The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion -- Book - A Gentle Cynic
The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion -- Book - A Gentle Cynic
The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion -- Book - A Gentle Cynic
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BOOK ONE — INTRODUCTION<br />
Devil is called “<strong>the</strong> old serpent (Rev. 12:9). (<strong>The</strong> System Bible, Chicago, <strong>the</strong> System Bible Co.,<br />
1933, Section I, Historical Digest, p. 289).<br />
<strong>The</strong> serpent was itself a visible likeness <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> evil from which Israel was suffering.<br />
(Abington’s Bible Commentary, Nashville, Tenn., Abington Press 1929, p. 1144). Throughout<br />
<strong>the</strong> East (i.e., <strong>the</strong> “Bible lands”) <strong>the</strong> serpent was used a an emblem <strong>of</strong> evil principle <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> spirit<br />
<strong>of</strong> disobedience and contumacy. 159/<br />
Part 22.<br />
SOME JEWISH ANSWERS TO A “JEWISH WORLD CONSPIRACY”<br />
Under its article on <strong>Learned</strong> <strong>Elders</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Zion</strong>, <strong>The</strong> <strong>Protocols</strong> <strong>of</strong>, <strong>The</strong> Encyclopedia Judaica<br />
goes on to say that <strong>The</strong> <strong>Protocols</strong> suggest <strong>the</strong>re is <strong>the</strong> specter <strong>of</strong> a worldwide Jewish conspiracy,<br />
specifically designed towards reducing <strong>the</strong> Gentiles (non-Jewish people <strong>of</strong> all races, and<br />
religions) to slavery or to extermination. This idea is said to have its origins “in <strong>the</strong> Christian<br />
imagination” during <strong>the</strong> Middle Ages, because <strong>of</strong> “legends” about <strong>the</strong> Jews <strong>of</strong> Old Europe, and<br />
how for example <strong>the</strong> Jews were accused <strong>of</strong> poisoning water-wells and spreading <strong>The</strong> Plague<br />
disease. <strong>The</strong>se ideas began in Spain, and later in France and Germany, after Napoleon’s<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> “<strong>The</strong> Great Sanhedrin,” in 1807 A.D. Jewish sources provide no documentation<br />
for <strong>the</strong>se “legends.” If any such pro<strong>of</strong> for or against <strong>the</strong>se legends existed, <strong>the</strong> documents would<br />
have <strong>of</strong>fered <strong>the</strong>m up for consideration, in <strong>the</strong>ir Jewish defense. 160/<br />
It is also said by <strong>the</strong> Jews that Christians <strong>of</strong> olden days were misguided by <strong>the</strong> belief that<br />
<strong>the</strong>re was a secret rabbinical conference held on annual or less <strong>of</strong>ten occasions, whereat <strong>the</strong>re<br />
was worked out a detained plan for ritual genocide <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Christians and o<strong>the</strong>r peoples who were<br />
not Jewish. (See n.__?) Jewish publications tell <strong>the</strong>mselves that <strong>the</strong>se ideas did not gain<br />
widespread acceptance, partly because <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> illiteracy <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> people in general, and because<br />
<strong>of</strong>....<br />
<strong>The</strong>reafter, <strong>the</strong>re appeared in <strong>the</strong> late 1800’s, versions <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se ideas <strong>of</strong>fered by <strong>the</strong><br />
French Catholic authors Barruel and Bailly. In <strong>the</strong>se versions, it was said that Freemasons and<br />
<strong>the</strong> Jews united into an anti-Christian plot.<br />
In more recent versions <strong>of</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Protocols</strong>, <strong>the</strong> legend <strong>of</strong> “<strong>The</strong> <strong>Elders</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Zion</strong>” was said to<br />
have been concocted in Paris, France late in <strong>the</strong> 1800’s, by an author, said to be “unknown,” who<br />
was at that time working for Czar Nicholas II’s secret police (or, <strong>the</strong> Okhrana). If not that, <strong>the</strong>n<br />
it was “concocted by <strong>the</strong> Russian czars’ disinformation service. It was successively used by <strong>the</strong><br />
czarist police, <strong>the</strong> Whites in <strong>the</strong> Russian civil war, <strong>the</strong> German and o<strong>the</strong>r Nazis, and certain Arab<br />
governments and organizations, in <strong>the</strong>ir anti-Jewish propaganda.” 161/ <strong>The</strong> intent <strong>of</strong> non-Jews in<br />
159 THE SERPENT AS EVIL PRINCIPLE . A Dictionary <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Bible, Wm. Smith, LLD, ed,<br />
(Phila., <strong>The</strong> John Winston Co. 1884, 1948, p. 607), or, `<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> spirit <strong>of</strong> evil.’ In accord:<br />
Peloubet’s Bible Dictionary, (Phila., <strong>the</strong> John Winston Co. 1913, 1926, p. 606).<br />
160 FORGERY CLAIMS IN JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIAS. See, i.e., Encyclopedia Judaica, Vol.<br />
6, p. 581-83 (1971 ed.); <strong>The</strong> New Jewish Encyclopedia, p. 127-28 (1962 ed).<br />
161 CZARS’ DISINFORMATION SERVICE. Lewis, Semites and Anti-Semites, id., p. 23.<br />
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