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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (21368)	7/10/2004 12:30:55 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 80976

Gustave > Barkun says it was British-Israel's very openness to "rejected knowledge" that made it vulnerable to strange ideological infections, once it crossed the Atlantic Indeed, but when you read further you see that these "infections" were of the seriously anti-Semitic kind: >>William Cameron, Henry Ford's publicist, was a member of this group. It was under his editorship that the Ford-subsidized newspaper, the Dearborn Independent, published "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" and "The International Jew," as well as some articles with a British-Israel slant. The association of these ideas was not altogether original with Cameron, but it became more pronounced as British- Israel drew further and further away from its British origin. Their synthesis into Identity proper occurred not in the offices of a major publisher or other respectable organization, but in the shadowy underworld of popular cults and demotic religion. At the turn of the century, some of the leading lights of the early Pentecostal movement had been persuaded by British-Israel doctrines through contact with Bible colleges on the East Coast that were associated with the British-Israel umbrella groups. These ideas then spread in increasingly protean form in the California cult underground. They were influential in the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia even before the First World War. It was, indeed, in British Columbia that the new and most virulent antisemitic doctrines associated with Identity were apparently invented. (Herbert W. Armstrong's Worldwide Church, another creature of the Northwest religious environment, is an example of a British-Israel denomination that is not an Identity group.) The Aryans, it seems, simply incarnated the Sons of God, while the non-whites and Jews were literally the embodiments of devils. By the 1960s, the Identity Movement was willing to accommodate any ideas at all, provided its racialist view of the world was maintained, particularly the doctrine that the Jews are the source of all evil.<< Thus I maintain that the "Marriage of Convenience" between these people and the Zionists is not only based on the flimsiest of reasons, namely a common hatred for Muslims, but it is indeed extraordinary that it could have come about at all. As I see it, the reason was the brilliant insight of the GOP "management" in recognizing that religious fanatics like W and Ashcroft would provide the necessary catalyst in uniting the aspirations of big business, often Jewish, with "grass roots" Christian fundamentalism. There is certainly nothing about the State of Israel that one could call "religious". In fact, as I have mentioned, it has come about in defiance of traditional Jewish religious texts. Indeed, its creation was based purely on expedience, response to anti-Semitism, opportunity and opportunism. Possibly this fact was recognized by people like Pat Robertson who saw in the existence of the State of Israel a means for justifying the Rapture and therefore a verification of End Time Christian religious texts. Fascinating how one is witnessing a Jewish and a Christian "reformation" taking place before one's very eyes and no-one even mentions it.