Chain of Evil – Moon of Alabama

September 18, 2004

Chain of Evil

Moon-fly Emereton cited in the Weekend Open Thread Bill Moyers speech at the Society of Professional Journalists conference. Moyers explains the danger of the Rapture believers.

These true believers subscribe to a fantastical theology concocted in the l9th century by a couple of immigrant preachers who took disparate passages from the Bible and wove them into a narrative millions of people believe to be literally true.

According to this narrative, Jesus will return to earth only when certain conditions are met: when Israel has been established as a state; when Israel then occupies the rest of its “biblical lands;” when the third temple has been rebuilt on the site now occupied by the Dome of the Rock and Al Aqsa mosques; and, then, when legions of the Antichrist attack Israel. This will trigger a final showdown in the valley of Armageddon during which all the Jews who have not converted will be burned. Then the Messiah returns to earth.

Bin Laden, as many others in the Middle East, sees a connection.
OBL tape Feb. 2003 (BBC)

We are following up with great interest and extreme concern the crusaders’ preparations for war to occupy a former capital of Islam, loot Muslims’ wealth, and install an agent government, which would be a satellite for its masters in Washington and Tel Aviv, just like all the other treasonous and agent Arab governments.

This would be in preparation for establishing the Greater Israel.

The Iraq occupation, in preparation for establishing the Greater Israel, has happend. Step 2 is starting now.

The petition, which termed evacuating settlements “a crime against humanity,” a “national crime” and “a clearly illegal act,” urged soldiers to “listen to the voice of their national and human conscience.”
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“In light of the Sharon government’s intent to destroy communities in the land of Israel and deliver them into the hands of the enemy, to violently uproot their residents and expel them, we declare that this expulsion and uprooting are a national crime and a crime against humanity, a display of tyranny, wickedness and arbitrariness, whose goal is to deprive Jews of their right to live in their land, merely because they are Jews. …”
Rightists say evacuation is a crime against humanity (Haaretz)
Leon Wieseltier discusses this in Extirpation (TNR – free reg. req.)

It has been argued, and persuasively, that the movement to settle and hold land captured in 1967, in particular the West Bank and Gaza Strip, has changed Orthodox Judaism more profoundly than any event since the Holocaust.
Respected rabbis based in New York have issued Halakhic decrees forbidding any Jew from ceding even an inch of soil of the Old Testament land of Israel.
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The parallel talk of Holocaust and Armageddon has sparked debate within Israel on the dangers of disengagement versus the risks of a concussive Jewish backlash.
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“We sense that the level of threat to the Temple Mount from the standpoint of extreme and fanatic Jewish elements carrying out a terrorist attack in order to ‘reshuffle the cards,’ to serve as a catalyst to a change in the entire political initiative [the disengagement process] – this level has risen in recent months and more so in recent weeks.”
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Speaking of the extremists dream to remove the “abomination” as they call it, from the Temple Mount, [Shin Bet chief Avi] Dichter declared that Jewish terror could pose a significant strategic threat to Israel as well as the Jews of the Diaspora, “turning the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians into a confrontation between 13 million Jews and one billion Muslims around the world.”
Is Jewish terror next? (Haaretz)

Osama agrees with Avi.
OBL tape Jan. 2004 (BBC)

There is also the fierce attempt to destroy the al-Aqsa Mosque and destroy the jihad and the mujahideen in beloved Palestine by employing the trick of the roadmap and the Geneva peace initiative.

The Americans’ intentions have also become clear in statements about the need to change the beliefs, curricula and morals of the Muslims to become more tolerant, as they put it.

In clearer terms, it is a religious-economic war.

The occupation of Iraq is a link in the Zionist-crusader chain of evil.

The second World War can be seen as a fight between one fanatic ideology against the rest of the world. Now we see a devolping conflict between three fanatic religious ideologies. Two of these are in a temporary coaltion against the third one which probably has the larger base. The ideologic religious geographic stripline between the camps coincidents with the economic striplines of control over oil and water. The chances to stop this religious-economic war may be small. But we better try to break this Chain of Evil.

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Better try… yep… 3000 years (and most likely more) of irrationality put under the pressure plate of ever-growing population makes for global-wide cultural insanity. Fromm said as much in the mid-20th C., as have many other “watchers”. Some humans made a valiant attempt to stem the tide during the Enlightenment. I’m sure they thought, as I’ve thought in the last 30 years that certainly, given the information and knowledge available, more people would see the folly of it. But they were disappointed in their lifetimes as I am in mine.
I wish I could sign on to an idea that the dominating, irrational belief systems can be mitigated. I can’t because deep down I don’t think it is possible. I think many catastrophes and regressions will have to take place in order for any of us to see change. My husband, never one to mince his words, puts it this way: “It’s a shit species, what do you expect?” Believe it or not I see more potential than he does, but not much more.
A grand and adventurous experiment — human civilization while it lasts. [sigh]

Posted by: Kate_Storm | Sep 18 2004 20:58 utc | 1

Praise Allah!

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Sep 18 2004 22:04 utc | 2

What are the odds of a Powell resignation in October? He must be weighing the outcome, at least in terms of his own reputation?
A thought not a prediction

Posted by: anna missed | Sep 18 2004 22:38 utc | 3

Well, it’s time for reasonable people to come to the obvious conclusion: it’s time enough that mankind get rid of these 3 monotheisms once and for all.
For one, I welcome the creation of a 4th power in the coming fight, whose express purpose will be to cleanse this friggin planet of these abominations.

Posted by: Anonymous | Sep 19 2004 0:06 utc | 4

Laura Rozen at the War and Piece blog has been covering this and has some worthwhile things there.

Posted by: maxcrat | Sep 19 2004 0:14 utc | 5

each day & every night we can feel our world turning imperceptily madder more furious – something coming off its axis
& it is stupidity which has led us there – the stupidity & the venality of the bush cheny junta, the sad, pathetic misperceptions of mr blair & co about the role of their doddering, clumsy & inept empire. they are like bothe servant & master in that film by joe losey ‘the servant’, berlusconi is the spwn of the mafia chieftan g. andreotti otherwise known as beezlebub, that political pygmy john howard whou would have been better off as a principal of a down & out catholic college in the outback of australia, the absolutely corrupt & self serving eastern europeans who are wandering peacefully into the massacre
chirac shroeder, annan – crying in the corner but witnessing the damage being done in the worlds name & the prince of darkness himself rupert murdoch laughing all the way to china at the sorry state of affairs he profits from
it surprises me not at all that there are those within these junta who would believe in the metaphysics of imbeciles – that their god or gods will save only them – what a sordid little world these sad creatures must create around themselves in the vast lossness of space that we will call america – where someone is piling his room with cans of baked beans for the afterlife, where he collects all his semi automatic weapons in one room to do gods bidding, where the imbecile priests stand outside abortion clinics reproducing their criminal imbecility for the benefit of foxnews & the rest
what world is this – am reminded of that grat joke in endgame by beckett aaboput the man who goes to his tailor & who is resisted week after week, month after month with alterations until the client can take no more & says to the tailor
“do you understand sir, that god made the world, the world in six days & you are bloody well not capable of making me a pair of trousers in three months”
to which the tailor replies
“but my dear sir, my dear sir, just look at the world & look at my trousers”
unfortunatel what we are living through is not comic & it is much too sordid to be called tragic
it is an everyday catastrophe, an everyday massacre
still steel

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Sep 19 2004 0:23 utc | 6

“In light of the Sharon government’s intent to destroy communities in the land of Israel and deliver them into the hands of the enemy, to violently uproot their residents and expel them, we declare that this expulsion and uprooting are a national crime and a crime against humanity, a display of tyranny, wickedness and arbitrariness, whose goal is to deprive Jews of their right to live in their land, merely because they are Jews…”

Holy moley! It’s all so clear now! Ariel Sharon is the Antichrist, and his, uh, Likudnik minions will overrun and destroy Israel! He’s also a self-loathing, anti-Semitic librul!
It’s interesting that New York Orthodox rabbis are the ones issuing decrees that Greater Israel is totally inviolable. I’ve heard that some, maybe many, Orthodox clergy in Israel have decided that the principle of preserving life is so important that some Biblical land can be ceded if it reduces killings. Actually living in the Promised Land must make them more cautious than armchair holy warriors in the West.

Posted by: Harrow | Sep 19 2004 1:32 utc | 7

jesus christ and pass the butter

Posted by: annie | Sep 19 2004 8:18 utc | 8

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