Reviewed by Tom White

Shamir answers for me the question: What is wrong in the world that our nation is collapsing—or at least getting ready to collapse—in a welter of monstrous, unpayable debt, illegal and unwinnable wars, pornographic “entertainment,” grossly corrupt government, ruinous taxation, and totalitarian-style police-state encroachments on the activities of everyday people, all the while no one seems to be able to do anything to stop any of it?

Shamir comes now with even more serious accusations, and reporting, if you will, from the inside, to contend that “the Jews” (defined below) are engaged in a monstrous scheme of world control and world government that is within an ace of carrying the day.

Shamir is himself a fairly recent convert to (Orthodox) Christianity. I find everything that he writes (that I have so far read) illuminated by a fine intelligence, a good heart, massive knowledge of world history, a truly Christian humility, tremendous sophistication, considerable humor, and a determination to speak his piece no matter what.

Shamir’s primary focus is on the injustice to Palestine, but he sees the situation there as a microcosm of what is ahead for the whole world:

Israel/Palestine is the model of the world the Americans want to achieve. It has peasants and their flocks dying of thirst, and on the hilltop there are villas and swimming pools for the chosen folk, It has a huge army and it has many labourers without any rights. In order to turn all the world into Palestine they began now Word War 3 against the Third World.

Shamir’s political position on the Israel-Palestine contest is that the Zionists—in his eyes clearly the aggressors, the invaders—should dismantle their racist state, end their murderous hatred of their Palestinian neighbors (who it must be admitted return the favor), and proceed to melt into the population of Palestine, becoming the friends and neighbors of Palestinians.

The Jews should agree with the Palestinians to devise a single state with all on both sides of the present impasse equal and welcome—one person, one vote—and end all talk of any group’s being the chosen of God with special claims on “The Holy Land.”

Shamir continues (page15): “His [Weininger’s] words are even more relevant now; with the Rise of the Jews, it is the burden of people with Jewish roots to undo Jewry.”

To repeat: “. . . it is the burden of people with Jewish roots to undo Jewry.” The thing is quite hopeless if the Jews won’t do it themselves. Remember the dominical statement that “salvation is of the Jews.” And keep in mind, too, that “Jewry” for Shamir is synonymous with “the Jews,” not all Jews, but those possessed of the Pharisaic, that is, the “Judaic” spirit, that was evident at the trial of Christ 2,000 years ago. For Shamir it is the spirit of Mammon, the evil spirit that Christ said was “the other choice.” One may serve God or Mammon, not both.

http://www.culturewars.com/2005/Pardes.html