Are the "Protocols of the
Elders of Zion" a forgery? / Anonymous 00, 2012-02-02
How authentic are the Protocols
of the Elders of Zion? / Germany in History and in the Present, 42(3)
(1994), H.W. Woltersdorf
Jewish world dominion in
the Bible.
Jewish world dominion in
politics and society.
The new form of financial dominion.
/ Professor Eberhard Hamert, economist, of the Small Businesses Institute,
Hanover
The less people know, the less
they want to know. / TOPIC 00, 2012-03-13
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion – the text
/ The text of the 24 Protocols discozrse 1122
(…) In your article about the Israel movement
(Does the Bible say that the
Antichrist will be a Jew? / FH) you claim the Bible states that the
Antichrist will be a Jew. After this you describe conditions under the
dominion of the Antichrist in such a way as to echo almost word for word the
anti-Semitic inflammatory propaganda of the "Protocols of the Elders of
Zion". It is sad that you make use of forgeries of this kind and then
actually claim that these are the statements of the Bible. (…)
The visitor wishes to remain anonymous
Thank you for your visit to Immanuel.at and for your comments.
When I wrote my analysis of these matters in Discourse 101, I actually had no
idea of the content of the writing known as "The Protocols of the Elders of
Zion". On that I give you my word as a Christian! I had perhaps read the title
two or three times, supposed some sort of secret society to be at the back of it
and so did not think it important to find out about it in any more detail.
You can therefore assume that my interpretations in Discourse 101 are completely
and entirely conclusions drawn from the biblical texts and from nowhere else. If
you were not able to recognize this yourself in the light of the biblical texts
included in the Discourse, I am afraid you must have failed to read them.
(See also discourse 101: "The
"Israel movement" in the Christian congregations – Christian-Evangelical Zionism.")
After receiving your e-mail, I tried to get more information on the subject, and indeed had no difficulty in finding an article in Wikipedia which reproduces your view exactly:
"‘The Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ is an
anti-Semitic pamphlet. It was written by unknown authors at the start of the
20th century, based on a number of fictional texts, and is regarded as an
influential programmatic document for anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. The
Protocols purport to be secret documents emanating from a meeting of
representatives of the Jewish global conspiracy.
"The document appeared first in 1903 in imperial Russia. After the First World
War it came to be increasingly disseminated internationally, although as early
as 1921 the London Times exposed it as a forgery. Editions that were
particularly widely known are the one dating from the 1920s by Henry Ford in the
United States, and the German editions by Gottfried zur Beek and Theodor Fritsch.
Even today, anti-Semites and advocates of different types of conspiracy theory
all over the world, especially in Islamic countries and in Russia, believe in
the truth or authenticity of the Protocols. They continue to be in print in many
countries, and are also accessible in electronic form on the internet."
Wikipedia – Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Several videos on YouTube likewise confirm the statement that a
number of passages in the Protocols have been lifted almost word for word from
the book "Dialogue aux enfers entre Montesquieu et Machiavelli"
[Dialog in Hell between Montesquieu and Machiavelli] by Maurice Joly, and that
the Protocols as a whole must therefore be regarded as a forgery. We can also
find countless commentaries on the internet which condemn the Protocols as a
forgery on the same grounds.
What is generally overlooked in this connection, however, is the fact that while
the lifted passages do constitute proof of plagiarism, it by no means follows
that the entire document is a forgery. We had a very similar case in Germany
just recently, after all, when the former German Minister of Defense Karl
Theodor zu Guttenberg copied passages from other authors into his doctoral
thesis. In view of the plagiarism he was justly denied his doctor’s degree,
but of course that does not mean that his work as a whole is a forgery.
In my further investigations I then came across an article in the magazine "Deutschland
in Geschichte und Gegenwart" ["Germany in History and in the Present"], in
which the author Hans Werner Woltersdorf gives an objective presentation
of the entire history of the document, based on an abundance of background
knowledge. It emerges from this not only that the doubtful passages in the book
by Maurice Joly were not copied by the Protocols, but on the contrary, that the
book was actually a work commissioned from Maurice Joly specifically for the
Protocols, so that, as Mr. Woltersdorf writes, "In view of this, the original
object which was supposed to prove the document a forgery could well now turn
out to be an object confirming the authenticity of the controversial Protocols."
Let us just remember – the year 1897 saw the first Zionist
World Congress, in Basel. The one point on the official agenda was the
reestablishment of the state of Israel. This point alone attracted
journalists and secret services from all over the world. According to the
diary entries of Theodor Herzl, who was one of the organizers of the
congress, there was meant to be an official and an unofficial part. It is
supposed that during the unofficial part of the congress the text of a
Zionist manifesto was read out, which later came to be known as "The
Protocols of the Elders of Zion". What makes the content of this so
shattering is that it postulates the moral and spiritual destruction of the
non-Jewish world as a precondition for the Zionist seizure of world
dominion.
Allegedly the Russian secret service, the Okhrana, came into possession of a
copy of the manifesto and brought it to Russia. There the Russian priest
Nilus translated and published it, first of all in a magazine and then in
book form. But it was only when the German Gottfried zur Beek
translated the Russian text, and published a German edition of these secrets
of the Elders of Zion in 1919, that there were worldwide repercussions. In
England there was even talk of banishing all Jews from the country.
At this point the Zionists went over into counterattack, and declared that
the Protocols were a forgery in the interest of anti-Semitic propaganda. The
London Times set forth the proof of this forgery: in 1865 a Frenchman named
Maurice Joly (Moses Joel?) had published a polemic against Napoleon III
under the title "Dialogue aux enfers entre Montesquieu et Machiavelli"
["Dialog in Hell between Montesquieu and Machiavelli"], presenting a
discussion in hell between the two philosophers. And in fact entire passages
from the Protocols are included in Joly’s book. This seemed sufficient
proof that the Protocols were a forgery, an inflammatory anti-Semitic tract.
So who was this Maurice Joly, who had managed to write such an exciting
book? He was a jurist, a journalist and a Catholic, but of Jewish
extraction. Already in 1936 Ulrich Fleischhauer, in his expert report
at the Bern Trial, which was indirectly concerned with the authenticity of
the Protocols, ventured to doubt whether Joly’s writing was really a
polemic against Napoleon III. Only after completing his report did he
receive the copy of a certain letter dated 29 October 1921, but the writer
of the letter asked him not to reveal his name as he feared retaliation from
Jewish Freemasons.
The content of this letter was as follows. It asserted that the long
deceased Victor de Ternant had been secretary to Jules Janin
for the space of two years. This Janin, in turn, always claimed that Joly’s
Dialog had been a commissioned work, based on secret documents from an
earlier time. Janin arranged for the revision (proofreading) of the book. He
too was Catholic, but his grandparents were as yet unbaptized Jews. Joly’s
grandparents too, the letter said, were still living as Jews in Venice. Joly
had written the book as a commission from a Swiss bank, which in turn was
linked to the Rothschild Bank in Frankfurt. This bank paid Joly 300 pounds,
of which Janin, as proofreader, received 100.
In view of the anonymity of the writer, we would not necessarily want to
attribute undue importance to a letter of this nature – if it were not for
the existence of yet another document. On 10 September 1921 – before the
date of the portentous letter, that is – the English journal The Spectator
published a reader’s letter under the heading "Maurice Joly and the
Jews". In this he contradicted the assertion that Joly had been an
anti-Semite, and in terms of content referred to the same facts as were
contained in the letter which 15 years later was passed to Fleischhauer. The
reader’s letter was signed by Andrew de Ternant, the son of that Victor de
Ternant, who had been secretary to Janin in those two years when the latter
was editing Joly’s book. In view of this, the original object which was
supposed to prove the document a forgery could well now turn out to be an
object confirming the authenticity of the controversial Protocols.
If we now ask what the Rothschild family has to do with these Protocols,
either directly or indirectly, we need to take a look at the »Rakovsky
Interrogation«. This Rakovsky was a Soviet functionary, a high-ranking
Freemason, Russian ambassador in London and in Paris and a friend of Trotsky’s.
He was the money courier commissioned by Wall Street and leader of the
Russian Revolution of 1917. His wife Sedova came of a Wall Street family,
the Warburgs. Through the Trotskys, Rakovsky was initiated into the detailed
plans of those conspirators who were implementing the Zionist manifesto on
the level of practical politics. Interrogated on 26 January 1938 by Stalin’s
intimate associate Kuzmin, Rakovsky spilled the beans.
(See also; "The Rakowsky Case.")
Back in the 18th century, he said, the Rothschilds had
financed Adam Weishaupt, who developed the first communist/anarchist theses
and founded the exceptionally strict order of Freemasons, the Illuminati.
This in turn, in conjunction with the French "Grand Orient" lodge,
stage-managed the French Revolution of 1789, which with its watchwords of
liberty, equality and fraternity bore notable features of a first communist
revolution. According to Rakovsky, Rothschild was the secret boss both of
the Communist and of the capitalist Internationale, two systems which though
on divided, indeed mutually hostile paths both pursued the common goal of
global dominion (Jewish global dominion, that is).
Evidently Joly’s polemic against Napoleon III was just a test balloon with
a view to sounding out the effect of Zionist ideas on the public. The fact
alone that this program – today more clearly than ever – has been
realized right on schedule is like an architect’s plan in relation to the
finished edifice. In view of that fact, nobody would be inclined to claim
that the architect’s plan is a forgery. It only remains to be explained
whether and how the Okhrana got hold of the text.
Source: Deutschland in Geschichte und Gegenwart [Germany in History and the
Present] 42(3) (1994), p. 24
https://www.vho.org/D/DGG/Woltersdorf42_3.html
When we now compare the detailed information in the above
article with the passage from Wikipedia quoted earlier, we can see at once that
the author of the Wikipedia entry principally refers to information sources
which assert that this writing is a forgery, the authenticity of which is only
credited by "anti-Semites and advocates of different types of conspiracy
theory all over the world".
And when we find the Wikipedia author going on to argue that "The Protocols of
the Elders of Zion are a forgery making use of older, fictional texts – in
other words, as there is no original, they are a pure ‘invention’, a fiction
without any reference to reality", we can see that there is something
tendentious about this argument. Without having carried out any objective
research himself, the author then feels entitled to dismiss the Protocols of the
Elders of Zion outright as being an "anti-Semitic pamphlet".
While the events which, according to the forecasts of the
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, are designed to give rise to Jewish world
dominion may not quite be "echoed word for word" in my interpretation of
biblical prophesies in Discourse 101, as the visitor who asked to remain
anonymous claims, I was nonetheless myself surprised (seeing that, as I
mentioned earlier, I had never read these texts before) to find that there is
evidently so much agreement between them.
We find it announced in the Protocols that all governments in the world will be
deposed, if necessary through terrorist attacks and assassinations, or even by
world war. If the European nations revolt against the Jews, this would be
answered with an attack on Europe by America, China and Japan. But because of
the despotism intrinsic to these democracies, the peoples would ask for a world
ruler of their own accord.
This world ruler would then be the "king come of the blood of Zion" who, as
"Messiah", would usurp power in all nations simultaneously by a coup d’état.
He will introduce the religion of Moses as the state religion worldwide, and all
non-Jews who are unwilling to accept this Jewish dominion will be forced to do
so by persecution, oppression, famine and plagues.
In this connection we find it stated in the Protocols:
"By want and the envy and hatred which it
engenders we shall move the mobs and with their hands we shall wipe out all
those who hinder us on our way. When the hour strikes for our Sovereign Lord of
all the World to be crowned it is these same hands which will sweep away
everything that might be a hindrance thereto." (Protocol
No. 3)
"When we come into our kingdom it will be undesirable for us that there should
exist any other religion than ours of the One God with whom our destiny is bound
up by our position as the Chosen People and through whom our same destiny is
united with the destinies of the world. We must therefore sweep away all other
forms of belief." (Protocol No. 14)
These forecasts are justified by a reference to the prophecies
of the Old Testament: "Our prophets have proclaimed that we are chosen by God
to rule over the whole world" (Protocol
No. 5). So let us now take a look at some of the most important of these
prophecies – above all, the prophecies in Jeremiah 30 and 31, which look
forward to the conversion of Israel to its God and the restoration of its
fortunes:
They shall serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.
Jer 30,7 ‘Alas! for that day is great, There is
none like it; And it is the time of Jacob’s distress, But he will be saved
from it. 30,8 ‘It shall come about on that day,’ declares the LORD of
hosts, ‘that I will break his yoke from off their neck and will tear off their
bonds; and strangers will no longer make them their slaves. 30,9 ‘But they
shall serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for
them. Jer 30, 7- 9;
Behold, I will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob and have compassion on his dwelling places.
Jer 30,18 "Thus says the LORD, ‘Behold, I
will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob And have compassion on his
dwelling places; And the city will be rebuilt on its ruin, And the palace
will stand on its rightful place. 30,19 ‘From them will proceed thanksgiving
And the voice of those who celebrate; And I will multiply them and they will not
be diminished; I will also honor them and they will not be insignificant.
30,20 ‘Their children also will be as formerly, And their congregation shall
be established before Me; And I will punish all their oppressors. Jer
30,18-20;
You shall be My people, And I will be your God. In the latter days you will understand this.
Jer 30,22 ‘You shall be My people, And I will be
your God.’" 30,23 Behold, the tempest of the LORD! Wrath has gone forth,
A sweeping tempest; It will burst on the head of the wicked. 30,24 The fierce
anger of the LORD will not turn back Until He has performed and until He has
accomplished The intent of His heart; In the latter days you will understand
this. Jer 30,22-24;
For thus says the LORD, "Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations
Jer 31,6 "For there will be a day when
watchmen On the hills of Ephraim call out, ‘Arise, and let us go up to Zion,
To the LORD our God.’" 31,7 For thus says the LORD, "Sing aloud
with gladness for Jacob, And shout among the chief of the nations; Proclaim,
give praise and say, ‘O LORD, save Your people, The remnant of Israel.’
31,8 "Behold, I am bringing them from the north country, And I will gather
them from the remote parts of the earth, Among them the blind and the lame, The
woman with child and she who is in labor with child, together; A great company,
they will return here. Jer 31, 6- 8;
For the LORD has ransomed Jacob And redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he.
Jer 31,9 "With weeping they will come, And by
supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk by streams of waters, On a
straight path in which they will not stumble; For I am a father to Israel, And
Ephraim is My firstborn." 31,10 Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, And
declare in the coastlands afar off, And say, "He who scattered Israel
will gather him And keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock." 31,11 For
the LORD has ransomed Jacob And redeemed him from the hand of him who was
stronger than he Jer 31, 9-11;
And I will put a new spirit within them. And I will take the heart of stone out and give them a heart of flesh,.
Eze 11,17 "Therefore say, ‘Thus says the
Lord GOD, "I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you out
of the countries among which you have been scattered, and I will give you the
land of Israel."‘ 11,18 "When they come there, they will remove
all its detestable things and all its abominations from it. 11,19 "And I
will give them one heart, and put a new spirit within them. And I will take the
heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh, 11,20 that
they may walk in My statutes and keep My ordinances and do them. Then they will
be My people, and I shall be their God. Eze 11,17-20
(See also Chapter 09; "The
return home of the redeemed.")
These are the prophecies pointing to the gathering of the people
of Israel in the distant future, "in the latter days" (Jer 30,24) – a
gathering performed by Israel’s God (and not by Theodor Herzl’s Zionists in the year
1948!). Here God promises that at this time he will make Israel the "chief of
the nations" (Jer 31,7) – in other words, a world power. This is the time of
the Millennial Kingdom of Peace of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Messiah. Then
God will raise King David, and he will be king in Israel.
(See also Discourse 63: "Conditions
of life in the Millennial Kingdom.")
The reference in these texts to Israel’s being gathered by
God, and being redeemed at this time "from the hand of him who was stronger
than he", nonetheless implies the reverse corollary – that until the time
comes, the Israel of today must again be dispersed by "him who was stronger",
so that they can then be gathered once more by God himself and repatriated to
their country.
The claims of the Jews that this gathering took place in the year 1948, then,
are quite patently false. As a result of this premature gathering, which was the
work not of God but of human beings – who yet again refused to wait for God’s
good time and made themselves a "golden calf" in the form of the state of
Israel – Israel has condemned itself to a war with powers that are stronger,
to being conquered and driven out of its land.
(See also Discourse 1016: "The
Foundation of the State of Israel in 1948 prophesied in the Old Testament!")
By contrast with the way the Jews like to see it, this is the
true background to the picture, as we really find it to be when we read the Old
Testament. It is true, from the biblical point of view, that Israel will become
a world power – but not in the present. And it will not be the Israel of
today, who since their handing over of the Son of God to be crucified, and the
subsequent punishment visited on them by God in the destruction of the Temple
and sacrificial altar and the expulsion of the Jews from their homeland, have
lost all connection with their God and so are a God-less nation.
(See also Discourse 1015: "Shema
Yisrael ‒ Hear, O ISRAEL: the judgment of God on his people.")
But seeing that the Zionists have tried to convince the whole
world that all these prophecies are already being fulfilled today, they need
further proofs if they are to carry any conviction. Based on Eze 11,19 (see
above), the real proofs in this respect would be a new spirit within them, and a
heart of flesh instead of a heart of stone. But this they will only receive when
the real gathering by God takes place in future. The Israel of today is just as
godless, corrupt and hardhearted as all other nations are.
And because for the Zionists, with their hunger for power, the only important
thing in these prophecies is global dominion, they concentrate on the promised
Messiah and his dominion of the world, because here again they think they are
capable of organizing this on their own account, without God’s help. They do
not want to admit that this Messiah is in fact the Son of God, whom they handed
over to be crucified, and whom they continue to abuse up to the present day as
an impostor and blasphemer.
But the Lord had already prophesied to their forefathers who condemned him that
they would be abandoned by God until such time as they greet his Son with the
words, "Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord".
Behold, your house is being left to you desolate until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD’
Mt 23,38 "Behold, your house is being left
to you desolate! 23,39 "For I say to you, from now on you will not see
Me until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD’"
Mt 23,38-39;
In view of the situation in Israel today, where immigrants are
compelled by the Jewish Agency (the Israeli immigration authority) to
sign an agreement stating that they will not conduct any kind of Christian
missionizing in Israel or preach about Jesus Christ, we can see that it will be
a very long time before this future comes about. The Zionists, then, will set up
a false Messiah, so that with his help, and not in a peaceful way (as will be
the case with the real Messiah), they can seize world dominion on the basis of
their own qualifications – lies, trickery, war and terror.
We have evidence in the New Testament too that it will come to this, and some
indication of how these events are going to develop. So let us now turn to the
New Testament’s prophecies that are relevant in this connection. First of all
we have the false Messiah, the Antichrist as the rider on the white horse in Rev
6:
(See also Discourse 86: "The
first and the second Antichrist.")
And a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer.
Rev 6,1 Then I saw when the Lamb broke one of the
seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying as with a voice
of thunder, "Come." 6,2 I looked, and behold, a white horse, and he
who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out
conquering and to conquer. Rev 6, 1- 2;
According to the Protocols, the false Messiah will depose all
the governments of the world and take over power in all nations simultaneously
by a coup d’état. He will be the "king come of the blood of Zion", the
"ruler of the seed of David", who will be able to trace his lineage back to
King David, as the true Messiah, our Lord Jesus Christ, was able to do likewise.
And we also find confirmation in the Bible that this false Messiah will be a
Jew:
If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
Jn 5,43 "I have come in My Father’s name,
and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive
him. Jn 5,43;
This is the antichrist, the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ.
1Jn 2,22 Who is the liar but the one who denies
that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the
Father and the Son. 1Jn 2,22;
Here the Lord laments that he (the true Messiah), who has come
in the name of his Father, the God of Israel, has not been received by the Jews.
And he prophesies that the Jews will indeed receive another (the false Messiah),
who comes in his own name. If the Lord compares this "other" with himself,
then without any doubt this other too comes as a Messiah. And if he comes as a
Messiah, he necessarily must be a Jew. A non-Jew, a "goy", would never be
accepted by the Jews as the Messiah.
The passage in 1Jn 2,22 points in the same direction. Seeing that the Christians
will argue against the false Messiah that the true Messiah was Jesus Christ, the
false Messiah is compelled to deny the Son of God, abuse him as an impostor and
blasphemer and assert that he himself is the true Messiah. And on this occasion
he will at the same time proclaim his own father, Satan, as the God of Israel.
As the Protocols then forecast, non-Jews who refuse to accept the Jewish
dominion will be compelled to do so by persecution, oppression, famine and
plagues. And this too is confirmed by the Son of God’s prophecies relating to
the Last Days. Above all those Christians who know their God and reject this
Antichrist will be persecuted "because of My (Christ’s) name", in other
words because they are Christians – they will be betrayed by other Christians
and by their relatives, will be interrogated and scourged in the synagogues of
the Jews, and some will even be put to death.
For they will hand you over to the courts and scourge you in their synagogues;
Mt 10,16 "Behold, I send you out as sheep in
the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves. 10,17
"But beware of men, for they will hand you over to the courts and
scourge you in their synagogues; 10,18 and you will even be brought
before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to the
Gentiles. 10,19 "But when they hand you over, do not worry about how or
what you are to say; for it will be given you in that hour what you are to say.
10,20 "For it is not you who speak, but it is the Spirit of your Father who
speaks in you. 10,21 "Brother will betray brother to death, and a father
his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to
death. 10,22 "You will be hated by all because of My name,
but it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved. Mt 10,16-22;
The blasphemy by those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
Rev 2,8 "And to the angel of the church in
Smyrna write: The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life, says
this: 2,9 ‘I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich), and
the blasphemy by those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue
of Satan. 2,10 ‘Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the
devil is about to cast some of you into prison, so that you will be tested, and
you will have tribulation for ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give
you the crown of life. Rev 2, 8-10;
Likewise the "terror, wars, famines and plagues" threatened
by the Protocols are also to be found in the Bible in connection with the time
of the Antichrist.
(See also Table 19: "The
persecution of the Christians in the Last Days.")
He was granted to take peace from the earth, and that men would slay one another.
Rev 6,3 When He broke the second seal, I
heard the second living creature saying, "Come."
6,4 And another, a red horse, went out; and to him who sat on it, it was
granted to take peace from the earth, and that men would slay one another; and a
great sword was given to him. Rev 6, 3- 4;
A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius.
Rev 6,5 When He broke the third seal, I heard the
third living creature saying, "Come." I looked, and behold, a black
horse; and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand.
6,6 And I heard something like a voice in the center of the four living
creatures saying, "A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of
barley for a denarius; and do not damage the oil and the wine." Rev 6,
5- 6;
Authority was given to them, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence.
Rev 6,7 When the Lamb broke the fourth seal, I
heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, "Come." 6,8 I
looked, and behold, an ashen horse; and he who sat on it had the name Death; and
Hades was following with him. Authority was given to them over a fourth of
the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by the
wild beasts of the earth. Rev 6, 7- 8;
All these biblical prophecies of course also have
cross-references to the Gospel of Matthew, so we can conclude that in this
thematic area there are a whole lot of parallels between the Bible and the
Protocols. But if any one here again were to come up with the idea that the
author of the Protocols was just borrowing from the Bible, we would have to
disappoint him. In view of the fact that all these prophecies come from the New
Testament – and the Jews absolutely reject the New Testament and have never
read it – we can safely discount this hypothesis.
The surprising correspondence is rather to be explained in the light of the fact
that the statements in the Bible are prophecies – predictions, that is –
while the forecasts in the Protocols are events which the Zionists, or whoever
it may be, are hoping to bring about – events heralded by these prophecies.
But if we pay close attention to the text of the Protocols (see the link at the
beginning of this document), we will find – quite apart from these truly
astonishing parallels – that they include some other statements of great
interest.
So for example we find it written, at the end of the 2nd Protocol:
"Thanks to the Press we have got the gold in our
hands, notwithstanding that we have had to gather it out of the oceans of blood
and tears. But it has paid us, though we have sacrificed many of our people.
Each victim on our side is worth in the sight of God a thousand of non-Jews."
(Protocol No. 2)
On the one hand it is astonishing to find this mention of "God"
here. Considering the rest of the content of the Protocols, we would hardly
suppose they should be in any way in agreement with the God of the Bible – so
far as the latter may be intended at all. On the other hand, the statement in
the second sentence in particular – "Each victim on our side is worth in the
sight of God a thousand non-Jews" – reminds us of a pronouncement by Rabbi
Yaacov Perrin on the occasion of the funeral of mass murderer Baruch
Goldstein. According to the London Times of 28 February 1994, Rabbi Perrin said:
"One million Arabs are not worth the dirt under a Jewish fingernail."
And likewise many of the political and religious leaders of Israel today see
themselves – in the same way as the Protocols proclaim – not as a people on
an equal footing with their neighbors, but as representatives of a master race
destined to rule the world. The same principle was formulated with great clarity
by Yitzhak Shamir, Prime Minister of Israel 1983-1984 and 1986-1992, who
according to Newsweek stated, on 11 April 1988: "And looking down from the
height of this mountain and in the light of our thousand years of history, we
say to you that you are like grasshoppers, compared with us."
The Jewish doctor mentioned earlier, Baruch Goldstein, forced his way into a
mosque in Hebron in 1994, and shot down more than 60 Palestinians at prayer with
a machine pistol. It has always astonished me that today he should be
commemorated by a polished funerary plaque on the spot, which bears the
following inscription: "Here lies the holy doctor Baruch Kappel Goldstein.
Without error and with pure heart he sacrificed himself for his people, the
Torah and the Land of Israel. May God bless this righteous man, avenge his blood
and give his soul eternal rest."
But when we then read in the Protocols:
"It is essential for all to know that owing to
difference in the objects of human activity there cannot be any equality, that
he who by any act of his compromises a whole class cannot be equally responsible
before the law with him who affects no one but only his own honor." (Protocol
No. 3)
it becomes clear why a mass murderer is being revered as "holy",
and why the blessing of God is being invoked on his behalf. What he did was "just"
a crime, which impairs his own honor. His act, however, did not compromise Jewry
as a class but rather defended it, and so he can still be described as "righteous".
This is a way of thinking that we non-Jews have to work hard to assimilate.
What at all events the godless of the non-Jews have no need of learning is their
own godlessness. Even if the Elders of Zion want to impute it to themselves as a
merit, when they write:
"This is the reason why it is indispensable for us
to undermine all faith, to tear of minds out of the GOYIM the very principle of
Godhead and the spirit, and to put in its place arithmetical calculations and
material needs. In order to give the goyim no time to think and take note, their
minds must be diverted towards industry and trade." (Protocol
No. 4)
there is absolutely no need of their assistance in this respect.
The average human being, especially today, is already so geared to materialism
and egoism without need of any prompting, that a weary smile is the best he can
do when it is a matter of God and the Holy Spirit. Of the current count of 7
billion people on earth, 6.93 billion – including the Elders of Zion – are
headed for hell.
The following statement in the Protocols, again, calls forth reactions of
astonishment from any informed contemporary observer:
"This hatred will be still further magnified by
the effects of an economic crisis, which will stop dealings on the exchanges and
bring industry to a standstill." (Protocol
No. 3)
"In order to give the goyim no time to think and take note, their minds must
be diverted towards industry and trade. Thus, all the nations will be swallowed
up in the pursuit of gain and in the race for it will not take note of their
common foe. But again, in order that freedom may once for all disintegrate and
ruin the communities of the goyim, we must put industry on a speculative basis:
the result of this will be that what is withdrawn from the land by industry will
slip through the hands and pass into speculation, that is, to our classes. The
intensified struggle for superiority and shocks delivered to economic life will
create, nay, have already created, disenchanted, cold and heartless communities.
Such communities will foster a strong aversion towards the higher political and
towards religion." (Protocol No. 4)
The economic crisis which is foretold here – a hundred years
ago (!) – has now long since arrived, in multiple guises. Nor is the assertion
that it will be unleashed by the Jews so very far off the mark. Up to 2007, the
Jewish bank Lehman Brothers authorized mortgage credits to American
citizens without calling for any kind of security. And not just one mortgage
credit either, but as many as three or four at once for a single house!
These dodgy credits were then wrapped up in financial packages, which were sold
to banks all over the world as "highly lucrative" investments. When it then
became clear in 2007 that American home owners were unable to repay their loans,
the result was first of all a real estate crisis in the USA (the sub prime
crisis), which finally led to the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 and gave
rise to the global economic and financial crisis.
Another Jewish bank, Goldman Sachs, showed a particular interest in being
"helpful" in Europe. When in 2001 Greece aspired to join the euro zone (the
currency union), the country was very far from fulfilling the criteria for
accession. Its budget deficit at the time was higher than the EU could have
permitted. But then Goldman Sachs was happy to step in. With the help of various
tricks and camouflages, they pulled the wool over the eyes of the officials of
the EU Commission, so that Greece was given permission to join the euro zone.
Thus the Jewish bank Goldman Sachs laid a "rotten egg" for the European
Union, as a result of which now, 10 years later, the euro zone, and possibly
even the euro, is threatened with collapse. These machinations have since been
uncovered, but this has not yet had any implications whatever either for the
crooked philanthropists at Goldman Sachs or for Greece itself – apart from the
fact that the truth has finally come to light, and Greece is now well and truly
broke.
Then too, the "speculation" mentioned in the Protocols is no longer just the
"basis of industry" today: on the contrary, it has already spread to banks,
insurance companies, the private sector, to local government and the national
governments of individual countries. A well-known financial expert, Professor
of Economics Eberhard Hamert, describes the present situation in the EU in
the following terms:
The new form of financial dominion simply consists in the
fact that peoples are no longer subjugated by military means – instead
they first have massive credits extended to them, with a view to achieving
financial and economic domination over the nation in question on the basis
of interest payments (debt servitude). We can recognize the same pattern in
the euro crisis. Greece was actually already bankrupt when it was encouraged
to join the euro zone by [the American bank] Goldman-Sachs with the help of
falsified balances and credit ratings. In the new association that thus came
about, the international banks had even fewer inhibitions about extending
credit to Greece, until the country was not just overindebted, but actually
incapable of payment.
Instead of allowing Greece to declare national
bankruptcy and embark on a rehabilitation package, the international banks
saw "no alternative" to asking the other euro countries to provide a "rescue
parachute", nominally for Greece, but really for the debts of the banks.
What they requested, they received – so now the international banks did
not just have Greece as a debtor, these various debts actually became the
collective debt of all European countries and the EU became a money transfer
union, being locked into the European Stability Mechanism or ESM, the "rescue
parachute" desired by the banks. In the coming 50 years, then, people in
Europe will not so much be working to raise their own standard of living –
they will be working to pay off the interest on high finance loans.
Quoted in "TOPIC" no. 10, October 2011 / D-57206 Kreuztal, GERMANY
(See also Discourse 109: "Babylon
the Great – the Global High Finance?")
Nor are the forecasts of the Protocols with reference to social
developments so far off the mark. The current global economic crisis has still
not been gotten under control, and it has hardened people’s hearts. People in
most countries – at least in Europe – are trying to cope with the crisis as
best they can, and are less and less inclined to favor any kind of "rescue
parachute" scenario.
If this situation of general overindebtedness is increasingly leading to
behavioral changes in the individual, this is a fact that is not so often
consciously observed. Like everything Satan whispers in people’s ears, hidden
egoism and secret greed show up in the little things of everyday life. So people
no longer have the wish to extend anything good to each other, not even wishing
each other a "Good day" any more. Instead they just bark out an impersonal
"Hello" in passing.
And this kind of cooling of love is just what we find foretold in the Bible as a
sign of the Last Days:
Because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will grow cold.
Mt 24,7 "For nation will rise against
nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines
and earthquakes. 24,8 "But all these things are merely the beginning of
birth pangs. 24,9 "Then they will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill
you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name. 24,10 "At
that time many will fall away and will betray one another and hate one another.
24,11 "Many false prophets will arise and will mislead many. 24,12 "Because
lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will grow cold. 24,13
"But the one who endures to the end, he will be saved. Mt 24, 7-13;
The Lord speaks here of the "beginning of birth pangs" –
in other words, this is the start of the Great Tribulation. And for this time he
prophesies worldwide wars, famines and earthquakes. Also at this time Christians
can expect persecution, and may even be put to death. And then the Lord
indicates that lawlessness will increase. And this does not mean just religious
lawlessness or godlessness – it refers to the general attitude of people to
justice in this kind of world.
(See also Table 17: "The
Chronology of the End-Time Events")
Corruption, fraud and oppression will prevail, and even the courts and the judges will give false judgment, quite openly, for bribes. This situation is also referred to in the Protocols, being described as the "theory of course of arbitration".
"We have fooled, bemused and corrupted the
youth of the goyim by rearing them in principles and theories which are known to
us to be false although it is by us that they have been inculcated.
Above the existing laws without substantially altering them, and by merely
twisting them into contradictions of interpretations, we have erected something
grandiose in the way of results. These results found expression first in the
fact that the interpretations masked the laws: afterwards they entirely hid them
from the eyes of the governments owing to the impossibility of making anything
out of the tangled web of legislation. This is the origin of the theory of
course of arbitration." (Protocol No.
9)
And as the Lord states in the above passage, this is also the
reason why love will cool off in the majority of the population. So it will be a
society without justice, without love and without decency. And this will be a
first distinguishing feature of the start of the Last Days.
(See also Discourse 93: "The
Reign of the Antichrist and Love among People.")
With the statement that "Our prophets have proclaimed that we
are chosen by God to rule over the whole world" (Protocol
No. 5), the Elders of Zion give exact expression to that which the Zionists
of our day in Israel assert, backed up by Christian Evangelical congregations in
Europe. This statement is completely correct and in conformity with the Bible.
But what is constantly ignored, in this connection, is the fact that all these
biblical promises are a prophecy that only relates to the Millennium, the
Thousand Years Kingdom of Peace of our Lord Jesus Christ – an event in the
distant future.
By that time, after all the catastrophes and judgments of God in the Great
Tribulation and on the Day of the Lord, there will be no trace left either of
Zionists or of the "Elders of Zion". At this time one quarter of the world’s
population (Great Tribulation, Rev 6:8), and of the remaining survivors one
third (Day of the Lord, Rev 9:15) – we are talking here of a total of around 4
billion people – will be annihilated. The surviving remnant, who have directly
experienced and made proof of the might and power of our God in their own
person, will no longer question the dominion of this God and of his Son, our
Lord Jesus Christ, and will serve them.
Then the true, the genuine World Governor, the king come of the blood of David
and of the Spirit of God, the Son of God, will rule on earth in peace, and in
these thousand years there will not be war any more. All despots, dictators and
would-be rulers, like the "Elders of Zion", will be wiped out. The men of
God from the times of the Old and New Testament, who have been killed for the
sake of their faith in God – the martyrs – will rise again and rule the
nations as priests and kings (Rev 20:6).
(See also Chapter 10: "The
Millennium.")
Finally the author of the Protocols again gives evidence of his prophetic abilities when he writes as follows:
"If the superficiality of goy kings on their
thrones in regard to State affairs and the venality of ministers or the want of
understanding of financial matters on the part of other ruling persons have made
their countries debtors to our treasuries to amounts quite impossible to pay it
has not been accomplished without on our part heavy expenditure of trouble and
money." (Protocol No. 20)
Seen from the point of view of Austria, at least, this judgment
seems like an objective report of the events of the last few months. It seems
that the Austrian government has completely lost any handle and any focus on the
development of national debt. They juggle around with billions, and presume that
because other countries have debts amounting to thousands of billions they can
afford to saddle Austria with a debt amounting to hundreds of billions (230
billions, to be specific). We taxpayers are servicing this loan to the tune of a
million euros per hour (!), paid to the banks in interest. And as we all know,
this doesn’t mean that a single cent of the borrowed capital is being paid
back.
A million euros every hour, 24 hours in the day and on 365 days in the year!
This would be an elegant sufficiency – enough to resolve the problems of our
country, to finance education and the health service and guarantee pensions. If
only Austrian politicians had behaved in the way that any private household
behaves, in the knowledge that you can’t spend more than you earn, because
that way bankruptcy looms!
So we find Andreas Treichl, CEO of the biggest savings bank in Austria
(DIE ERSTE), complaining that he, as a banker, today needs ten times (!) as much
liable equity capital in the way of credit to a successful small businessman as
he would have to give for a loan to Greece, where he knows very well that the
loan can only be paid back by Austrian taxpayers, if at all. And he then wrote
our government the worst possible report, in the following words:
"Our politicians are too stupid and too cowardly
and too lacking in understanding for this, because they have no idea of
economics or how to counteract these trends, and this will have a damaging
effect on Austria and we will fall behind other countries." A democracy that
is unable to set any bounds to excesses of this sort loses its legitimacy and
gives free rein to political charlatans, says Treichl (as quoted by ORF
[Austrian Radio and Television]).
And just to complete the above "prophecies" of the
Protocols, we have a parliamentary committee of investigation currently sitting
in Austria, before which three former ministers are facing charges of bribery
and corruption. So it really looks as if the author of the Protocols had seen
these developments coming – in Austria, at any rate. To what extent this
applies to other countries as well is a matter I leave to the reader’s
individual judgment.
In conclusion let me just quote – as a non-programmatic extra, so to speak –
one more passage from the Protocols which any attentive observer of our times
must find absolutely astounding when compared with the reality (the additions in
brackets are mine):
"In order that the masses themselves may not guess
what they are about we further distract them with amusements, games, pastimes,
passions, people’s palaces. . . Soon we shall begin through the press to propose
competitions in art (film festivals, Oscars etc.), in sport of all kinds (Olympic
Games, world championships etc.); these interests will finally distract
their minds from questions in which we should find ourselves compelled to oppose
them. Growing more and more disaccustomed to reflect and form any opinions of
their own, people will begin to talk in the same tone as we, because we alone
shall be offering them new directions for thought. (Protocol
No. 13)
It is an interesting fact that today the overwhelming majority
of people, at least in the western world, have apparently quite lost the habit
of independent thought. They look for fun, entertainment, anything that is not
going to make them think. If they ever find themselves alone and lack
distraction, they immediately switch on the radio or the television. Even when
traveling on the tram, the bus or the train, people protect themselves from
independent thinking with headphones and MP3s, by telephoning or playing with
their mobiles. Could this be a proof that, here in Austria at least, it is not
just a case of stupid politicians (as Treichl observes), but that a whole
population has been – practically without anybody noticing – progressively
dumbed down?
They are darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart.
Eph 4,17 So this I say, and affirm together with
the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the
futility of their mind, 4,18 being darkened in their understanding, excluded
from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the
hardness of their heart; 4,19 and they, having become callous, have given
themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with
greediness. 4,20 But you did not learn Christ in this way. Eph 4,17-20:
But when we examine this "distraction strategy" at close
quarters, we soon recognize that films shown in cinemas and on television and TV
series – both generally packed with murder and violence – and even
documentaries, entertainment features and cartoon films all emanate from the
USA. It is the same worldwide and in all languages. This goes as far as to
include shows and songs, texts of which the half-grown children of this world
sing in American slang they don’t even know the meaning of, because they don’t
speak English.
The new tolerance.For some time now people have been preaching – all
over the world and at all levels – about the
new tolerance. In itself a laudable objective, in recent years
this attitude of mind has nonetheless turned around into its
opposite. Instead of integrating unfairly marginalized persons and
attitudes in society, various groups have taken advantage of this
favorable opportunity in order to raise their own views – which in
the past were quite rightly rejected – into a standard. |
Now that American blue jeans – originally worn in the USA for
the purpose of mucking out cow byres – are worn as a uniform clothing by young
and old all over the world (being worn on solemn occasions as well, for weddings
or even the opera), it is plain that the population is being indoctrinated with
American primitive culture.
In this connection the outfit is just the outer sign of a complete inner
abdication of the power of independent thought and action. You do what the
masses do and let yourself be controlled by what other people say, without
having examined it for yourself (look at the power of advertising!). And because
so many of our contemporaries have already lost the habit of independent
thinking, they fail to perceive that there is a plan – to make people
dependent and condition them mentally.
We find further confirmation of the progressive dumbing down of society in a
report by Ulrich Skambraks, editor of the information service TOPIC:
TOPIC readers are familiar with the problem: sensational
TOPIC articles, conveying plenty of background information on burning
issues, meet with indifference or rejection when we try to share them. You
might suppose that when people know very little about important subjects,
they would be inclined to absorb information which gives them a convincing
account of the subject as a sponge soaks up water. But the opposite is in
fact the case, as recent studies have shown.
Two psychologists at the University
of Waterloo (Canada) and Duke University (USA) conducted a
research project involving 500 persons, and came to the conclusion:
"The
less people know about complex topics, the more strenuously they avoid
informing themselves. And the more urgent the issues, the less people are
inclined to be bothered"
– as the journal Psychologie Heute [Psychology
Today] summarizes the findings of the investigation in its March edition. In a similar study from the USA on the subject of dwindling oil reserves, a
further point emerged: the more you tell people about the urgency of a
problem, the more they try to blot it out of their minds. They just do not
want to know anything about it.
(Extract from the TOPIC information service, March 2012 / Ulrich Skambraks,
D 57206 Kreuztal/Siegen)
We come to the same conclusion if we pay attention to the way
things are going in our part of the world. People shun topical information as a
horse shrinks from fire. Although most people listen to radio, watch television
or read the newspapers, it is only an absolute minority who follow the news on
the radio, the day’s events on television or peruse newspaper reports. What
the masses consume is pop music of all kinds, talk shows and soaps and football
games in the various media. You can only say that the mind manipulators, whoever
they may be, have done a very thorough job!
SummaryThe introduction to the German edition of the
Protocols (see link at the beginning of this document) carries the
following warning: "Sensitive or emotionally unstable persons,
then, should be warned! Reading this text has frequently resulted in
psychological crises, and has even driven people to take their own
lives!" That is perhaps a little bit exaggerated. I for one cannot
imagine that the statements in the Protocols could drive anyone,
however sensitive, to suicide. "In our part of the world the
Protocols are regarded as forbidden literature, so they have been
hunted down and taken out of circulation whenever people were able
to get their hands on them. In Austria and Germany dissemination of
the Protocols is a punishable offense, being seen as incitement to
racism and neo-Nazism." If this were to be right, it is these very people
who want to restrict the reading of free citizens who are making
themselves guilty of "neo-Nazism". For it was the Nazi henchmen
of the GESTAPO who banned the reading of Jewish books, and even
burned them publicly in the streets. Which would mean that already
today we are seeing that same dictatorship which is heralded by the
Protocols. Inasmuch as that would be completely unrealistic, of
course, clearly these present concerns must be classified as
propaganda. "With the Holocaust as a
justification, the state of Israel was founded by the use of force,
which contradicts the will of God (Hos 1:7). As Jews true to our
faith we accept the fate of the Diaspora which God has laid upon us.
But the founding of the state of Israel has not just damaged the
Jews on this religious plane; the means and the methods used by
Israel to secure its existence against the Palestinians damage all
Jews world-wide, and encourage the rebirth of anti-Semitism. For
Jews true to their faith it is clear, however, that the Diaspora is
the fate laid upon us by God until the coming of the Messiah." For these same reasons, Jews true to their faith all
over the world refused to migrate to Israel in 1948 and have
preferred to remain in the Diaspora to this day. |
See also Bible
believers: The Protocols