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A brief History of Israel and the Jews Stuff You Won't Find in the History Books From Sargon to Super Dave

We've all read the story: Semite begat Sargon, who begat Abraham, who begat Shmuel, who begat Super Dave Osborne, who begat a TV comedy and forever personified the word "putz". The Ten Commandments were handed down to Moses, who then wandered in the desert for 40 years searching for the only place in the Middle East that had no oil, and Judaism developed based on the Old Testament of the Holy Bible, with scriptures copied from various prophets. The Jews were claimed by God Himself to be His "Chosen People" who would disperse but eventually reunite to control the world. Except it now appears that most of it didn't happen that way. Perhaps none of it. Let's look first at a part of Jewish history that seems to have been quietly pushed aside for many hundreds of years: the origin of the Jews.

The Exodus

It is true that Semitic peoples were in the Middle East for thousands of years, in Ur, Babylonia, Mesopotamia, Assyria and Phoenicia, down to Canaan - a land that we're told God promised to his "chosen ones". And, of all these original Semite peoples in what today is broadly called the "Middle East", some adopted the Jewish religion, but equally, many (most) did not. The Palestinians today are every bit as "Semitic" as any Jew, and so are many other peoples. But those who were Jews, the Semites who adopted and practiced Judaism and who lived in Israel, were not so many and did not remain in the Middle East for such a long time. Many moved to Europe, many to other places. For reasons history appears to have forgotten, these "Israelites" - "God's Chosen People" scattered everywhere. They not only dispersed but disappeared.

Koestler goes to some pains to tell us a main cause: "The geneticists' obvious answer is: through miscegenation (intermarrying) combined with selective pressures", and Toynbee remarks also on the hybrid ancestry of the Sephardim in Spain. In any case, based on extensive new evidence, it would appear that today's Jews have no valid historical claim on the land we call Palestine, having lived there (as Jews) for only a little over 400 years, during which time they shared that land with many other nations of people. The land we call "Israel", was never an exclusive Jewish homeland. The Jews were often not well-liked or appreciated in their new lands and often found it necessary to uproot and migrate to another country. The Jewish version of their various migrations or expulsions centers around their being victims, disliked for no good reason, or simply for being Jews, and forced into business and banking because that was all that was left for them. The truth may be different, however. Certainly the Jews appear to have a predisposition and talent for business and money-making. No secret there, and no crime, either.

However, the kinds of businesses and ways of money-making have not always been so clean as history (rather silently, one would note) lets us assume. More later. The cause of some of these migrations was violence. Jews were killed at various times in history, during various wars, most notably during the Second World War. In any case, due to all of this unpleasant history, the number of these Semitic practitioners of Judaism depleted alarmingly. From whatever statistics seem available, the number of these "true Jews" alive today ranges from 300,000 to 500,000, out of a total of perhaps 15 million "Jews" in the world. How do we account for this odd discrepancy? There seems to be no dispute with the fact that only perhaps 5% of all Jews today are actually descended from the Semitic Israelites - the Sephardic Jews. The other approximately 95% - the Ashkenazim - are neither Semite nor Israelite. They are the descendants of an Eastern European people - the Khazars - who never had any connection with the Middle East, much less Israel or Abraham, and had never heard of either Sargon or Super Dave. It is true there have been loud refutations of this claim, but on the other hand there are many Jewish historians who have verified this portion of history. Moreover, one Jewish publication stated flatly that "virtually 100%" of all Jews today are descendants of the Khazars. The 100% seems an exaggeration but all evidence that has come to my attention strongly suggests 95% is about right. One can understand the eager rush to dismiss and condemn this history, since on its own it more or less totally invalidates the claims of today's Jews not only as being "God's Chosen People", but would dismiss without argument any historical "right" to the land in Palestine - not, as we have already pointed out, that that right ever existed in reality. In the light of this, recent history would seem to indicate nothing more than a bold hijacking of history by a people with no valid claim to either places or events and, either by design or good fortune, suppressing the facts.

The Khazars - The Origin of Today's Jews

"A THOUSAND YEARS before the establishment of the Modern State of Israel, there existed a Jewish kingdom in the eastern fringes of Europe, astride the Don and Volga rivers..." So begins a thesis by Jewish author Kevin Alan Brook.

The Kingdom of Khazaria, as it existed before conversion to Judaism. This mysterious kingdom, Khazaria, which has sculpted our modern world to an astounding (and alarming) degree, once occupied an immense land area of over a million square miles. It extended from western Hungary/Austria eastward to the Aral Sea, north to the Upper Volga, and its southern region extending to the Caucasus Mountains between the Black and Caspian seas. It was at that time literally the largest country on earth. It has only been in the last several decades, however, that greater documented evidence from ancient manuscripts has come to light and revealed the astonishing historical truth of this ancient kingdom and its connection to the origins of modern-day Israel. This is the story of a kingdom of belligerent, warlike Caucasian nomads, having no linked ancestry with anything Israelite this side of Noah, yet adopting Talmudic Judaism and becoming the dominant - and virtually only - current force in twenty-first century international Jewry.

Of the ferocity and warlike tendencies of the Khazars there is little doubt and much historical evidence, all of it pointing to a race of people so violent in their dealings with their fellow men that they were feared and abhorred above all peoples in that region of the world. Among other things, they apparently had a bad habit of killing anyone thought to be intelligent, and calling it an offering to their god. According to Benjamin H. Freedman, himself a Jew and an apparent long-time associate and confidant of presidents and statesmen, in an address presented in 1961 at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., the Khazars were so belligerent and hostile that they were eventually run out of Asia and scattered amongst the nations of Eastern Europe. Heinrich von Neustadt, around 1300, wrote of them as the "terrifying people of Gog and Magog." In 1976 Random House published a book that dealt with the racial origin of the people who call themselves "Jews," and whom the Jews themselves generally insist are "God's Chosen People," the Israelite descendants of Abraham. But most of them weren't. But before that, since the late 1800's, a small number of Bible Scholars who were also students of History and Racial origins, have insisted the Church denominations were wrong; that instead of being Israelites, these Jews from Eastern Europe and Western Asia were descended from Mongolians and other Asiatic peoples who had adopted Judaism as their "religion" and had become known as "Jews". These Bible scholars were ignored or condemned, and often called "cultists" or "anti-Semites." Now, after many years of research, a well-known Jewish author, Arthur Koestler, has published a book titled The Thirteenth Tribe in which he proves the same point; i.e. that these Eastern European "Jews" are neither Israelites nor "Semites," but are instead Khazars - Mongols, Uigurs, Magyars and Huns.

An artist's rendition of the Khazars. Arthur Koestler's book, easily the most expansive single work on the subject, states, "The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated." And by that, he means to tell us that we have been hoodwinked in our limited and propagandised misunderstanding of who the Jews really are. It appears certain that the Jews are closely related to Hun, Uigur, and Magyars, and not at all to the seed of Abraham Isaac and Jacob, and even less to that of Sargon and Super Dave. Eventually, the Khazar Empire dissolved, and thus began the integration of these Jews into Russia, Poland, etc. We're told these names are interchangeable: Khazar, Zhid, Yid, and Jew. Given this, virtually none of today's "Jews" have any historical claim to any part of Palestine, nor any right to claim themselves as "God's Chosen People".

Nor, can they claim criticsm of them as being "anti-Semitic", since they are not Semites. The Ashkenazis, the Khazars, may have adopted Judaism, but that doesn't make them "Jews" by any measure. The above is an important point. If I hit a white man, how can you accuse me of hating blacks? If I claim that all Irishmen are drunken scum (sorry, fellas; just kidding), how can you accuse me of being "anti-Italian"? Well, then, if I strongly dislike the Khazars - who again are European and not Semitic - how can you accuse me of being "anti-Semitic"? The term has no meaning, because these so-called "Jews" are not who they have for so long pretended to be. We have been hoodwinked. That is why Koestler wrote that this business of the origin of the Jews may be the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated. To be clear, we have people in Israel today, claiming to be descendants of the original Israelites, the seed of Abraham, great grandsons of the original inhabitants of Israel, having always followed Judaism and having full claim to be "God's Chosen People" - when in fact none of this is true. These are Europeans who, because of their licentiousness and savage brutality, were driven out of Europe, with some settling in the Middle East. And, to create a smokescreen of entitlement, they began to pass themselves off as Semitic Israelites and God's chosen people with full rights to the Holy Land. This may be why so many of them change their names to something appearing more "Jewish". Although, in a strange twist of fate, it also appears that many of them change their names to something appearing much less Jewish. Not only that, it was these Khazars that became Zionists and instituted their violent search for a homeland - Zion. They looked in South America, Africa, and finally settled on Uganda as their homeland. But then Palestine began to look inviting and they began to migrate there. I recall a document stating that they put out a worldwide call for funds in around 1920, asking for a quarter of a bilion dollars to help take over Palestine. The document said they raised the money, spent it all acquiring arms - mostly from Poland - and it was then - 100 years ago - they began brutalising the Arabs in Palestine and proceeding with the genocide that continues to this day. And while Sephardic Jews were claiming extermination in Germany, these Ashkenazim, the Khazars, were busy perpetrating far worse atrocities in Russia. All of this is truly a hoax on the entire world, and one of enormous proportion. To return to our historical path, these Khazars converted to Judaism, partly from a felt need and partly for political convenience. In any case, these new "Jews" were neither a Semitic people nor Israelites. They had no connection whatever with Israel, no more than they did with the moon. To summarise, around 95% of all Jews today are of Eastern European Khazarian descent. Even Israel's current President, Benjamin Netanyahu, is not a Semitic Jew but a Khazar. We're told that he, like so many other Jews, changed his name so he would appear more "Jewish". According to Benjamin Freedman, the Khazars' conversion to Judaism was first precipitated by their monarch's abhorrence of the moral climate into which his kingdom had descended. Freedman has claimed, and other historians confirmed, that the "primitive" Khazars engaged in extremely immoral forms of religious practices, among them phallic worship. One of the more interesting aspects of this, if my information is correct, is that one of the legacies of the well-documented phallic worship by these (soon-to-be) Jews is the practice of male circumcision - which the Jews also continue today as a "religious" rite. But with the Khazars, the process was done later in life and was self-inflicted - a self-circumcision. I know. I don't want to think about it, either. To end on a more serious note, it seems to me at at least some of the Jews in Israel today are in no small part the same violent, brutal, savage peoples that the Khazars are described to be - "feared and abhorred above all peoples in that region of the world". Certainly the Palestinians would agree with this description. This is not to say that all Jews living in Israel today are cut from this same cloth. Indeed many of them strongly disapprove of, and openly protest against, their government's actions - as do many other Jews around the world. And those Jews who participated so willingly and actively in Stalin's purges would seem to have been exhibiting typical Khazar behavior. I believe we can say the same for all the Communist Jews who participated in the European revolutions, from France to Hungary and onward. I am aware of no similar description of the Sephardic Jews, the original Israelites - though it may exist.