"Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye", by Salim Mansur - The Unz Review

 To our European friends, I never ever want to hear you lecture us on human rights or international law again, and I mean this. We are not white, I guess, it does not apply to us according to your own logic… I want you to look at the mirror and ask “where was I when Gaza was going through a genocide?”… In Gaza today God is under the rubble… Jesus is under the rubble…

— Rev. Munther Isaac, the Senior Pastor at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bethlehem, Christmas Eve Sermon on December 24, 2023[2]

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Jesus’s admonishment to take the beam out of one’s eye is so simple that any child may understand, and yet it is so layered with ethical meanings that it should have become the moral touchstone of a civilization yet to arise when Jesus was nailed to a cross by the machinations of the Jewish Sanhedrin in Jerusalem and on the order of Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judaea. But by the time Christendom emerged in the 3rd – 4th century CE as successor of the Roman Empire in Europe, the message of Jesus had already been warped by the lure of power among those who sought ecclesiastical office. In subsequent centuries the ecclesiastical authorities overseeing an empire became corrupt as were the pagan rulers in Rome. The history of Christendom in ethical terms, as with all other civilizations past and present without exception, is one of going down the slippery slope of moral depravity with its rulers blinded by beams in their eyes while ever ready to berate others of faults and crimes that they are themselves deeply immersed in. Jesus’s admonishment first and foremost was against hypocrites and hypocrisy, which is reinforced in the Qur’an, Islam’s sacred text. Hypocrisy, that is beam in the eye, is not a minor transgression; it is the source of all transgressions and unless those, for instance, who sit as judges are unblemished and free of any such suspicion should be unfit to give judgment. When the pagan Pilate washed his hands after deciding against Jesus on the beginning of that Passover weekend two thousand years ago, his symbolic act was an admission it was not his fault, that he was not responsible since the fate of the accused before him was sealed by the charges of the High Priests of the Sanhedrin and the mob incited by them who demanded Jesus’s execution.....

.....Eastern European Jews claiming descent from ancient Hebrews or Israelites was far-fetched and insupportable since it was imagined and false. This was the original sin perpetrated by Zionists from which all else followed.

Instead, the Eastern European Jews were ethnically an off shoot of the Turkic nomadic tribes, the Khazars, moving west past the Urals into the lands around 6th century CE between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea, or the North Caucasus, and at present times part of the Russian Federation. This was known to Arab and Muslim historians of the early Middle Ages and Sebeos, the 7th century Armenian bishop and author of History of Heraclius, mentioned the Khazars in his writing.[15] What came to be known as the “Khazar thesis” was popularized by Arthur Koestler (1905-83) in The Thirteenth Tribe published in 1976. Koestler was of Jewish origin born in Budapest, Hungary. Koestler’s book was a bombshell; it was, however, trashed routinely and predictably by the Zionist “lobby” and its supporters in the West as fictitious since it could fatally undermine Moses Hess’s thesis, borrowed by Herzl, for the Zionist claim of the return of European Jews to Palestine as descendants of ancient Israelites, and the all-purpose smear of “antisemitism” was employed by Zionists to censor and intimidate Jews and non-Jews from questioning the deceitful premise behind the installation of Israel in Palestine.....

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....Israel Shahak as a man of Enlightenment and of science and, as Hitchens noted, an intellectual descendant of Baruch Spinoza, would not dissemble the fact that the Jewish worldview makes for the incompatibility of Israelis to coexist with non-Jews in West Asia. His conclusion was starkly stated right at the beginning of Jewish History, Jewish Religion that “Israel as a Jewish state constitutes a danger not only to itself and its inhabitants, but to all Jews and to all other peoples and states in the Middle East and beyond.”[59]

 The Gaza genocide has worsened the situation and for justice to be done for victims of the State of Israel either the overdue two states in Palestine be enforced by the collective will of the UN member states, or eventually the “cunning of history” dismantles the Jewish state as was the Crusader kingdom in the Levant.