The Ashkenazi Revolution

79were conquered and turned into a Roman colony. However, in the year 9B.C.E. a young German tribal leader, Arminius, instigated a revolt and,after drawing the Roman commander, Varus, into an ambush, annihilated20,000 soldiers. This incident terminated any plans to turn Germany intoan integral part of the Roman world. Over time, Germany becameChristian without passing through the civilizing process of contact with theRoman world, as had happened with Gaul. This fact left its mark on thedestiny of Europe in the 19 th and 20 th centuries.During this period, the Roman world began to show signs of decay. InGermany, dangerous racial agitation, which drew its power from ancientGerman myth, in which Arminius had saved it from total defeat at thehands of the Romans, was rearing its head. In Eastern Europe, in the areasstretching from the boundaries of Poland to the Urals, a Slavic civilization,with heavy Asian-Tatar influence, and very foreign to the spirit of Rome,had arisen. The attempt, by Napoleon, to conquer Russia and to absorb it,like a giant province, into the Roman world, had failed. Immediatelyafterward, the Russians commenced an offensive on Western Europe.Furthermore: As long as the Roman Empire had not crumbled in the West,the British Isles were a regular province, though very remote, of the greatkingdom. However, from the 17 th century England began to influence thefate of Western Europe in far-reaching ways, involving itself with othernations to ensure its own power balance where England, itself, held thetongue of the scales. This nationalism, carried out by England with the aidof its colorful empire, infused the Roman world and weakened the basictraditional powers that held sway in Western Europe. All these factors roseagainst the Roman world to undermine it and to erode it. But to them wasadded another factor – the Jewish factor.2The Jewish-Roman wars were the greatest armed struggle that the Jews hadever engaged in for control of the Land of Israel. These wars, and the tensetimes that preceded them and followed them, lasted about a hundred years.They overflowed beyond the boundaries of the Land of Israel and left their