The Dynamite of the Slavonic Christianity

The Torah without Borders

At the Southern end of the Red Sea, the warrior-kingdom of Axum joined the highlands of northern Ethiopia to the Yemen. What was remarkable about these Christian kingdoms of the periphery was that, despite extensive borrowings from local Roman practice, they did not wish to see themselves exclusively as miniature Romes. Because they were Christian, they could belong, also to a non-Roman past – to the Old Testament. The “Kebra Negast” (“The Glory of the Kings”) – the foundation-legend of the medieval empire of Ethiopia, whose nucleus may go back to the age of Ella Atsbeha – treated the Byzantine emperors as no more than northern partners of an Ethiopian imperial dynasty, that claimed to be descended from Menelik, the son of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. When Gregory of Tours wrote his “Book of History”, in the 580s – it is surprising how little attention he paid to Clovis’ relations with the east Roman emperors. Instead, he recorded the king’s rise to power among the Franks. For Gregory it was a career worthy of King David. It was better to be remembered as resembling a king of the long-past ancient Israel than as having once been an ally of the still-existing east Roman Empire. When, in 520 the British cleric, Gildas, wrote his On the Ruin of Britain, Rome again is peripheral to his story. He sees the Britons as an erring people of Israel, and himself as their Jeremiah. The Romans, for Gildas, were no more than the “worthy allies” of the ever-fickle Britons. Gildas, as a Christian writer, evidently felt that the Old Testament did better justice to his stormy times than did fading memories of a Roman empire. From Hadrian’s Wall to the Atlantic coast of Morocco and the Horn of Africa, the idea of Rome had shrunk to ever smaller dimensions, to be replaced by a different past – a past brought close through Holy Scripture that described, so vividly and so appositely, the turbulent warrior-kingdom of ancient Israel. In the Touareg language, the word for any sacrifice, tafaske was derived from the Biblical high festival of Pascha.

At the time of Arab aggression, The Touaregs also known as Berbers were ruled by a Queen of Jewish descent. Her name was Kahina which means Prophetess. After the Arab general Hassan ibn al Numan took Carthage from the Byzantines, Kahina's forces defeated him. The Encyclopedia Judaica notes that Arabic authors, notably the major 14th century historian Ibn Khaldun say that Kahina and her tribe, the Jurawa of Aurea Mountains, in eastern Algeria and Tunisia were Jewish. Charles Andre Julien, in his History of North Africa, notes that another writer gave Kahina “the picturesque appellation of the “Berber Deborah” (Deborah was the judge of ancient Israel). Julien believes that Kahina's resistance to the Arabs was “nurtured, as it seems, by Berber patriotism and Jewqish faith. The schism between the native Berbers and the invading Arabs continues to this day.

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The Berber columnist Ahmed Asid's view of the recent conflict in Gaza differs totally from the anti-semitic propaganda of the West. He wrote: “Thus we are for the Palestinian rights and against the instrumental political use to which they are put; we are for the Palestinian people but against Hamas, (Islamic) Jihad, and all the peddlers of Palestinian blood... We are against the savagery of brutal revenge demonstrated by Palestinian political Islam in the Gaza coup, and against the maneuvers aiming at to derail political talks through missiles – which kill no one apart from the Palestinian dream of an independent state. We believe that the Palestinian cause is a human one that is larger than the Arabs and the Muslims, and that those who have Arabized it and islamized it have cost it the world's forceful solidarity and have turned into a wearisome play of which they all have tired...”

An article by the Moroccan Berber journalist Moha Moukhlis posted in the www.amazighworld.org website expressed in starker terms what some Berbers feel is the gulf between themselves and the Arab world: “...I want first to emphasize that I am writing as an Amazigh (Berber) deprived of my basic and legitimate rights: to be myself in the land of my ancestors and to express myself freely without constraint.

I am not part of the flock that bleats as it is being led to the slaughterhouse, I am allergic to totalitarian ideologies and impassioned rhetoric. I hate confusions and ambiguities: I am an Amazigh, a free man.

“I thus affirm that the tragedy of the Gaza Palestinians serves as fuel for Hamas, a gang of fundamentalist criminals who are perpetrating self-genocide, with the assistance of genocidal Arab regimes. They are mentally disturbed people who hate life and use the blood of their fellow Muslims to perpetuate their macabre aura.

“What can homemade and primitive rockets do against the fifth (largest) army in the world? ('They can bring us Paradise', say the Islamists and their dark network, and they have the Quranic verses to prove it! (These are) criminal Islamists who conceive of their own people as cannon fodder destined to build up their bogus 'glory'... (Memri, Special Dispatch No. 2262, February 26, 2009).

In terms of “blood” Berbers probably represent many as 80% of the population in Morocco and Algeria. More than 60% in Tunisia and Libya and 2% in Egypt, altogether some 50 million people. A proper Berber census, of course, has never been taken and the above figure is uncertain. Centuries of cultural “Arabization” has persuaded many Berbers, particularly in the cities, to adopt the Arabic language. The number of people perceiving themselves as Berbers is hence much lower, about half of the figure given above. However, the influx of “proper” Arabs from the East into the Berber area, in connection with the Muslim conquest in the 8th century is estimated at only 200 000. It is thus probable that the population of the North Africa/Tamazgha – Morocco, Tunisia and Libya – actually consists of native Berber stock. Some 4 millions North Africa/Tamazgha, half of whom perceive themselves Berbers, now live in Europe, mainly in France.
(www.phoenicia.org/berber.html)

Morocco Cuts Off Diplomatic Relations with Iran, Accuses It of Spreading Shi'ism in the Country
Special Dispatch No. 2294 / March 24, 2009
Al-Ahram: 'No' to Dialogue with Iran
Special Dispatch No. 2293 / March 24, 2009
In 323 BCE the Greeks through the conquests of Alexander the Great occupied Israel.
Before venturing into the plains of Mesopotamia for the final
struggle, Alexander the Great, to secure his rear and preserve his communications with the sea, marched southward down the Mediterranean coast, reducing the cities in his way. In his speech before the council of war after Issus, he told his generals that they must not pursue Darius with Tyre unsubdued, and Persia in possession of Egypt and Cyprus, for, if Persia should regain her seaports, she would transfer the war into Greece, and that it was absolutely necessary for him to be sovereign at sea. With Cyprus and Egypt in his possession he felt no solicitude about Greece. The siege of Tyre cost him more than half a year. In revenge for this delay, he crucified, it is said,two thousand of his prisoners. Jerusalem voluntarily surrendered,and therefore was treated leniently: but the passage of the Macedonian army into Egypt being obstructed at Gaza, the Persian governor of which, Betis, made a most obstinate defense, that place, after a siege of two months, was carried by assault, ten thousand of its men were massacred, and the rest, with their wives and children, sold into slavery. Betis himself was dragged alive round the city at the chariot-wheels of the conqueror. There was now no further obstacle. The Egyptians, who detested the Persian rule, received their invader with open arms. He organized the country in his own interest, entrusting all its military commands to Macedonian officers, and leaving the civil government in the hands of native Egyptians.

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Interestingly, Chavez and the West speak the same language when it comes to Palestinians. Alexander the Great, according to the then western press was a Nazi...


Both in County Antrim, in Northern Ireland, and in Panjikent, east of Samarkand, fragmentary copy-books – wax on wood for Ireland, broken potsherds for central Asia – contain lines copied from the Psalms of David. In around 730, Saint Boniface felled the sacred oak at Geismar and wrote back to England for yet more splendid copies of the Bible, written “in letters of gold…that a reverence for the Holy Scriptures may be impressed on the carnal minds of the heathen.” Even further to the east, in an inscription set up in around AD 820 at Kara-Balghasun, on the High Orkhon river, the Uighur ruler of an empire formed between China and Inner Mongolia, recorded how his predecessor, Bogu Qaghan, had introduced new teachers into his kingdom in AD 762. The Armenian Vardan and his companions were presented as the heirs of the Maccabees. Faced, as the Maccabees had been, by a formidable empire, their ranks thinned by apostasy Vardan and his army had died to preserve the “traditions of their fathers.” Their loyalty to Christianity took the form of a solemn “Covenant”, sworn upon a copy of the Gospels. It was a Covenant that embraced nobleman and peasant alike. On both sides of the frontier between Rome and Persia, all Armenians were henceforth expected to be loyal to a single “patrimonial faith.” They resembled the militant Israel and the Maccabees. It was a more precise and aggressively embattled use of the Old Testament and of the history of the people of Israel than any invoked by clerical writers in the warrior-kingdoms of the west.



The Religious Revolution in Central Asia

Ulfilas, or Gothic Wulfila (ca. 310-383), bishop, missionary and bible translator, was a Goth or half-Goth who had spent time inside the Roman Empire at the peak of the Arian controversy. In 383, to escape religious persecution by a Gothic chief, he obtained permission from Constantius II to migrate with his flock of converts to Moesia and settle near Nicopolis ad Istrum, what is now northern Bulgaria. There, Ulfilas translated the Bible from Greek into Gothic language. Fragments of his translation have survived, including Codex Argenteus, in the University Library of Uppsala in Sweden. (www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulfilas). Since he was translating from Greek he had not to invent a Gothic term for the Latin crux (cross; he simply translated the Greek stavros as galga which has the same meaning as the mentioned Greek word: pole. The modern German 'Galgen' means gallows.

Wulfila's Bible was used by Goths over a large geographical range – from Wulfila's original Trans-Danubian bishopric to Italy and Spain. It was understood by groups of people who would certainly have spoken dialects, and may well have spoken different languages. Wulfila converted many among the Goths, preaching an Arian Christianity, which when they reached the western Mediterranean, set them apart from their overwhelmingly “orthodox” (i.e. Trinitarian) neighbors and subjects.

In Matthew 6:24, where the Greek text reads, “No man may serve two masters,” Wulfila translation reads, “No man may have obligations to two lords” (“Ni manna mag twaim fraujam skalkinon”). The language of servitude and slavery has been translated into tribal logic of mutual obligations and reciprocity as well as voluntary service of a warrior to a lord. (www.wsu.edu/~dee/MA/GERMANS.HTM)

In the 19th century, the Vatican sided with the slavocracy against the Union. In 1933, when Hitler's dictatorship was internationally isolated, the Vatican sent a crucial signal to Catholic Europe by initiating, negotiating and signing the Reichkonkordat. The Reichkonkordat required German Catholic bishops to swear a holy oath to proactively protect the Nazi state, effectively making them an arm of the Gestapo (http://emperors-clothes.com/cpix.htm#16)
This Concordat anticipated the death camps peopled by millions of Jewish slaves. Well, Cicero wrote that Jews were a nation condemned for eternal servitude (nationibus nati servituti)

Before 1859, many scientists had questioned whether blacks were of the same species as whites, but they had no scientific basis for that notion. Things changed once Darwin presented his racist evolutionary schema. According to Darwin, the African was inferior because he represented the “missing-link” between ape and Teuton. (John C. Burham 1972:506)

Exodus reports that Moses himself married a Cushite woman, a cross-racial marriage, which American racists viewed as immoral and unnatural. However, in the Exodus account, YHWH upholds Moses's marriage as fully moral and acceptable. Ch. Darwin was openly racist. After rejecting God as the Creator, Darwin and company THEN “saw” the “similarity” between Africans and apes, hence the idea of human evolution was conceived.
mrhinton.org/Slavery.htm www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/09/

Judaism becomes the State Religion of Chazaria

“Chazars were a people of Turkish origin whose life and history are interwoven with the very beginnings of the history of the Jews of Russia. The Kingdom of the Chazars was firmly established in most of South Russia long before the foundation of the Russian monarchy by the Varangians (855). Jews have lived on the shores of the Black and Caspian seas since the first centuries of the common era. Historical evidence points to the region of the Ural as the home of the Chazars.” (Jewish Encyclopedia. Com; entry: Chazars)

“The religion of the Hebrews had exercised a profound influence on the creed of Islam, and it had been a basis for Christianity, it had won scattered proselytes; but the conversion of the Khazars to the undiluted religion of Jehovah is unique in history.”

The Khazar Empire represented a Third Force, which had proved equal to either of them, both as an adversary and an ally. But it could only maintain its independence by accepting neither Christianity nor Islam – for either choice would have automatically subordinated it to the authority of the Roman Emperor of the Caliph of Baghdad. There had been no lack of efforts by either court to convert the Khazars to Christianity or Islam, but all what resulted it was the exchange of diplomatic courtesies, dynastic inter-marriages and shifting military alliances based on mutual self-interest.

The Chazar King Joseph, in his letter to Hasdai ibn Shaprut (about 960), gives the following account of the conversion: “Some centuries ago King Bulan reigned over the Chazars. To him God appeared in a dream and promised him might and glory. Encouraged by this dream, Bulan went by the road of Darlan to the country of Ardebil, where he gained great victories (over the Arabs). The Byzantine emperor and the caliph of the Ishmaelites sent to him envoys with presents, and sages to convert him to their respective religions. Bulan invited also wise men of Israel, and preceded to examine them all. As each of the champions believed his religion to be the best, Bulan separately questioned the Mohammedans and the Christians as to which of the other two religions they considered the better. When both gave preference to that of the Jews, the king perceived that it must be the true religion. He therefore adopted it.”

“The Chazar people were an unusual phenomenon for Medieval times. Surrounded by savage and nomadic tribes, they had all the advantages of the developed countries: structured government, vast and prosperous trading, and a permanent army. At the time, when great fanatism and deep ignorance contested their dominion over Western Europe, the Chazar state was famous for its justice and tolerance. People persecuted for their faiths flocked into Khazaria from everywhere. As a glistening star it shone brightly on the gloomy horizon of Europe, and faded away without leaving any trace of existence.”
Vasilii V. Grigoriev, in his essay “O dvoyestvennosti verkhovnoy vlasti u khazarov” (1835), reprinted in his 1876 compilation book Rossiya i Aziya on page 66)

We know that Chazaria was a relatively civilized country among the barbarians of the North, yet not committed to either of the militant creeds, and so it came a natural haven for the periodic exodus of Jews under Byzantine rule, threatened by forced conversion and other pressures. Persecution in varied forms had started with Justinian (527-65) and assumed particularly vicious forms under Heraclitus in the 7th century, Leo III in th 8th, Basil and Leo IV in the 9th, Romanus in the 10th. Thus Lo III, who ruled during the two decades immediately preceding the Chazar conversion to Judaism, “attempted to end the anomaly (of the tolerated status of Jews) at one blow, by ordering all his Jewish subjects to be baptized. Many endured torture, and those who did not have the strength to resist returned later on to their faith - “like dogs to their vomit,” as one Christian chronicler put it. (Cp. the restored Prayer for the conversion of the Jews)
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A Mini crusade Has Landed
Aug. 22, 2008
ap and jpost.com staff , THE JERUSALEM POST

Two boats of international activists on a solidarity mission with the Palestinians have reached the Gaza Strip after a two-day journey at sea. Shortly before their arrival, Foreign Ministry spokesman Aviv Shiron announced that the ships would be allowed to reach the Gaza Strip.
A total of 46 members of the US-based group were on the boats, hoping to reach the shores of Gaza on Saturday with a delivery of humanitarian goods for Palestinians.
The 70-foot (21 meter) Free Gaza and 60-foot (18 meter) Liberty left Cyprus early Friday for the estimated 30-hour trip in a bid to break Israel's 14-month Gaza blockade. The 46 activists from 14 countries include an 81-year-old Catholic nun and the sister-in-law of Mideast envoy and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. She was praying for conversion of the perfidious Jews day and night. But there was no US senator this time. Her prayer went like that:
For the conversion of Jews. Let us pray also for the Jews that the Lord our God may take the veil from their hearts and that they also may acknowledge our Lord Jesus Christ. Let us pray: Almighty and everlasting God, you do not refuse your mercy even to the Jews; hear the prayers which we offer for the blindness of that people so that they may acknowledge the light of your truth, which is Christ, and be delivered from their darkness.

Nothing changed in the Catholic mindset. And keep in mind that the prayer for the conversion of Jews posits Jesus over YHWH. In therms of theology it mans abolition of equality of the members of the Trinity. This prayer, like the Gospel of John (8:44) proclaims that God of the Jews is Devil and Liar. That's what the deliverance from “their darkness” means...

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The geographical expansion did not decrease until the Khazar empire covered an area from Hungary-Austria in the west to the Aral Sea in the east, Kiev-Upper Volga in the north and the Black and Caspian seas and Caucasus in the south. They installed counts (the so called “Jewish princes”) in Hungary-Austria, they taxed Goths and Crimea and Greek-Byzantine towns an landlords at the northern shores of the Black sea, they taxed Rus merchants and raiders and other trading through their territory. They established a net of trading post on their own behalf along the Volga, Don, Donets and Dnepr river systems, as well as along the caravan-roads, with immigrated refugee Jews as a favored merchantry and trusted administrators and small garrisons of Turks for protection, and they fortified their heartland.

At the peak of their power the Khazars exacted tribute from some of the 30 different nations and tribes inhabiting the vast territories between the Caucasus, the Aral Sea, the Ural Mountains, the town of Kiev and the Ukrainian steppes. The peoples under Khazar suzerainty included the Bulgars, Burtas, Huzz, Magyars, the Gothic and Greek colonies of the Crimea, and the Slavonic tribes in the north-western woodlands. Beyond these extended dominions, Khazar armies also raided Georgia and Armenia and penetrated into the Arab Caliphate as far as Mosul. The Chazar kingdom occupies an intermediary position in time, size, and degree of civilization between the Hun and Avar Empires which preceded, and the Mongol Empire that succeeded it.
The gigantic muslin pincer movement across the Pyrenees in the west and across the Caucasus into Eastern Europe was halted at both ends about the same time. As Charles Martel saved Gaul and Western Europe, so the Chazars saved the eastern approaches to the Volga, the Danube, and the East Roman Empire itself. Muqaddasi: “In Chazaria, sheep, honey and Jews exist in large quantities.”

When the Magyars migrated to Hungary in 896 they were led by a dissident Khazar tribe, known as the Kabars, who settled with them in their new home. The Kabars-Chazars were known as skilled gold and silversmiths; the Magyars only acquired these skills in their new country. Thus the theory of the Khazar origin of at least some of the archaeological finds in Hungary is not implausible.

It was one of the successors of Bulan, named Obadiah, who regenerated the kingdom and strengthened the Jewish religion. He invited Jewish scholars to settle in his dominions, and founded synagogues and schools. The people were instructed in the Bible, Mishnah, and Talmud, and in the “divine service of the hazzanim.” In their writings the Chazars used the Hebrew letters (Harkavy, Skazaniya, 241)

At the Byzantine court the chagan was held in high esteem. In diplomatic correspondence with him the seal of three solidi was used, which marked him as a potentate of the first rank, above even the pope and the Carolingians monarchs. Emperor Justinian II, after his flight from Kherson to Doros, took refuge during his exile with the chagan, and married the chagan's daughter Irene, who was famous for her beauty (702)

When one of the chagans received information (c. 921) that the Mohammedans had destroyed a synagogue in the land of Babung, he gave orders that the minaret of the mosque in his capital should be broken off, and the muezzin executed.

In 2002, a coin from the Viking “Spillings Hoard” of Gotland, Sweden was identified as having been minted by Jewish Khazars, due to its markings and inscriptions Moses is the messenger of God in place of the usual Muslim inscription Muhammad is the messenger of God.

“The Khazarian population in Hungary further increased in size when the Hungarian Duke Taksony (reigned 955-970) invited Chazar Jews to settle in his realm.” (Kevin Alan Brrok, in The Jews of Khazaria (Jason Aronson, 1999), p. 208)

The best evidence that Chazars form a portion of modern Ukrainian Jewry is the fact that Slavic-speaking Jews existed in Kievan Rus. Scholarship has demonstrated that these Jews were of Chazarian and Byzantine origins, and thus are distinguished from later immigrants from the West. And, by the way, the Kozare district in Kiev was named for Chazars.

It served the dual purpose of scholarly discourse in Hebrew (analogous to the use of medieval Latin in the West) and as a written alphabet for the various languages spoken in Khazaria (analogous to the use of the Latin alphabet for various vernaculars in Western Europe). From Khazaria the Hebrew script seemed to have spread into neighboring countries. Thus Chwolson reports that “inscriptions in a non-Semitic language (or possibly in two different non-Semitic languages) using Hebrew characters were found on two gravestones from Phanagoria and Parthenit in the Crimea; they have not been deciphered yet.” (The Crimea was, under Khazar rule, but it also had an old-established Jewish community, and the inscriptions may even pre-date the conversion.

Some Hebrew letters (shin and tsadeh) also found their way into the Cyrillic alphabet, and furthermore, many Polish silver coins have been found, dating from the 10th or 12th century, which bear Polish inscriptions in Hebrew lettering (e.g. Meshko krol Polski, Leszek krol Polski), side by side with coins inscribed in the Latin alphabet. Poliak comments:


“These coins are the final evidence for the spreading of the Hebrew script from Khazaria to the neighboring Slavonic countries. The use of the coins was not related to any question of religion. They were minted because many pf the Polish people were more used to this type of script than to the Roman script, not considering it as specially Jewish.”

The Jews had the experience which their new hosts were lacking, and it was only logical that they were called in to advise and participate in the management of the finances of court and nobility. The coins minted in the 12th and 13th centuries with Polish inscriptions in Hebrew lettering are somewhat bizarre relics of these activities.

The exact purpose they served is still something of a mystery. Some bear the name of a king (e.g. Leszek, Meszko), others are inscribed “From the House of Abraham ben Joseph the Prince”, or show just a word of benediction, “Luck” or “Blessing”. But in contrast to Western Europe, finance and commerce were far from being the only fields of Jewish activity. Some rich emigrants became landowners in Poland as Count Teka was in Hungary, Jewish land-holdings comprising a whole village of Jewish farmers are recorded, for instance, in the vicinity of Breslau, before 1203; and in the early days there must have been Chazar peasants in considerable numbers, as the ancient Khazar place-names seems to indicate. But under the joint pressure of the ecclesiastical hierarchy and the feudal landlords, the Polish Parliament in 1496 forbade the acquisition of agricultural land by Jews. Theses days they are forbidden the acquisition of agricultural land in the so-called West Bank (Judea and Samaria).

The most important historical conclusion is that literacy did not come to the Slavs with Christianity, rather Christianity, due to its intolerant attitude, strangled the Slavonic culture based on the Biblical foundations and introduced instead the paganized religion of imperial Rome now dogmatically ruled by popes.

There is an abundance of ancient place names in the Ukraine and Poland, which derive from “Khazar” or “zhid”: Zydowo, Kozarzewek, Kozara, Kozarzow, Zhydowska Wola, Zydaticze, and so on. They may have once been villages, or just temporary encampment of Chazar-Jewish communities on their long trek to the West. Similar place-names can also be found in the Carpathian and Tatra mountains, and in the eastern provinces of Austria.

The inscription on a coin mentioned above From the House of Abraham ben Joseph the Prince testifies to the same historical fact as the inscription Abrahm Pecha which I saw many years ago when I was still working in the Jewish Museum of Cracow. One day a lady showed up with a coin and begged me to decipher the Hebrew inscription which I did. It is a well established fact that viceroy of the chagan was called “isha,” “bek” or “pech” which was a variant of the title pasha which was put after the name of civil or military officials of high rank, exactly like on the coin I dealt with. Also pacha (Turkish pasa, variant of basa, head, cp. boss).. The language of Afghanistan and of the Pathan tribes of Pakistan is called pashto. One of the provinces of Afghanistan is still called Chazara. The Afghanis consider themselves to be the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.

The position of the chagan of the Chazars was similar to that of the former mikados of Japan, while the pacha, his military coregent, corresponded to the shoguns of the latter. The pacha led the army, administered the affairs of the country, and appeared among the people; and to him the neighboring kings paid allegiance. That is the historical background of the Polish legend about Abraham Prochownik, a Jew who was elected King of Poland.

According to professors Bozena Werbart and Jonathan Shepard, the Tengri “sun-amulets” disappeared after the 830s from Chazarian graves, as did other shamanistic possessions, indicating a dramatic shift in religion in the Chazar kaganate. The Catholic translations of Is 27:9: “So that the Asherim and the sun images shall rise no more” avoid the term ‘sun-images’ replacing it by ‘objects of cult’. Let me quote here a revealing passage from the Qur'an:

Abraham and Sun

Thus did He (Allah) show Abraham the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, so that he might become a firm believer. When night drew its shadow over him, he saw a star. ‘That,’ he said, ‘is surely my God.’ But when it faded in the morning light, he said: ‘I will not worship gods that fade.’ When he beheld the rising moon, he said: ‘That is my God.’ But when it set, he said: ‘If my Lord does not guide me, I shall surely go astray.’ Then, when he beheld the sun shining, he said: ‘That must be my God: he is the largest.’ But when it set, he said to his people: ‘I disown your idols. I will turn my face to Him who has created the heavens and the earth, and will live a righteous life. I am no idolater. – 6:79

Let me remind here that when persecution of the Christians was undertaken by Diocletian (303-311), it was because he wanted to establish a church-state in the worship of the sun-god. Emperor Septimus Severus proposed to bring all his subjects together under the worship of Sol Invictus – the Unconquered Sun – and to subsume under that worship all the various religions and philosophies then current. All gods were to be accepted, as long as one acknowledged the Sun. Copernicus restored the sun religion of the Roman Empire; in his The revolutions he describes the sun as All Seeing Being and Visible God seated on a royal throne. Heliocentrism, since Nimrod, was the religion of all 'globalists'. Well, when Rome succumbed to Jesus, it did not embrace him as Jewish teacher (rabbi), but as the sun god Helios (Apollo) whose halo used to symbolize the divine rank of Roman emperors. Invicta Roma was the Empire of Sol Invictus or Kosmokrator (Ruler of the Cosmos) and as such was “destined to rule the whole world” (Virgil).

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The term Turk, in the sense in which it was used by medieval writers refers primarily to language and not to race. In this sense the Huns and Khazars were “Turkic” people. The Khazar language was supposedly a Chuvash dialect of Turkish, which still survives in the Autonomous Chuvash Soviet Republic, between the Volga and the Sura. The Chuvash people are actually believed to be descendants of the Bulgars, who spoke dialect similar to the Khazars.
West Turkish Empire, or Turkut Kingdom was a confederation of tribes, held together by a ruler: the Kagan or Khagan. This first Turkish state lasted for a century (circa 550-650) and then fell apart. However, it was only after the establishment of this kingdom that the name “Turk” was used to apply to a specific nation, as distinct from other Turkic-speaking peoples like the Khazars and Bulgars. The Khazars were under Han tutelage, then under Turkish tutelage. After the episode of the Turks in the middle of the 7th century it was their turn to rule the “Kingdom of the North,” as the Persians and Byzantines came to call it. The Persian state never recovered from the crushing defeat inflicted on it by Emperor Heraclitus in 627.

The Ticking Bomb of the Slavonic Josephus

Around the 11th and 12th centuries or in the period when the Chazar Kingdom flourished there appeared the Slavonic text without any link to other church documents. This text, preserved in a number of manuscripts, is strongly related to the Greek text of Josephus, The Jewish war, and the manuscripts give the author's name as Josephus. However it is not simply a translation of the Greek text, as it contains both material not present in the Greek, and omits material present in the Greek. The text is commonly known as the Old Slavonic Josephus, or the Old Russian Josephus.

The Old Russian text of the Histories of the Jewish Wars by Flavius Josephus has come to us in many MSS which can be assigned to the XV-XVIII centuries. The Vilnius Chronograph belonged formerly to Vilnius Public Library No. 109 (147), now stored in the manuscript department of the library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences in Vilnius. The Vilnius library obtained it from the Suprasl' monastery, which was founded by emigrants from Athos in 1498. Inside the front cover of the book, the name Zikgimont (Sigismund) appears, probably the Polish king and Grand Prince of Lithuania, Sigismund August II (rule 1544-1572)

There is extant in a number of MSS, a Slavonic or Old Russian translation of the Wars. In this version there are no less than eight pieces referring to John the Baptist, Jesus and the first Christians. These remarkable passages, of which the Greek text shows no trace, have been excerpted and the Slavonic text of them critically established by the collation of four MSS. These eight pieces were excerpted from the rest of the text and first made accessible for the general world of scholarship, in German translation, by A. Berendts, in 1906. ('Die Zeugnisse vom Christentum im slavischen "De bello judaico" des Josephus'—Texte und Untersuchtungen, N.F. Xiv. 4).


IV.
THE MINISTRY, TRIAL AND CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS.
(Follows on B. J. II. ix. 3.)
1. At that time also a man came forward,—if even it is fitting to call him a man [simply].
2. His nature as well as his form were a man's; but his showing forth was more than [that] of a man.
3. His works, that is to say, were godly, and he wrought wonder-deeds amazing and full of power.
4. Therefore it is not possible for me to call him a man [simply].
5. But again, looking at the existence he shared with all, I would also not call him an angel.

In other words, Jesus is more than a man, like a Greek hero, but less than an angel, i.e. he has no divine status whatsoever. Angels were called “god” and “spirits” because they have the same nature as God: “Are not angels spirits...” (Heb. 1:14 NRSV)

Subordination of Jesus to his Father (YHWH) in Jewish Christianity

Jesus was confident and strong when he pursued with a whip the money changers at the Temple, but he became emotionally weak before his crucifixion. He told the God, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup (the crucifixion) from me...” Then an angel from heaven appeared to him and gave him strength (Luke 22:42-44). Jesus became weak, whereas God cannot become weak.

God's title is the “Father”. The appellation “Father” is a title of superiority. A father is greater than his son. Jesus said, “My Father ... is greater than all.” (John 10:29. He also said, “...the Father is greater than I...I do as the Father has commanded me.” (John 14:28, 31. God commanded Jesus. There is no verse in the New Testament which says or hints that Jesus commanded God. Had Jesus been equal to God, he would have referred to him as “Brother”. He would have said, “Brother, forgive them as I forgave then; for they know not what they do.” (Luke 23:24)

Tertullian (possibly a Berber) was African moralist, apologist and theologian. His sophistic brilliance and literary versatility, make him a captivating writer as well a priceless mirror of early African Christianity. He wrote: “...but the Logos did not become Son of God until He ought forth to the the instrument of creation; there was a time when the son (as Son) did not exist. The Father has the fullness of Deity, the Son only a portion of it, derived from Him.”

Origen – Alexandrian theologian (185-254) said, “there may be some who maintain that the Savior is the Most High God over all, but we do not certainly hold such a view, who believe him when he said of himself: “The Father who sent me is greater than I”; and again: “Clearly we assert...that the Son is not mightier than the Father, but inferior.” (The Gospel According to John, B. F. Wescott commentary, p. 213)


The Aryan Party wins at the Council of Nicaea

At the Council of Nicaea in 325, the Emperor Constantine ordered: “Henceforth let us have nothing in common with this odious people (meaning Jews).” Following this policy of Christian apartheid, the Aryan dogma of Trimurti (“He, who is Vishnu, is also Shiva, and he, who is Shiva, is also Brahma: one being but three gods”) was adopted as the Christian dogma of Holy Trinity. Emperor Constantine was not a Christian yet, when he proposed his Trinitarian formula; he was a votary of the sun god Sol Invictus. This dogma became the subject of heated controversy between Athanasius who contended that Christ was made of substance identical with God* (homoousios) and Arius, a presbyter of Alexandria who claimed that he was made only of similar substance (homoiousios). Substance is a kind of matter, a physical reality, that can be touched and felt. God cannot be touched or felt with our hands.

Over this doctrinal difference, turning about a single letter in a Greek word and involving the question of whether God and Christ were cosubstantial and coeternal, a mighty controversy was waged for centuries and thousands of persons lost their lives or freedom in the conflict. Most churchmen did not like this new dogma, since it was a Greek philosophical term not found anywhere in Scriptures. In fact, the new definition of Jesus sounded like the Buddhist dogma of multiplicity proclaiming that, as a transcendent being, Buddha multiplies himself (like Christ in the holy communion) and that all Buddhas (Sakyamuni) are consubstantiated (homoousios) with the essential body (God, the Father). Dipankara, the first of the 24 Buddhas traditionally held to have preceded Gautama, is depicted with a flame rising from his shoulders (Cf. the tongues of fire on the Apostles’ heads). Their worries didn’t stop with this question; the great Platonic philosopher Porphyry, had written that the souls of humans and animals were homoousios. For Porphyry the substance had the same meaning as the universal i.e. the element that an individual shares with others of a great class. For example, in man, the universal is his animal nature. Now we better understand why in the dogma of the Holy Trinity the Holy Spirit appears in the shape of a dove (animal). This is the same pantheism which inspired the ancient Egyptian priests and their zoo theology. For Aristotle God was “something” (i.e. impersonal like Brahma) that moves others without being moved, which is eternal and substance and actuality.

Homoousios could mean “of the same essence,” but it could also mean of the same “substance”, “reality”, “being,” or even “type.” Homoousios bothered bishops because it seemed to obliterate the distinction between the Father and Son, so much so that that for 20 years after the council disbanded, Athanasius himself did not consider it politic to use the term in his writing.

Athanasius Trinitarianism is derived from the solar theology of the pagan world. In his astronomical aspect Zeus-Dionysus has his origin in the zodiac, the ancient solar year. In Libya he assumed the form of a ram, and is identical with the Egyptian Amun, who begat Osiris, the taurian god. Osiris is also a personified emanation of the Father-Sun, and himself the Sun in Taurus. The Parent-Sun being the Sun in Aries. As the latter, Jupiter, is in the guise of a ram, and as Jupiter-Dionysus or Jupiter-Osiris, he is the bull, or Baal. And this solar theology suited well the political purposes of the perennial Roman globalism. The Greek cross of the Zodiac from a Golden Dawn manuscript shows the zodiac signs converging on the wheel of the sun and linked by the coils of the snake biting his own tail, the ourobouros, a symbol that “All is One.” (The famous Bury St. Edmund Cross shows a snake on a forked cross).

The Trinitarian controversy drove a great wedge between the Christian churches of the Greek East and Latin West.

God Called Substantial Reality

R. Boyle refused to communicate with Spinoza when he learned that the philosopher worshiped “Substance” as God.
This “quantum”theology goes as follows, Under and behind all outward appearances or manifestations, there must always be a Substantial Reality. This is the Law. Man, considering the universe, of which he is a unit, sees nothing but change in matter, forces, and mental states. He sees that nothing really is but that everything is becoming and changing (pantarei). Nothing stands still – everything is being born, growing, dying – the very instant a thing reaches its height, it begins to decline – the law of rhythm is in constant operation – there is no reality, enduring quality, fixity (no fixed Biblical species) or substantiality in anything – nothing is permanent but Change. He sees all things evolving from other things, and resolving into other things – a Newton's constant action and reaction, inflow and outflow, building up and tearing down (Vishnu-preserver, Shiva-destroyer), creation and destruction; birth, growth and death. Nothing endures but Change. And if he be a thinking man, he realizes that all of these changing must be outward appearances or manifestations of some Underlying Power – some Substantial Reality. That's what Hegel's Phenomenologie des Geistes is all about.
All thinkers, in all lands and in all times, have assumed the necessity for postulating the existence of this Substantial Reality. All philosophies worthy of the name have been based upon this thought. Men have given to this Substantial Reality many names – some have called it by the term of Deity (under many titles), others have called it “The Infinite and Eternal Energy”, others have tried to call it “Matter”, but all have acknowledged its existence. It is self-evident – it needs no argument.
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Throughout the whole of this Slavonic Josephus are found many passages, which are interpolations by Christian authors.  Beside the passage discussed, there is another striking passage, which is a later Christian interpolation, and throws light on the authenticity of the entire Slavonic Josephus.  I refer to the passage in the Fourth Book, which was translated into German by A. Berendts, and later published by Gross.  In this book we find a dialogue between two priests after Jerusalem was taken by Herod.   The passage reads as follows:

"Das Gesetz gebietet uns, keinen Anderstammigen als König zu haben.  Doch wir erwarten den Gesalbten, den Sanften, aus Davids Geschlecht.  Aber von Herodes wissen wir, dass er ein Araber ist, unbeschnitten.  Der Gesalbte wird sanft heissen, aber dieser (ist's), der mit Blut erfült hat unser ganzes Land.  Unter dem Gasalbten war es den Lahmen bestimmt, zu gehen, und den Blinden, sehend zu werden, den Armen reich zu werden.  Aber unter diesem sind die Gesunden lahm geworden.  Was ist dieses?  oder wie?  Haben die Propheten gelogen?  Die Propheten haben geschrieben, dass nicht ermangeln wird ein Fürst aus Juda, bis dass der kommt, dem es übergeben ist.  Auf den hoffen die Heiden.  Aber ist dieser die Hoffnung für die Heiden?  Denn wir hassen seine Missetaten.  Wollen etwa die Heiden auf ihn hoffen?

"Wehe uns, weil uns Gott verlassen hat!  Und vergessen sind wir von ihm!  Und er will uns dahingben zur Verwüstung und zum Verderben!  Nicht wie unter Nebukadnezar und Antiochus (ist es).  Denn damals waren auch die Propheten dem Volke Lehrer.  Und sie verhiessen in betreff der Gefangenschaft und in betreff der Rückkehr.  Und jetzt: weder ist jemand, den man defragen könnte, noch jemand, mit dem man sich trösten könnte." ( "Flavius Josephus vom Jüdischen Kriege B. I-IV, nach der Slavishchen Übersetzung," von Alexander Berendts und Konrard Gross in the Eesti Vahariigi Tartu Ulikooli Toimetused.  Tartu (Dorpat) 1924).
And this uncircumcised Arab, according to the Gospels, was financing Jesus “Flying University”. It took a lot of money to support Jesus and all his disciples for a prolonged period of time.
Luke's accurate and relatively abundant knowledge about the Herod family may be due to his acquaintance with certain people who had close contact with the family. He mentions Joanna the wife of one of Antipas's stewards, among the well-to-do women who supported Jesus and his disciples during their itinerant ministry, and his reference to Manaen 'companion' or 'courtier' of Herod, the tetrarch who became one of the leading teachers and prophets in the church of Syrian Antioch about AD 47 is also of interest. Luke must have found in Manaen a valuable informant on the contacts of Antipas and his relatives with the early Christian story.
“And it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city and village, preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God: and the twelve were with him. And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils, and Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod’s steward (Chuza was King Herod’s business manager and was in charge of his palace and domestic affairs), and Susanna, and many others, who gave him of their wealth for his needs. “ (Lk. 8:1-3). Interestingly, some early Christian mosaics depict Jesus in uniform of a Roman legionary. And because, according to the dogma of Trinity Jesus is the same as YHWH, it follows that the Creator the Heaven and the Earth needed financial help of Rome's puppet dynasty.

Can you imagine a Jesus Christ these days being financed by M. Abbas or the leader of Hamas Haniyeh? Sure, they have all the money they need, supplied to them by the enemies of Israel. They are Arabs, exactly like the Herodians. In the opinion of Y. Arafat Jesus was the “first Palestinian.” But this Palestinian spoke Hebrew on the cross: “Eli, eli lamma azavtani!” Because there was never a Palestinian language. Palestine, if God ever allows establishment of such a state, will be a weird country, exactly like its ideological father, Emperor Hadrian.

With Philo's close connection to the house of Herod, one might reasonably expect that the miraculous escape from a royal prison of a gang of apostles (Acts 5.18,40), or the second, angel-assisted, flight of Peter, even though chained between soldiers and guarded by four squads of troops (acts 12.2,7) are not real miracles after all. They knew that they were being arrested to make them popular among the oppressed Jews.
Now you will grasp the full meaning of Luke 16:17: “The law and prophets were in force until John's day, from that time the gospel of the kingdom of God is preached.”

From the above mentioned piece IV of the Slavonic Josephus we learn more about the ministry, trial and crucifixion of Jesus:

9. Now he (Jesus) opposed himself in much to the Law and did not observe the Sabbath* according to ancestral custom.
16. But they (the people) saw his power, that he accomplished everything that he would, they urged him that he should enter the city and cut down the Roman soldiers and Pilate rule over us. But that one scorned it.
26. The teachers of the Law were (therefore) envenomed with envy and gave thirty talents to Pilate in order that he should put him to death. 27. And he, after he had taken the money, gave them the consent that they should themselves carry out their purpose.
28. And they took him and crucified him according to the ancestral law.

Do you remember the Israelite who was found picking up firewood on the Sabbath day, and Moses had him stoned to death? (Num. 15:13) And he (Abraham) said to him, 'If they don't listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead. (Luke 16:31)

* In the New Testament epistles there are only 2 references to the Shabbath (Col. 2:16; Heb. 4:4), both these passages Paul clearly explains that the day is not a required day to be observed by Christians. There is no command after the death and resurrection for the Church to keep the Shabbath as an obligation to Christ. Why?

The Stoic philosopher, Seneca who was contemporary with the apostles and whose elder brother, Gallio, encountered St. Paul in Corinth in AD 52 (Acts 18, 12) attacked the rites of the Jews, and the Sabbath in particular. He maintained that the Sabbath is a harmful institution, since by the interposition of this one day in seven they practically lose a seventh part of their life in inactivity, and they suffer by having to put off urgent tasks. The slave masters could not have maximized their profits.

Scholars have ignored the Slavonic Josephus for two reasons.  First, a comprehensive comparison of the Slavonic version of the "War" with the Greek version was not published until 2003.  Second, many items within the Slavonic "War" are not consistent with Traditional Christianity.  The Slavonic Josephus includes "the star of Bethlehem" infant narrative but dates the story at 25 BCE, a full generation before the date as calculated in Matthew. 
This is a very complicated subject, in that all of Christianity is turned upside down.  With this earlier time line for Jesus, it is now possible to compare the early church to the writings of Josephus.  The result is unsettling.  The hero of Traditional Christianity, Paul, becomes the traitor as depicted by Josephus and other early writings.  The introduction of Judas Iscariot by the Gospel writers was just an attempt to shift blame from Paul to a Jewish Apostle.  This whole cover-up is detailed in both books.  What is at stake?  The future of Christianity. (Daniel T. Unterbrink, New Testament Lies).
John Paul II Intended to Convert Russia to the Aryan Christianity of the Nicene Council
“ ... beginning in the fourth century the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed entered into catechetical and liturgical use, enriching her teaching. It enriched that teaching thanks to the increased awareness which the church gained as she progressively entered into Greek culture and more clearly realized the need for ways of presenting her doctrine which would be adequate and convincing in that cultural context”. Crossing the Threshold of Hope(p. 46)
Russia says 'Nyet' to the Aryan Christianity
MOSCOW, March 9 (Itar-Tass) – President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday March 9 signed a decree on the recreation of the New Jerusalem Monastery. The New Jerusalem Monastery was conceived in the 17th century by Patriarch Nikon* as an “icon of the Holy land” with its Garden of Gethsemane, Calvary and Jordan. The Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ is the main cathedral and was built to resemble the cathedral in Jerusalem.
The New Jerusalem Monastery is unparalleled among the monuments of human history, President Medvedev said. “It is deservedly regarded as a cultural phenomenon and it is the only successful attempt to produce an exact copy of the Holy Land,” the president noted, adding, “By restoring our great spiritual centres, we are contributing to the revival of our roots and our values.” So, Russia's spiritual centres are rooted in the Holy Land known these days as Israel, and not in Homer's (Hesiod's) Greece.
The restoration of the New Jerusalem Monastery may require 12-20 Billion roubles, First Vice Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov said earlier. He said all work would cover a period of five to seven years.
Purging Christianity of its Aryan Components
*Patriarch Nikon’s project of the New Jerusalem monastery went hand in hand with his religious reform the final result of which was dropping the part of the phrase concerning sanctification “by the Holy Spirit and by fire” because “fire” did not have sufficient textual warrant, and this offended those who believed that the Holy Spirit was Himself fire according to the Aryan solar dogma. Let me remind here that the term Brahma is a neuter word which means energy, fire. To the question “What is Buddha?” one of the disciples responded “Hei-tei-dji Rai-gu-ka” (“the deity of fire seeks fire”).
John the Baptist: “I baptize with water, but one who is much greater than I is coming…He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.” According to the New Roman catechism “fire” symbolizes the transforming energy of the Holy Spirit, the same fire which Paul urged the Thessalonians not to extinguish (Cp. The undying fire of the Vestal Virgins) – for it is none other than the Holy Spirit Himself (# 696). Occasionally, Holy Spirit shows up as a dove, because, accordin g to Heraclitus's dogma all things, Heraclitus says,all things are an exchange for fire, and fire for all things, as goods are for gold and gold for goods.”
Buddhists and Christians conclude that their religions are fundamentally incompatible, while the truth is that they are superficially incompatible. Buddhist correctly point to the facts that the core of their religion lies in the doctrine of non-self, anatta, and that Buddhism is atheistic. Christians point to the Nicene creed: Jesus is the only-begotten Son of God, he is the inimitable Lord and Savior of the world. Yet Jesus seems to have spoken very little of “God”, and certainly not approvingly of the good creator God of his received Jewish heritage. For him the “ruler” of the world was not to be worshiped at all but to be cast out (Jn 12:31, etc). It is no great inference to suggest that the ruler of this world is none other than ignorance itself. This, of course, agrees with Buddhist metaphysics. For Jesus, “God” is saving Truth or gnosis (the Buddhist “enlightenment”, the Christian 'Kingdom of Heaven'). “And the Truth shall make you free” (John 8:32)
Purging Christianity of its Biblical Foundation
Beware, lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. (Col. 2:8)
In Dante’s De monarchia the “Divine Predestination” of the Roman people as the world ruling power is derived not from interpretations of the Hebrew prophets or from the appointments of Peter but from the genealogical tree of Aeneas and Creusa! Race and not religion is the decisive thing for Dante. Dante's Christianity is a religion of the children of Sun (Light) raised by Copernius to the rank of a god.
“At the same period there was coming into existence that speculative Ionian philosophy to which the world owes the origin of free thought and critical philosophy. As professor Bury has said, ‘Our deepest gratitude is due to the Greeks as the originators of liberty of thought and discussion. Ionia in Asia Minor was the cradle of free speculation. The history of European science and European philosophy begins in Ionia. Here in the 6th and 5th centuries B.C. the earliest philosophers by using their reason sought to penetrate into the origin and structure of the world. They began the work of destroying orthodox views and religious faiths’ (Encyclopedia Americana, ed. 1954, entry History). Which means, as Hume argued, that atheism is morally preferable to theism. These Ionian philosophers were children of the Babylonian god Nimrod who planned to unite mankind in a global revolt against God.” Exactly, like the Roman globalists did.
In Britain and the USA, practically every image you see portraying Jesus Christ shows him with light hair and very pale skin - a white man. Pictures from African countries that show Jesus as a black man. Racist Christian organizations (a tiny minority, but there, none the less) like to portray Jesus, and indeed God as a white man to further their own agenda - if God is white, then surely the white races are God's Chosen Children, and all others are inferior? (eg. the "Children Of Ham" myth, which says that God turned their skin black as punishment).
Philosophy, according to Bertrand Russel, after 90 years, left him so empty that he called it a “washout”. Without Christ in our life, philosophy is a dead end street.

It was this Spirit which inspired the creation of two of the most illustrious of the humanistic institutions of the Holy See: the Vatican Library and the Vatican Museums. Both were the outcome of a vision of Graeco-Roman culture as the perfect, almost timeless expression of human creativity at its highest levels - thought and art - and as the precursor, at times almost the prefigurement, of Christanity, above all in the West.” (Gestione Vendita Publicazioni Musei Vaticani, Citta del Vaticano. 1979, o. 12) One of every 3 people in Greek “democracy” was a slave, who never had a day of rest, like a Hebrew “slave” In the decade beginning with 1783 Liverpool slaving ships carried over 300,000 Negro slaves to the West Indies…Aristotle justifies slavery with the argument that the masters require leisure…Only elites (slave masters) deserve rest. Sacred Scripture, on the other hand, ordains leisure…that the day of rest…may be enjoyed by all who work during the week. (M. Lazaraus, Ethics of Judaism, 1901, II. 19, Note 1)

Medvedev Takes Charge of Religious Affairs Giving New Patriarch a Victory
georgiandaily.com March 11, 2009

Vienna. March 11 – President Dmitry Medvedev's decision to chair the Council of Ties with Religious Organizations raises the status of that group which up to now had been led by an official in the presidential administration and thus gives a major victory to the Russian Orthodox Church and its newly-installed head, Patriarch Kirill (who rejected Darwinism).

Lest anyone miss the importance of Medvedev's decision, Kremlin officials told “Kommersant” that it was “unprecedented” that not only did his chairing of the group raise its status but that the president plan to transform it into a group that meets on a regular basis and makes decisions.

Intelligence and the anti-Israel lobby
March 12, 2009 – Caroline Glick, The Jerusalem Post

Ill winds are blowing out of Washington these days. On Thursday, The Washington Post headline blared, “Intelligence Pick Blames 'Israel Lobby' for Withdrawal.” The article described how the former US ambassador to Saudi Arabia Charles “Chas” Freeman is blaming Israel's Jewish American supporters for his resignation from his post as chairman of the National Intelligence Council.

The disturbing development exposed by Freeman's appointment is the emergence of a very committed and powerful anti-Israel lobby in Washington. In the past, while anti-Israel politicians, policy-makers and opinion-shapers were accepted in Washington, they would not have felt comfortable brandishing their anti-Israel positions as a qualifying credential for high position. Freeman's appointment shows this is no longer the case. Today in Washington, there are powerful circles of political players for whom a person's anti-Israel bona fides are his strongest suit.

In the weeks since Freeman's appointment first came under scrutiny, his defenders have highlighted his hatred of Israel as the reason for their support for him. They felt that the fact he raised the hackles of Americans who support Israel was reason enough to support him. Whether his views on other issues are reasonable or not was of no interest to them. What next? A proclamation that the Jews deserved their Holocaust? As a justification of the Acquiesce of the U.S. Government in the murder of th Jews as described in Report to the Secretary (of Treasury) on the Acquiescence of This Government in the Murder of the Jew?

It is highly unlikely that American Jewish leaders would ever revert to the policies of their predecessors during WWII, who failed to raise their voices out of fear of ant-Semitism.