General A Jew Speaks Out on Jews
This is the introduction to a book ""Beware of God"", together with another "Jewish warning" quote from another Jew]: "And yet there is hope, great hope, that this same race which has provided the evil will likewise succeed in supplying its antidote, its remedy the good. A new good as new love, a true love that calms and heals and sweetens, will then spring up among the great in Israel and overcome that sickly love, that insipid love, that romantic love which has hitherto poisoned all the strength and nobility of this world.
For hatred is never overcome by hatred: It is only overcome by love, and it wants a new and a gigantic love to subdue that old and devilish hatred of today. That is our task for the future a task which will, I am sure, not be shirked by Israel, by that same Israel which has never shirked a task, whether it was for good or whether it was for evil...(Oscar Levy) Introduction.
I wrote this book as a person of Jewish blood. It has not been easy for me and for clarity and understanding I have prayed and meditated. My reason for writing is, I believe, we are coming to the end of the present order of things, and I contend the time has come for the role of God's Chosen People to be completed. Their important play in history is over and now their power must be broken.
When the power of the holy people has been finally broken, all these things will be completed. (Daniel 12:7) Many people ask, "How can there be a God when there is so much evil in the world?" or "Why does an all powerful and absolutely good God allow so much suffering?"
For people who think about such things, this is the ultimate paradox. Some believe in God, others do not, and still others say they don't know. Nonetheless, most people - regardless of which religion, or culture they belong to - take it for granted that God is perfect and absolutely good. It is this mistaken assumption that leads to the paradox. >
The Bible teaches that God is not absolutely good but is the source of evil as well as good: I am the Lord and there is none else, I form the light and create darkness; I make peace and create evil; I, Lord, do all these things. (Isaiah 45:7) If, in fact, God is the source of everything, God must be the source of what we perceive to be evil as well as what we judge to be good.
I am not alone in coming to this conclusion from a study of the Bible. In Answer to Job, Carl Jung wrote: The Book of Job is a landmark in the long historical development of the divine drama. At the time the book was written, there were already many testimonies which had given a contradictory picture of Yahweh - the picture of God who knew no moderation in his emotions and suffered precisely from this lack of moderation.
He himself admitted that he was eaten up with rage and jealousy and that this knowledge was painful to him. Insight existed along with obtuseness, loving-kindness along with cruelty, creative power along with destructiveness. Everything was there, and none of these qualities was an obstacle to the other.
I would like you to understand that whatever you believe, God is not under attack, so please do not be offended if what I say contradicts your faith. You do not have to believe what is said in this book. You are free to believe what you like. I am writing as if God exists.
I am also writing about God, as portrayed in the Bible. If you do not believe in the Bible or in God you will still find this book a valuable read, as it will caution you to beware of cults masked as religion. If you belong to one of the religions strongly attached to the idea that God is absolute goodness, be warned, you may find this book shocking.
I took the common assumption that 'God is good' and questioned it because, in 1992, I was presented with a copy of The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion which I found to be profoundly disturbing. To me it was a total paradox that such an evil document should come from the Chosen People of God.
Like most, I would like to have dismissed The Protocols as fraud had I not found parallels in the Bible and the Talmud and a testament to their predictions in the 20th century. Whether they are true or false, The Protocols of Zion do exist. Along with the Bible, the Talmud and other related documents, they exemplify the dangers of one culture or religion viewing itself as being superior to others.
Within all religions and cultures, cults germinate which have the potential to become fanatical and extremely dangerous. This destructive core of racism and religious intolerance, particularly when backed by wealth and power has been a major source of human suffering. Historically this attitude has led to war, genocide, oppression and anthropological vandalism.
From a biblical perspective the elitism in Judaism is undeniable. Fortunately, most educated Jews today have outgrown their 'chosen people' cult, recognizing that the 'cult of chosen people' is an evil that can infect any religion or race that considers itself more 'true' or superior to others.
What is extraordinary about the Judaic cult is that their concepts of religious and racial superiority originated from their 'God'. As one of Judeo-Christian stock, I am dragging hidden skeletons out of my own cultural and personal cupboard. I am having a really good look at my own beliefs. I invite you also to think deeply about what is going on around you and within you. What are the forces underlying the social and economic fabric of the modern world? To what extent are they a reflection of our own innermost being? We are inseparable from history because everything going on outside of us, down through the ages, is merely a reflection of what is going on inside the collective consciousness of humanity.
In this book I develop a thesis on a highly charged subject which is one of the greatest paradoxes in the history of mankind. To what extent is God, as revealed in the Old Testament of the Bible, responsible for the evils we witness in our world today? For example, if God chooses a race of people to be his own, he must take full responsibility for the evil of racial superiority he engenders within them.
From a study of the Bible it is clear that God was the cause of the racist attitude in the Hebrew people. If God knows everything he must know the outcome of racism. Furthermore, according to the Bible, the Hebrews received direct instruction from their God to commit acts which most people would consider to be murder.
God cannot wash his hands of his chosen people and say, 'they fell into evil ways,' when they were following his instruction every step of the way. For God there can be no excuses. I believe that the Chosen People of the biblical God were guided down through the ages to do what they have done. I believe that they were cult victims and their leader, Moses, was guided in his leadership by an evil manifestation of God. I ask you to draw your own conclusions from what I say in this book. It would be a relief to me if you proved me wrong, because my father was circumcised into the Jewish Faith, I was brought up as a Catholic and baptized as a born-again Christian.
Now, from an objective study of the Bible, I am confronted with an Old Testament God who appears to be more like Satan than the 'Good Lord.' If God from the Old Testament was simply a figment of Moses' imagination then, as author of the first five books of the Bible, Moses founded what would appear to have been a Satanic cult.
The biblical God was extra-terrestrial as he was not originally 'of the Earth'. He came to the Earth from somewhere else. But he could still have been a manifestation of God. If God dons the mask of light and the mask of dark, it could be that Abraham and Moses were approached by a manifestation of the dark side of God.
If God, as portrayed in the Bible, was an extra-terrestrial imposter who led Abraham and Moses to believe that he was Almighty God then this Satan would fit the traditional picture of 'the father of lies', an evil being appearing separate from God, and in rebellion with God.
Many people today believe this to be so. If God has a bad side as well as good then when dealing with God you must be clear which side you are on. If you are good you will discover a good God to magnify and mirror your goodness. If you are evil, God will be there, as the Devil himself, to magnify and mirror your wickedness. >There is no judgment. God is simply there to support you in your choices. If God created you, he is also testing and trying you to establish your true worth - Satan is, after all, supposed to be the tester of souls! If you are wise, you will appreciate that everything, for good or for ill, is necessary for your own learning and growth, in the divine plan of evolution. > >I do not see God as being separate from ourselves. Just as God was manifest through the 'Lord' of the Bible, so God is manifest through you and I. This is embodied in our name hu(god)-man being. If you want to see God, look in the mirror.
When theologians assumed God to be absolutely good they argued that humans can not be God because humans are not absolutely good - with the exception, of course, of the founder of their own religion! If we drop the premise that God is absolutely good, and accept that God embodies the full spectrum of duality between absolute goodness and absolute evil, then each person could be a 'God-point' in the divine spectrum of duality.
I believe there is only one God in everyone and that is their common life consciousness. However, there are many gods in the Universe - including members of the human race - manifesting the dualistic nature of the divine. Some choose to manifest the dark side of God more than the good and others vice versa. This is reflected in the Bible.
The manifestation of God in the Old Testament is predominantly evil, and apart from cursing a fig tree and upsetting the Temple bankers, the embodiment of God in the New Testament is mostly good! I am certain there is a purpose behind all the activities of God, both good and bad. If it were all just a cosmic joke, it would be in very bad taste. I also believe the Chosen People of God have been the grit at the heart of modern civilization around which the pearl of the new humanity is forming.
I ask you to be discerning, but also to enjoy my ideas for whatever understanding, stimulation or inspiration they bring. As my mentor, Sir George Trevelyan, said: "Live an idea as though it were real but reserve judgment..." Though this book contains disturbing material, I sincerely hope it will bring you understanding and support you on your own path of enlightenment. If you experience fear or anger in the course of the read, I recommend you reserve judgment. Pray, meditate or focus on your breath for a few minutes to restore your peace of mind. Before you begin I would like to share with you my own version of 'The Beginning...'
I believe in one God the Origin of All - the origin of the duality of life and death, male and female, good and evil, light and dark; but mistake not the light for the good! In the beginning, the 'Origin of All' split into the duality of Creator and Creation, male and female, light and dark, 'God the Father' and 'God the Mother.' The Father envisioned the stars and the Mother the planets; his was the quintessence of physics in light, hers was chemistry in matter. From the divine Mother came the creation of the atom from which she built her worlds and birthed the biological Child. But the Father was proud and envious of the Mother, because of her creation and the love of her children. Within him there arose a thought of jealous hatred.
The thoughts of God are living beings. They are the spirits of the Universe. And so it was, the jealousy of the Father for the Mother and her children sprung forth as a mighty being of living light, with a rage of jealousy and murderous hatred for the Mother and all of her creation. And the Father regretted his first thought as he saw the suffering it inflicted on his beloved.
But his firstborn son, this Lucifer of his mind, lived and had to find reconciliation within the Universe. And so it was that ages and worlds passed with unending war, rape and abuse as the divine masculine plundered the divine feminine. He forever followed her into her creations. Thus she led the Spirits of the Universe, the eternal thoughts of God, deep into the womb of her materiality until eventually, incarnating in matter upon the Earth, they became man and woman; there to attempt a final reconciliation of their conflict.
'We Hold the Real Power'
A Jewish Appeal to Russia's
Jewish Elite
Most Russians have suffered terribly during the Yeltsin years. According
to Harvard University scholar Graham Allison, who is also a former US
assistant Secretary of Defense, ordinary Russians have experienced, on
average, a 75 percent plunge in living standards since 1991 ‑‑ almost
twice the decline in Americans' income during the Great Depression of
the 1930s. But in the midst of this widespread economic misery, a small
minority has grown fabulously wealthy since the end of the Soviet era.
Although Jews make up no more than three or four percent of Russia's
population, they wield enormous economic and political power in that
vast and troubled country. "At least half of the powerful 'oligarchs' who
control a significant percentage of the economy are Jewish," the Los
Angeles Times has cautiously noted. (See also: D. Michaels, "Capitalism
in the New Russia," May‑June 1997 Journal, pp. 21‑27.)
Almost certainly the most important of the "oligarchs" is Boris A.
Berezovsky, a former mathematics professor who heads the Logovaz
financial‑industrial group, which includes automobile imports and sales,
aviation, oil and media. In 1997 Forbes magazine ranked him as one of
the 100 richest people in the world, with an estimated net worth of $3
billion. His extensive media holdings include ORT television, the daily
Nezavisimaya Gazeta ("Independent Journal"), and the weekly
magazine Ogonek.
The second most powerful business figure is probably Vladimir
Gusinsky. In addition to heading the "Most" banking group, he is also
called "the Russian Rupert Murdoch" because of his large media
empire, which includes the daily newspaper Sevodnya, the weekly
news magazine Itogi, and the NTV television network. Gusinsky is also
chairman of the Russian Jewish Congress.
Russia's current prime minister is Yevgeny Primakov, who was
promoted from his post as foreign minister in September 1998. During
the final phase of the Soviet era, he headed the KGB intelligence and
security service, and served as a Politburo member. Early in his career,
he dropped the obviously Jewish‑sounding name he was born with,
Yevgeny Finkelstein.
Many other Jews have played major roles in Russia's governmental and
political life in recent years, among them Alexander Livshitz and
Grigory Yavlinsky, presidential chief of staff Anatoly Chubais, deputy
prime minister Boris Nemtsov, and prime minister Sergei Kiriyenko.
Recently there has been considerable discussion among Russian
intellectuals of a pointed appeal and frank warning to the Jews who
now hold decisive power in that sprawling country. It was written by
Eduard Topol, a gifted Jewish writer born in the former Soviet Union
who now lives in the United States, where he has become a successful
author. Among his English‑language novels are The Jewish Lover (St.
Martin's Press, 1998), Dermo! (Plume, 1997), Red Square (Quartet
Books, 1983), Deadly Games (Quartet Books, 1983), and, Submarine
U‑137 (Quartet Books, 1983).
In his appeal, Topol urges Boris Berezovsky and the other Jewish
magnates to forsake their lust for wealth and power, and start to show
some concern for the Russian people who have suffered so much at the
hands of these pitiless masters.
Here is the complete text of Topol's extraordinary "Open Letter to
Berezovksy, Gusinsky, Smolensky, Khodorkovsky and other Oligarchs,"
translated for the Journal by Daniel Michaels from the text published in
the respected Moscow paper Argumenty i Fakty ("Arguments and
Facts"), No. 38, September 1998:
'Start To Love Russia, Boris Abramovich!'
It all started with a fax I sent to Boris Abramovich Berezovsky on June
26. It read:
"Dear Boris Abramovich! My publishers are of the opinion that the
success of my books has been the direct result of the avid interest of
Western readers in the actual personalities who have shaped
contemporary Russian history: Brezhnev, Andropov, Gorbachev, Yeltsin
and the people around them.
"I am now working on a book completing the Russian panorama at the
end of the 20th century, and it is quite obvious that a writer can find no
better a story than your phenomenal biography, and no better a main
character in the flow of today's cataclysmic events in Russia than Boris
Berezovsky. I hope that you will understand how important our meeting
would be in helping me to describe the individual most affecting the
course of Russian history at the close of the 20th century ..."
Just two days later Berezovsky received me in his "Reception House" at
40 Novokuznetskaya Street. In this private residence, restored in
modern luxurious Russian style, the best trained secretaries served me
tea while passing to Berezovsky telephone receivers and notes from
various ministers and presidential administrators.
Responding to my thanks for granting me the audience at such a hectic
time, Boris Abramovich commented with a faint smile: "You would be
writing the book in any case ..."
I understood that my visit was somewhat imposed on him so I got right
to the point:
"Boris Abramovich, the real reason for writing this book is this. As you
probably know there is a television show called 'The Puppets.' Puppets
of Yeltsin, Yastrzhembsky, Chernomyrdin, Kulikov, and others perform.
But the main puppeteer is behind the scenes ‑‑ his name is
Shenderovich. And in real life there are Yeltsin, Kiriyenko, Fedorov,
Stepashin and the others. But the main puppeteer has a long Jewish
name: Berezovsky‑Gusinsky‑ Smolensky‑Khodorkovsky, and so on.
"This is to say that for the first time in a thousand years, since the first
Jews settled in Russia, we hold the real power in this country. I want to
ask you straight out: How do you intend to use it? What do you intend
to do in this country? Cast it into the chaos of poverty or raise it from
the mud? Do you understand that a chance like this comes only once in
a thousand years? Do you understand your responsibility to our [Jewish]
people for your actions?"
Boris Abramovich responded with some difficulty: "Of course, as you
see, financial power is in Jewish hands, but we have never looked at
this from the point of view of historical responsibility."
"You have never discussed this matter among your closest associates?"
"No. We have taken note of the disproportionality and have tried to put
a strong financial oligarch of Russian ancestry in power. But nothing has
ever come of it."
"Why not? And, by the way, how did it happen that almost all the
money in this country has ended up in Jewish hands? Are there really
no competent Russian financiers? In old [Tsarist] Russia there were
some exceptional Russian commercial figures ‑‑ Morozov, Tretyakov ..."
"You know," Boris Abramovich said, "of course there are some very
competent bankers among the Russians. But this profession requires a
second very important factor ‑‑ the will power to do the job. Because of
our history Jews know how to lose and then get back up on their feet
again. This is probably a result of our historical experience. But even the
most talented Russians don't have this ability. They can't take the blow,
and they're completely out of the game after their first loss. It's
regrettable."
"Let's say that is true [I replied]. But now, it's so happened that we the
Jews have all the financial power, while the government is run by
half‑Jews like Kiriyenko and Chubais. Don't you realize the full measure
of danger to which we subject our [Jewish] people in the event of
Russia's total collapse? Anti‑Semitic pogroms could turn into a new
Holocaust."
"That's out of the question," Boris Abramovich said. "Do you know the
percentage of anti‑Semitism in Russia today? It is just eight percent!
And that has been scientifically verified!"
Boris Abramovich, I am not going to publish at this time the entire
content of our two meetings. There's no purpose in that. But in the two
months that have elapsed since we first met, Russia has fallen into the
financial abyss and is now but one step from the nightmare of social
madness. And neither you (I mean you personally) nor any of the other
Jewish oligarchs recognize this as a Jewish tragedy. It so happened
that with the collapse of the USSR and the breakdown of the Soviet
regime, you were able to come closer to the threshold than anyone
else. Talent, Jewish acumen, and will power have enabled you to
secure this success and to multiply it. But if you think that this is your
personal due, you are tragically mistaken. And if you simply assume
that you were chosen by God to become a super‑financier and a
super‑oligarch, you are committing a grave sin.
Yes, we are God's chosen people ‑‑ we really are the people chosen by
Him. But we were not chosen for personal enrichment, but only for the
purpose of leading the peoples of the world out of barbarism and
paganism into the world of the Ten Commandments of civilization:
Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not covet thy
neighbor's wife ... And this process has not been completed by a long
shot. Oh no! For that reason we have been given our talents, our
acumen, quickness of mind, and that will power of which you are so
proud. When each of us is up there, He the Almighty will not ask
whether we have done well or poorly on Earth. He will only ask one
question. He will say: "I gave you this talent. How did you use it?" Did
you use it for the purpose I sent you, namely, to bring them into
humanity, to civilize the people, to enlighten them? Or did you use My
gift to fill your safe with a billion dollars and sleep with a million
beautiful women?"
And we shall respond in accordance with the measure of the gift
received, and our abilities to use it.
Of course, both you and I are atheists, Boris Abramovich, as are your
fellow oligarchs. Therefore we do not fear punishment after death; we
are above these childish and vulgar fears. As the people are wont to say
"Don't teach me how to live, help me materially." All right, I will tell
you quite materially. Let us forget for a moment the tens of thousands
of Jews whom the new Russian Black Hundreds [Tsarist‑era
nationalists] will cut down in the first wave of pogroms, let us forget
about their children and mothers. But even if, after having put them out
of your mind, and you are able to fly out of Russia on your private
aircraft, you will be finished. You will lose access to the levers of power
and to the economy of this country; you will simply become refugees in
a land with a foreign language. Believe me, for you this will be like
death ‑‑ even if you have accounts in Swiss banks.
And because you still do not use your money, nor the gift God gave you
for the good of this country and its people, the path you are following is
suicidal.
And now let us remember, Boris Abramovich, all the other Jews and
half‑Jews living in this country. You know very well what happened in
Germany when all German money fell into the hands of Jewish
bankers, who were concerned only with power and multiplying their
profits. Hitler appeared and it culminated in the Holocaust.
Today new Russian black shirts [nationalists] and fascists are rising up
around you on the fertile soil of Russian misery. And if you want to
know how this will end, watch the films of Auschwitz and look into the
eyes of the children standing there behind the barbed wire. And the
Germans were a highly civilized, great European people. Not one of
their poets said: "A German uprising is frightful, senseless, and
merciless."
So, do you seriously believe that in Russia today only eight percent of
the people is anti‑Semitic? Or do you really believe that pogroms are
merely historical phantoms, anachronisms or, as you put it, "It's out of
the question."
Crap, Boris Abramovich (pardon my Russian).
In 1953 I survived a pogrom in Poltava [Ukraine]. It was during the
time of the "doctors' plot," and real pogroms had already started in the
Poltava Podole. After barricading themselves in their apartments,
several Jewish families in the center of the city were unable to go out
onto the streets for three days. And when they finally dared, they could
read on their front steps: "Jews, we're going to paint the roofs with your
blood!" Therefore I know and remember how easily it starts. Just give
the destitute and the aggrieved a guarantee of immunity from penalty,
and they will commit arson, rape, and steal anywhere ‑‑ in Poltava,
Moscow, and even Los Angeles.
I was born and grew up in Baku [Azerbaijan], Boris Abramovich. I have
a friend who was fantastically rich even during the Soviet period, at a
time when you were living on 120 rubles as a [Ph.D.] candidate of
science, and using your friend's one‑room flat for your carnal pleasures.
However, one day in the middle of the night his family woke him up
and said: "Some people have come and want to talk to you." He got up,
dressed and went outside. Two sobbing Azerbaijani women were
standing in the entrance way. They said: "Leonid, help us. Our father
has died and is in the hospital morgue, and the doctors are about to
open him up [autopsy] before burial. But our Muslim law forbids it. We
beg you, we beseech you ‑‑ stop them. Help us get our father's body
back undisturbed!"
My friend went to the hospital and found the physician on duty, who
also happened to be Azerbaijani. My friend said to him: "How can you,
an Azerbaijani yourself, violate the laws of your own people. How can
you bear it that I, a Jew, has come here to ask you to respect your own
Muslim traditions?" He gave the doctor a bribe and ransomed, as it
were, the body of the girls' father. It couldn't have been otherwise.
Those women knew who to turn to for help. My friend had a reputation
in all of Baku for his acts of charity. Do you know how this favor was
returned? Years later, when pogroms against Armenians began in Baku,
my friend's fiancee, who happened to be Armenian, fled her home and
hid in her grandmother's flat. He came for her to get her out of Baku.
But on the way to the airport she said that she wanted to see her home
again for the last time. "It's all smashed up, destroyed, I was there." "I
don't care. Please take me there. I want a final farewell look at my
home." He took her to her home.
The fence was broken, the garden torn up, the house had been torched
and was destroyed. She walked about in the ruins and retrieved some
family photographs and crockery that was still intact. At that very
instant, an infuriated mob of pogromists entered the courtyard. One of
her neighbors had informed them that the Armenian woman had
returned. "Have you ever seen the face of an enraged mob?" Leonid
asked me.
"They went directly at us. My fiancee stood behind me and I felt sure
that we would be murdered. There were about two hundred in the
mob. Their hands clutched hammers, pipe sections, clubs. I was
carrying a pistol, but I knew that I would not even be able to get my
hand in my pocket in time.
"Suddenly, at the last moment, when someone was already waving his
club or pipe at us, an old man jumped out in front and shouted in
Azerbaijani: 'Stop it. I know this man. He has always been good to us. I
swear on my ancestors, all Baku knows this. He must leave here
unharmed.' And, just imagine, the pogrom mob began to step aside and
make a free path through which Ada and I could pass through to my
automobile. We got in and left for the airport."
You are an intelligent man, Boris Abramovich. I'm sure you already
understand why I've told the story about my friend. Every Jew should
act in the same way. The money that God has granted us, whether
during feudalism, socialism, or capitalism, was not in fact given to us,
but rather it is to be funnelled through us to the peoples among whom
we live. Only then will our riches truly multiply according to His will.
And only then are we truly Jews.
Today, the people among whom we reside live in a calamitous state.
Poverty, chaos, desperation, hunger, unemployment, and looting by
officials and bandits alike prevail. Our beloved Russian women walk the
streets. For God's sake, chip in a billion or two.
Don't act like a Jew. Help this nation along in its bloody transition from
Communism to civilization. And don't just give money, contribute your
brains, talents, skills, your God‑given and natural acumen. Use all your
strength, will power, position, and wealth to save Russia from total
collapse and rid Russia of its Soviet‑camp morality and ethics. The
people you save will protect you from pogroms, and your mothers, your
Jewish mothers, will wish you a quiet mazel tov.
Otherwise, another Klimov [a familiar anti‑Jewish writer] will one day
write a book called "Jewish Power" about how the Jews exterminated
the Russian people. Do you really want that, all you Boris
Oligarchovichs?
Some Reactions to Topol's 'Open Letter'
Daniel W. Michaels
For reasons both historical and contemporary, relations between
Russians and Jews are now so tense and emotion‑laden that many
Jews, both in Russia and the United States, fear that Topol's appeal will
promote anti‑Jewish sentiment among Russians, and could even
provoke new pogroms.
The nationally‑circulated New York Jewish weekly Forward (October
9, 1998, p. 5) reports that the chief editor of the paper's Russian edition,
Vladimir Yedidovich, suspects that Topol's appeal is part of an
anti‑Jewish conspiracy. Unnamed parties may have commissioned
Topol to write the article, the Forward editor believes, to direct Russian
wrath against Jews. "Doesn't it seem to you," says Yedidovich, "that the
idea behind the article is a provocation of such a large scale that it
simply could not have been born in a 'writer's lab' of even such a
scandalous writer like Topol?"
Indeed, some Russians have already responded to the "open letter" with
bitter but perhaps understandable anti‑Jewish hostility. Writing in
Zavtra ("Tomorrow"), the main opposition newspaper (No. 40/ 253,
Sept. 6, 1998), Vladimir Bondarenko comments:
This [open letter] is not a Russian‑Jewish dialogue. This is
an argument between Jews on how best to protect Jewish
interests. Personally I have nothing against Eduard Topol in
this matter. Every true patriot is naturally concerned
foremost about his own people. But, why on Earth does a
Russian mass‑circulation newspaper, rather than, say,
Tankred Golenpolsky's Yevreyskaya gazeta ["Jewish
Journal"], publish this Jewish‑Jewish argument?...
I can see only one good thing in this, and that is that it is
time to do away with censorship concerning the Jewish
question. Because Argumenty i Fakty has seen fit to raise
the question of Jewish domination of our government and
of Jewish financial power in our country, it is long since
time to have a normal, open Russian‑Jewish dialogue on
these most sensitive topics in all of Russia's major
newspapers. If today the Jew Topol can discuss these
problems, the Russian Klimov should have the same
opportunity ...
Arrogance, Jewish racial arrogance permeates Topol's
article ... He is convinced that the Jews should rule the
world ...
Topol is patently wrong when he says that this is the first
time in a thousand years that the Jews have had real
power in Russia. Lev Trotsky's power in 1918 far exceeded
that of Berezovsky today. Jewish commissars and Cheka
agents at that time determined almost everything in this
country for an entire epoch. That was in fact the first
attempt at totally remaking the Russian Orthodox
mentality ...
Topol does not conceal the fact that both he and
Berezovsky are atheists. For this same atheist writer to
refer to himself as chosen by God shows he knows nothing
about his own history or religion ... The Jews still argue
among themselves as to whether Jewry is a nationality or a
religion ... And just what is the relationship of adherents to
Judaism to modern civilization and, more specifically, to
Christian civilization?... Christ came to the Jews, but they
rejected him. Jews do not accept Christ, and are still
waiting for their Messiah. But because they have rejected
Him, they are no longer the chosen people ... What does
Eduard Topol mean by the expression "chosen by God," and
into what civilization does he want to force the Orthodox
Russian people? We don't need your services to civilization.
We understand your fears perfectly. For the financial
suffocation of Russia, for the cold and the hunger
attributable to Berezovsky and his ilk, [you fear that] the
dispossessed, tormented people might take their revenge
on your innocent fellow Jews. However, you will not be
saved merely by the Jews assuming a more humane
attitude to the Russian barbarians, as you propose, but only
when your fellow Jews, especially those in power, have
adopted a sincere respect for Russian civilization, Russian
culture, and Russian traditions. Long ago it was said that
"he who comes to us with the sword, shall perish by the
sword." [All the same,] the experience and knowledge of
Russian Jews who really do consider themselves a part of
Russian society is always beneficial for the rebirth of our
great nation.
Also writing in the weekly Zavtra, Vladimir Galushin notes that if a
piece like Topol's open letter had appeared in the patriotic Russian
media, one could expect it to be widely condemned as anti‑Semitic.
But given that Jews themselves acknowledge that they do indeed
control Russia today, this fact cannot be refuted or discounted. Galushin
sees elements of a "Jewish fascism" in such writings. This fascism is
manifest in the small group of oligarchs who want to rule Russia.
Fascist philosophy, he contends, means the racial superiority of one
group over another, the ideology of power over other countries, even
over the world. When the Yeltsin government and the Western media
express fears of fascism in Russia, Galushin argues, it is not Russian
fascism they should address, but Jewish fascism.
Jewish power in Russia, Galushin continues, has resulted in millions of
homeless children, widespread tuberculosis and cholera, a shortage of
medicines, cheating retirees of their pensions, suicide in the armed
forces, and the death of science. What do the Gusinskys, the
Berezovskys, the Chubais, the Nemtsovs, the Kiriyenkos, the
Smolenskys, the Livshits, and the Gaidars say about this? Millions of
Russians have perished under their rule. Are the Russian people ready
to judge these scoundrels for their crimes, Galushin asks.
And Viktor Trostnikov, likewise responding to Topol in an article
entitled "The World Will Not Belong to You," states bluntly and
unambiguously: "The world is still not yours, and it will never be yours,
because Russia will never be yours."
It would be a mistake to suppose that such sentiments are highly
unusual, or represent only extreme right‑wing views.
The newspaper Zavtra is the voice of the nationalists who hold the
great majority of seats in Russia's Duma (parliament). These include the
deputies of the reconstituted Russian Communist Party, headed by
Gennady Zyuganov, which has abandoned internationalism and
orthodox Marxism‑Leninism, and might be more accurately be called
the "National Communist" party. In the Duma, "reformers" and those
who support Yeltsin's government are in a decided minority.
And in addition to such periodicals as Zavtra, today in Russia there are
scores of truly "extremist" publications that may aptly be described as
fascistic or neo‑Nazi.
Thus, Berezovsky's remark that anti‑Semites make up only eight
percent of Russia's population is off the mark. While this figure may
accurately reflect the percentage of Russians who are openly hostile to
Jews, the percentage of those who are covertly anti‑Jewish, or who
hate the (mostly Jewish) oligarchs, is certainly much higher.
In sharp contrast to the intense feelings expressed by such Russian
writers over the catastrophic situation in their country today is the
seeming indifference of American and German taxpayers who have
unwittingly channeled billions of dollars and marks to the oligarchs ‑‑
who in turn have transferred this largesse to secret Swiss accounts. Who
monitors the distribution of these billions through the World Bank, the
IMF, the financial houses, and various banks? Who is responsible for
this terrible injustice?