- In the Return of the King, the Oscar-studded film based
on the Tolkien's fantasy, there is a touching and inspiring moment: at
the lowest ebb of struggle, when the Sauron hordes pour in through the
breached gates of Gondor, horns announce the arrival of the relieving force.
Rohan is coming, and the looting Orks retreat from the City in disarray.
Such a rescue force came to the embattled people of the Middle East in
the unexpected form of a film. This inspired creation of Mel Gibson broke
the dangerous and immoral alliance between devout American Christians and
their Jewish shepherds. Mel Gibson and his Passion of Christ may well have
advanced the cause of justice and peace in Palestine more than we could
possibly dream of. Incidentally, he succeeded in undermining the most dangerous
heresy in the long history of Christianity: the right-wing Evangelicals,
infatuation with Jews and Zionism. Now it is the time to recognise this
victory and enjoy its fruits.
The Jewish establishment and its willing subjects carried out a perilous
policy of encouraging the Clash of Civilisations, embodied in ideological
and US military warfare against the Third World. For this reason, they
promoted the concept of a Judaeo-Christian, Civilisation at war with the
Muslims, with the Red-Brown, Russians, with the French and with traditional
societies and forces. Mel Gibson and his powerful film opened the Second
Front of this great struggle within the powerbase of the enemy -- in the
US -- by exposing the lie at the very foundation of the Judaeo-Christian
myth.
As St Paul prophesied, Christ turned out to be the "stumbling block
for the Jewish advance. The Jewish leaders thought they secured the US,
and that they could safely proceed with this war elsewhere. Their second
target was Islam, the Middle East their battleground, and the trophy was
to be the holiest shrine of Islam in Jerusalem: the Dome of the Rock, with
the blazing golden letters inscribed by the Umayyad Caliphs that proclaim
"Blessed is Jesus Christ, Blessed is the Day of His Nativity, and
Blessed is the Day of His Resurrection.
Zionists formed an alliance with the misled Christian Conservatives, and
the US troops took over Iraq and Afghanistan, while supporting the Israeli
offensive against the native Palestinians in the Holy Land. Then came Mel
Gibson, and their alliance fell apart. Thus, Christ indeed was our secret
weapon against the Zionist takeover. I felt it for long time; ever since
on Easter 2001 I referred to His Passion in context of Palestinian suffering,
just to be immediately frozen out by mainstream Jewish pro-peace groups.
Let us raise the banner of Christ, for it causes split amongst our adversaries.
Professor Patrick McNally wrote that the Judeo-Nazis repeated the error
of German Nazis; they became over-extended by opening the Second Front.
They could not help: they attacked Gibson and the American Christians,
though their support was necessary for the Middle East takeover.
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- Sidney Blumenthal, an American Zionist Jew and a former
senior adviser to President Clinton, wrote in the Guardian: The neocons
and the theocons (conservative Christians) were bound together for different
reasons: the neocons by foreign policy (read: support of Israel), the theocons
by their continuing fundamentalist revolt against modernity (for modernity
read: neo-liberalism). Enter Mel Gibson, sprinkling holy gasoline on the
fires and blowing up the cultural contradictions of American conservatism.,[1]
It frightened Jews, concludes Blumenthal, and therefore Bush must go.
In Israel, this understanding came first. Gershom Gorenberg wrote in the
Jerusalem Report[2]:
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- "Post-9/11, the "conflict of civilizations"
is often taken for granted; it supposedly pits the "Judeo-Christian"
world against Muslims. That mood, along with the Intifada, has fertilized
an alliance twinning Israeli right-wingers and some U.S. Jewish leaders
with conservative Christians. The Passion should sober people up.
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- "By attacking The Passion, Jewish groups such as
the Anti-Defamation League helped to publicize it. I don,t think they had
a better option. To ignore a film in which Pilate is a softy and the Jews
cry for Jesus, blood would be equivalent to pleading "no contest"
to the West's oldest calumny. But the Passion affair underlines the absurdity
of the romance between Jewish groups (including the ADL) and the Christian
Right.
Gershom Gorenberg is right. This alliance of Christ-loving American Conservatives
and Christ-hating Jewish leadership was absurd from the beginning. The
Christians in the US, as elsewhere, belong to the traditional all-embracing
faith of love to the poor and downtrodden. The Jewish establishment subscribes
to the faith which is good for the rich and powerful Chosen People, whether
Jews or godless Mammon worshippers. Their alliance was a peculiar quirk
of history that brought mankind to the edge of the abyss.
As a last, bizarre stroke of this alliance, on March 5th, 2004, the Arab-bashing
Pat Robertson appealed on his blasphemously-named Christian Broadcasting
Network (CBN), to the American Christians to join with Jews this year to
celebrate the Festival of Purim. Those who answer his call will celebrate
together with hundreds of followers and admirers of a fundamentalist American
Jew, Baruch Goldstein, who slaughtered dozens of worshippers in the city
of Abraham, Hebron on Purim in 1994. His burial place in Kiriyat Arba is
the location for Purim celebrations for many Israeli Jews, reported a Jerusalem
weekly Kol HaIr on March 5, 2004. It is probably the least-likely festival
for a Christian to celebrate together with Jews. By his call, Robertson
plainly presented his anti-Christian credentials. His enmity is not reserved
for the Muslims only: Robertson also attacked Russia and accused this Christian
nation of plotting the "gassing of Jews and Jewish children"
which is a horrible blood libel against a country that has a Jewish Prime
Minister. But his support for Zionist atrocities in Palestine would suffice
for the viewers of Gibson's film to reject Robertson and his preaching
of hate.
God knows, there are other Christian forces, and the enthusiastic welcome
received by Gibson's film proves that they are the real majority. The Reverend
Charles Carlson of www.whtt.org runs Project Straight Gate, which speaks
against the war in Iraq and Palestine. On a recent pro-life demonstration
they called upon their fellow-Americans to care about lives of Iraqi and
Palestinian children as much as for the unborn children of America. Their
signs read "Innocent Blood on Our Hands, Iraq - Gaza, and "Choose
Peace, not War. They called upon "fellow Christ-followers to oppose
successive slaughter in the Middle East. Americans are now among the victims
of the war almost every day. But even when none of 'ours' are killed, they
are being fashioned into assassins and brutal occupiers, which is not what
most Christ-followers should desire for their children.[3]
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- Gibson's film expresses forebodings of the Second Coming.
It brings greater awakening into Christian hearts in the Lent; it restores
the almost-forgotten tradition of Passion Plays; it separates the lambs
from the goats. Not only have Abe Foxman of ADL and Mervin Hier of Wiesenthal
Centre exposed their hostility to Christ, but crypto-Zionist Michael Lerner
of Tikkun sent his disciples to give away anti-Christian leaflets at the
movie theatres. Lerner began as a peace-seeker, but soon turned out to
be a Zionist Trojan horse in the peace camp.
On the other side, Mark Bruzonsky of MER, a longtime friend of Palestine,
condemned the Jewish establishment's attempt "to relentlessly crucify
Gibson for trying to tell the story as he knows it, or rather as he believes
it, [as] in itself a kind of intellectual and political blasphemy. Rather
Gibson should be thanked for standing his ground, making his movie, telling
his story, and making us all ponder and think and feel... whether Jew,
Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, atheist... or just plain human. Our friend
Gilad Atzmon published a strong essay supporting Gibson, while brave Jeff
Blankfort of California wrote that it confirms the reality of Jewish control
over Hollywood.
Indeed, this film unveiled the anti-Christian intentions of American Jewry.
The New York Times reported that the chairmen of major studios said they
would avoid working with Mr. Gibson because of The Passion of the Christ.
One of them explained: "It doesn't matter what I say. It'll matter
what I do. I will do something. I won't hire him. I won't support anything
he's part of.[4]
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produces anti-Christian films seeping with hatred for the poor, downtrodden,
un-Chosen people, be it American rednecks or Arabs, Russians or Latin Americans.
The US newspapers, too, gave vast coverage to the hostile positions of
Jews on the subject of Passion, showing an incredible bias well known to
us friends of Palestine.
Their fear and loathing shows that this film can change America; and therefore
it can change the world. American Christians can recognise the urgent need
to free their media from the deadly grip of Christ's enemies. They can
attune their policies towards Christ, share their worldly goods with the
needy, return their sons from overseas wars, turn their mighty arms industry
into ploughshare makers to feed the hungry; reject Mammon; promote spirituality
and be a good neighbour to all nations of the Earth.
Let them remember: the Passion of Christ is not a millennia-old event:
even today, as I write, it is the funds and weapons sent by the US are
helping the Jews to crucify Palestine. They besiege the Nativity town of
Bethlehem and plot to destroy the Dome of the Rock with its benedictions
of Christ. The horrors of the Passion presented by Mel Gibson are inflicted
daily on the captive Palestinians. They are killed by the hundreds, tortured
by the thousands and starved by the millions. People who support or ignore
this persecution will never be able to wash their hands of their blood.
The nearest few months will show whether the American Conservative Christians
care for Christ; whether they are an independent political power at all,
or just an alibi-providing Gentile front for the Jewish policies; whether
the only political swing possible in the US is that between pro-Likud Bush
and pro-Labour Kerry. It is the time for Americans to regain their lost
independence. But for that, they will need a miracle.
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- [1] Guardian, March 4, 2004
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- [2] FUNDAMENTALISM ON FILM Jerusalem Report (Israel)
March 8, 2004 Issue
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- [3] http://www.whtt.org/whtt.shtml?articles/RighLifeSponshtmFnl.htm
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- [4] New Film May Harm Gibson's Career, By SHARON WAXMAN.
New York Times - 26 Feb 2004.
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- The PaRDeS, a new long essay by Israel Shamir is available
to donors or active contributors of this list just for asking. Send an
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- Responses to the PaRDeS:
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- From Nancy Horn, Pennsylvania:
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- Dear Israel Adam,
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- I am reeling, with horror at the subject matter and awe
at what you have done with it, the depth and breadth not only of your knowledge
but, far more important, your brilliance.
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- While I adore the elegiac prose you cannot NOT use when
describing Palestine, and had thought nothing could surpass Galilee Flowers,
I think -- no, I KNOW -- you have done so with this one.
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- You have not only seen with greater clarity and depth
the very things we have noticed, you have explained their interconnectedness
with this abhorrent whole.
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- My deepest congratulations to you on the production of
a really superb, monumental treatment of our world and what ails us.
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- Thank you, Shamir, for making sense of things.
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- Nancy
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- From Hans Olav Brendberg, Norway:
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- PaRDeS is a tour de force through your main themes.
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- From Gerald Jugant, France:
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- With the reading of PaRDeS, I feel the spirit of Simone
Weil, but in a way even more conscious and obvious, you belong to the great
tradition of the Jewish mystic teaching, the Cabbala. Undoubtedly you attempt
to revive this very old, mainly lost, wisdom of humanity, who has as a
base the golden age, the original paradise, the very old time of the man
in harmony with nature and its own nature.
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