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PROPHETS OR
KINGS?
by Barry Chamish
www.barrychamish.com
July 20, 2009
There
are two religious groups who are under attack by the Israeli government and
both, despite their numbers, are marginalized by the terrified oligarchy of
the establishment.
The first are the Religious Zionists,
known as the settlers and their supporters. Essentially, they won the last
national elections but were kept out of the government. These silly people
believe that by voting, they will be represented. They actually believe in
the Knesset and the army, their very worst enemies.
Group two are the Hareidim,
or the ultra-orthodox. They despise the Knesset, disdain its authority,
rarely serve in the army and are currently turning the country upside down
with their constant mass demonstrations over pretty silly issues.
They appear united by their deep faith in Judaism, but in fact, couldn't be
farther apart. One believes in the state, the other doesn't. One believes in
kings, the other, in prophets.
To help explain the
difference, I will quote from Bruce Feiler's book,
‘Where
God Was Born’ (Morrow, 2005).
KINGS:
57 - King David's portrait reads more like that
of a tin-pot dictator than of a humble servant of God building the family of
a future messiah. He's a cross between Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan.
59 - David, in the formative period of his character, is a man who will use
violence, deceit, charm, and murder to gather political power around him.
74 - Unlike Abraham, Moses or any number of biblical figures I might wish to
be like, David is repugnant. I don't want to be like him, I want to flee from
him.
89 - David was an experiment. The people wanted to wrest control from God and
invest it in a secular leader. That David turns out to be so flawed suggests
that God wants us to accept the limitations of political leadership and
return to our special allegiance with him...To achieve that, the children of
Israel must generate a national identity grounded not in the behavior of
their leaders but in the conduct of their people.
The Jewish Zionists are so dedicated to their blind
patriotism to the state of Israel, that they produce the very traitors from
within their numbers who wreck their enterprise. That is how they lost their
communities in Gush Katif. Watch the next clip with
interest:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H27TUyXm8HQ&feature=PlayList&p=158435502B0D6AAA&index=0&playnext=1
And then recall that I wrote the exact story four
years ago in my book ‘Bye Bye Gaza.’ http://www.lulu.com/content/575116
Their belief
in kings keeps them loyal to the state and will continue to do so until they
dissolve in betrayal.
The hareidim, on the other hand, show their allegiance to the prophets and a
very different anti-establishment faith:
PROPHETS:
131 - The most famous prophets
arise in direct response to the decline in moral authority of the
kings...They share hostility to wealth, iniquity and might. "The nations
are but a drop in a bucket," Isaiah proclaims, downplaying the idea of
an Israelite state that David, Solomon and others spent centuries trying to
achieve.
121 - The experiment in investing God's authority with earthly rulers has
come up short. So God shifts his favor toward a new kind of partner, one who
won't husband his authority into brutal leadership. He won't embody the state, he will speak for the people. We may not be able to
name the kings. But we can name the prophets.
122 - In elevating the prophets, the Bible speaks directly to the challenges
of our time. God believes that secular leaders cannot provide moral
deliverance. The heroes are the ones who look critically at power and keep
their gaze on the moral foundation of life on earth.
The issues that have brought them to the
streets en masse of late are seemingly too trivial for any state to have to
deal with; a parking lot open on the Sabbath in Jerusalem or a mother
separated from her daughter by the child welfare services. For their view on
why these trivialities are worth challenging the police over, look at their
explanations:
http://mysticalpaths.blogspot.com/
http://www.vosizneias.com/35114/2009/07/16/meah-shearim-neighbor-of-alleged-child-abuser-mom-not-mentally-ill/#comments
When I began to analyze the reasons for
the violent outbreaks, I started with known causes; their chosen separateness
from the rest of humanity, including Jews, their history of Zionism taking
their real estate from them by decree and force, their abandonment by the
Zionists during the Holocaust and most of all, their reduction to common
starvation. With child allowance and study benefits deprived
from them in recent years, their lifestyle is maintained by ever increasingly
futile begging. Even the government admits that 31% of Israelis are
malnourished, largely because of the hareidim. When you can't afford to give
your kid even a jam sandwich, you riot over nothing.
But the core reason for their civil unrest is the prophets of yore. They
derive their daily inspiration from them and they did not trust
Israel's leaders. The Jewish Religious Zionists do, and look where it's
getting them.
end
Of the many reactions to The Vatican's Holocaust, I quote a professor from
The Hebrew University Of Jerusalem:
I did get the copy
of A. Manhattan's 'The Vatican's Holocaust'. I'm halfway through it. You
should send copies of it to Peres, Beilin and Shlomo Ben Ami, who seem to like living in the 'Pope's
rectum' rather than the real world.
One of the
members of this list is sending me endless copies of a very valuable
book, ‘The Vatican's Holocaust’ by Avro Manhattan.
It
tells the horrifying story of the worst religious holocaust of the 20th
century led by Pope Pius 12. 237 pages, filled with rare photos.
And...It's yours for free. The only cost will be postage, envelopes, gas to
the post office, say $6 in the States. Overseas the postage will be higher
but the book itself is free.
Send me your mailing address and I'll get it to you.
PS
I'll add my two Vatican DVDs, one recorded in Jerusalem, the other in Atlanta
if you ask, a bit more money BUT without
profit.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3557853190547322236
Don't let this pass you by. I repeat, a great, educational FREE BOOK. Just for you. Barry
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