    Civilisation X
    By Israel Shamir

    (A talk given at “The Dialogue of Civilizations: the Contradictions of
    the Globalization” International Conference on May 23, 2003, in Kyiv,
    Ukraine. At the conference, Shamir was elected a member of the Ukrainian
    State Administration Academy)

    The organisers of the conference could not find a better place to
    discuss its topic, for Ukraine is the borderlands between Civilizations;
    the ground where these ultimate personae of human history check their
    valour and vitality by prayer and sword. Founded by Vikings, peopled by
    Slavs, baptised by Byzantines, decorated by poplar and scented by lilac,
    Kyiv is the tolerant city of Igor’s Lay, the old epic poem of a battle
    waging between the Orthodox Christian Slavs and the Turkic horsemen. Its
    hero Prince Igor, a Roland of Eastern Europe, marries a daughter of a
    Turkic chieftain, for there is no reason for deadly enmity between
    cultures. Rudyard Kipling expressed it in the last less frequently
    quoted line: ‘there is neither East nor West, when two strong men stand
    face to face’.

    Though your thyme-perfumed steppes interspaced with chestnut groves
    served as the preferred battlefield of Germans, Turks and Slavs,
    paradoxically, the border skirmishes of Janissaries, Cossacks and
    Hussars, the let-go of excessive masculine energy, prove the
    civilizations have no reason for conflict. Orthodox Christians, Roman
    Catholics and Muslims have their own habitat and they do not stray out
    of it, while the warriors deeply respect their adversaries and display
    their chivalry between the wars.

    It is a trite observation, and that is why the concept of Clash of
    Civilisations was shunned in political discourse since the Crusades. The
    confrontations were perceived as ideological ones, be it the Cold War of
    Communism and Capitalism, or colonial wars of Imperialism and
    Liberation. American political scientists revived the Neo-Darwinist and
    racist concept of Clash of Civilisations for practical reasons: to
    explain and encourage the war of America against the World. Its enemies
    are presented in ‘civilisational’ terms: ‘Old’ (read: independent)
    Europe, Dar al-Islam, China. If these are the enemies, who are the
    friends? What is ‘our’ civilisation of Huntington and Strauss, Perle and
    Wurmser, Feith and Rice? Whatever it is, this Civilisation X is equally
    rejected by people of Eastern and Western Europe, French and Ukrainian,
    Germans and Greeks, Chinese and Zulu.

    Let us consider the qualities of this Civilisation X:

    It is exterritorial, knows no borders and able to attack and devour from
    Iraq to China, from Russia to Nicaragua. It has no natural habitat and
    able of endless expansion. Wherever there is a man to enslave, a house
    to bomb, a tree to fell, it is ready to come.

    Its main occupation is usury. They provide loans to states, ensnare them
    with impossible conditions and ruin them.

    It considers human solidarity and brotherhood ‘totalitarianism’.

    It rejects Spirit and considers it ‘fanaticism and fundamentalism’.

    It equally abhors Apostolic Christianity and Islam; but it loves to set
    the Christians upon the Muslims, and vice versa.

    Its devotion is given to the Jewish State. Not only the JINSA Cabal is
    ethnically faithful to Israel; the US National Security Adviser
    Condoleezza Rice said that the security of Israel is the key to security
    of the world. Rice added that she feels a deep affinity with Israel.

    It is heavily engaged in drugs. Wherever they win, heroin has its field
    day. London's The Independent newspaper, reported from Baghdad: The
    city, which had never seen heroin, is now flooded with narcotics. It is
    not unusual that where the Americans go, the narcotics flourish. Taliban
    had successfully eliminated the drugs from Afghanistan but since the US
    forces took over the control, Afghanistan has become the largest
    producer of heroin. Some reports suggest that the drug and arms
    trafficking is patronized by the CIA to finance its covert operations
    worldwide.

    It exalts vengeance. The war against Afghanistan was promoted as
    ‘vengeance for 9/11’.

    It has soul of dastardly knave, in its narrow meaning of ‘opposite to
    noble’. They did not dare to attack Iraq until it was fully disarmed by
    the UN.

    It produces no art. In vain archaeologists of Fourth Millennium will
    search for their Venus. The rusty American Venus a.k.a opus 5327
    exhibited in the Guggenheim is identical to any heap of scrap metal.
    There are no glorious temples, no exciting architecture, absolutely
    nothing to miss if the gods would pour sulphur and brimstone on its
    cities.

    It is obsessed with paranoid fear. It is not enough that America spends
    on weapons ten times more money than the rest of the world. They want to
    disarm everybody. The war in Iraq was caused by desire to remove its
    weapons. Now they want to disarm Iran, Syria, Korea, and Ukraine and
    Russia just wait for its turn.

    Fear of weapons is not aimed exclusively outside: the proponents of
    Civilisation X try their best to disarm the American people as well. For
    this reason they committed the mass murder at Waco and implicated
    militias in Oklahoma bombing.

    It despises labour and labourers. American cinema, the only existing
    quasi-art output of Civilisation X, depicts millionaires and whores,
    gamblers and brokers, bums and gangsters, but its last worker was
    depicted in the pre-war Grapes of Wrath.

    It loves the rich. They believe the rich are virtuous, for they are
    blessed with wealth, while the poor are evil and damned just because
    they are poor.

    The psychological portrait should be recognisable for the Ukrainians.
    Yes, the Civilisation X presently at war with the rest of the world, is
    this eminently familiar and contemptible figure, a medieval Ukrainian
    Jew, a usurer, tax collector and alcohol pusher magnified by a factor of
    million. Its size impeded our recognition, for it is not easy to
    recognise an elephant-size louse.

    Centuries ago, this figure ruled your steppes. After expulsion from
    France and Spain, the immigrant Jews settled in the Ukraine, suborned
    the timid native Jews and in short time strategically placed themselves
    between Polish landlords and Ukrainian peasants. They had lent money to
    landlords and peasants, pushed alcohol, managed the feudal estates, and
    eventually became the ultimate source of power. The Jews fought the
    Church, for the Church objected to their liberal trade in alcohol and
    usury. Until nowadays, the Jewish word kabala (receipt) is used in the
    Ukrainian language for ‘debt enslavement’.

    The Civilisation X pushes heroin instead of vodka, loans out billions
    instead of two roubles, sucks out the wealth of nations instead of
    meagre livelihood of a peasant, fears nuclear weapons rather than
    moujik’s axe, but it is the same complex of ideas and methods. In short,
    Civilisation X is a dangerous and aggressive mutation of Jewish spirit
    grafted on the Anglo-American basis. Huntington was right – up to a
    point. The Conflict of Civilisations is unavoidable, but it is not a
    conflict of Christendom and Islam, but the conflict of Christians and
    Muslims versus Neo-Jews.

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    What a strange and dreadful thought, one would say. However, this
    thought is shared by many Jews, for instance, by a prominent Jewish
    thinker, ex-Rabbi of Oxford, author of a few books, a TV personality,
    Rabbi Shmuel Boteach, incidentally, a leader of Khabbad, the most racist
    and xenophobic Jewish movement. He notices and blesses similarity,
    almost identity of the traditional Jewish attitude and the ruling US
    paradigm. I do agree with him in his diagnosis, though our conclusions
    are diametrically opposed. Rabbi Boteach proclaims in The Jerusalem
    Post: “America and the Jews are teaming up take over the world. But it
    is a conquest of ideas rather than armies, and you can be sure that when
    they give it back, it will be in much better shape than when they took
    it.”

    It is a conquest of ideas, but they are backed up by Tomahawks. These
    ideas will improve the world, like the character of the Jewish joke
    ‘translated and improved’ Shakespeare. As for ‘give it back’, tell it to
    Palestinians.

    The ideas are the worst part of Jewish heritage, for these ideas were
    already tried in the Ukraine and now they are tried in Palestine. These
    ideas force many young Palestinians (‘suicide bombers’) to commit
    suicide rather than to live under the unbearable Jewish rule. These old
    Jewish ideas were modernized by Leo Strauss, the brain behind the JINSA
    cabal. Pfaff sums them up in a one-liner ‘The ostensibly hidden truth is
    that expediency works; there is no certain God to punish wrongdoing’, or
    in even shorter form, their power is based on the secret knowledge that
    there is no God.

    It is not a new observation. The Prophets complained about the Jews who
    act as if there is no God to punish wrongdoing or apportion grace. Since
    God through Christ has opened his Covenant to the Gentiles, those from
    the Jews who do not consider themselves to be in one beloved Israel of
    God with righteous Christians from all other nations do not belong to
    Israel either and do not participate in the Covenant of God. In plain
    words, by rejecting Gentiles, the Jews rebelled against God.

    Now these rebels command the nuclear arsenal of the US. Pfaff names
    leading disciples of Strauss: Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz;
    Abram Shulsky of the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans, Richard Perle
    of the Pentagon advisory board, Elliott Abrams of the National Security
    Council. These men have now enough bombs to erase the mankind, or, to
    achieve the ultimate goal of Strauss, ensuring Jewish group dominance in
    the modern world. This frightening thought provides also a glimpse of
    hope, for 95% of American people do not belong to the Neo-Jewish
    community. Instead of fighting Muslims and supporting the Neo-Jews in
    the style they are accustomed to, the Americans can borrow a leaf from
    the Ukrainian book.

    For the Jewish dominance in Ukraine was undone in 1648, when the
    Christian Ukrainians and the Muslim Tartars led by a Polish noble Bohdan
    Chmielnicki and supported by Russian troops united in a ferocious
    Intifada and freed the Ukraine. (For centuries, the Ukrainians were
    libelled as mass murderers of the innocent Jews, until the modern
    British Jewish researcher Jonathan Israel proved there was no massacre;
    though Jews suffered as much as everybody else in the ensuing civil
    war.)

    The defeat of the Jewish ideas in 1648 was good for everybody, and good
    for Jews, as well. Jews lost their arrogance and gained some respect to
    their neighbours. They lost their exalted position and became better
    human beings. Thousands of Jews, followers of Jacob Frank, were received
    in the Church and became ordinary Ukrainians or Poles. Others followed
    Besht into new Hassidic movement which internalised many Christian
    concepts.

    Yesterday I visited Uman, a charming old town with its famous 18th
    century landscaped park of Count Potocki, one of the world wonders,
    where young Ukrainian belles in dangerously brief miniskirts stroll
    under the white pyramidal candles of chestnut blossom. There I attended
    the tomb of Rabbi Nachman, for this Jewish philosopher-saint and
    contemporary of Napoleon was venerated by my ancestors, and he is still
    revered by thousands of Jews everywhere. He was much influenced by the
    Ukrainian folk ways and dreamed to unite his people with the Ukrainians
    in one Church. He felt affinity to the soul of Jesus and repeated His
    words ‘I came to fulfil the Law’ while ostensibly transgressing it. He
    made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land but chose to return to his native
    Ukraine. His mystic teaching is the best proof of blessed influence the
    Ukrainian Orthodox had on the rebellious Jewish soul. Thus the old
    withered oak of Jewish spirit blossomed again in the Ukraine after the
    victorious Intifada .

    Likewise, the strategic mega-usurer from New York and his partner the
    butcher from Tel Aviv will be defeated in the new world-wide Intifada,
    and that will be the end of the Clash of Civilisations.