The Tragic History
– “Now these
causes of friction permanently present tend to produce what I have called the
tragic cycle: welcome of a
Jewish colony, then ill-ease, followed by acute ill-ease, followed by
persecution, exile and even massacre. This followed, naturally, by a reaction
and the taking up of the process all over again.”
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Comment by Vox Day - there is no other historical
work that reads as if it was written just last week instead of nearly a century
ago. It is highly relevant today because the process of the tragic cycle
that Belloc describes playing out in the continental European context has observably
moved from the first to the second stage in the United States, and from the
second to the third stage in the United Kingdom.
The important difference between then and now is that Israel now exists as a state as well as a nation, so for the first time in the history of Western civilization there exists a peaceful and civilized solution that does not involve Jews massacring a nation or a nation massacring Jews.
The important difference between then and now is that Israel now exists as a state as well as a nation, so for the first time in the history of Western civilization there exists a peaceful and civilized solution that does not involve Jews massacring a nation or a nation massacring Jews.
Book Review - Are
Belloc’s proposals practical? That remains to be seen. But The Jews, his general assessment of
the longest ethnic conflict engaged in by the European peoples, is, almost a
century after it was written, a prophetic, informative, concise and powerful
summary of issues which retain a painful relevance. It deserves more
recognition and deeper study. For my part, I
have been inspired by Belloc’s work to produce a kind of companion book, which
will offer greater detail, and some correctives to the original, in light of
the century which has since passed.
Christian Zionists – a study in itself
Anti-Semitism – another study
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