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Barbara
Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:19:47 -0800

FIRSTLY - this was written in 1920!! Churchill was advocating a
homeland for the Jews in Palestine. He talked about different
factions. Do not read it In the light of what has been called
"generational chauvenism."

Here is the entire text: Judge for yourself. Remember 1920 - before
all the horrors of WWII, but after the horrors of WWI.

ZIONISM VERSUS BOLSHEVISM

Winston S. Churchill

Illustrated Sunday Herald, 8 February, 1920

The Collected Essay of Sir Winston Churchill:, vol IV.

Some people like Jews and some do not; but no thoughtful man can doubt
the fact that they are beyond all question the most formidable and the
most remarkable race which has ever appeared in the world.

Disraeli, the Jew Prime Minister of England, and Leader of the
Conservative Party, who was always true to his race and proud of his
origin, said on a well-known occasion: 'The Lord deals with the
nations as the nations deal with the Jews.' Certainly when we look at
the miserable state of Russia, where of all countries in the world the
Jews
were the most cruelly treated, and contrast it with the fortunes of
our own country, which seems to have been so providentially preserved
amid the awful perils of these times, we must admit that nothing that
has since happened in the history of the world has falsified the truth
of
Disraeli's confident assertion.

The conflict between good and evil which proceeds unceasingly in the
breast of man nowhere reaches such an intensity as in the Jewish race.
The dual nature of mankind is nowhere more strongly or more terribly
exemplified. We owe to the Jews in the Christian revelation a system
of ethics which, even if it were entirely separated from the
supernatural, would be incomparably the most precious possession of
mankind, worth in fact the fruits of all other wisdom and learning put
together. On that system and by that faith there has been built out of
the wreck of the Roman Empire the whole of our existing civilization.

And it may well be that this same astounding race may at the present
time be in the actual process of producing another system of morals
and philosophy, as malevolent as Christianity was benevolent, which,
if not arrested, would shatter irretrievably all that Christianity has
rendered
possible. It would almost seem as if the gospel of Christ and the
gospel of Antichrist were destined to originate among the same people;
and that this mystic and mysterious race had been chosen for the
supreme manifestations, both of the divine and the diabolical.

There can be no greater mistake than to attribute to each individual a
recognizable share in the qualities which make up the national
character. There are all sorts of men - good, bad and, for the most
part, indifferent - in every country, and every race. Nothing is more
wrong than to deny to an individual, on account of race or origin, his
right to be judged on his personal merits and conduct. In a people of
peculiar genius like the Jews, contrasts
are more vivid, the extremes are more widely separated, the resulting
consequences are more decisive.

At the present fateful period there are three main lines of political
conception among the Jews, two of which are helpful and hopeful in a
very high degree to humanity, and the third absolutely destructive.

First there are the Jews who, dwelling in every country throughout the
world, identify themselves with that country, enter into its national
life, and, while adhering faithfully to their own religion, regard
themselves as citizens in the fullest sense of the State which has
received them. Such a Jew living in England would say, 'I am an
Englishman practising the Jewish faith.' This is a worthy conception,
and useful in the highest degree. We in Great Britain well know that
during the great struggle the influence of what may be called the
'National Jews' in many lands was cast preponderatingly on the side of
the Allies; and in our own Army Jewish soldiers have played a most
distinguished part, some rising to the command of armies, others
winning the Victoria Cross for valour.

The National Russian Jews, in spite of the disabilities under which
they have suffered, have managed to play an honourable and useful part
in the national life even of Russia. As bankers and industrialists
they have strenuously promoted the development of Russia's economic
resources, and they were foremost in the creation of those remarkable
organizations, the Russian Co-operative Societies. In politics their
support has been given, for the most part, to liberal and progressive
movements, and they have been among the staunchest upholders of
friendship with France and Great Britain.

In violent opposition to all this sphere of Jewish effort rise the
schemes of the International Jews. The adherents of this sinister
confederacy are mostly men reared up among the unhappy populations of
countries where Jews are persecuted on account of their race. Most, if
not all, of them have forsaken the faith of their forefathers, and
divorced from their minds all spiritual hopes of the next world. This
movement among the Jews is not new. From the days of Spartacus-
Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, and down to Trotsky (Russia), Bela
Kun (Hungry), Rosa Luxembourg (Germany), and Emma Goldman (United
States), this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization
and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested
development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been
steadily growing.
It played, as a modern writer, Mrs Webster, has so ably shown, a
definitely recognizable part in the tragedy of the French Revolution.
It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the
Nineteenth Century; and now at last this band of extraordinary
personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and
America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and
have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous
empire.

There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of
Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution
by these international and for the most part atheistical Jews. It is
certainly a very great one; it probably outweighs all others. With the
notable exception of Lenin, the majority of the leading figures are
Jews. Moreover, the principal inspiration and driving power comes from
the Jewish leaders. Thus Tchitcherin, a pure Russian, is eclipsed by
his nominal subordinate Litvinoff, and the influence of Russians like
Bukharin or Lunacharski cannot be compared with the power of Trotsky,
or of Zinovieff, the Dictator of the Red Citadel (Petrograd), or of
Krassin or Radek - all Jews. In the Soviet institutions the
predominance of Jews is even more astonishing. And the prominent, if
not indeed the
principal, part in the system of terrorism applied by the
Extraordinary Commissions for Combating Counter-Revolution has been
taken by Jews, and in some notable cases by Jewesses. The same evil
prominence was obtained by Jews in the brief period of terror during
which Bela Kun ruled in Hungary. The same phenomenon has been
presented in Germany (especially in Bavaria), so far as this madness
has been allowed to prey upon the temporary prostration of the German
people. Although in all these countries there are many non-Jews every
whit as bad as the worst of the Jewish revolutionaries, the part
played by the latter in proportion to their numbers in the population
is astonishing.

Needless to say, the most intense passions of revenge have been
excited in the breasts of the Russian people. Wherever General
Denikin's authority could reach, protection was always accorded to the
Jewish
population, and strenuous efforts were made by his officers to prevent
reprisals and to punish those guilty of them. So much was this the
case that the Petlurist [followers of Simon Petlyura (1879-1926),
Ukranian politician who led the Ukranian army against the Bolsheviks.
He was defeated and fled to Poland, thence to Paris where he was
assassinated] propaganda against General Denikin denounced him as the
Protector of the Jews. The Misses Healy, nieces of Mr Tim Healy, in
relating their personal experiences in Kieff, have declared that to
their knowledge on more than one occasion officers who committed
offences against Jews were reduced to the ranks and sent out of the
city to the front. But the hordes of brigands by whom the whole vast
expanse
of the Russian Empire is becoming infested do not hesitate to gratify
their lust for blood and for revenge at the expense of the innocent
Jewish population whenever an opportunity occurs. The brigand Makhno,
the hordes of Petlyura and of Gregorieff, who signalized their success
by the most brutal massacres, everywhere found among the half-
stupefied, half-infuriated population an eager response to anti-
Semitism in its worst and foulest forms.

The fact that in many cases Jewish interests and Jewish places of
worship are excepted by the Bolsheviks from their universal hostility
has tended more and more to associate the Jewish race in Russia with
the villainies
which are now being perpetrated. This is an injustice on millions of
helpless people, most of whom are themselves sufferers from the
revolutionary regime. It becomes, therefore, specially important to
foster and develop any strongly-marked Jewish movement which leads
directly away from these fatal associations. And it is here that
Zionism
has such a deep significance for the whole world at the present time.

Zionism offers the third sphere to the political conceptions of the
Jewish race. In violent contrast to international communism, it
presents to the Jew a national idea of a commanding character. It has
fallen to the British Government, as the result of the conquest of
Palestine, to have the opportunity and the responsibility of securing
for the Jewish race all over the world a home and a centre of national
life. The statesmanship and historic sense of Mr Balfour were prompt
to seize this
opportunity. Declarations have been made which have irrevocably
decided the policy of Great Britain. The fiery energies of Dr Weizmann,
[Chaim Weizmann (1874-1952) was born in Grodno, Russia. An active
Zionist, he became President of the World Zionist Organization in
1920.
In 1949 he became the first President of Israel] the leader, for
practical purposes, of the Zionist project, backed by many of the most
prominent British Jews, and supported by the full authority of Lord
Allenby, are all directed to achieving the success of this inspiring
movement.

Of course, Palestine is far too small to accommodate more than a
fraction of the Jewish race, nor do the majority of national Jews wish
to go there. But if, as may well happen, there should be created in
our own lifetime by the banks of the Jordan a Jewish State under the
protection of the British Crown, which might comprise three or four
million of Jews, an event would have occurred in the history of the
world which would, from every point of view, be beneficial, and would
be especially in harmony with the truest interests of the British
Empire.

Zionism has already become a factor in the political convulsions of
Russia, as a powerful competing influence in Bolshevik circles with
the international communistic system. Nothing could be more
significant than the fury with which Trotsky has attacked the Zionists
generally, and Dr Weizmann in particular. The cruel penetration of his
mind leaves him in no doubt that his schemes of a world-wide
communistic State under Jewish domination are directly thwarted and
hindered by this new ideal, which directs the energies and the hopes
of Jews in every land towards a simpler, a truer, and a far more
attainable goal. The struggle which is now beginning between the
Zionist and Bolshevik Jews is little less than a struggle for the soul
of the Jewish people.

It is particularly important in these circumstances that the national
Jews in every country who are loyal to the land of their adoption
should come forward on every occasion, as many of them in England have
already done, and take a prominent part in every measure for combating
the Bolshevik conspiracy In this way they will be able to vindicate
the honour of the Jewish name and make it clear to all the world that
the Bolshevik movement is not a Jewish movement, but is repudiated
vehemently by the
great mass of the Jewish race.

But a negative resistance to Bolshevism in any field is not enough.
Positive and practicable alternatives are needed in the moral as well
as in the social sphere; and in building up with the utmost possible
rapidity a Jewish national centre in Palestine which may become not
only
a refuge to the oppressed from the unhappy lands of Central Europe,
but which will also be a symbol of Jewish unity and the temple of
Jewish glory, a task is presented on which many blessings rest.

On Nov 30, 7:19 pm, "David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thank you Mrs. Langworth,
>
> Now interpretation?
>
> Thanks ........
>
> David
>
> I am going along the lines of discussion of the early "Illuminati" and
> criticism/warning of them??
>
> David
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email-masked] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> On Behalf Of Barbara
> Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 1:08 PM
> To: ChurchillChat
> Subject: [ChurchillChat] Recent quotation inquiry
>
> Churchill indeed did write this, the entire paragraph being:
>
> In violent opposition to all this sphere of Jewish effort rise the
> schemes of the International Jews. The adherents of this sinister
> confederacy are mostly men reared up among the unhappy populations of
> countries where Jews are persecuted on account of their race. Most, if
> not all, of them have forsaken the faith of their forefathers, and
> divorced from their minds all spiritual hopes of the next world. This
> movement among the Jews is not new. From the days of Spartacus-
> Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, and down to Trotsky (Russia), Bela
> Kun (Hungry), Rosa Luxembourg (Germany), and Emma Goldman (United
> States), this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization
> and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested
> development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been
> steadily growing. It played, as a modern writer, Mrs Webster, has so
> ably shown, a definitely recognizable part in the tragedy of the
> French Revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive
> movement during the Nineteenth Century; and now at last this band of
> extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of
> Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of
> their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of that
> enormous empire.
>
> It first appeared in the "Illustrated Sunday Herald," 8 February, 1920
> and was titled "Zionism Versus Bolshevism"
>
> It is in "The Collected Essay of Sir Winston Churchill":, vol IV. In
> my Library of Imperial History edition it starts on page 26 and this
> paragraph is on pg 27.
>
> Barbara Langworth
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