered that Christians be punished and all their property confiscated. In that same year, he sacked and demolished the church dedicated to Mary in Cairo, and did not prevent the desecration of the Christian sepulchres surrounding it, or the sacking of the city's other churches. That same year saw what was certainly the most severe episode: the destruction of the Constantinian basilica of the Resurrection in Jerusalem, known as the Holy Sepulchre. -- Lecture by Monsignor Walter Brandmüller, December 2005, reported in Annals Australasia, "Christianity and Islam in History," By Walter BRANDMÜLLER, p 7, March 2006.  [1009]
• By 1010 Arabs have seized Cosenza in southern Italy. ITALY.
• 1015, Island of SARDINIA falls to Arabs. (South of CORSICA, north of TUNISIA and ALGERIA.)
• 1017, Combined Christian fleet finds Mujahid in the act of crucifying Christians on Sardinia, and drives him away. SARDINIA.
• 1020, Muslims from Spain sack Narbonne. FRANCE.
• Until 1050 Mujahid keeps trying to re-take Sardinia, but then he is captured by the Pisans, and the island is made over to them by the Pope. SARDINIA.
• A.D. 1071, Turk Muslims destroy Christian Empire army, become a threat to Europe. MANZIKERT: On August 19, 1071 the Turkish forces defeated the Roman Emperor in the East, Romanus Diogenes, at the Battle of Manzikert (or Manazgerd). The Seljuk Turks conquered most of Asia Minor (marked Turkey in modern maps). The Greek-culture Orthodox Christian Roman Empire in the east, named Byzantium by historians, was crippled. The loss led to years of pillage, killing and wholesale destruction of civilised life in Anatolia and other areas.
   "Manzikert, the shock that launched the Crusade, would have destroyed us -- but for the Crusade. Constantinople [Byzantium] would have fallen; all Europe would have been involved -- but under that stimulus the West moved. Gaul and the Rhine, Normandy, Flanders, Aquitaine, Lorraine armed, faced east, and went forward. The issue was the life or death of Christendom."
   -- Adapted from Hilaire BELLOC, The Crusades, (originally 1937) 1992, Tan Books & Publishers, Rockford (Illinois), p 17 [A.D. 1071]
• 1075, Seljuk Turks conquer Syria and Palestine, interfere with pilgrimages. PALESTINE: After the 1075 conquest, they began interfering with the Christian pilgrimages to the Holy Places in Palestine. -- based on Frances M. Clapham and Kay Franklin (eds), Factbook of History, (orig 1977) 1990, Rainbow Books, London, p 71. [1075]
• The Real History of the Crusades. NEAR EAST: For starters, the Crusades to the East were in every way defensive wars. They were a direct response to Muslim aggression -- an attempt to turn back or defend against Muslim conquests of Christian lands.
   Christians in the eleventh century were not paranoid fanatics. Muslims really were gunning for them. While Muslims can be peaceful, Islam was born in war and grew the same way. From the time of Mohammed, the means of Muslim expansion was always the sword.
   Muslim thought divides the world into two spheres, the Abode of Islam and the Abode of War. Christianity -- and for that matter any other non-Muslim religion -- has no abode. Christians and Jews can be tolerated within a Muslim state under Muslim rule. But, in traditional Islam, Christian and Jewish states must be destroyed and their lands conquered.
   -- Crisis, "The Real History of the Crusades," www.crisis magazine. com/april 2002/cover.htm , By Thomas F. MADDEN, Apr 1, 2002
   (Thomas F. Madden is associate professor and chair of the Department of History at Saint Louis University. He is the author of numerous works, including A Concise History of the Crusades, and co-author, with Donald Queller, of The Fourth Crusade: The Conquest of Constantinople.)
[COMMENT: The Crusaders' sneak attack and sacking of Constantinople (Byzantium) in 1204 which gave Venice the territory for a time was completely unjustified, and has poisoned relations between the oldest "trunk" and the offshoot branches of Christianity. COMMENT ENDS]  Article date: Apr 1, 2002)
• 1099, Crusaders slaughter Jerusalem population. JERUSALEM: The Muslims occupying Jerusalem had insulted the cross on the walls, while the Crusaders besieged the city. When the Crusaders conquered the city they slaughtered almost the entire population, spending about 1 1/2 days doing so, from Friday 15 July 1099 to the 16th. -- see Hilaire Belloc, The Crusades, (originally 1937) 1992, p 115 [COMMENT: Perhaps the Christians forgot "You shall not kill," and "Never repay one wrong with another." (1 Peter 3:9) COMMENT ENDS] [1099]
• 1100, Western half-Christianised Crusaders break promise made to Christian Emperor. JERUSALEM: The crowning of Baldwin of Bouillon on Christmas Day, 1100, as King of Jerusalem was brought about to give much-needed unity to the Western European Crusaders. However, the title of king connoted independence of the Emperor of Constantinople, "although the Crusaders at the outset of their march had promised to recognise the suzerainty of the Emperor over anything they might conquer." -- Hilaire Belloc, The Crusades, (originally 1937) 1992, p 123.  [1100]
• 1143, Koran was translated into Latin, thus opening it up directly to literate Westerners, and indirectly to learned members of the Orthodox and other Eastern Churches.
   [COMMENT: Leaders of Christian Churches, scholars, and rulers of Christian and other nations, therefore, have no real excuse for leaving their followers ignorant of the fact that the Koran / Quran, supposedly the word of a god called Allah, includes several condemnations of Christianity and Judaism, and several calls to kill and/or capture them and other non-Muslims – plus "hypocrite" Muslims.  Some of the attacks on Christianity are attacks on the idea that God had a son, and the Blessed Trinity, plus a claim that the Christian clergy devour and hoard money.  The attacks on the Jews include the strange doctrines that God had changed some of them into apes and swine (i.e., monkeys and pigs), they are "apes, despised and rejected", and the highly unlikely order forbidding them to sell the revelations for a paltry sum. ENDS.] [1143]

• 1204, Papist "Christians" sack Christian Constantinople. CONSTANTINOPLE, ASIA MINOR: Catholic Crusaders by trickery attack and sack Orthodox Christian Constantinople, also known to historians as Byzantium, and now called Istanbul, in Asia Minor (now called Turkey), then the capital of the Eastern continuation of the Roman Empire.  Other so-called "Christians" stole provinces off the Empire.  [The year of the sacking of the city is shown as 1203 in at least one reference book.]  Just as in modern wars, the stated aim (in this case, regaining Christian lands from those who stole it, thus freeing the Holy Land and other stolen countries from the Muslims) is not the same as the secret real aim (booty, bedmates, and making the farmers and others pay them rent and/or tribute and taxes perpetually).]  [1204]
• 1290, August 31: Judaists exiled from England by proclamation of King Edward I, nicknamed "Longshanks" (1239-1307) [1290, Aug 31]
• 1453 Constantinople / Byzantium itself fell to Turkish Muslims' attack. [1453]
• 1571, Oct. 7, The battle of Lepanto: The combined Catholic fleets of Spain, Venice, Genoa, Malta and the Papal States of Pius V, under the command of Don John of Austria, defeated the entire maritime force of Muslim Ottoman Turkey, freed more than 10,000 Christian galley-slaves, and destroyed the myth of Ottoman naval invincibility.  Lepanto put an end to Turkish dominance in the Mediterranean, and to the threat that the Muslim Ottomans posed to Europe.  Catholics instituted the feast of "Our Lady Help of Christians," attributing the victory to prayers to God through Mary. -- Walter BRANDMÜLLER, "Christianity and Islam in History," see Annals Australasia, annals australasia@ nareg.com.au , p 7, March 2006.  [1571, Oct. 7]
• 1600s and 1700s: EUROPE and NORTH AFRICA; The Corsairs of the Barbary Coast:  One little known aspect of the Muslim slave trade is that in the 17th and 18th centuries one million European Christians were brought to Muslim North Africa.  Some were captured at sea by Barbary corsair pirates - who seized 466 British trading vessels alone between 1609 and 1616 - while others were taken as prisoners in daring Muslim raids on the coasts of Iceland, Norway, Britain, Ireland, France, Spain, Italy and Greece. -- Paul KILDARE, "The Slave Trade", The Word, www.the word.ie (RC magazine, Ireland), p 12, March, 2007 [1600s & 1700s]
• 1631, June 20: 107 Irish people enslaved by Muslims.   IRELAND and ALGIERS: The most dramatic Muslim raid in Ireland was that on Baltimore, West Cork, on 20 June 1631, when 231 Barbary coast pirates and Turkish Ottoman troops kidnapped 107 local people - 23 men, 34 women and 50 children - and brought them as slaves to Algiers. Father Pierre Dan, a French priest in the city, reported seeing them being sold as slaves there: "It was a pitiful sight to see them exposed naked in the slave market." This dramatic raid was recalled in Thomas Davis' poem, The Sack of Baltimore, and more recently in Des Ekin's book, The Stolen Village. -- KILDARE, ibid, p 12, March, 2007 [1631]
• 1716, pirate-slavers at sea. OCEAN, MOROCCO, CORNWALL: Thomas Fellow, a young Cornish sailor, and 51 others were captured from their ship at sea in 1716 and sold as slaves in Morocco. One of the few who survived to tell his tale, he escaped 23 years later, when he was rescued and brought home by a Capt Toolin from Dublin on his small sailing vessel. Fellow's extraordinary story was recently told by Giles Milton in his book, White Gold. -- KILDARE, Ibid, p 12, March, 2007 [1716]
• 1784, Mysore forcibly circumcised 30,000 Christians. INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT: [During] A.D. 1784 Tippu Sultan, the Muhammaden ruler of Mysore, India, forcibly circumcised thirty thousand Christians (some writers say fifty thousand) and removed them, and presumably their families with them, to the country above the Western Ghats.  He harassed the Christians in their hiding places and compelled them, under pain of having their ears and nose cut off, to abjure their religion and embrace Islam. -- Patrick SOOKHDEO, 2002, A people betrayed; The impact of Islamization on the Christian community in Pakistan, Christian Focus Publications (Fearn) and Isaac Publishing (Pewsey), pp 42-43. [1784]
• 1899: Winston CHURCHILL'S book The River War claimed that Islam raised fearless warriors as it spread into Africa, but is a retrograde force, marked by improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property. [1899]
   20th century
• 1905, a supposed end to black slaving by Muslim powers: ASIA MINOR, BALKANS, other MUSLIM COUNTRIES: Muslim states were also slave societies. The Ottoman Empire's use of galley-slaves in the Mediterranean was one of the most brutal forms of slavery ever. Other Muslim countries imported millions of black slaves from Africa up to 1905. -- Paul KILDARE, "The Slave Trade", The Word, www.the word.ie , p 12, March, 2007 [1905]
• 1911: PALESTINE: 150 high-profile Arabs in the Palestine area (then under the Turkish empire) telegraphed the Ottoman Turkish Parliament to protest against continued sales of land to Jews. Yes, Muslim Turks were selling so-called "Muslim" land to Jews. (See Irshad MANJI, 2003, The Trouble with Islam, Random House Australia, Milsons Point, page 102.) [1911]
• 1921: PALESTINE: Haj Amin el-Husseini became the Mufti (Muslim leader) of Jerusalem, Palestine then being under British mandate, in 1921. He was properly elected president of the Supreme Muslim Council in 1922 -- but ballots would never be cast again during his 15-year presidency. He was determined to rid Palestine of the Jews. Any Muslim who was lukewarm to this aim might be visited by a body of gunmen. (MANJI, 2003, Ibid, pp 103-104, quoting the 1937 Peel Commission Report.)  [1921]
• 1939: PALESTINE: The British Government offered the Arab Muslims full statehood, with Arabs and Jews occupying a single polity, with the Palestinians taking control in 10 years.  The Arab negotiators demanded full authority in five years. (MANJI, p 104) [1939]
• 1939 onwards: PALESTINE: The Mufti pressured Britain to turn away shiploads of Jews fleeing from Nazi attacks and threats, some drowning in the Mediterranean and others being taken back to Hitler's territories, there to be gassed etc. (MANJI, p 105) [1939 onwards]
• 1939 onwards: Terrorist gangs formed by the Jewish immigrants: PALESTINE: "Only in 1939 did the British Government appear to realize that continued Jewish immigration into Palestine caused serious prejudice to the rights and position of the Palestine Arabs which it was its duty under the mandate to safeguard. Consequently it issued the White Paper previously mentioned, in which it declared its intention to limit Jewish immigration to 75,000 persons over the next five years and to grant to Palestine its independence after ten years.
   After the period of five years no further Jewish immigration would be allowed except with Arab consent. 47 But the Zionist Jews fought this White Paper by a campaign of violence. The three Jewish secret para-military organizations, the Haganah, the Irgun Zvai Leumi and the Stern Gang, joined forces to commit a series of acts of violence against the British Government and secure the withdrawal of its limitation upon Jewish immigration into Palestine. 48
   "Concurrently with their campaign the Zionists exerted all efforts to influence American public opinion and to bring pressure upon the American Government in order to secure their support for large-scale Jewish immigration into Palestine. On the one hand, they quoted certain Biblical promises to the descendants of Abraham as if the Jews, and particularly the Jews of Eastern Europe, who then constituted the largest proportion of Jewish immigrants to Palestine, were his only descendants.  … In addition to the Bible and Nazi persecutions, the Zionist also exploited the 'Jewish vote' in the American elections.  …"
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47 Cmd. 6018, May 17 1939
48 For details about these outrages, see Government of Palestine, A Survey of Palestine Vol. I, pp. 56-57; The British Statement on Acts of Violence, Cmd. 6873 (1946); also S.N.Fisher, op. cit., p. 579; G.Kirk, The Middle East 1945-1950 (Oxford University Press, London, 1954), pp. 209-213 and 218-223.

-- Henry CATTAN, LLM, 1969, Palestine, the Arabs and Israel; the search for justice, Longmans Green, London and Harlow, pp 23-24 (found and inserted 20 Oct 03). {Events 1939-48}
• 1939-1948, Jewish terrorism. PALESTINE: "Before directing their outrages against the Arab civilian population in 1948, the Jewish terrorist organizations had for several years past turned their wrath against the British authorities in Palestine with the avowed purpose of forcing their hand on the immigration issue.
   The Jews had rebelled, as we have seen, against the British Government's policy declared in its White Paper of May 17 1939 of limiting Jewish immigration into Palestine to 75,000 over the next five years.
   Upon the expiration of this quota, Jewish organizations proceeded to instigate and organize the emigration of Jews from Europe to Palestine in violation of the law and also launched a terrorist campaign against the British in order to secure the repeal of the immigration restrictions.
   During this terrorist campaign, the Jews sabotaged public installations, dynamited government offices, 2 raided military stores, shot, killed, abducted and flogged British soldiers and government officials. 3 "
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2 The blowing up of the headquarters of the Palestine Government at Jerusalem by the Irgun Zvai Luemi on July 22 1946 during working hours will remain as the most notorious of these outrages. The terrorists deposited explosives in the basement of the King David Hotel where the government's offices were located and blew up the entire southern half of the east wing, causing the death of 91 persons and the wounding of 45 others: G Kirk, The Middle East 1945-1950 (Oxford University Press, London, 1954), pp. 221-222.
3 See British statement on Acts of Violence, Cmd. 6873 (1946); S.N.Fisher, The Middle East (Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1960), pp. 579, 582; G.Kirk, op. cit., pp. 197, 203, 210, 215, 218, 238, 245.

-- Henry CATTAN, LLM, 1969, Palestine, the Arabs and Israel; the search for justice, Longmans Green, London and Harlow, pp 39-40 (found quote, and inserted 29 Oct 03)
   [COMMENT: The garrotting of two British servicemen was just as horrible as some of the events mentioned above. COMMENT ENDS.] {Book: 1969}  [Period covered 1939-1948]

• What about Arab atrocities against Jewish civilians before Israel's creation? PALESTINE: Violence by Arabs against the Jewish civilian population of Palestine was a periodic reality. During the Mandate period, whenever Arab dissatisfaction reached a peak, or when anti-Zionist, anti-Semitic Arab [NOTE: Arabs ARE Semites, so they usually aren't anti-Semitic! NOTE ENDS] leaders needed to provoke the British authorities, rioting and Jewish casualties were created.
   Major rioting flared in Palestine during 1920-21, in 1929, and during the Arab Revolt of 1936-39. This was not so different from the experience of Jews all over Europe and was part of the motivation for creating a Jewish state where Jews could control their own security.
   The day after the UN partition resolution of November 29, 1947, violence against Jewish civilians began to escalate. The Arabs declared a protest strike and instigated riots that claimed the lives of 62 Jews and 32 Arabs. By the end of the second week, 93 Arabs, 84 Jews and 7 Englishmen had been killed and scores injured.
   From November 30, 1947 to February 1, 1948 427 Arabs, 381 Jews and 46 British were killed and 1,035 Arabs, 725 Jews and 135 British were wounded. In March alone, 271 Jews and 257 Arabs died in Arab attacks and Jewish counterattacks. These were not military operations, but terrorism against civilian targets intended to achieve political aims for the Arabs who were dissatisfied with the United Nations partition plan.
   -- Palestine Facts, "What about Arab atrocities against Jews?" www.palestine facts.org/pf_ independence_ war_atrocities_ arab.php , found and inserted 03 Feb 03
• 1942, during World War II: PALESTINE and NAZI GERMANY: The Jerusalem Mufti Haj Amin el-Husseini (blond-haired and blue-eyed) paid a visit to Nazi Germany, and was the special guest of the dictator Adolph Hitler, presiding over the unveiling of the Islamic Central Institute in December 1942. -- Irshad MANJI, 2003, The Trouble with Islam, Random House Australia, Milsons Point, p 105 [1942]
• 1943-44: Mufti Haj Amin el-Husseini addressed imams in the Bosnian SS, assuring them that Islam and Nazism shared a commitment to social order, family structure, hard work, and perpetual struggle -- especially against the Americans, the English, and the Jews.  From the capital of Hitler's Reich, Haj Amin broadcast Nazi propaganda to the Arab world: "Kill the Jews wherever you find them," he hissed into a microphone at Radio Berlin on March 1, 1944.  "This pleases God, history, and religion. This saves your honour. God is with you." (MANJI, p 106) [1943-44]
• 1947, May 21: A band of armed Jews attacked a cafe in the Arab village of Fajja, near Petah Tikva, shooting one Arab dead, wounding seven others and placing explosive charges in the premises.  A second band attacked an Arab encampment in the neighbourhood and shot one Arab dead.  A communication to the Hebrew press by the Hagana claimed responsibility for these outrages. – "The Black Paper on the Jewish Agency" (as reprinted in The Palestine Plot, by Borge JENSEN, Third Printing November 1987 (originally June 1948), Omni Publications, Hawthorne (California, USA, Box 216), p 123. [May 21, 1947]
• 1947, June 9-10: Two British members of the Palestine Police Force were kidnapped by armed Jews from a swimming pool near Ramat Gan.  They were stripped, flogged and held as hostages.  They were released only after the British forces cordoned the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Shaul. – "The Black Paper on the Jewish Agency", in JENSEN, p 123. [June 9-10, 1947]
• 1947, July 12: On July 12, [the Judaist] Stern gang terrorists kidnapped two British sergeants – Paice, aged 20 and Martin, aged 21 – as hostages for three Jewish terrorists who were being tried by the Military court for murder and sabotage.  The two sergeants were murdered by hanging.  On July 31, the two blackened bodies of the sergeants were found hanging from twin eucalyptus trees.  One of the bodies was booby-trapped, and when it fell to the ground it set off a mine, blowing that body to pieces which were difficult to collect.  A British Captain nearby was seriously injured.  This revolting crime aroused the wrath of the whole civilised world. – "The Black Paper on the Jewish Agency", in JENSEN, p 123. [July 12, 1947]
• 1948: SOVIET RUSSIA, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, and PALESTINE: Soviet dictator Josef Stalin transferred weapons from Czechoslovakia to Jews in Palestine, helping them to withstand the assault from the Arab nations round about.  Shortly after Israel's 1948 victory, Stalin starting arming the Arab countries, particularly Egypt. (MANJI, p 107) [1948]
   Closer to our own times
• Rivers of Blood Speech: Enoch Powell     

Rivers of Blood Speech: Enoch Powell

   Speech by Enoch Powell, MP, at the Annual General Meeting of the West Midlands Area Conservative Political Centre, Birmingham, England, April 20, 1968
   Here is the full text of Enoch Powell's famous speech to the Annual General Meeting of the West Midlands Area Conservative Political Centre, Birmingham, England, April 20, 1968.
   The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. In seeking to do so, it encounters obstacles which are deeply rooted in human nature. One is that by the very order of things such evils are not demonstrable until they have occurred: At each stage in their onset there is room for doubt and for dispute whether they be real or imaginary. By the same token, they attract little attention in comparison with current troubles, which are both indisputable and pressing: whence the besetting temptation of all politics to concern itself with the immediate present at the expense of the future.
   Above all, people are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles: 'if only', they love to think, 'if only people wouldn't talk about it, it probably wouldn't happen'. Perhaps this habit goes back to the primitive belief that the word and the thing, the name and the object, are identical. At all events, the discussion of future grave but, with effort now, avoidable evils is the most unpopular and at the same time the most necessary occupation for the politician. Those who knowingly shirk it, deserve, and not infrequently receive, the curses of those who come after.
   A week or two ago I fell into conversation with a constituent, a middle-aged, quite ordinary working man employed in one of our nationalized industries. After a sentence or two about the weather, he suddenly said: 'If I had the money to go, I wouldn't stay in this country.' I made some deprecatory reply, to the effect that even this Government wouldn't last for ever; but he took no notice, and continued: 'I have three children, all of them have been through grammar school and two of them married now, with family. I shan't be satisfied till I have seen them settled overseas. In this country in fifteen or twenty years' time the black man will have the whip hand over the white man.'
   I can already hear the chorus of execration. How dare I say such a horrible thing? How dare I stir up trouble and inflame feelings by repeating such a conversation? The answer is that I do not have the right not to do so. Here is a decent, ordinary fellow Englishman, who in broad daylight in my own town says to me, his Member of Parliament, that this country will not be worth living in for his children. I simply do not have the right to shrug my shoulders and think about something else. What he is saying, thousands and hundreds of thousands are saying and thinking - not throughout Great Britain, perhaps, but in the areas that are already undergoing the total transformation to which there is no parallel in a thousand years of English history.
   In fifteen or twenty years, on present trends, there will be in this country 3 1/2 million Commonwealth immigrants and their descendants. That is not my figure. That is the official figure given to Parliament by the spokesman of the Registrar General's office. There is no comparable official figure for the year 2000, but it must be in the region of 5-7 million, approximately one-tenth of the whole population, and approaching that of Greater London. Of course, it will not be evenly distributed from Margate to Aberystwyth and from Penzance to Aberdeen. Whole areas, towns and parts of towns across England will be occupied by different sections of the immigrant and immigrant-descended population.
   As time goes on, the proportion of this total who are immigrant descendants, those born in England, who arrived here by exactly the same route as the rest of us, will rapidly increase. Already by 1985 the native-born would constitute the majority. It is this fact above all which creates the extreme urgency of action now, of just that kind of action which is hardest for politicians to take, action where the difficulties lie in the present but the evils to be prevented or minimized lie several parliaments ahead.
   The natural and rational first question with a nation confronted by such a prospect is to ask: 'How can its dimensions be reduced?' Granted it be not wholly preventable, can it be limited, bearing in mind that numbers are of the essence: the significance and consequences of an alien element introduced into a country or population are profoundly different according to whether that element is 1 per cent or 10 per cent. The answers to the simple and rational question are equally simple and rational: by stopping or virtually stopping, further inflow, and by promoting the maximum outflow. Both answers are part of the official policy of the Conservative Party.
   It almost passes belief that at this moment twenty or thirty additional immigrant children are arriving from overseas in Wolverhampton alone every week - and that means fifteen or twenty additional families of a decade or two hence. Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependants, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. So insane are we that we actually permit unmarried persons to immigrate for the purpose of founding a family with spouses and fiancées whom they have never seen.
   Let no one suppose that the flow of dependants will automatically tail off. On the contrary, even at the present admission rate of only 5,000 a year by voucher, there is sufficient for a further 325,000 dependants per annum ad infinitum, without taking into account the huge reservoir of existing relations in this country - and I am making no allowance at all for fraudulent entry. In these circumstances nothing will suffice but that the total inflow for settlement should be reduced at once to negligible proportions, and that the necessary legislative and administrative measures be taken without delay. I stress the words 'for settlement'.
   This has nothing to do with the entry of Commonwealth citizens, any more than of aliens, into this country, for the purposes of study or of improving their qualifications, like (for instance) the Commonwealth doctors who, to the advantage of their own countries, have enabled our hospital service to be expanded faster than would otherwise have been possible. These are not, and never have been, immigrants.
   I turn to re-emigration. If all immigration ended tomorrow, the rate of growth of the immigrant and immigrant-descended population would be substantially reduced, but the prospective size of this element in the population would still leave the basic character of the national danger unaffected. This can only be tackled while a considerable proportion of the total still comprises persons who entered this country during the last ten years or so. Hence the urgency of implementing now the second element of the Conservative Party's policy: the encouragement of re-emigration.
   Nobody can make an estimate of the numbers which, with generous grants and assistance, would choose either to return to their countries of origin or to go to other countries anxious to receive the manpower and the skills they represent. Nobody knows, because no such policy has yet been attempted. I can only say that, even at present, immigrants in my own constituency from time to time come to me, asking if I can find them assistance to return home. If such a policy were adopted and pursued with the determination which the gravity of the alternative justifies, the resultant outflow could appreciably alter the prospects for the future.
   It can be no part of any policy that existing family should be kept divided; but there are two directions in which families can be reunited, and if our former and present immigration laws have brought about the division of families, albeit voluntary or semi-voluntarily, we ought to be prepared to arrange for them to be reunited in their countries of origin. In short, suspension of immigration and encouragement of re-emigration hang together, logically and humanly, as two aspects of the same approach.
   The third element of the Conservative Party's policy is that all who are in this country as citizens should be equal before the law and that there shall be no discrimination or difference made between them by public authority. As Mr. Heath has put it, we will have no 'first-class citizens' and 'second-class citizens'. This does not mean that the immigrant and his descendants should be elevated into a privileged or special class or that the citizen should be denied his right to discriminate in the management of his own affairs between one fellow citizen and another or that he should be subjected to inquisition as to his reasons and motives for behaving in one lawful manner rather than another.
   There could be no grosser misconception of the realities than is entertained by those who vociferously demand legislation as they call it 'against discrimination', whether they be leader-writers of the same kidney and sometimes on the same newspapers which year after year in the 1930s tried to blind this country to the rising peril which confronted it, or archbishops who live in palaces, faring delicately with the bedclothes pulled right over their heads. They have got it exactly and diametrically wrong. The discrimination and the deprivation, the sense of alarm and resentment, lies not with the immigrant population but with those among whom they have come and are still coming. This is why to enact legislation of the kind before Parliament at this moment is to risk throwing a match on to the gunpowder. The kindest thing that can be said about those who propose and support it is they know not what they do.
   Nothing is more misleading than comparison between the Commonwealth immigrant in Britain and the American Negro. The Negro population of the United states, which was already in existence before the United States became a nation, started literally as slaves and were later given the franchise and other rights of citizenship, to the exercise of which they have only gradually and still incompletely come. The Commonwealth immigrant came to Britain as a full citizen, to a country which knows no discrimination between one citizen and another, and he entered instantly into the possession of the rights of every citizen, from the vote to free treatment under the National Health Service. Whatever drawbacks attended the immigrants - and they were drawbacks which did not, and do not, make admission into Britain by hook or by crook appear less than desirable - arose not from the law or from public policy or from administration but from those personal circumstances and accidents which cause, and always will cause, the fortunes and experience of one man to be different for another's.
   But while to the immigrant entry to this country was admission to privileges and opportunities eagerly sought, the impact upon the existing population was very different. For reasons which they could not comprehend, and in pursuance of a decision by default, on which they were never consulted, they found themselves made strangers in their own country. They found their wives unable to obtain hospital beds in childbirth, their children unable to obtain school places, their homes and neighbourhoods changed beyond recognition, their plans and prospects for the future defeated; at work they found that employers hesitated to apply to the immigrant worker the standards of discipline and competence required of the native-born worker; they began to hear, as time went by, more and more voices which told them that they were now the unwanted. On top of this, they now learn that a one-way privilege is to be established by Act of Parliament: a law, which cannot, and is not intended, to operate to protect them or redress their grievances, is to be enacted to give the stranger, the disgruntled and the agent provocateur the power to pillory them for their private actions.
   In the hundreds upon hundreds of letters I received when I last spoke on this subject two or three months ago, there was one striking feature which was largely new and which I find ominous. All Members of Parliament are used to the typical anonymous correspondent; but what surprised and alarmed me was the high proportion of ordinary, decent, sensible people, writing a rational and often well-educated letter, who believed that they had to omit their address because it was dangerous to have committed themselves to paper to a Member of Parliament agreeing with the views I had expressed, and that they would risk either penalties or reprisals if they were known to have done so. The sense of being a persecuted minority which is growing among ordinary English people in the areas of the country which are affected is something that those without direct experience can hardly imagine. I am going to allow just one of those hundreds of people to speak for me. She did give her name and address, which I have detached from the letter which I am about to read. She was writing from Northumberland about something which is happening at this moment in my own constituency:
   Eight years ago in a respectable street in Wolverhampton a house was sold to a Negro. Now only one white (a woman old-age pensioner) lives there. This is her story. She lost her husband and both her sons in the war. So she turned her seven-roomed house, her only asset, into a boarding house. She worked hard and did well, paid off her mortgage and began to put something by for her old age. Then the immigrants moved in. With growing fear, she saw one house after another taken over. The quiet streets became a place of noise and confusion.
   Regretfully, her white tenants moved out.
   The day after the last one left, she was awakened at 7 a.m. by two Negroes who wanted to use her phone to contact their employer. When she refused, as she would have refused any stranger at such an hour, she was abused and feared she would have been attacked but for the chain on her door. Immigrant families have tried to rent rooms in her house, but she always refused. Her little store of money went, and after paying her rates, she had less than £2 per week. She went to apply for a rate reduction and was seen by a young girl, who on hearing she had a seven-roomed house, suggested she should let part of it. When she said the only people she could get were Negroes, the girl said 'racial prejudice won't get you anywhere in this country'. So she went home.
   The telephone is her lifeline. Her family pay the bill, and help her out as best they can. Immigrants have offered to buy her house - at a price which the prospective landlord would be able to recover from his tenants in weeks, or at most in a few months. She is becoming afraid to go out.
   Windows are broken. She finds excreta pushed through her letterbox. When she goes to the shops, she is followed by children, charming, wide-grinning piccaninnies. They cannot speak English, but one word they know. 'Racialist', they chant. When the new Race Relations Bill is passed, this woman is convinced she will go to prison. And is she so wrong? I begin to wonder.
   The other dangerous delusion from which those who are wilfully or otherwise blind to realities suffer, is summed up in the word 'integration'. To be integrated into a population means to become for all practical purposes indistinguishable from its other members. Now, at all times, where there are marked physical differences, especially of colour, integration is difficult though, over a period, not impossible. There are among the Commonwealth immigrants have come to live here in the last fifteen years or so, many thousands whose wish and purpose is to be integrated and whose every thought and endeavour is bent in that direction. But to imagine that such a thing enters the heads of a great and growing majority of immigrants and their descendants is a ludicrous misconception, and a dangerous one to boot.
   We are on the verge of here of a change. Hitherto it has been force of circumstance and of background which has rendered the very idea of integration inaccessible to the greater part of the immigrant population - that they never conceived or intended such a thing, and that their numbers and physical concentration meant the pressures towards integration which normally bear upon any small minority did not operate. Now we are seeing the growth of positive forces acting against integration, of vested interests in the preservation and sharpening of racial and religious differences, with a view to the exercise of action domination, first over fellow immigrants and then over the rest of the population. The cloud no bigger than a man's hand, that can so rapidly overcast the sky, has been visible recently in Wolverhampton and has shown signs of spreading quickly. The words I am about to use, verbatim as they appeared in the local press on 17 February, are not mine, but those of a Labour Member of Parliament who is a Minister in the present Government.
   The Sikh communities' campaign to maintain customs inappropriate in Britain is much to be regretted. Working in Britain, particularly in the public services, they should be prepared to accept the terms and conditions of their employment. To claim special communal rights (or should one say rites?) leads to a dangerous fragmentation within society. This communalism is a canker: whether practised by one colour or another it is to be strongly condemned.
   All credit to John Stonehouse for having had the insight to perceive that, and the courage to say it.
   For these dangerous and divisive elements the legislation proposed in the Race Relations Bill is the very pabulum they need to flourish. Here is the means of showing that the immigrant communities can organize to consolidate their members, to agitate and campaign against their fellow citizens, and to overawe and dominate the rest with the legal weapons which the ignorant and the ill-informed have provided. As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding.
   Like the Roman, I seem to see 'the River Tiber foaming with much blood'. That tragic and intractable phenomenon which we watch with horror on the other side of the Atlantic but which there is interwoven with the history and existence of the States itself, is coming upon us here by our own volition and our own neglect. Indeed, it has all but come. In numerical terms, it will be of American proportions long before the end of the century.
   Only resolute and urgent action will avert it even now. Whether there will be the public will to demand and obtain that action, I do not know. All I know is that to see, and not to speak, would be the great betrayal. #

   [RECAPITULATION: Now we are seeing the growth of positive forces acting against integration, of vested interests in the preservation and sharpening of racial and religious differences, with a view to the exercise of action [? actual] domination, first over fellow immigrants and then over the rest of the population. […]
   It can be no part of any policy that existing family should be kept divided; but there are two directions in which families can be reunited, and if our former and present immigration laws have brought about the division of families, albeit voluntary or semi-voluntarily, we ought to be prepared to arrange for them to be reunited in their countries of origin. In short, suspension of immigration and encouragement of re-emigration hang together, logically and humanly, as two aspects of the same approach. […]
   [Minister in the Labour Government, John Stonehouse said:] The Sikh communities' campaign to maintain customs inappropriate in Britain is much to be regretted. Working in Britain, particularly in the public services, they should be prepared to accept the terms and conditions of their employment. To claim special communal rights (or should one say rites?) leads to a dangerous fragmentation within society. This communalism is a canker: whether practised by one colour or another it is to be strongly condemned. [-- Labour Minister John Stonehouse.] ENDS.]
   [COMMENTARY: The name given subsequently to the speech arose from its allusion to Virgil's line from the Aeneid 6, 1.86 (Powell had an academic background as a Classicist) about the Tiber foaming with blood: "Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno."
   The next day, the Leader of the Opposition Edward Heath sacked Powell from his Shadow Cabinet. Powell hadn't notified Conservative Central Office of his intentions, and this was expounded as one reason for his dismissal. Powell never held another senior political post.
   The speech was followed by strikes, in particular in London's docklands, both in support and in opposition. Powell gained considerable support from the public, receiving over 43,000 letters and 700 telegrams, which overloaded Wolverhampton's postal system. Only 4 telegrams and 800 letters expressed a form of hostility to him or his message.
   Powell was supported by MPs such as Sir Gerald Nabarro. Some supportive commentators attributed the surprise 1970 election victory by Edward Heath to the swing in Powell's West Midlands heartland, while other more hostile commentators have said that this speech alienated many immigrants from the Conservative Party.
   Following the Brixton, Toxteth and Handsworth riots in the 1980s, Powell claimed that his 'rivers of blood' prediction had come true.
   The speech remains well-known and controversial in Britain today …
   Trivia: 'Rivers of Blood' is also a song by the British nationalist skinhead band Brutal Attack, from their 1985 `Stronger Than Before' album. ENDS.]
   [ADDITIONAL COMMENT: After the London and Madrid train bombings and the attempted bombings, the ideas of the late Mr Enoch Powell were praised by some people.  But the Establishment actually sees a need to fill illusory "skills shortages," and anyone who can get into any country of the European Union has a fairly easy time until they go to any country they choose.  Perhaps somebody knows who pays their transport costs. ENDS.]
   [ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: www.nick maine.info , Apr 20, 2008. ENDS.]
http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/submit/subchron.htm#rivers_of_blood
[April 20, 1968]

• Middle East time-bomb. Palestine Authority flag; Palestine Authority website  Israel flag; Mooney's MiniFlags 
   The West Australian, "Middle East time-bomb," by British historian Arnold TOYNBEE, p 7, Thur, July 26, 1973
   PALESTINE / ISRAEL: … The Middle East contains the dispossessed Palestinian Arabs, their Arab kinsmen, the Israelis and the biggest proved reserves of oil. …
   In the territory included in Israel within the pre-1967 armistice lines, about 90 per cent of the population were Arabs before the Great War.  Since 1948 most of these Arabs have been refugees living in camps on the non-Israeli side of the pre-1967 armistice lines.
   They have nothing to look forward to. … A second defusing measure would be to implement the U.N. resolution calling on Israel to withdraw from territories occupied in the 1967 war. …
   The Israeli General Staff's strategic arguments have been outdated long ago by military technology. … Israel's security depends on its political relations with the Arabs and the super-powers …
   Senator Fullbright warned that if the Arab States boycotted oil for the United States in retaliation for its support of Israel, America might be tempted to conquer such States by proxy. …
   Our material greed has set us on a collision course with nature. … The Middle East time bomb cannot be defused without a change of heart …
   The Israelis and Arabs need to renounce their pugnacity. The Westerners, Russians and Japanese need to renounce their greed. [Jul 26, 1973]
• [Islamic marriage is like slavery, serfdom.] 

[Islamic marriage is like slavery, serfdom]

 
   The hidden face of Eve, by Nawal El Sa'dawi; London, Zed press, pp 139-140, published 1980.
   The institution of marriage remained very different for men to what it was for women, and the rights accorded to husbands were distinct from those accorded to wives.  In fact it is probably not accurate to use the term 'rights of the woman' since a woman under the Islamic system of marriage has no human rights unless we consider that a slave has rights under a slave system. Marriage, in so far as women are concerned, is just like slavery to the slave, or the chains of serfdom to the serf.
http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/submit/subchron.htm#islamic
   [AS QUOTED IN: Women in Islam, By P. NEWTON and M. Rafiqul HAQQ, http://members. aol.com/ AlHaqq4u , p 34 and see p 49, ©1995, 3rd edition March 2001, Published at Bend (Oregon, USA): The Berean Call, www.tbcorders. org/default. asp , ISBN 0-88264-310-x.  E-mail: newton@ integrity. org .  Fourth edition January 2006, www.debate. domini.org/ newton , newton@ integrity. org .   ENDS.] [1980]

• Husband's Rights Are Greater Than The Sacrifice Of Woman's Breasts. 

Husband’s Rights Are Greater Than The Sacrifice Of Woman’s Breasts

 
   Al-Mar'ah wal-Islam, Dar al-Kitab al-Lubnani; by Ahmad Zaky Tuffaha, page 176, published 1985.
   If a woman offered one of her breasts to be cooked and the other to be roasted, she still will fall short of fulfilling her obligations to her husband. And besides that, if she disobeys her husband even for a twinkling of an eye, she would be thrown in the lowest part of Hell, except she repents and turns back.
http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/submit/subchron.htm#husbands
   [AS QUOTED IN: Women in Islam, By P. Newton and M. Rafiqul Haqq, http://members. aol.com/ AlHaqq4u , p 11 and see p 45, ©1995, 3rd edition March 2001, Published at Bend (Oregon, USA): The Berean Call, www.tbcorders. org/default. asp , ISBN 0-88264-310-x.  E-mail: newton@ integrity. org .  Fourth edition January 2006, www.debate. domini.org/ newton , newton@ integrity. org .   ENDS.] [1985]

• 1986 / 1987: No vision in 1948; Retaliation around 1980s led to more momentum for Islamic Brotherhood and offshoots.
   The War Against the Terrorists; How to Win it, 1987 (orig 1986), by Gayle Rivers, Charter Books, New York, Chapter 11 "Retaliation," p 203
   NEW YORK: The real victims, of course, were the Lebanese people and their identity as a nation. … My last visits during 1983 and 1984 were operational, and I found myself in a country ravaged by war. … All this because the politicians couldn't work it out with any vision in Palestine way back in 1948.
   The irony is that the terrorist world became stronger and more cohesive. The historic Islamic brotherhood, which spawned Al Fatah and the PLFP, Black September and the other offshoots, had gained enormous momentum … [orig. 1986; 1987]

• 1988, July and August: [Fatwa ordering deaths of 2800 to 10,000 in Iran]

  Iran (formerly Persia) flag; www.edwardmooney.com/miniflags 
   New Internationalist, Currents section currents@ newint.org , "Human Rights: Forgotten massacre; The Ayatollah's hidden legacy," by Veronique Mistiaen, p 25, January-February 2006 issue (Fatwa; Massacres July and August 1988)
   IRAN: … In July and August 1988, the Islamic regime had executed in secret thousands of political prisoners throughout the country - men, women and teenagers. They were intellectuals, students, leftists, members of opposition parties and ethnic and religious minorities. Many were jailed for no more than distributing leaflets, having a banned book or being accused by 'a trusted friend of the regime'.
   The slaughter was efficient and relentless. All day long, prisoners were loaded on forklift trucks and hanged from cranes and beams in groups of six at half-hourly intervals. Others were killed by firing squad. Those not executed were subjected to horrific torture. The killing was 'an act of violence unprecedented in Iranian history, unprecedented in form, content and intensity,' wrote the historian Ervand Abrahamian in his book on Iranian prisons Tortured Confessions. […]
http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/submit/subchron.htm#fatwa
    A fuller version is on a webpage in date order of the NI publication. {January-February 2006} [Massacres July-Aug 1988]

• [Robust immigrant group blames another for all wars, homosexuality, hoarding, and world control.]  Australia flag; www.flagaustnat.asn.au/ 

[Robust immigrant group blames another for all wars, homosexuality, hoarding, and world control.]

 
   Based on The Weekend Australian Magazine, November 19-20, 1988.
   SYDNEY: In September 1988 Sheikh Taj Eldine El-Hilaly, Imam of the Lakemba Mosque, Sydney, spoke to Muslim students at Sydney University.
   He described Judaists as "the underlying cause of all wars threatening the peace and security of the whole world," and accused them of "a malicious disposition towards all mankind." 
   He said they used "sex and abominable acts of b*ggery, espionage, treason and economic hoarding to control the world."
http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/submit/subchron.htm#robust
   [DOCTRINE: 5:51> (or 5:56), 5:59-60 (or 5:64-65), 5:82 (or 5:85), 9:29, 33:26-27, 98:6 (or 98:5).   DOCTRINE ENDS.]
   [COMMENT: Disgraceful!  In spite of having similar scriptures, the modern Jews do NOT whip the VICTIMS of rape, or stone adulterers to death.  The story of how the Labor Party allowed Sheikh al-Hilali to remain in Australia, in spite of expert advice to the contrary from both Australians and foreigners, is the story of Australia betrayed.  After 9/11 he told people overseas that the destruction of the two towers and part of the Pentagon was a judgement of Allah!  From the 1980s-90s and onwards, the major political parties have "deselected" politicians who worked to stop the admission of unsuitable immigrants.   COMMENT ENDS.] [Actual occurrence September 1988; published Nov 19-20, 1988]

• 1990: Money for Islamic school.
   Link, Official publication of the One Australia Movement, Perth, W. Australia, "Money for Moslems," p 5, June 1990
   PERTH: The WA State and Federal governments have contributed a third of the cost of a community high school and a new primary school for Muslims in the Perth suburb of Thornlie.
   The Muslims hope to build a university within the next four years.
   How much taxpayers' money will be used for this further promotion of a multi-racial society?
   And how much would the government of Egypt or Iran give to establish Christian schools in their countries?
   [DOCTRINE: 4 - 58.22: You shall not find a people who believe in Allah and the latter day befriending those who act in opposition to Allah and His Apostle, even though they were their (own) fathers, or their sons, or their brothers, or their kinsfolk. DOCTRINE ENDS.] [CONTACT (as it was in 1990): PO Box 361, Midland, WA, 6056; Tel 09 377 5822. CONTACT ENDS.] [June 1990]
• Iraq invades Kuwait; 1990, August 2.               

Iraq invades Kuwait; 1990, August 2

   On 2 August 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait. The international community responded by placing a trade embargo on Iraq, and issued ultimatums through the United Nations. Iraq took hundreds of innocent Westerners hostage, and dug its troops in to the occupied territory.
   On 17 January 1991, 38 nations led by the United States of America, went to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi occupation, and to destroy Iraq's military power for the future safety of the gulf region.
   The Saddam Hussein regime launched dozens of Soviet-made Scud missiles at residential areas in Israel.
   They opened the spigots of Kuwait's main supertanker-loading pier to pour millions of litres of crude oil into the seas of the Persian Gulf. They set fire to 600 oil wells throughout Kuwait. They destroyed hotels and government buildings, and looted.
   When the 43-day liberation war ended, it was discovered that the Iraqis had torn off the fingernails of Kuwaitis who displayed pictures of their emir. They had drilled holes in the kneecaps of resistance suspects - or inflated their intestines with air or cut off their ears or gouged out their eyes - before murdering them.
   Early on in the Iraqi occupation, "the Iraqis killed so many young men … that the bodies were taken to a skating rink for short-term preservation" (The Bulletin/Newsweek, 12 March 1991). And they raped and humiliated Kuwaiti women at will.
   -- Adapted from: "Delivered from bondage," Challenge (W. Australia), mailtoCOLON infoATchall engenewsDOT org, By ANDREW LANSDOWN, pp 1 and 2, April 2008

   [COMMENT: And there was no Islamic Fatwa issued, and enforced by Muslim nations, against Saddam Hussein.  Was there any literature that Iraqis would have studied that says great leaders invade other countries, that people who do not obey face dreadful punishments, that the producing trees of an enemy are burnt, that garments of fire will be cut for opponents, and that the products of this world are only a plaything, not to be compared with the Life to Come? COMMENT ENDS.]
http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/submit/subchron.htm#iraq_invades_kuwait
[Aug 2, 1990]

• Betty Mahmoody's flight from a brutal Iran. United States of America flag; Mooney's MiniFlags  Iran (Persia) flag; Mooney's MiniFlags 
   The West Australian, "A great escape; Betty Mahmoody's flight from a brutal Iran," interview with Helen Crompton, "Liftout" section page 12; film review p 20, Thu Aug 8 1991. (Book described at reading.htm#mahmoody.)
   UNITED STATES: This interview was with the subject of the film Not Without My Daughter. Betty Mahmoody in 1984 was a happy middle-class United States housewife who lived with a model husband and father, who was a successful doctor. He was "intelligent, generous and charming" in those days.
   He then organised a two week holiday for themselves and their daughter, Mahtob. But in Iran he told her she was never returning from Iran, she would die there. She was virtually gaoled. It took her 18 months to organise her escape. The film is the story of her ordeal.
   She is telling the world her story, and receiving stories from others, e.g.: The German woman who gave up hope of escaping from Egypt, and killed her two sons and herself; the American woman held captive with her children in southern Teheran (Iran) for eight years.
   The organisation she is forming is One World for Children. Mrs Mahmoody has received awards from the U.S.A. and Germany. [Aug 8, 91]
• [Slay; Fight the Unbelievers who are near to you -- Koran.]  Saudi Arabia flag; www.edwardmooney.com/miniflags/ 

[Slay; Fight the Unbelievers who are near to you – Koran]

   SAUDI ARABIA: The Holy Qur-ān (i.e., Koran), Issued as a gift by King Fahd Ibn Abdul-Aziz (not for sale); Printed by The King Fahd Complex For The Printing of The Holy Qur-ān, P.O. Box 3561, Al-Madinah Al-Munawarah, Saudi Arabia; Arabic text; With English translation and commentaries of Abdullah YUSUF ALI, revised and edited by The Presidency of Islamic Researches, Ifta, Call and Guidance (Saudi Arabia); Dated Year 1413 H., i.e., 1992-93 A.D.

   [[Page 473; Sūrat 8, Āyat 15-16]]
15.  O ye who believe!
      When ye meet
      The Unbelievers
      In hostile array 1190
      Never turn your backs
      To them. […]
      Unless it be in a stratagem […]

   [[Pages 536-537; Sūrat 9, Āyat 111]]
111. Allah hath purchased of the Believers
      Their persons and their goods;
      For theirs (in return)
      Is the Garden (of Paradise): 1361
      They fight in His Cause,
      And slay and are slain:

      A promise binding on Him
      In Truth, through the Torah,
      The Gospel, and the Qur-ān 1362
      And who is more faithful
      To his Covenant than Allah?
      Then rejoice in the bargain
      Which ye have concluded:
      That is the achievement supreme.

   [[Page 541; Sūrat 9, Āyat 123]]
123. O ye who believe!  Fight
      The Unbelievers who are near to you 1374
      And let them find harshness
      In you:  and know that Allah
      Is with those who fear Him.
The Holy Qur-ān/Koran, Saudi Arabia
____________________
   1190. The laws of Jihād are exactly similar to those enforced by military virtue and discipline.  Meet your enemy fairly and squarely, not rashly, but after due preparation.  Zahfan in the text (meeting in hostile array) implies a slow and well-planned proceeding towards a hostile army.  When once in combat, carry it through:  there is no room for second thoughts.  Death or victory should be the motto of every soldier:  it may be death for himself individually, but if he has faith, there is triumph in either case for his cause.  Two exceptions are recognised:  (1) reculer pour mieux sauter, to go back in order to jump forward; or to deceive the enemy by a feint; (2) if an individual or body is, by the chances of battle, isolated from his own force, he can fall back on his force in order to fight the battle.  There is no virtue in mere single-handedness.  Each individual must use his life and his resources to the best advantage for the common cause.
   1361. In a human bargain both sides give something and receive some advantage.  In the divine bargain of Allah with man, Allah takes man's will and soul and his wealth and goods, and gives him in return ever-lasting Felicity.  Man fights in Allah's Cause and carries out His will.  All that he has to give up is the ephemeral things of this world, while he gains eternal salvation, the fulfilment of his highest spiritual hopes,–a supreme achievement indeed.
   1362. We offer our whole selves and our possessions to Allah, and Allah gives us Salvation.  This is the true doctrine of redemption:  and we are taught that this is the doctrine not only of the Qur-ān but of the earlier Revelations,–the earlier Law of Moses and the original Gospel of Jesus.  Any other view of redemption is rejected by Islam, especially that of corrupted Christianity, which thinks that some other person suffered for our sins and we are redeemed by his blood.  It is our self-surrender that counts, not other people's merits.  Our complete self-surrender may include fighting for the cause, both spiritual and physical.  As regards actual fighting with the sword there had been some difference in theological theories at different times, but very little in the practice of those who framed those theories.  The Jewish wars were ruthless wars of extermination.  The Old Testament does not mince matters on this subject.  In the New Testament St. Paul, in commending the worthy fruits of Faith, mentions Gideon, Barak, and other warriors of the Old Testament as his ideals.  "Who through faith subdued kingdoms… waxed valiant in fight, turned to fight the armies of the aliens…" (Hebrews, xi. 32-34).  The monkish morality of the Gospels in their present form has never been followed by any self-respecting Christian or other nations in history.  Nor is it common-sense to ignore lust of blood in unregenerate man as a form of evil which has to be combated "within the limits, set by Allah" (Q. ix. 112).
   1374. When conflict become inevitable, the first thing is to clear our surroundings of all evil, for it is only evil that we can rightly fight.  To evil we must put up a stout and stiff resistance.  Mealy-mouthed compromises are not right for soldiers of truth and righteousness.  They are often a compound of cowardice, weariness, greed, and corruptibility.
[[ Compare text at:  < http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/009.qmt.html#009.111 > and the others. ]]
[ < http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/submit/subchron.htm#slay_fight > ]
   [NUMBERING: Āya 9:111 is shown as 9:112 in some books.  And āya 9:123 is sometimes shown as 9:124.
   [1362: RECAPITULATION: The monkish morality of the Gospels in their present form has never been followed by any self-respecting Christian or other nations in history. ENDS.]
   [COMMENT on 1362: Let us hope that the monks (and nuns) in the Orthodox and Catholic Churches pay attention to that footnote! ENDS.]
   [1374: RECAPITULATION: … the first thing is to clear our surroundings of all evil … ENDS.]
   [COMMENT on 1374: That footnote's advice ought to be taken to heart by those who seem to be just waiting to become second-rate subjects of the Crescent !!!  Doubters ought to enlarge their vocabularies by learning the word for humbled peoples, i.e. dhimmi, used in other Islamic literature, or read Sookhdeo's writings, or buy a Koran, or check a Koran in a public library, Dewey shelf number 297.1225. ENDS.] [Received Jun 13, 2007; Dated Year 1413 H., i.e., 1992-93 A.D.]

• [Christian leaders lording, idolatrous, false, devour wealth, will suffer in Hell -- Koran.]  Saudi Arabia flag; www.edwardmooney.com/miniflags/ 

[Christian leaders lording, idolatrous, false, devour wealth, will suffer in Hell – Koran]

   SAUDI ARABIA: The Holy Qur-ān (i.e., Koran), Issued as a gift by King Fahd Ibn Abdul-Aziz (not for sale); Printed by The King Fahd Complex For The Printing of The Holy Qur-ān, P.O. Box 3561, Al-Madinah Al-Munawarah, Saudi Arabia; Dated Year 1413 H., i.e., 1992-93 A.D.
   Arabic text; With translation into English and commentaries of Abdullah YUSUF ALI, revised and edited by The Presidency of Islamic Researches, Ifta, Call and Guidance (Saudi Arabia);
   (This is an entry in date order.  To read the actual item from the Saudi Koran, click:
   < http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/submit/subchron6.htm#christian_leaders > )
   [Received Jun 13, 07, Dated Year 1413 H., i.e., 1992-93 A.D.]
• [Women in Islam – sex slaves, and pious men's desires for frequent carnal relations.] 

Women in Islam


   Published by The Berean Call, www.tbcorders. org/default. asp , By P. Newton and M. Rafiqul Haqq, pp 20-22, 1995.    Women in Islam, P. NEWTON and M. Rafiqul HAQQ
   Some believe the number is limited to nine wives, as two and three and four make nine, and Muhammad himself when he passed away had nine wives and to follow his tradition is the commended way of living. 83
   Others believe that the above verse is the proof for an unlimited number of wives because the verse does not say two or three or four. The verse, literally, says two and three and four, meaning two and three and four etc. 84 The majority believe the number of wives the man may marry to be limited to four, because of the reported Hadith about a man who had ten wives. When he became a Muslim, Muhammad said to him: 'Keep four, and leave the rest.' 85
   The reason for marrying more than one woman is given by Ghazali, the great Muslim scholar:
Some men have such a compelling sexual desire that one woman is not sufficient to protect them [from adultery]. Such men therefore preferably marry more than one woman and may have up to four wives. 86
   Besides the above provision, men have the right to have sex with their slave girls.
For if a man purchases a slave girl, the purchase contract includes his right to have sex with her. 87
This contract is primarily to own her and secondarily to enjoy her sexually. 88
   And the reason for having sex with the slave girls beside one's wives is also given by Ghazali:
Since among Arabs passion is an overpowering aspect of their nature, the need of their pious men to have sex has been found to be the more intense. And for the purpose of emptying the heart to the worship of God they have been allowed to have sex with women slaves if at some time they should fear that this passion would lead them to commit adultery. Though it is true that such action could lead to the birth of a child that will be a slave, which is a form of destruction,… yet enslaving a child is a lighter offence than the destruction of religious belief. For enslaving the newborn is a temporary thing but by committing adultery eternity is lost. 89 […]
   …Bukhari reported,
The Prophet used to pass (have sexual relation with) all his wives in one night, and at that time he had nine wives. 91
For "He once said of himself that he had been given the power of forty men in sex." 92
And "Ali who was the most ascetic of all the companions had four wives and seventeen slave girls as concubines." 93
While some of the other companions had three and four wives and those who had two wives were countless in number. 94
   Concerning the provision for having sex with slave girls, found in the last part of the above Qur'anic verse, Razi said:
God made the provision of having sex with many slave girls as easy as marrying one free woman. Besides, the responsibilities and provisions of the slave girls are lighter than those of the dowers, no matter (never mind) if you have a few of them or many, no matter if you were fair in apportioning your nights amongst them or not, no matter whether you completed the sexual act or not. 95
   The commentator Qortobi sees in that verse (Q. 4:3) that slave girls used as such by the free Muslim man,
have neither sexual rights, nor financial rights. For God made the 'one free woman' and the 'slave girls you may own' of the same category.  The man however owes the slave girls the appropriate rights of ownership, and the kindness that befits slaves." 96
   So because the need of the pious men to have sex was found to be the more intense, and for the purpose of emptying their hearts for the worship of Allah they, the pious men, have been allowed to marry up to four women and have sex with an unlimited number of slave girls even if this provision may lead to the destruction of innocent children. […]
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   DETAILS, 4th EDITION (where different): Re-published 2006, Website: www.debate. domini.org/ newton , E-mail: newton@ integrity.org .
   DETAILS, 3rd EDITION: Published at Bend (Oregon, USA): The Berean Call, www.tbcorders. org/default. asp ; Copyright ©1995, 3rd edition March 2001, ISBN 0-88264-310-x.  68pp, soft covers, 15 x 21 centimetres (5 7/8 x 8 1/4 inches), contents, Arabic section, no index, endnotes (AUS$5 Free Australia Movement, PO Box 9091, Wyee, NSW, 2259, Australia.)
   ENDNOTES are to reference books of the Islamic religion.  Researchers are advised to buy the booklet.
   ANOTHER ENTRY on this Website is at: Submit / Reading [1995]

• 2600 years and still bound. Australia flag; www.flagaustnat.asn.au/ 
   Self-published, By Kerry Adamson, ~ April 16, 1996
2600 YEARS AND STILL BOUND     By Kerry Adamson
   It was sad to read in the newspapers around April 16, 1966 that 4500 of Melbourne's Judaists (Jews) paid money towards setting up a religious boundary, called an eruv, for Sabbath.
   These Orthodox Judaists, grown men and women, still believe such man-made bondage that have led many Judaists to join groups such as the Karaites and Reform Judaism.
THE WEST AUSTRALIAN TUESDAY APRIL 16 1996 • 45
  [Picture] Pole perimeter: Dr Kloot, left, and Dr Danny Lamm of the Mizrachi organisation in Melbourne welcome the cable to mark their eruv.

Jewish community is at home with roll-out


BY PETER MORRIS
WHILE Optus Vision has been dragged through the courts by local councils up and down the east coast over its attempts to lay its cable, it has struck up an alliance with one community which has greeted the company with open arms.
   Melbourne's Jewish community is so enthusiastic about the cable they are even contributing to the cost of running it on power poles through the city's south eastern suburbs.
   The community's support is because the cable will form an "eruv" for the estimated 45,000 Jews who live in and around the Caulfield, Glen Ira and St Kilda areas.
   An eruv is an essential part of life for orthodox Jews because it is the only area in which they are permitted to carry anything - including children or food - on the Jewish sabbath, between sundown on Friday and sundown on Saturday.
   Without an eruv they are virtually housebound for this period.
   The ancient tradition, which is believed to date back to King Solomon, is based on Jews remaining in their township for the duration of their sabbath, as far as possible. In a modern urban environment this presents problems - which is where the Optus cable comes in.
   While the cable's distinctive appearance is drawing furious opposition in some quarters, it suits the Jewish community's desire for a clear boundary.
   Power lines have been used but late last year a rabbinical ruling declared the existing eruv was invalid because the power lines were not regarded as continuous, a condition for an acceptable eruv.
   Peter Kloot, executive director of the Mizrachi Organisation, a Jewish community organisation, said the lack of an eruv was particularly inconvenient to the many people with young families.
   Dr Kloot said a clear delineation would enable them to go about on the sabbath without fear of contravening religious laws.
   The Council of Orthodox Synagogues of Victoria and the Mizrachi Organisation have formed Melbourne Eruv Pty Ltd, which has signed a deal with Optus Vision to construct three eruvim in Melbourne. The other two will be around Hawthorn and Templestowe.
   An Optus spokeswoman said her Sydney colleagues were also holding discussions with the Jewish community there about the possibility of repeating the exercise.

   Man-made rules in Judaism started to override God-given laws some time before 587 B.C. in both Judea and Babylon (near Baghdad). Babylon was the "Vatican" of Judaism long before Jesus preached, for about 1700 years until shortly after 1084 A.D.
   Presumably the various pagan rulers of Babylon, who permitted the Scribes (lawyers) to run autonomous communities, liked the idea of the Judaists' leaders giving their flock more than 500 self-effacing incredibly complex rules, that now cover every moment of a believer's life, waking and sleeping
   But other people around the Judaists disliked hundreds of other passages in the book of man-made rules, the Babylonian Talmud, even though it is described as "divine law," (plus other books), such as:
   Promises and oaths are cancelled in advance annually, somehow moved to Yom Kippur, i.e., the Day of Atonement, by the sung Kol Nidre (see Talmud book Nedarim, 23 a - 23 b. translated in Epstein, I., editor, The Babylonian Talmud, 1935, London, Soncino Press, pp 67-8)
   "Though it is forbidden to rob the heathen …. the offence was non-actionable." (footnote to Sanhedrin, p 383 of above)
   "Rab Judah said in Rab's name: One who returns a lost article to a Cuthean. [originally meant heathen) - concerning him Scripture sayeth, … The Lord will not spare him (Talmud, Sanhedrin, 76 b, p 517, misusing Bible, Deuteronomy 29.20)
   "The best among the Gentiles deserves to be killed" (Rabbi Simon ben Yohai, see Jewish Encyclopedia, page 617)
   Does this include children in Lebanon, hit by Israeli rockets this week? Or are they just victims of war--well outside the UN-sanctioned boundaries of modern Israel?
   "When a grown-up man has intercourse with a little girl it is nothing…" (Talmud, Kethuboth, 11 b, p 58)
   "He who loves his wife… and leads his children in the right path, and marries them just before they attain puberty - of him Scripture saith. And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin (Sanhedrin, 76 b, p 517, misusing Bible, Job 5:241. (pronounced Johb)
   The Talmud is the teachings of the Scribes and Pharisees, the Traditions of the Elders.
   'My people, go you out of the midst of her [Babylon]," wrote Jeremiah about 626 B.C. (Bible, Jeremiah 51:45, and repeated in the 1st Century AD. (Revelation-Apocalypse 18:4).
   BUT THE MAJORITY AND THE SCRIBES STAYED until driven out about 1084 A.D. Those who didn't join other religions or become agnostics didn't obey Jeremiah, and their religious followers, mainly the descendants of the converted Khazars of the Volga River region of south Russia, remain in the Babylonish faith because: "There is greater stringency in respect to the teachings of the scribes than in respect to the Torah [Bible]." (Sanhedrin, 88 b, p 587). Let us hope many of them free themselves.
[~ Apr 16, 1996]
• Marlon Brando backflips after telling truth about Hollywood  United States of America flag; Mooney's MiniFlags 
   Self-published by Kerry Adamson, September 5, 1996

MARLON BRANDO BACKFLIPS


after telling truth about Hollywood
SCHOLARS OBJECT TO TALMUD TELLING PEOPLE TO HATE OTHERS
By Kerry Adamson                                                             5 September 1996
   Marion Brando, dual Academy Award winner, has apologised for saying this year that Hollywood was run by Jews=Judaists. (The West Australian, Friday August 30, 1966, Today page 3)
   Other famous people who have apologised after criticising Judaism include Henry Ford -- after he found problems getting finance to retool for a change of car model. Similarly, Brando has had recent problems with getting sufficient funding for a film in Ireland (Ibid = same as last reference).
   Brando has gone even further; he is now reported as being a "crusader for race relations" (Sunday Times, Perth, September 1, 1996, p 3, see p 8), and has been posing with Australian Aborigines and a didgeridoo.
   THREAT OF LIVING HELL: The West Australian, April 9, 1996, page 2, had reported: "The Jewish Defence League … vowed to make the rest of Brando's life 'a living hell' after Brando appeared on Cable News Network's Larry King Live on Friday night [sic; it was Good Friday !].
   "In the interview, Brando, 72, denounced what he said was a Jewish-run movie establishment that had exploited other racial and ethnic stereotypes."
   He was quoted as saying: "Hollywood is run by Jews, owned by Jews and they should have a greater sensitivity." A colleague, however, said that Brando was really pro-Judaist and pro-Israel.
   IS HOLLYWOOD RUN BY JEWS? In his book that won a 1988 Theatre Library Association Award, U.S. academic Neal Gabler states that from 1915, when Carl Laemmle wrested control of Universal Pictures from the other investors, and became "King of the Movie Renters," the Jews controlled Hollywood (Neal Gabler, An Empire of their Own, 1989, New York, Anchor-Doubleday, Dewey Number 384.8'09, p 64, para 2).
   Judaist author the novelist Stephen Birmingham wrote in his trilogy about American Judaists: "… the motion picture business … an almost exclusively Eastern European business ,.." (Stephen Birmingham, The Rest of Us, 1987, London, Futura-Macdonald, p 88) "… by the 1920s much of the business end of show business was in Jewish hands [and] … much of the "Prohibition liquor trade was in Jewish hands …" (p 182) "… the motion picture business … had become a heavily Jewish industry …" (p 183) "Hollywood's Jewish moguls … by the 1920s had become the most powerful purveyors of mass culture in America …"(p 184).
   The founders of the Hollywood film studios were of Eastern European Judaist origins (Gabler, pp 1, 3-4), i.e., presumably of Khazar descent, mother tongue probably Yiddish: Universal Pictures: Carl Laemmle, born 1867 Laupheim, s-w Germany; Paramount Pictures: Adolph Zukor, b. in Tokay grape district of Hungary, brought up by rabbinical scholar; Fox Film Corporation: William Fox, son of Hungarian-Judaist immigrants; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer: Louis B. Mayer, previously a Russian junkman, would not say where or when born (Gabler, p 399), Sam Goldwyn, whose name was formerly Goldfish (p 109); Warner Brothers: Benjamin Warner, b, Poland; Columbia Pictures: Harry Cohn, father German Jew tailor, mother Russian Jewess from the Pale (p 155).
   ARE THE FILM STARS JUDAISTS? Many film stars are of Judaist descent, probably of Khazar origin, with names changed, some made to look Anglo-Celtish, e.g., Kirk Douglas.
   Isidore Baline became Irving Berlin, Theodosia Goodman >Theda Bara, Benjamin Kubelsky >Jack Benny, Fanny Borach >Fanny Brice, Ehrich Weiss >Harry Houdini, Asa Yoelson >Al Jolson, Sonia Kalish >Sophie Tucker, Nathan Birnbaum >George Burns [died this year], Isidor Iskowitch >Eddie Kantor, Catherine Holzman >Libby Holman "… Eastern European Jews …" (Birmingham, p 180)
   Theda Bara's Jewishness was a closely-guarded secret… Douglas Fairbanks's mother had been Jewish." (p 184) Irving Lahrheim became Bert Lahr, Emmanuel Goldberg >Edward G. Robinson, Pauline Levee >Paulette Goddard, Lee Jacob >Lee J. Cobb (see p 184). "Eddy Cantor, Jack Benny, Fanny Brice, the Marx Brothers … Jews…" (p 184).
   "These early film pioneers were kept out of social clubs, and had problems getting finance from the then Wall Street "Establishment," but they and others over many years have changed all that!
   WAS OPPOSITION REASONABLE, OR DISCRIMINATORY? The early U.S. opposition to Judaism had a basis in fairness, including a wish to keep America for the Americans. Then, when some Judaists became wealthy and paraded their wealth, jealousy added to the antipathy of some people (read Walter Blumenthal—Walter Lippmann, March 3, 1922, quoted in Ronald Steel, Walter Lippmann and the American Century, (New York, 1980), p 192; see Gabler, pp 237, 456). Were there more serious reasons for antipathy?
   BEST OF THE NON-JEWS DESERVE DEATH. "The best among the Gentiles deserves to be killed" (Rabbi Simon ben Yohai, see Jewish Encyclopedia, page 617)
   Does this include children in Lebanon, hit by Israeli rockets in April 1996? Or are they just victims of war, well outside the UN-sanctioned boundaries of modern Israel? Why are Israeli troops occupying a strip of Lebanon, which they invaded in 1982? (see Jack Berstein and Len Martin, The life of an American Jew in … Israel, 1984, Detroit Lakes Michigan, Pro-American Press.) Iraq was rightly forced to give up Kuwait which it had seized. But Indonesia has not been forced to hand back East Timor, seized in 1975. On September 3 and 4 this year Iraq was hit without warning by 27 U.S. cruise missiles for an alleged attack on a Kurdish village inside its borders; Israel and Indonesia are still killing villagers outside their borders, but no U.S. attack comes.
   "Rab Judah said in Rab's name: One who returns a lost article to a Cuthean. [originally meant heathen]-- concerning him Scripture sayeth, … The Lord will not spare him." (Talmud, Sanhedrin, 76 b, p 517. misusing Bible, Deuteronomy 29:20)
   Well, in spite of years of peace talks, U.N. resolutions, and U.S. funds and weapons being poured in, a lot of land has not been handed back to the indigenous people of Palestine. Are late August's Israeli plans to erect 1800 more home units on the West Bank a symbol that the Israelis will use the widest of the variant Bible accounts of the boundaries, i.e., seize from the Mediterranean Sea to the Euphrates River in Iraq, and include from Lebanon to the Red Sea? Ah, but land is not an "article."
   "Though it is forbidden to rob the heathen … the offence was non-actionable." (footnote to Sanhedrin, p 388 of above)
   See above. Talmudists must be blood brothers in double-think to criminals, politicians etc!
   Promises and oaths are cancelled in advance annually, somehow moved to Yom Kippur, i.e., the Day of Atonement, by the sung Kol Nidre (see Talmud book Nedarim, 23 a - 23 b, translated in Epstein, I., editor, The Babylonian Talmud, 1935, London, Soncino Press, pp 67-8)
   I wonder if this includes the promises made under Keating's and Howard's workplace agreements! Or, Clinton's and Major's election promises! Well, if breaking oaths is approved by the Talmud in defiance of the Bible's Ten Commandments, what about worshipping false gods and idols?
   WORSHIP OF FALSE GOD APPROVED BY THE TALMUD. "Our Mishnah is in accordance with the view that Molech worship is not idolatry." (Talmud, Sanhedrin 64a, p 438)
   Further reading: BERSTEIN, Jack (former Israeli), and MARTIN, Len, The life of an American Jew in… Israel, 1984, Detroit Lakes, Michigan, Pro-American Press)
BIRMINGHAM, Stephen, Our crowd: The great Jewish families of New York, ©1967, 1985, London, Futura, a division of Macdonald & Co; The Grandees: America's Sephardic elite, ©1971, 1986, ditto; The rest of us: The rise of America's Eastern European Jews, ©1984, 1987, ditto.
DILLING, Elizabeth, The plot against Christianity, c. 1950, U.S.A.
FREEDMAN, Benjamin H, Facts are facts, 1955, New York, self-published.
GABLER, Neal, An Empire of their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, 1989, New York, Anchor-Doubleday, Dewey Number 384.8'09
GRIFFIN, Des, Anti-Semitism and the Babylonian connection, 1992, Clackamas, Oregon, USA, Emissary Publications.
KOESTLER, Arthur, The thirteenth tribe: The Khazar empire and its heritage, ©1976, originally London, Hutchinson, republished New York, Random House; 947.9'01.
REED, Douglas, The controversy of Zion, init 1978, 1985, Bullsbrook, W.A., Veritas (obtainable: PO Box 20, Bullsbrook, WA, 6084, Australia)
SOFFER, Yonna (former Israeli), Justice! How much? ©1990, Guildford WA, Bookmark (obtainable from The Advertiser, Box 583, Morley, WA, 6943).#
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[Sep 5, 96]

• How old is racism? Australia flag; www.flagaustnat.asn.au/ 
   Self-published, By Kerry Adamson, September 6, 1996
HOW OLD IS RACISM?
By Kerry Adamson                                                               6 September 1996

   Racism, discrimination, and persecution have been on this planet for thousands of years, it seems from archaeology and documentary evidence, some of which follows.

   "The best among the Gentiles deserves to be killed" (Rabbi Simon ben Yohai, see Jewish Encyclopedia, page 617)
   "Though it is forbidden to rob the heathen … the offence was non-actionable." (Epstein, I., editor of the translation. The Babylonian Talmud, 1935, London, Soncino Press, footnote to the book Sanhedrin. p 388)
   Promises and oaths are cancelled in advance annually, somehow moved to Yom Kippur, i.e., the Day of Atonement, by the sung Kol Nidre (see ibid, Talmud book Nedarim, 23a-23b, pp 67-8)
   THE RACISM OF JUDAISM STARTED MORE THAN 2500 YEARS AGO. In Judaism man-made rules and irrational separation from and opposition to their neighbours started to override God-given laws years before 587 B.C. in both Judea (southern Palestine, Near East, Asia) and Babylon (near Baghdad, Iraq, Near East).
   Far from weeping by the rivers of Babylon, as the popular song, hymns, and Bible Psalm 137 / 136 has it, there was a prosperous Judaist community at Babylon before and after the "Exile" (587-537 BC), and the pagan city evidently had an evil grip on the "Chosen People" BEFORE the "Babylonian captivity."
   "My people, go you out of the midst of her [Babylon]," wrote Jeremiah about 626 B.C. (Bible, Jeremiah 51:45), i.e., well before the so-called Exile, and repeated in the 1st Century A.D. (Revelation-Apocalypse 18:4). In reality, the Judaists did NOT leave Babylon (they were forced out around the year AD 1084); and ever since, those who follow the Talmudic rabbis have never, in their MINDS, left Babylon.
   The deportation of 587 BC was possibly only a secondary deportation of the leadership and skilled