The Ethics of Genocide

The Ethics of Genocide
By
Robert E. Reis

Perhaps you recall the television series “Holocaust.” When the Nazi lawyer played by Michael Moriarity was interrogated after his capture he tried to defend himself by citing precedents for harsh measure aimed at the Jewish genetic clustering of the Middle Eastern genetic clustering of the non-European genetic clustering of the Caucasian genetic clustering. His defense failed.

In 1944 a new word was coined. “Genocide” means the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group. Since the prefix “geno” means “race” of “birth” in Greek, it is hard to see how the neologism of 1944 applies to political or cultural groups. But who are we to quarrel with wisdom of politicians and lawyers?

The first genocide in recorded history was ordered by God Himself.

Every year every Orthodox synagogue reminds members of the Jewish genetic clustering of the Middle Eastern genetic clustering of God’s command to exterminate the Amalekites. God ordered Saul to kill every living Amalekite — man, woman and child, and even the sheep and cattle. But who are we to argue with the morals of God?

Christians who are not heretical followers of Marcion must believe that this genocide was justified.

Members of the Jewish genetic clustering who honor the theological expertise of the Talmudic scholars like Moses Maimonides can justify an unlimited number of genocides. They believe the non-member of the Jewish genetic clustering of the Middle Eastern genetic clustering of the non-European genetic clustering of the Caucasian genetic clustering are not human beings.

“‘If a man schemes against his fellow man and kills the man deliberately, take him away from the altar and put him to death. But a gentile is not considered a man, and even more so, a Jew is not executed for killing an unrighteous gentile.” -  Maimonides, Mishnah Torah, Brooklyn, New York, 1990.

Absent a Divine command or membership in a devout community of members of the Jewish genetic clustering, can genocide be justified?

I am certain everyone who is not a member of the Jewish genetic clustering of the Middle Eastern genetic clustering of the non-European genetic clustering of the Caucasian genetic clustering agrees with Pope Pius XI. When he condemned the Nazi persecution of the Jews before World War II, he also recognized “that everyone has the right to defend himself, in other words to take the necessary precautions for his protection against everything that threatens his legitimate interests.”

I hazard that we believe that even rabbits have a right to defend themselves against foxes.

There have been genetic clustering against whom severe measures have been taken in the past. The Carthaginians and the Aztecs come to mind.

I suggest that everyone would agree that the Romans went beyond need. However, the Spanish response to a genetic clustering of devil worshipping cannibals was prudently restricted to a policy of drastic behavior modification.

The Nazis clearly believed that the Jewish genetic clustering deserved disempowerment, segregation, deportation and – one is required by law in many countries to believe – extermination.

Would an objective analysis of the best defense possible for the Nazi attorney played by Michael Moriarity in the television series “Holocaust” show that he was guilty or not?

After the Persian conquest of the Babylonian empire, Artaxerxes allowed Ezra to lead the Jewish exiles back to their former homeland in 458 B.C. Ezra and his group of “returnees” refused to intermarry with their cousins who had been left behind a few generations before.

“The land which you are entering and will possess is a polluted land, polluted by the foreign population with their abominable practices, which have made it unclean from end to end.  Therefore do not give your daughters in marriage to their sons, and do not marry your sons to their daughters, and never seek their welfare or prosperity. Thus you will be strong and enjoy the good things of the land, and pass it on to your children as an everlasting possession.”  Ezra 9:11-13 [Italics added. RER]

A search of a literal translation of the Bible will show the word “Jews” appears first in the Book of Ezra.

One can understand a community that wanted to preserve its identity by forbidding marriage to nongroup members, but I know of no other living religion that forbids its member to seek the welfare and prosperity of nonmembers.

Even before Ezra God commanded them to act in an unaccommodating fashion toward their neighbors in the happy event that the Jews gained power in non-Jewish communities.

He told them, “Be careful not to make a covenant with the natives of the land against which you are going, or they will prove a snare in your midst.  No: you shall demolish their altars, smash their sacred pillars and cut down their sacred poles.”
Exodus 34 (10-14

A covenant is a formal, solemn, and binding agreement. The proto-Jews were not people with whom one could expect good faith negotiations.

The proto-Jews were not people from whom one could expect tolerance. The proto-Jews were already dedicated to the desecration of the symbols and cult centers of their rivals. They were the first Taliban.

The neologism of 1944 tells us that genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction of a political group.

Every year religious member of the Jewish genetic clustering of the Middle Eastern genetic clustering of the non-European genetic clustering of the Caucasian genetic clustering celebrate the defeat of the Persian politician Haman by Esther.

The closing chapters of the Book of Esther tell of the [Jewish] queen’s seeking permission to slaughter not just the Jews’ armed enemies but the enemies’ wives and children – with a final death toll of seventy-five thousand.

The annual Purim ritual celebrates the killing of 75,000 men, women and children and feeds violent fantasies in the minds of the religious members of the Jewish genetic clustering of the Middle Eastern genetic clustering of the non-European genetic clustering of the Caucasian genetic clustering. I know of no other existing religion that celebrates killing men, women and children.

Violent fantasies can produce violent actions.

The second century Roman historian Dio Cassius described the Jewish massacres of Greeks and Romans in Africa and in Cyprus. “They ate the flesh of their victims, made belts for themselves out of their entrails, and daubed themselves with their blood… In all, 220,000 men perished in Cyrene and 240,000 in Cyprus, and for this reason no Jew may set foot in Cyprus today.”

The people massacred in Persia, Africa and Cyprus were non-members of the Jewish genetic clustering of the Middle Eastern genetic clustering of the non-European genetic clustering of the Caucasian genetic clustering. They were also not Christians.

The Nazi attorney placed by Michael Moriarity in the television series “Holocaust” might have emphasized activities and religious beliefs of members of the Jewish genetic clustering of the Middle Eastern genetic clustering of the non-European genetic clustering of the Caucasian genetic clustering concerning Christians.

Before the Jewish Revolts against Rome, member of the genetic clustering previously mentioned caused the deaths of St. Stephen and the two Jameses. St. Barnabus was murdered in Cyprus.

By 80 AD Jewish ritual had incorporated a daily curse against Christians:” May the minim [heretics] perish in an instant; may they be effaced from the book of life and not be counted among the Just.”

Unrepentant Christians were massacred by Jews in the Bar Kocha revolt (132-135 AD) against the Romans.

In later centuries, attacks, riots, pogroms, rebellions were started by Jews against Christians in Palestine and other parts of the Roman World.

The celebrations of Jewish feast of Purim sometime included the murder of Christian child. The 5th century historian Socrates Scholasticus recorded that the Jews living near Antioch took a Christian child and tied him to a cross and killed him.

In 556, Jews attacked the Christians during bouts in the circus in Caesarea.

In 608, the Jews in Antioch attacked the Christians. The Christian Patriarch Anastasius was murdered and they dragged his body through the streets in celebration.

When the Persians invaded the Roman Empire and entered Palestine in 614 AD, Jews joined the Persian army and helped kill their Christian neighbors and helped destroy the Christian churches. Strategius of Mar Saba, reported that Jews bought “a large number” of Christian prisoners from the Persians, “who they then slaughtered just as one might buy cattle to slaughter.”  (The mass graves of the murdered Christians were recently discovered in Jerusalem. The Israelis bulldozed them.)

It was around this time that an army from the Jewish Kingdom of Yemen entered Arabia and defeated the Christian Arabs at Najran. They murdered them after accepting their surrender.

Despite the cost and carnage of the two Jewish revolts, the pagan Roman Empire showed patience, patience and leniency toward the Jews. Despite the murders, riots, massacres and treasons, the Christian Roman Empire continued to display patience, forbearance and leniency toward the Jews. After the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West, the Christian successor states other than the Visigoths in Spain also continued to display patience, moderation and leniency toward the Jews.

From the fifth to eight centuries Jews gradually replaced the Syrians as international traders and became the major slave traders in Europe. The trade in slaves from Poland and Russia was almost a Jewish monopoly. Conversion to Christianity ought to have protected them from enslavement, but the Jewish slave traders did not find it difficult to transport their slaves through Christian Europe and sell them to Moslem.

No honest historians deny that some Jewish slave traders in France kidnapped Christian children in France and sold them to the Moslems in Spain. Some Jewish slave traders kidnapped Jewish boys in eastern France, castrated them, and sold them to Spanish Moslems to work as eunuchs in the harems.

Jewish historians agree that in the 10th century the international slave trade was a Jewish specialty. The slave trade was often the basis of the wealth of the Jews living in Moslem Spain. The commonest merchandize handled by Jewish merchants from England to India, from Bohemia to Egypt was slaves.

During the Purim festival of 1191 or 1192 in the town of Brie in the kingdom of France, the Jewish community crucified a Christian. King Philippe August tried the entire adult Jewish population of Brie and they were burned at the stake for their crime.

When the Crusades to recapture the Holy Land from the Moslems began, conditions became difficult for the members of the Jewish genetic clustering living in Roman Catholic Europe. French knights who knew of the events in Brie were among the Crusaders. Crusaders began to attack Jewish communities on their route to fight the Infidels in Palestine. Sometimes the Jews were offered an alternative to extermination: conversion to Christianity.

How did the members of the Jewish genetic clustering respond?

On many occasions the Jewish communities responded with a religiously sanctioned ritual, “kiddush ha-Shem” or “sanctification of the Divine Name.”

What is the “kiddush ha-Shem” or “sanctification of the Divine Name”?  It is the ceremony of mass suicide. Fathers and mothers slaughtered their children then killed themselves or allowed themselves to be slaughtered by friends. They examined the knives they used for blemishes because a blemished blade would void the slaughtering in the eyes of God. Murder and suicide, of course, had to be kosher. Kiddush ha-Shem was the Jonestown solution.

In the year 1236, Nicholas Donin, a Jewish convert to Christianity, approached Pope Gregory IX with a list of serious charges about the Jewish religion He told the Pope that the rabbis taught the Jews to kill Christians. Donin told the Pope the Talmud taught the Jews that they could cheat and deceive Christians whenever possible.  He told the Pope that daily prayers of the Jews cursed the Christians.

The Pope ordered an investigation. Scholars examined the Talmud. Donin’s charges were confirmed. The Pope ordered the Talmud to be burned.

In 1462 a boy was murdered at Rinn, diocese of Bressanone, on the road to Innsbruck. A company of Jewish merchants, returning from the fair at Merano, were traversing a small village in the Tyrol and bumped into a three-year old child, Andrea Oxner. They persuaded the boy’s godfather to entrust Andreas to their care. Stopping in a birch tree thicket, a little ways above Rinn, the merchants slaughtered Andreas and hung his body from a tree. They collected his blood for ritual use.

Some Jews celebrated the Passover of 1475 by kidnapping a three-year old Catholic boy named Simon in the Italian town of Trentino. They drained his blood and crucified him head down. The killers were arrested, confessed and convicted.  Italian Jews protested the verdict. Pope Sixtus IV appointed a commission of six cardinals for a retrial. The verdict of guilty was upheld. The records of this retrial are still available in the Vatican. The murderers confessed to using the boys blood to make Passover matzos.

Although the official records of the events in Rinn have not survived, full documentation exists for the ritual murder of a Christian boy in Trentino.

In 1790, the Holy Office of the Inquisition finally examined the charge that some Jews were murdering Christian boys to use their blood in religious rituals. The records of the events at Rinn must have been substantial for the official report to the Inquisition cleared the Jewish community of the general charge of ritual homicide but stated:

“I therefore admit as true the fact of the sainted Simon, the boy of three years of age killed by Jews in hatred of the faith of Jesus Christ in Trent in the year 1475 [...] I accept as true another crime, committed in the village of Rinn, diocese of Bressanone, in 1462, against the sainted Andrea, a boy barbarously killed by the Jews in hatred of the faith of Jesus Christ [...] I do not, however, believe, even admitting as true the true facts of Bressanone and Trent, that one can justifiably deduce that this is a maxim, either theoretical or practical, of the Hebrew nation, since two events alone are insufficient to establish a certain and common axiom.”

Following the time of the imaginary interrogation of the Nazi lawyer played by Michael Moriarity, Jewish scholars have told us some astonishing facts.

Bloody sacrifices of Christian children to use their blood in making matzos for the Passover meal did happen.

Some Jewish merchants sold rabbinically certified Chrisitan blood for medical and ritual use. The most costly of which was made with the blood of a Christian child. The blood had to be of a boy younger than seven years old.

Medieval Jewish magicians used Christian blood to call down divine vengeance on non-Jews.

In 1700, the Austrian Christian, Johann Eisenmenger, wrote Judaism Uncovered He was a respected scholar who read Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic. Eisenmenger wrote that the Jewish religious tradition forbids robbery, deceit, and even murder only within the Jewish community. Non-Jews were exempt from moral protection. He argued that people raised with such beliefs would be inclined to defame Christianity, as well as rob, swindle and even murder Christians.

Baruch Spinoza, the celebrated philosopher who was excommunicated by the Jewish rabbis noted that the Jews “separated themselves from every nation as to draw upon themselves universal hate.”

Posted by Robert Reis on Tuesday, September 25, 2007 at 06:49 AM in That Question Again
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