Foreign Policy Diary from SouthFront

Hitler was a great believer in the power of the will to accomplish things. He so strongly believed that through sheer will power alone nearly insurmountable odds could be overcome, to the extent that he would often ignore his generals advice on military matters because he believed his sheer will was strong enough to carry through to victory, often accusing his generals of being weak willed. This is often the belief of the occultist.
It should therefore come as a wake up call to many people when we hear this very same language being spoken today. I bring you a quote from conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer when he wrote on Inside politics/CNN the following :

“America is no mere international citizen. It is the dominant power in the world, more dominant than any since Rome. Accordingly, America is in a position to reshape norms, alter expectations, and create new realities. How? By unapologetic and implacable demonstrations of will.”

This quote could have come right from Hitler himself. Like another commenter previously wrote on this forum, insanity takes many forms, and exceptionalism is one of them. These people (i.e. Washington neocons) are suffering from the same type of insanity as Hitler and his henchmen were. These psychopaths are Nazis in all but name and the world better wake up and recognise that fact.

“The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.”
― Adolf Hitler

I don’t want to get into the “Jews” this or that arguments.Frankly,because I’m not anti-Jewish,I’m anti-Zionist (just as I’m not anti-Ukrainian,but am anti-Bandera fascist).Having explained that I do want to bring up some history though.

I started out like most Americans as pro-Israeli from a youth.I didn’t know anything about the MENA region.Most of my studies and interest was on Europe,Latin America, and East and South Asia.All I knew was what I saw concerning Europe and the Jews (especially WW2).Then I began to see posts about the treatment of the Palestinians by Israel.And that didn’t fit with what all my life I had believed.I also saw comments put on the articles I read.Comments full of racist hatred about “Arabs” and Muslims in general.To say that those comments were racist is way too mild actually.They were despicable,and disgusting in fact.And I saw them on every article I read.Put there by pro-Israeli Zionists.At first I replied calmly.Pointing out how awful and hate-filled they were.That got me attacked in the same savage manner.And I began to think.I need to know what this is all about.Why this strident hatred.Was Israel guilty of the crimes it was accused of.And if so,what led to these crimes.I poured over countless historical books to find the answers.And as I was afraid of,it was all true,Israel was guilty.Then I began to research the background to the founding of Israel and the Zionist movement itself.Which of course meant studying Jews around the World,their history,culture,and beliefs.It was very time consuming and fascinating at the same time.

I learned that the origins of today’s Jews have many sources.At the beginning they were a Semitic people (Caucasians) living in the Middle East.But even then mixed with their neighbors,religion being the only difference of one from the other.Like their relatives and neighbors the Phoenicians they were merchants and traders.So established colonies throughout the region and in Southern Europe.There was a huge amount of intermarriage in those colonies at the time.So quite a few “Jews” were very mixed with other peoples.Again religion being the divider between them and the others.DNA tests today show those facts if anyone doubts them.With the rise of Christianity in Europe,and Islam in the MENA things began to change.No longer was intermarriage as simple and easy in both regions.And Jews began to be viewed by themselves, and the others,as both a religion,and a separate “people” or as was said then “a race”.And Jews married mostly another themselves only.Which emphasized their being “separate” even more.

I won’t get into the back and forth of the thousand or so years after that.It would take a book to talk about that period.But will skip to the 19th Century.In much of Europe there were laws confining Jews to Ghetto’s,and only certain professions at the start of the Century.And in some countries they were even forbidden to live there.The “Age of Enlightenment” of the late 18th Century had chipped away at those restrictions.And Napoleon and the French Revolution collapsed those restrictions over most of Europe.One of the professions open to Jews in much of Europe had been “money lenders”,an early form of bankers (see how that relates to today).And Napoleon wanted to utilize Jews throughout Europe to spread the ideas of the French Revolution.And those bankers wealth to fund his economic plans.So the French freed the Jews from restrictions in France and throughout the areas they controlled or influenced (the British had already done the same.But the French controlled much more of Europe so it was more important).

Among Jews that created a schism.Through was a huge internal dispute (it still exists in modern form).Are they “French,German,British,etc” citizens,the same as others.Or are they a separate people only living in those countries.The majority of Jews in Western Europe (Eastern Europe came later) came to accept the first view,and only a minority the second view.As modernism spread East (the home of the largest Jewish communities,and the most anti-Jewish countries).Laws started freeing Jews from restrictions,and that set off a giant migration West.Over 2 million,mostly Eastern European Jews moved to the “New World”,the Americas (a majority to the US).And hundreds of thousands to Western and Central European countries.It took generations for those to “fit in” to the Jewish communities.A task not fully completed by WW2. It awakened in Western and Central Europeans sentiments similar to the reactions we see today with the North African and Turkish immigration in Europe.Unlike the old time Jews in those countries,the immigrants spoke other languages.Dressed differently in many cases.And followed forms of Judaism noticeably different from the national Jews.This anti-immigrant feeling began to be attached to the local Jews as well.After all to many Europeans they were all “Jews”.

There had always been movements among fringe groups of Jews to return to “Palestine”.But as Judaism itself was divided on that (most scholars said only the coming of a “Messiah” would allow the Jews to return to Palestine/Israel) those groups weren’t very important to most Jews.The biggest cause of the period was to assimilate and become “Europeans of the Jewish faith”.During this period some Jewish families in Western,Central Europe and the Americas became very wealthy.They used connections among themselves,and backgrounds as merchants and bankers.And in the free wielding capitalism of the times began to rise to the top in the business world.Though not yet in the political world.They also intermarried to some degree into equally wealthy non-Jewish families.Some among the political classes.Hence,in Britain Cameron has a Jewish ancestry.And many other British,French,German,American,etc,political leaders (Hillary Clinton comes to mind).This isn’t pro-or-anti-Jewish,just a fact.

Russia then as now was a bit “unique”. With her Polish and Baltic lands, the Russian Empire had the World’s largest community of Jews.And was the last to free them from restrictions.It was from those areas most of the immigrants to Western/Central Europe and the Americas came from.And many of those people have had a latent (sometimes overt) Russophobia since then.

The rise of anti-immigrant fervor in Europe had two effects.One was the rise of right and left wing politics among non-Jewish Europeans (and in the case of left wing politics among Jews as well).The other was the birth of political Zionism.Some large but still very much a minority of Jews (mostly non-religious Jews) started a movement to found a Jewish State in Palestine.And for all Jews to move there.They were able (for various reasons) to get some support from very wealthy Jews.They talked the Ottoman rulers of Palestine (bribed them),to allow colonies of Jews to settle there.But then WW1 broke out.The largest groups of Jews were by then in Russia,the US,Austria-Hungary,Germany,with large communities also in France and Britain.Some of the most important,well integrated,and wealthy communities were the German and Austro-Hungarian.The governments there were seen by them as their protectors.And the culture of those countries was heavily admired throughout the “Jewish World”.While Zionism was only a small movement in those countries.With the Ottoman Empire being a German ally in WW1.The Zionist groups siding with the Entente countries saw an opening to get their dream of having Palestine,and get the German and Austro-Hungarian Jews to support Zionism more.While also aiding the Entente cause at the same time.They purposed getting the British to promise Palestine to the Zionists if they won the war.It would they said,get Jews in the US behind the US entering the war on the British side.And it would split World Jewish support of Germany.The British agreed,though not to the extent the Zionists hoped for.They issued the “Balfour Declaration” promising to establish a Jewish Homeland (not nation state) in Palestine if they won the war.Its effect on German and Austro-Hungarian Jews wasn’t much.But it did get the US Jews to help push the US into the war as the British and Zionists hoped it would.

(side-note: This ends here with WW1.But I will in the future try to expand this overview through to today.I thought an historical recap of the beginning was a start.)