Hebrew Heritage

Towards the beginning of the third millenium BC man's first great civilisation was founded in southern Mesopotamia by the Sumerians. A people whose origins can only be surmised as they were unrelated both to the Semitic tribes and to the Indo-Europeans. Probably few in number they split up into a series of city-state dynasties.

By their invention of the art of writing (circa 3100 BC) they achieved their own immortality. Two of the many Sumerian myths have become part of religious tradition. The goddess Ishtar's descent to the underworld and the flood saga in the Gilgamesh epic incorporated into the Bible under the name of Noah.

Against this background appeared a people who the Egyptians called Hebrews meaning "wanderers", whose origins lie among the Semitic, nomadic peoples of Arabia. The name "Jews" appeared very much later in history.

According to the Bible Abraham came from Ur around 1800 BC. Sold into bondage, they were brought out of Egypt by Moses (an Egyptian name) and into Palestine about 1000 BC. From the sojourn in Egypt, came many of the mystic signs incorporated in the Zorah and the Kabbalah.

The story of Moses and the bullrushes also has its prototype in ancient Mesopotamian literature. Preserved in Babylonian tablets the ancestry of Sargon, king of Akkad (2340 to 2284B.C.) is quoted thus:

"Sargon, the mighty king, king of Akkade, am I. My mother was an en-priestess(?), my father I never knew. .....She conceived me, my en-priestess mother, in concealment she gave me birth. Set me in a wicker basket,.... She cast me down into the river ... The river bore me... Aqqi the water drawer did raise me as his adopted son."

The exact role of Moses remains impossible to define and the Commandments themselves cannot be convincingly dated until much later than he lived and were probably influenced by the great code of Hammurabi.

When the Hebrews came to Canaan they were already consciously a people, grouped round the cult of Yahweh. After their arrival in Canaan they probably attracted the support of other nomadic tribes, the touchstone of alliance being adherence to Yahweh. The Hebrews were clearly in many ways less advanced culturally than the Canaanites as they took over their script and also borrowed their building practice not always achieving the same level of town life as their predecessors.

It seems that the challenge from the Philistines, stimulated the emergence of the Hebrew kingship at around 1000 BC.

When Saul reigned, according to the Bible, Israel had no iron weapons, as the Philistines took care not to endanger their supremacy. None the less the Hebrews learnt the management of iron from their enemies; the Hebrew words for "knife" and "helmet" both have Philistine roots.

The Assyrians obliterated Israel in 722 BC and the ten tribes disappeared in mass deportations. Judah survived until 587 BC but they also suffered deportations and were carried away to Babylon.

From this it will be seen that the Jewish claim to Palestine is tenuous indeed, even by those Jews who can genuinely claim Hebrew blood.

The Jews of Ethiopia, although familiar with the Torah, know nothing of the rabbinical texts of the Talmud, which came later. (Ethiopic script is a Semitic script distantly related to early Hebrew.)

It was the Hebrews who adapted the concept of monotheism. An idea which had already existed in Egypt under Akhnaten, where the deity was the sun.

The Jewish scriptures differ from earlier religious thought in that they depict a cosmic and intense drama between an exclusive and often vengeful god and his "Chosen people".

It was this idea of a covenant existing between a people and their God (Yahweh) that set them apart. Placating Gods with oblations and sacrifice was not new, but a trade, a pact between god and man was.

It made them "special" and also ensured close cohesion amongst themselves. Hence their antipathy to local cult practice and pervasive polytheism.

The racialism, which it inspired, led to the Maccabean wars and to the Zealot revolts urged on by the priesthood against Vespasian and Hadrian.

The strength of the Jews depends on this, the belief that they are "chosen" to inherit the earth. A belief fortified by family bonds and intermarriage. Irrespective of what other nationality, religion or culture they temporarily acquire, they remain Jewish.

Any intolerance or persecution has been their greatest ally for it firms their bond and dependence on each other and their religion.

"...If the millions of Christians by whom they are surrounded were to substitute the same principle of co-operation for that of individual competition, the importance of the Jew would be immediately destroyed..." (Lazare.)

Jews certainly favour Jews. They buy from each other in preference to trading with Gentiles. Their inter-familial networking operates (and always has) oblivious of national boundaries.

This bonding goes a long way. The peccadilloes of Gentiles are blazoned daily by the Jewish controlled press but not a word is ever mentioned about their own transgressions.

Since their entry into history the Jews have been disturbers. The Koran charges them with stubbornness, prejudice, treachery and moral depravity.

"They delight in twisting words and distort even the word of God. They break their contracts and are treacherous. They hound the people for money. They boast of special privileges in the life to come, yet cling tenaciously to life on this earth..."

Following the tenets of the Protocols, which date back many millenia before the appearance of the "Protocols of Zion" the Jew has become an exploiter and corrupter, deliberately appealing to the baser instincts of mankind. They are not sportsmen, nor adventurers nor explorers. Nor do they feature amongst the great composers, nor the great artists.

The Jewish control of art sales has indeed influenced the deterioration in the standard of art. As the majority of the great works of art are in art galleries and not therefore available for trade, it became necessary to reduce the standard to improve the traffic.

Sport no longer is something done for fun and skill. It has eroded into a money-making business. Everything is weighed in its economic value. Areas of undestroyed wilderness are ravaged either of their contents as viable products for sale or to be "developed" into recreation areas, each one a clone of the other.

As every psychologist knows the mind of the multitude is ruled by emotion and not by intellect. Hence the use of the Holocaust. Any criticism of the Jews immediately raises a barrier and the vision of that long line of victims of the gas chambers. Jews are told to make sure that it is not forgotten. There is nothing like a mutual threat for keeping people together.

In addition to questioning the Holocaust, questions need to be asked about Albert Einstein.

Is there not something suspicious when someone who was a duffer at school, failed mathematics, and ended up as a second-class clerk in the Swiss Patents Office, suddenly produces world-shaking scientific formulas?

The same hands who produced the Holocaust were more than capable of drumming up an Einstein.