Chapter One A Silent “Holy War”

It is a curious legacy of our English language, the phrase we use commonly to

describe the malfeasance of those who might 'doctor the evidence,' or be caught
out 'doctoring the books,' or likewise providing a 'doctored version of an event.' If
this parallel, folk meaning attached to the profession of 'medicine' has deep roots
in some reality or other, then it stands to reason that we could benefit from
exploring that etymology. We are, after all, in pursuit of an answer to the question
of who has hidden the real story of Europes’ beginnings from us - and how. It's
rather inevitable then, that we will have to think about who might have 'doctored'
that history, and for what purpose.
Thus it seems particularly appropriate to have started out with a rendition of the
legacy of a 'doctor' we know by the name MAIMONIDES. As philosopher, one
supposes he could lay claim to the honorific sense of the term; as physician to one
of historys’ most powerful and illustrious rulers, he most certainly was one. But if
our intuition rings true here, there may be a third and synchronyous sense in
which we can view the influential exponent of talmudic doctrine and law, as one
of that special guild.
Had our history, as well as the rest of our intellectual legacies, not fallen into the
hands of parties whose express purpose was to 'doctor' the data in favor of a
certain agenda or viewpoint, we might well have been able to recognize our
medieval 'codifier' as a seminal figure in the reduction of orthodox historiography
to a mere recounting of deeds of valor, competition between kings, or the
sweeping conquest of empires by which men sought to advance the cause of a
religion, and/or a particular national identity. Left out of all such colorful
narratives of course are the key ‘movers and shakers’ by whose schemes and
actions power and influence drained away from those whose fortunes were in the
form of land and laborers – into the purses of those who made it their business to
get and keep those ‘landed gentry’ in debt to themselves. “Power behind the
throne” takes on a new shade of meaning when history is refurbished to reflect
the realities hidden inside its chronicles.
There are two manners in which our medieval 'codifier' fits perfectly into his role,
as our initial object of attention. His life and career straddle the physical
boundaries of this books' subject. Born in Muslim-dominated Spain, he moved
with his family to take up new residence in an equally Islamic Egypt, true to the
image of the talmudist as the cosmopolitan, well-traveled figure for whom
'nationalities' are of little consequence, in relation to the over-riding importance
of one's identity group. Europe, Africa, Asia, the rather artificial divisions between
which is a key theme to our study.
Secondly, just as Maimonides the ‘physician’ takes his classic place ‘behind the
throne’ of Saladin, so Maimonides the ‘pharisee’ takes his classic place in the
stream of agents of that ‘revolutionary change’ by which social orders were
gradually tumbled and replaced all throughout the western world. Indeed, due
weight needs be given to the fact that even the legacy of the “doctor”
Maimonides has been doctored to make it palatable to outsiders. The scholarly
fellow who "spent twelve years extracting every decision and law from the
Talmud, and arranging them all into 14 systematic volumes called Mishnah Torah,”
has oft been portrayed as a kind of benevolent religious synthesizer, seeking
common ground and harmony among religious faiths. Yet his own ‘faith’ was
one which allowed for no such tolerance.
’ Maimonides ruled that it is a Jewish court- or a court appointed by Jewish
authority-that enforces obedience and passes judgment on Gentiles,as well as
promulgating legislation by court order for that purpose. Maimonides further
decreed that any non-Jewish nation "not subject to our jurisdiction" (taha
htyadeinu) will be the target of Jewish holy war. 112HilkhotMelakhim8:9-10;
10:11. Also cf.GeraldJ. Blidstein, "Holy War in Maimonidean Law,"in Perspectives
on Maimonides[Oxford,England:OxfordUniv.Press,1991].
While the reader can easily imagine that my precis in these pages will be that such
a ‘holy war’ has indeed, both taken place and is proceeding apace, it will be
necessary to wait for a long interval before we come back to that theme. It is only
to introduce this secret, silent war that we begin with a sketch of one of its
earliest ‘generals.’ The ground we must cover in the meanwhile will be better
negotiated by keeping this subtext in mind!
But all of the facts needed to place the man precisely inside of his times and
milieu – as key player in the progress of judaic expectations from survival to
supremacy – have been kept from us. They remain buried under the dross of
invented narratives which leave out all the needed clues by which we would be
able to see the fateful consequences of the moment when it was decided that the
“sparks” of sufficient special souls had been redeemed from darkness for the
messianic passage back to ‘the Holy Land’ to begin.
Absurd as it may seem, to devote so much attention in a putative 'History of the
European Peoples' to a tiny sect with roots in another part of the world, no
successful quest to address that same history can depart from an accurate
assessment of the over-sized influence of that sect upon those people and their
culture! On multiple levels, both hidden and overt, the longstanding insistent of
its members to bring all others under their dominance and control has wreaked an
indelible stain over the record of European culture. And any step to remove a stain
requires a recognition of its existence a priori. No merely 'academic' matter, the
failure to so remedy a record of imperial aggressions by Europeans inveigled into
serving as henchmen for a cabal of schemers may prove fatal to the culture as a
whole. Too many peoples, in the near east and elsewhere have suffered the
consequences of our blind obedience to the role of "Golem" in a kabbalistic magic
show for us to simply ignore restitution and redemption. Dark intents of revenge
and hate are being stirred ever faster in the present, and a 'war of civilizations' is
being placed on the menu as an unpatable 'Last Supper' for the western world.
From Maimonides, to lurianic kabbalism, to Nathan of Gaza and the outright
proclamation of a ‘messiah’ in the form of the sabbatei tsevi who captured the
imaginations of jews everywhere... a straight line can be drawn. Those who left
their Iberian Sephardic paradise for distant shores of the Americas or the middle
east knew that their power was and would always be rooted in deception –
deceptive allegiances to powers that be, deceptive adherence to religious
competitors, deceptive outward forms of judaism even, designed to keep prying
eyes from ever discovering the age-old necromantic magic which lay at the heart
of their ‘faith.’ Magic can be defined as the pursuit of power over aspects of the
material world, via the employment of techniques from the supernatural world.
“Jewish mysticism” has never been more than or less than this equation in action.
History, as it has been retailed to us, has uniformly failed to reflect this critical
fact.
But the true genius of the talmudic spirit has been not just to keep the flame of
the most primitive flame of dark magic alive within its midst, but to combine it
with the most contemporaneous developments in science and techne. When
forged together, under the hammer of the judaic rhetorical device, they
accomplish more than several armies in the field could for that cause. Under the
banner of that supremely ‘dialectical’ fusion, the ‘holy war’ has gone from victory
to victory, in almost all ways unnoticed – by the defeated that is! Rigorous
‘logicism’ combined with the most maniacal panderings to mystical psychoses, in
words, has been the key to successful culture war over centuries. A war which we
could fairly claim to have become a ‘world-wide’ war as of the C17th, and the
appearance of the long-awaited ‘messiah,’ in the form of a bipolar apostate, both
confused as to gender and prone to fits of outright madness!
That stage is set for us by the writings of kabbalist scholar Gershom Scholem, who
draws a picture for us of the Euro-Mediterranean world of diaspora jewry in
convulsion as the tightly structured world of rabbical talmudic tradition became
turned upside via the mystical messianism of the sabbatean cult.
“Here, then, were all the materials necessary to cause a true conflagration in the
heart of Jewry. A new type of Jew had appeared for whom the world of exile and
Diaspora Judaism was partly or wholly abolished and who uncompromisingly
believed that a "restored world," whose laws and practices he was commanded to
obey, was in the process of coming into being. "

The pursuit of 'power' in our books of history is uniformly played back to us as the
comings and goings of men whose ambition was to hold sway over vast territories
or rule huge armies by means of whose might they could control commerce and
claim the allegiance of lesser kings. These comic book stylings of pageantry and
gallantry have substituted in our minds for an honest evaluation of what men
really pursue - and for which power really is sought. It is the power of the 'purse'
which has truly ruled the fortunes of empires, emperors, and the fates of people
all throughout the time when humankind has wandered the vast continent of
"Asia." If that truth makes for a duller rendition of history, it also makes for a truer
one.
How different the world would look – had it not come about that things of all
kinds – livestock, cereals, real estate, slaves – would be measured in units of
metal. Shiny metallic substances which needed be dug out of the earth, and when
‘refined’ by means of fire, could melt the hardest of female hearts, or buy a
phalanx of fierce warriors with which to plunder a neighbors territory, or bring a
competitor to heel! At first a novelty, a mere plaything for kings and those at the
very top of the power pyramid, in time these metals would cause all to kneel
before their power.
When we begin to look for signs of that duller yet truer course of things, we need
call upon the counsel of men who have studied the subject in some depth; with
their help we can parse the record without delaying too long from our course. In
Chapter Two we take aboard the findings of some of those studies – which –
though long published, have received little or no notice.