El espíritu de
Santiago
Dear friends,
My book, The Green Rain of Yasuf or Masters of
Discourse (called The Flowers of Galilee in English and The Other
Face of Israel in French) was launched now in Spain, and at its
presentation in Madrid I gave the following talk:
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.
