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Titolo: a cosa serviva il sionismo secondo Churcill

ZIONISM versus BOLSHEVISM.
A STRUGGLE FOR THE SOUL OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
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.
Good and Bad Jews.
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 he 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.
'National' Jews.
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 in 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
English man 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 tn play an honorable 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 upholder of
friendship with France and Great Britain.
International Jews.
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 (Hungary), 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.
Terrorist Jews.
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.
'Protector of the Jews.'
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 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 offenses 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 Petlura and of
Gregorieff, who signalized their every 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.
A Home for the Jews.
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 centre of national
life. The statesmanship and historic sense of Mr. Balfour were prompt
to seize this opportunity. Declarations have now been made which have
irrevocably decided the policy of Great Britain. The fiery energies of
Dr. Weissmann, 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
millions 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. Weissmann 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.
Duty of Loyal Jews.
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 honor 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.
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Winston Churchill, "Zionism Verses Bolshevism: A Struggle For The Soul
Of The Jewish People," Illustrated London Sunday Herald, February 8,
1920
un'ottima dimostrazione di come anche gli antisemiti (il paragrafo sul
complotto ebraico comunista è da manuale) erano disposti a sostenere
il sionismo, visto come fenomeno reazionario e imperialista in grado
di portare gli ebrei dal sostegno alla rivoluzione sociale al sostegno
all'imperialismo europeo nel mondo arabo.

 Am. 

 la grandezza Churchilliana casomai ne esce rafforzata,
ma hai letto o no? Il paragrafo sul complotto ebraico comunista è roba
che poteva stare nel Mein Kampf