    THE SPIRIT OF SANTIAGO

    I came from Jerusalem ostensibly to launch my book in Spanish
    translation; but even more so to congratulate and bless you for your
    decision to pull your soldiers away from the wrong side in what is
    called the Iraqi War, but what is actually the battle for Palestine.
    When I wrote so in the series of articles presented in this book over a
    year ago, it was a wild opinion shared by a selected few; while majority
    was fed by stories of a war for liberation of Iraqis, a war for
    democracy in Iraq, a war to terror, a war to stop Saddam’s WMD, or a war
    for oil. A year passed and all these explanations vanished like smoke in
    the night. No WMD were found in devastated Iraq; no connections to
    al-Qaeda were revealed by tortured prisoners of Abu Ghraib and
    Guantanamo; liberation of Iraq turned out to be the brutal occupation
    regime; as for oil, at the beginning of the war, oil price stood at 20
    dollar a barrel, while now it is about 40 dollars. The oil companies
    that were blamed for pushing for the war, are pulling out of Iraq, and
    oil production is well below its pre-war levels. On 29th of April, 2004,
    the Guardian reported that BP decided to leave Iraq saying that the oil
    company has no future there.

    It leaves us exactly with one reason for war, the reason we stated over
    a year ago. Sometimes it is called ‘the war for Israel’, but this
    definition misses the point: the state of Israel does not need this war
    for its safety; Israelis do not need this war for their well-being. The
    Jews can live as equals in Palestine or elsewhere; but they want to
    dominate water, land and souls of the others. For this reason they kill
    children and ruin homes of Palestinians in Gaza and Iraqis in Faluja.
    This is the war for Jewish supremacy waged by the US adepts of this
    concept, against the principle of equality of all dwellers in the Holy
    Land. In such a war, Spain has no reason to side with the forces of
    Jewish supremacy, to provide cover for mass destructions in Palestine
    and for mass tortures in Guantanamo.

    Spain had no reason to fight for Jewish racism as your country has a
    glorious anti-racist record often distorted in modern Jewish narrative
    which became the dominant Anglo-American discourse. You are blamed for
    so-called Expulsion of 1492. But majority of exiled Jews came back, gave
    up their racist tradition of superiority, agreed to share bread and wine
    with other Spaniards – for that is the meaning of Eucharist - and became
    honourable citizens of Spain. S Teresa of Avila and S Juan de la Cruz
    are the shining examples of their glory.

    On the other hand, England under Cromwell accepted the exiled Jews and
    received kudos from the Masters of Discourse for this deed. They do not
    speak of its connection with fencing out the English commoners, with
    massacre of Irish peasants and Scots, and with massive genocide of
    Native Americans in their colonies, but the regimes that are ‘good for
    Jews’ are rarely good for anybody else.

    The same Masters of Discourse vilify Spain for its treatment of Native
    Americans. But in the end, Spaniards married natives and brought forward
    the modern nations of Latin America, while the North American colonists,
    who were very good to Jews and considered themselves ‘new Jews’, killed
    off almost all natives and transferred the remainder into reservations.

    They vilify Spain for your inquisition, but in the Protestant countries
    thousands of women were burned on stake as witches – something that
    can’t happen in a country that venerated Mother of God as you do.

    Indeed it is a mistake to think that theology is an irrelevant
    occupation of useless clerics, while only material possessions matter.
    Theology is the deep foundation courses on which the palace of a society
    is built. Without foundations, the palace will collapse at a blow of a
    strong wind, let alone earthquake. It was the reason of Soviet collapse:
    quasi-religious communism had no strong theological foundation and did
    not survive. In the ‘neo-Jewish’ US, the Judaic paradigm came forth in
    place of apostolic Christianity, and with it the New World Order of
    dwindling middle class, vast security apparatus, growing social gap and
    impoverishment of spirit. It is not the first time the Judaic paradigm
    rises in the world; but such societies invariably collapse for they lack
    broad social base. Now its adepts decided to ensure its survival by
    making it globe-wide; this is the reason of wars and expansion, for
    their design would not survive on any smaller scale.

    Everywhere they promote leaders who accept their theology and ideology.
    Such leaders can belong to the Right like your Aznar, or to the Left
    like Tony Blair in Britain, but they invariably support the Judaic idea
    of superiority and are ready to send their countrymen to fight for it in
    far-away lands. Maybe they are good for Jews, but they are bad for the
    rest. Indeed, now the struggle of Left and Right became obsolete in face
    of the new dichotomy, and here in this room I see people whose fathers
    exchanged fire at Hueska and Tarragona in the 1936-1939 war. My uncle
    fought in the International Brigade for the Republic, while maybe your
    father fought on the side of Franco, but now we stand united for spirit,
    tradition and equality against supporters of spirit-less and rootless
    supremacy.

    The old wars remain in the past. You fought the Moors, but now Spain is
    a good friend to Morocco. You fought Napoleon, but now you are friends
    and allies with France. In a similar way, the war of Left and Right
    belongs to the past, like war of Carlistas and Isabellinas, of York and
    Lancaster, of Union and Confederacy. The Right and Left tendencies do
    not disappear, for both are needed for society, like two arms and two
    legs for a man. The Right ensures continuity of tradition and
    preservation of the roots; the Left promotes equality and ability to
    reform. Their Ying-Yang struggle makes society work; while total victory
    of one of the two paradigms derails society.

    The tragic and destructive confrontation of Left and Right reached its
    peak in your Civil War and at the World War Two, where the two great
    anti-bourgeois movements, ‘left and right disciples of Hegel’ shed their
    blood ad majoram US gloriam, to the greater glory of the neo-Judaic US,
    the ultimate winner of war. I came to this understanding in Russia of
    1990, when the pro-American neo-liberals called the veterans of
    Stalingrad, the patriots of Russia, - ‘red-brown’, claiming there is no
    difference between Communism and National Socialism.

    Nowadays we have pseudo-Left and pseudo-Right, for there is no
    difference between Thatcher and Blair, Bush and Kerry – both equally
    support Israel in its drive for supremacy. In Spain and France, the left
    and the right-wing newspapers were united in their condemnation of the
    Passion of Christ by Mel Gibson as ‘offensive to Jews’. Thus, instead of
    Left and Right, we have a new dichotomy, a new split, by attitude to
    Judaic supremacy. Today the US fights the Muslims for Israel, but
    Huntington, the leading theorist of the war, already calls to contain
    the Hispanics in the US, as they are not sufficiently devoted to the
    Jewish cause.

    You can gauge your leaders by their attitude to the plight of
    Palestinian peasants. If they prefer to hobnob with Sharon, they will be
    bad to you, as well. All of them will go, as Aznar went, for the people
    understood the reasons for the war. There can be only one solution in
    the Holy Land that will bring peace to the world – that of full equality
    of Jews and non-Jews in the whole of Palestine, of deconstruction of the
    supremacist Jewish state and its conversion into a true democracy for
    all. It was called for by late Edward Said, and now by Mustafa
    Barghouthi, the most popular Palestinian leader. More and more Israelis
    also reach the conclusion that there is no other way to stop the
    bulldozers.

    Spain has an important role to play, for Spain is inherently connected
    with the Land of Christ and St James, your favourite saint whom you call
    Santiago. This Palestinian fisherman was beheaded by orders of Sharon’s
    predecessor, King Herod Antipas, and his head was taken by his disciples
    to your shores to be interned in Santiago de Compostella, but his heart
    remained buried in Jerusalem, and Cathedral of St James rose above his
    tomb equally venerated by Palestinian Christians and Muslims, for in our
    land Christians and Muslims live together in great peace and harmony
    sharing same places of veneration and – no less important – same enemy.
    Their enemy is not ‘the Jew’, for Jews can live peacefully with
    Spaniards and Palestinians, but the spirit of Judaic supremacy which has
    to be defeated and it will be defeated.