    The Divine Wind A Homage to Simone Weil
    by Israel Shamir

    Walls of cold rain and hale encompassed my Jaffa; streets turned into
    ferocious streams; snow touched palm trees and whitened the sidewalks of
    subtropical Tel Aviv, in violent counterpoint to the violet skies
    hanging low, just handbreadth above the belfries and minarets as
    hurricane rushed masses of sand and rain clouds over the deep cleft of
    the Dead Sea into Palestine. Sandstorm of unheard of magnitude broke all
    over the Middle East, stopping American tanks in the desert, blinding
    pilots of their planes, covering the crosshairs of their weapons,
    threatening to capsize the monstrous battleships in the Gulf. Hundred
    armoured troop carriers were savaged by the sandstorm. Such Divine Wind
    saved Japan from Mongol landing of Kublai Khan; such storm preserved
    Elizabethan England from Spanish occupation.

    Like the Spaniards of the Armada on their way to English shores, the
    Mammonite force was not prepared to meet this divine intervention. The
    invaders planned to enter the soft underbelly of Asia easily and
    smoothly as dagger of Jack the Ripper tore defenceless women. No
    opposition was envisaged. John Wayne or Burt Lancaster would hand over
    his spare gun to the weaponless foe before the fatal shootout; but the
    Mammonites are not the noble American heroes of the old Westerns. They
    were not satisfied with their technical superiority, with ten to one
    numerical advantage of the captive American population over Iraqi
    people; they demanded to disarm their enemy. The cowards landed only
    after the obedient UN obligingly disarmed the Iraqis and smashed their
    last rusty missiles.

    They did not expect this supernatural intervention of elements as the
    Mammonite power is based, in Dostoyevsky's words, on secret knowledge
    that there is no God. But the material world is not dead matter.
    Everything in this world is alive and interconnected; our history, our
    present and future, our visions and our social structure, sandstorms and
    hurricanes, earthquakes and revolutions are part and parcel of the
    tightly connected trinity of Earth, Man and God. The will of the people,
    of billions of men and women opposing the Anglo-American aggression, was
    expressed in mammoth demos around the globe, and in the solemn halls of
    the United Nations, but it was scorned by the Mammonites. This will of
    the people was translated into sandstorms to remind us that our wishes
    are as powerful as those of Olympian gods, and integrated will of people
    is indeed Vox Dei. By disregarding will of God and Man, the War Party
    sowed the seeds of their destruction for they are intoxicated by their
    Might.

    II

    "The strong are never absolutely strong, nor are the weak absolutely
    weak. Those who have Might on loan from fate count on it too much and
    are destroyed. Might is as pitiless to the man who possesses it (or
    thinks he does) as it is to its victims. The second it crushes, the
    first it intoxicates", wrote Simone Weil, the French philosopher and
    divine who witnessed the great intoxication of Might called World War
    Two. She referred to the Trojan War, when she extracted this sublime
    lesson from the Iliad: "The human race is not divided up, in the Iliad,
    into conquered and conquerors. There is no refuge from fate; learn not
    to admire Might, not to hate the enemy, not to scorn the vanquished".

    This modern saint who was born into a Jewish family, joined Communists,
    fought in Spain, worked with the workers of Renault and followed St
    Teresa into the Church, Simone Weil recaptured the Trojan War as the
    tragedy for both the Greeks and the Trojans for they did not stop when
    they could. At certain point, the Greeks could have had 90% of their
    demands, but they preferred to risk all and to win all. At different
    point, the Trojans could have had 90% of their wishes met, but they also
    choose to risk all. The two parties suffered, both lost their best men,
    and victorious Achaeans were defeated some fifty years later by the
    invading Dorian wave.

    In a similar way, the Nazis went too far in 1939. The world accommodated
    some of their demands, for Prague was under German rule for hundreds of
    years, and the French control over the Ruhr Valley was not based on law
    and tradition. German demand for free unhindered access to Danzig and
    Königsberg was not an unreasonable one. Hitler could stop at it and get
    away with it. 'Appeasement' was sound politics and reasonable course in
    1938. But in 1939-1940 the German Reich proved its insatiability.
    Czechoslovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia, Greece, Denmark — many states were
    overrun until the world has decided to stop the Nazi expansion. The
    dreadful war ruined Europe and Russia, and prepared ground to the
    Mammonite accession.

    The Zionists went too far. They could have a decent share in the sweet
    land of Palestine, willing Palestinian workers and friends, endless
    supply of cheap oil and resources from the hinterland to Haifa
    refineries, very good life for themselves and their children. But they
    wanted to have all, and to leave nothing to the vanquished. That is why
    their days are numbered.

    The Mammonites repeat the errors of Hitler and Sharon. First,
    Afghanistan. Nobody could understand why the Mammonites decided to
    attack this remote kingdom, but they got away with it, with mass
    slaughter of prisoners, with destruction of Afghani livelihood, with
    unleashing opium production previously eliminated by Taliban. Now, Iraq.
    The battle is still undecided, and already Michael A. Ledeen of AEI (the
    American Enterprise Institute), a Zionist and Mammonite (if these twin
    ideologies can be separated) reminds us, "Iraq is a battle, not a war.
    After Baghdad, Tehran, Damascus, Riyadh"[1]. And afterwards, Paris,
    Berlin, Moscow, Beijing. Today they wish to remove Saddam Hussein;
    tomorrow they will demand the head of Chirac, Schroeder and Putin.

    They are already demanding full boycott of France[2] and the follow-up
    action is on the way. Here is one of the Mammonite ads: "Boycott France
    because American lives and security are at stake. France has every right
    to disagree with America. But France has moved from simple dissent to
    active hostility toward America. French President Chirac warned East
    European nations that if they side with America, France will oppose
    their membership in the European Union. This week, William Safire
    reported in the New York Times that France has been secretly helping to
    arm Iraq - and has been helping Iraq build long range missiles. These
    same missiles may soon be used against American soldiers". Safire is a
    leading Zionist Commissar, and his 'report' is a Zionist fatwa against
    France and its President. In the report[3] of the warmongers'
    get-together, this plan is unveiled: "Kristol urged that we split
    Germany off from France but noted that such "intelligent diplomacy may
    be too much to hope for from the State Department." When Perle declared
    that "Americans are not vindictive," Ledeen interrupted to say that, in
    the case of France, he certainly hoped we would be".

    That is why there is an urgent need to borrow a leaf from the American
    book. In 1823, the U.S President James Monroe upheld the Monroe Doctrine
    in his annual message to Congress. Declaring that the Old World and New
    World had different systems and must remain distinct spheres, Monroe
    made four basic points: (1) The United States would not interfere in the
    internal affairs of or the wars between European powers; (2) the United
    States recognized and would not interfere with existing colonies and
    dependencies in the Western Hemisphere; (3) the Western Hemisphere was
    closed to future colonization; and (4) any attempt by a European power
    to oppress or control any nation in the Western Hemisphere would be
    viewed as a hostile act against the United States.

    Now it is the right time to proclaim the fully symmetric Eurasian
    Doctrine. Let the US stay away from the Old World of Eurasia, and stop
    its attempts to oppress or control any nation in Eurasia. Britain should
    decide whether it intends to act as a Trojan Horse, in apt words of de
    Gaulle, or sincerely join Europe. Iraq, or any other country in Eurasia,
    is not open for American colonisation. The free nations of Eurasia, led
    by France, Germany, Russia and China should condemn the Mammonite
    aggression in the UN and call for sanctions against aggressor. The US
    dollar should cease to be the reserve currency, and the US debt of $ 6.4
    T (trillion) should be called in. The US-owned media, the tool of
    indoctrination, should be treated as racist propaganda for it sanctified
    killing of Arabs. The US forces should leave Eurasia and peace restored
    in the interests of all sides.

    III

    The unjust sanctions against the noble people of Iraq should be lifted
    immediately. These sanctions caused death of millions of innocents,
    including a million of Iraqi children. They prepared ground for the
    Mammonite aggression. The terrible campaign of demonisation carried out
    by Mammonite media against Saddam Hussein, Iraqis and Arabs in general
    should be denounced as racist bigotry.

    Saddam Hussein is not a Santa Claus or St Francis. He is not a gentle
    king-philosopher, but President Allende of Chile was the most liberal
    and progressive ruler, and still he was overthrown and assassinated by
    the CIA-sponsored General Pinochet, this great friend of Zionist
    Mammonites Margaret Thatcher, Henry Kissinger and Conrad Black. Liberal
    and progressive Prime Minister of Iran Mohamed Mossadegh was overthrown
    as well and replaced by the authoritarian rule of the Shah. Saddam
    Hussein was brought into being by the very spirit of the Arab world as
    its defender, for a civilisation (in Toynbeean sense) meeting a lethal
    challenge produces stern and warlike leaders able to meet the challenge.

    When Russia was to be attacked by the most cruel and dangerous enemy of
    its history, Russia's spirit brought forth a Georgian defrocked priest
    and made him the ruler of the Soviet Union. A kinder, softer man would
    not be able to sacrifice millions of Russians (including his own son)
    and defeat the Third Reich.

    The Arab world was mismanaged for centuries by outside powers; by
    Ottoman Turks, by the colonialists, and now by the Mammonite
    neo-colonial web. Saddam Hussein is the first strong independent ruler
    of Arabs since Saladin; it is not a blind coincidence he was born in
    Tikrit, the city that gave birth to the noble vanquisher of Crusaders.
    He could unite the Arab world and restore the Caliphate — like de Gaulle
    and Adenauer restored the Carolingian Empire. It has to be done as the
    present parcellation of the Arab lands created a string of rich sheiks,
    protected oil wells and impoverished masses. Saddam is able to confront
    Mammonites and Zionists, and that is why he is much loved by the people
    of the Middle East.

    Saddam is vilified by the Mammonite media, but it only proves he is the
    right man in the right place. For whomever they glorify is surely their
    collaborator. They loved Mikhail Gorbachev, who demolished the USSR;
    they love Tony Blair who turned England into an American colony. John
    Pilger described it well in his introduction to the new edition of the
    great classic of Phillip Knightley, The First Casualty:[4] "The media
    could praise the "miraculously few casualties" in the Gulf War (meaning
    the few British and American casualties), while the horror of up to a
    quarter of a million Iraqis slaughtered by the US-led forces was
    consigned to oblivion". Yesterday, cruel ex-defence minister of Israel,
    Fuad Ben Eliezer, the murderer of hundreds of Palestinian civilians,
    called Saddam Hussein on Israeli TV, 'a fearsome man'. For me, and for
    other people of the Middle East, whoever frightens Ben Eliezer can't be
    all that bad.

    Saddam passed with honours the severe test of war: his people remain
    loyal to him and fight the Mammonite aggressor. We should support him in
    this hour of doom, like Winston Churchill supported Joseph Stalin. Do
    not worry: when the Arab world will regain its independence within the
    framework of friendly Eurasia, it will produce kind and gentle rulers,
    lovers of arts and letters.

    IV

    American and English soldiers were sent to commit the worst of war
    crimes, that of aggression against a sovereign state. But they weren't
    sent in the interests of Americans and Englishmen. They were sent to
    extend the Mammonite rule all over the Middle East. We do not identify
    the Mammonites with the people of America. The Mammonites come and go,
    while the people remain forever. Nor should the Europeans repeat the
    American folly and try to 'liberate' America. Let Americans free
    themselves from the Mammonite yoke. It is in their interests, for the
    Mammonites are not a forgiving lot. They will not forgive anybody who
    stood on their way. They will try to crush the internal American
    opposition. They stored all the photos on participants in the anti-war
    demos, and they will use them, sooner or later.

    The Mammonites are blinded by their sheer power, by their coup of
    harnessing America to their master plans. Their lack of compassion was
    manifested in Guantanamo, where they cage their unfortunate prisoners.
    Their Chutzpah was manifested when they demanded to disarm Iraq and
    attacked it afterwards, turning all of us into their unwilling henchmen.
    Their lack of sincerity is proven by massive campaign of lies and
    disinformation. Their godless nature is seen in their refusal to obey
    the pastoral instructions of the churches. Only some Zionist TV
    preachers support their war.

    The Mammonites utilise the Zionist network and mislead the Jews into
    obedience. The US Senate started the war by presenting the Jewish state
    with ten billion dollars, and in return, "God Bless America", headlined
    its today edition a major Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot, and its web
    edition declared that 'the hearts and prayers of Israelis go out to the
    US armed forces'.

    "Much of the ideological justification and political pressure for war
    against Iraq has come from right-wing American Zionists, many of them
    Jews, closely allied to Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and
    occupying influential positions both inside and outside the Bush
    administration. It is a Bush-Sharon war against Iraq", wrote Patrick
    Seale, the British observer and expert on the Middle East. Seale is
    right — up to a point. The 'left-wing' American Zionists, many of them
    Jews, are as guilty of Mammonitis as their right-wing brethren.

    Bob Norman reports from South Florida:[5] "Robert Wexler has made
    himself one of the nation's loudest critics of President Bush. The
    liberal congressman attacked Bush on the environment, prescription
    drugs, corporate scandals, tax cuts for the rich, and the president's
    2000 election tactics. But Wexler told on TV that war on Iraq is a swell
    idea. Wexler and several other Jewish Democrats in Congress, led by
    Connecticut's Senator Joe Lieberman and a gaggle of representatives from
    California and New York, are spoiling for that fight. And because these
    same politicians can usually be counted on to anchor the Democrats'
    opposition to Bush, they have helped to destroy any hope of the party's
    reining in Dick Cheney's dogs of war".

    The US and UK Zionists do not endanger their power base by supporting
    the war. While their positions in the media are well known, "there are
    some 15 Jewish soldiers (0.03% of the British invasion force in Iraq)
    among the 45,000 British fighters currently in action in the U.S.-led
    campaign,[6] reports Haaretz. This disparity explains a lot, including
    the 'chicken-hawks' label. Their mad ideas include restoration of
    Greater Israel from Nile to Euphrates and 'historic revenge' to Babylon
    for the destruction of the Temple of Solomon in BC 586, as it was called
    for by David Ben Gurion, the founder of Israel. Needless to say, these
    insane plans are not in the true interest of Americans or sane majority
    of Jews.

    While rejecting the Mammonite-Zionist covenant, we do not identify the
    enemy with a religious or ethnic group. Indeed, many Americans of Jewish
    origin stand against the war and against the Mammonites. I do not want
    to mention again their precious names for there is no need to
    distinguish between them and other good Americans. The enemy is the
    Mammonite ideology, a weird crossbreed of the Roman and Hebrew
    attitudes, in terminology of Simone Weil. She wrote:

    "The Romans and Hebrews were much admired and quoted every time one
    wanted to justify a crime. For Romans, conquered people were objects of
    contempt, and they had no epics, no tragedies. For Hebrews, cruelty to
    the vanquished is permissible, indeed indispensable." Simone Weil
    perceived the Gospels as the last and brilliant manifestation of the
    Hellene spirit of the Iliad, the spirit of compassion that sees humanity
    of both sides in the war. That is the spirit the Americans could invoke.

    The compassionate and fiercely independent America of Henry Thoreau and
    Gore Vidal could and should win its long battle against the Mammonite
    spirit. Provided both main parties of the US are infiltrated to equal
    extent, the way out lays in giving more — much more — power to the
    states, while reducing the Federal government's functions to the US
    Mail. The best American intellectuals' magazine, the Harpers' Monthly,
    recently drew an idyllic picture of the world, where instead of the
    monstrous US, some seven or eight states (California, New England,
    Texas, the Confederacy etc) occupy the landmass of the North America
    between Mexico and Canada. Such smaller (size of France!) and more
    manageable states would be able to form meaningful relations between
    their people and their landscape, create real and not imaginary
    communities, produce art and relate to Man and God.

    Americans will be able to live much better, happier and inspired life.
    For instance, $ 75B (seventy five billion) America spends on the Iraq
    war could provide fifty million Americans with free health care, or six
    million young men with university education. Americans will be able to
    celebrate the Nativity of Christ, not only 'seasons' at Christmas, and
    His Resurrection at Easter, without fear.

    Even the Mammonite spirit of commerce will shake off its destructiveness
    when confined to the Big Apple. Who knows, maybe independent New York
    will re-create the glory of Venice, this great trading republic, when
    disengaged from the huge continent.

    Israel, the exclusivist Jewish state, has no place in the free Middle
    East; but its inhabitants, adoptive Palestinians of Jewish faith or
    origin, will be welcomed and desired citizens of the Palestinian
    Commonwealth, on a par with Native Palestinians. Their abilities will
    help them to lead their common country to prosperity and equality. Thus,
    the noble Zionist goal of bringing Jews back to the home of their
    ancestors will be accomplished, and the descendents of Jews elsewhere
    would be able to forget separatism and blend peacefully into the nations
    they live among.