CROSSROADS OF HISTORY
Boris
Gulko
(translated
by Alla Axelrod )
1. The Europeans and Jews.
Before the
Catholic Christmas, in New York ,
in the main hall of the organization uniting the world, under many spotlights,
in front of the cameras of the main television stations, the global historical event
took place: representatives of all European Christian nations signed an
official document accepting the demise of their civilization. These
representatives gathered specifically to support the resolution of Muslim
Egypt, condemning America
for its recognition of Jerusalem
as the capital of the Jewish people and its power. No European Christian
country voted against the resolution. That is, they all renounced the history
of their former religion, described in its Bible. In this story, 3,000 years
ago, the Jewish king David, whose psalms all the Christians of the world sang
in their churches while singing, made Jerusalem
the capital of the state of the Jews and the center of their religion.
Europeans' abandon
of Christianity didn’t happen just now. Elie Wiesel[O1] wrote: "A clever Christian understands that Jewish people
didn’t die in Auschwitz -- the whole Christianity
died there." After the war, the Western world took a special care to hide
this turning point in its history, creating a false myth of the Holocaust.
In this false
myth, Nazi villains, led by Hitler, were fighting against peace-loving peoples
and identified the Jews as their main victims. The real story is different. It
is presented, for example, in William Perl's book “The Conspiracy of the
Holocaust”, and is summarized in my essay "Jews and the World - Then and
Now" (http://berkovich-zametki.com/2013/Zametki/Nomer1/BorGulko1.php) .
The Holocaust
was staged as follows: before the Great War, Hitler decided to expel Jews from Germany .
Similar exiles took place in European countries many times. They brought a lot
of grief to the Jews and heavy losses to the expelling countries. As an example,
the Jewish scientists, banished by the Nazis, produced an atomic bomb in America , not in Germany .
But the world
decided to use Hitler’s Anti-Semitism as a convenient excuse for its own
anti-Semitism. In Evian , France , on July 5 to 16, 1938,
representatives of the civilized world at a specially convened international
conference agreed not to admit Jewish refugees in their countries, no matter
what danger threatened them. Neutral Switzerland suggested Germany would mark
the German Jewish passports with the letter J (from the German “Jude” - a Jew),
making sure not to let a Jew into their homes.
A special task
fell to England .
On July 20, 1939, the Minister for Colonies Malcolm MacDonald announced at the
debate in the House of Commons that the squadron of torpedo destroyers with the
support of five more boats would defend the shores of Palestine
from the ships, carrying the Jews who were trying to reach Palestine . On the first day of the war, on
September 1, 1939, the British ship Lorna opened fire on the small ship “Tiger
Hill” with 1,417 refugees on board. The first victims of the British army
killed in the Second World War were not Germans, but Jewish refugees: Dr.
Robert Schneider from Czechoslovakia
and a teenager Zvi Binder from Poland .
The British Foreign Office has developed a number of diplomatic measures
preventing Jews from fleeing their countries.
The British King,
traditionally, is not supposed to meddle in politics, but in this case, in
February 1939, three months after Kristallnacht, [O2] the personal secretary of King George VI informed the Minister of
Foreign Affairs: "The King hopes that Jewish refugees will not be allowed
to leave the country of origin".
"Kristallnacht"
changed Hitler's intentions. He believed that the Jewish pogrom would force the
Christian countries to open their borders for Jewish refugees. Many Jews were
released from Dachau [O3] . The government even issued some money for the journey to some who
were able to emigrate. But the world, in
response to the "Kristallnacht", only tighter shut its doors to the
Jews.
Finally, at the
Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, Germany agreed to meet the wishes
of the Christian world and adopted a program called "The Final solution of
the Jewish question." In many countries, local authorities deported Jews
to "extermination camps" without a special order from the Nazis. The
raids in Paris , Amsterdam and other cities of the continent
were conducted by the local police. Sometimes the Germans, occupying the
country, stopped the beating of Jews by the local population. For example, it
happened in Lithuania .
Germany
maintained its exclusive right to violence.
The Head
Christian of Europe - the Roman Pope Pius XII,
did not make any statements about the extermination of the Jews.
2. Jews and
Greeks.
I wouldn’t be a
Jew if I didn’t say that we ourselves are to blame for what is happening. Of
course, the Jews are guilty of such a terrible spiritual failure of Europe . And this guilt is an old one.
Having received
the Torah from Mount Sinai 33 centuries ago,
we had to spread monotheism among the peoples, to heal them from idolatry, to
become a light of humanity. Of course, this task was very difficult. But one nation,
with whom we had to communicate closely, was extraordinarily gifted, and as
life had demonstrated, was ready for spiritual growth. They were the ancient
Greeks. There was no people in history close to the Greeks in their genius and
contribution to civilization.
The Greeks
didn’t get acquainted with the enlightenment activity of the Jews because of
Jewish missionary work, but because of the energy and money of Ptolemy
Philadelphus, the Greek ruler of Egypt . In the first half of the 3rd
century BC Ptolemy organized the translation of the Torah into Greek by 72
Jewish sages. It was called “The Septuagint”. He, as Josephus Flavius describes[O4] , provided the Jerusalem
Temple with utensils for
worship made from pure gold cast, designed according to his sketches.
But the Greeks did
not take Judaism from the main directions of Judaism, but from the side
messianic sect - the Nazarenes. A direct
transition to Judaism frightened the Greeks with a circumcision ritual, which,
they thought, makes men impotent. Nazarenes promised the proselyte Greeks the full
status of belonging to the chosen people as long as they believed in Jesus' Messiahship
and in his resurrection from the dead.
The idea of
the Messiah, although it is listed by RAMBAM[O5] among the 13 principles of faith, is a painful point for Jews. Our
sages forbade the calculation of the time of the coming of the Messiah, but
they did it themselves - Rabbi Akiva, Rambam, and Ramban[O6] . The most famous candidate in the Messiah after Jesus was Shabtai
Zvi. When he converted to Islam in 1666, a significant number of his disciples
followed him. And now in Turkey
and in Greece
there is a sect of Denme - the descendants of Shabtai disciples. In general,
Shabbatism remained a terrible embarrassment in the history of the Jews.
It's not that
simple about Jesus' Messiahship either. According to the Gospels, he were to
return soon after his resurrection and establish "the Kingdom of God
on earth." A week passed, then a month. He didn’t appear.
Then the
Christians created a theological theory based only on the miracle of the Jesus’
resurrection: "Jesus is risen, therefore our faith is true" -
Orthodox priests, with whom I was in a short correspondence, wrote to me. But
my question “what became of his resurrected human body (the soul, of course, is
immortal)” cut our correspondence short. Jesus in the body must dwell somewhere
on Earth. But 2000 years is an excessive period for the human body.
Alexander Blok,
one of the most mystically inclined Russian poets, experienced the problem with
this dogma of Christianity. Taking an epigraph from another mystic, Vladimir
Soloviov: "And the heavy sleep of worldly consciousness You will shake
off, yearning and loving," he wrote:
“I Foresee You.
Year pass by - all in the guise of one, I foresee You.
The entire
horizon is on fire, it is clear and unbearable,
And I wait in
silence, - yearning and loving.
The whole
horizon is on fire, and the appearance is close,
But it's scary
to me: you change the appearance of You,
And the impudent
excite suspicion,
Having replaced
in the end the usual traits...”
Suspicion in
connection with the prolonged absence of Jesus arose in Russia not only in Blok alone. Chukovsky, another great poet of the period, described
how Shalyapin[O7] came to see Leo Tolstoy before Easter. The singer embraced the
great writer "and pronounced the traditional formula:" Christ is
risen, Lev Nikolaevich! "Tolstoy gave Shalyapin a kiss on his cheek, and
then he said: "Christ has not risen, Feodor Ivanovich."
At the beginning
of the 20th century, the overwhelming majority of the population of Russia ,
desperate to wait for Jesus, rejected Christianity along with Judeo-Christian
ethics. This brought the country into a century of misfortune. For decades
after the Holocaust, faith has also abandoned Christians of the rest of Europe . Now there are only 5-10% of the population
visiting churches. The institute of the family collapsed in Europe ,
the birth rate has catastrophically fallen. The Europeans have lost the desire
to procreate, and they invite to their countries many millions of
representatives of hostile civilizations, who are quickly replacing the
indigenous inhabitants.
Now the Jews are
trying to save the remnants of the civilized world. At the end of the twentieth
century, the Bnei Noah movement was created. They are Gentiles who assumed the seven commandments of the sons of
Noah and the main parts of Judaism, not exclusively addressed to Jews. Judaism involves
differentiation of people - separate laws for men and women, for Cohens and for
other descendants of Israel .
Under the leadership of Rabbi Uri Scherki in Israel ,
Brit Olam was created - the World
Noahid Center ,
which prepared a prayer book for Noahids; A remarkable site with courses of
lectures interesting for both the Noahids and the Jews was created.
This movement already has tens of thousands
of followers around the world. But will it have time to save the European
civilization, who has the time and strength, I fear, to survive only for one or
two generations?
3. Americans and the Jews
Abraham Lincoln called the
Americans "almost elected people", leaving the place of
"elected" to his biblical possessor. He intended, after the Civil
War, to prepare a campaign for the return of the Jews to their historical
homeland.
With the theme of Americanism, you can get
acquainted with my 2006 essay “Democracy and Religion”: http://www.machanaim.org/history/gulko/demokratija.htm,
written on the basis of the publications of the Yale professor David Gelenter.
The experience
of developing democracy in the United States
was useful to Israel ,
which was recreated 70 years ago. Europeans stressed their spiritual difference
from these two states - none of their countries supported the right of America to recognize Jerusalem
as the capital of Israel .
The Judeo-Christian civilization is leaving the Old World .
Translated by Alla Axelrod ©
[O1]Eliezer
"Elie" Wiesel was a Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor,
political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor.
[O2]Kristallnacht, literally, "Night
of Crystal," is often referred to as the "Night of Broken
Glass." The name refers to the wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms which took place on November 9
and 10, 1938. This wave of violence took place throughout Germany , annexed Austria ,
and in areas of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia recently occupied by
German troops.
[O4]Titus Flavius Josephus (37
– c. 100), historian
and hagiographer, who was born in Jerusalem—then
part of Roman Judea—to a father of priestly descent
and a mother who claimed royal ancestry.
[O5]Rabbi Moses ben Maimon commonly known as Maimonides Moses Maimonides), and also refered to
as RAMBAM, Torah scholar of the Middle Ages, he was also a preeminent astronomer and
physician.
[O6]Moses ben Nahman, commonly known as Nachmanides, and also referred
to by the acronym Ramban and by the contemporary nickname Bonastruc ça Porta,
was a leading medieval Jewish scholar, Sephardic rabbi,
[O7]Feodor
Ivanovich Chaliapin was a Russian opera singer. Possessing a deep and
expressive bass voice, he enjoyed an important international career at major
opera houses.
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