The Fifth Protocol --
"We will so wear out and
exhaust the Gentiles by all this that they will be compelled to
offer us an international authority, which by its position will
enable us to absorb without disturbance all the governmental
forces of the world and thus form a super-government.
"We must so direct the education of Gentile
society that its hands will drop in the weakness of
discouragement in the face of any undertaking where initiative
is needed."
Chapter 5.
Theodor Herzl, one of the greatest of the Jews
and founder of modern Zionism, was perhaps the farthest-seeing
public exponent of the philosophy of Jewish existence that modern
generations have known. He was never in doubt of the existence of
the Jewish nation. He proclaimed its existence on every occasion.
He said, "We are a people - One people."
He clearly saw that what he called the Jewish
Question was political. In his introduction to "The Jewish
State" he says:
"I believe that I understand anti-Semitism,
which is really a highly complex movement. I consider it from a
Jewish standpoint, yet without fear or hatred. I believe that I
can see what elements there are in it of vulgar sport, of common
trade jealousy, of inherited prejudice, of religious intolerance
and also of pretended defense. I think the Jewish Question is no
more a social than a religious one, notwithstanding that it
sometimes takes these and other forms. It is a national question,
which can only be solved by making it a political world-question
to be discussed and controlled by the civilized nations of the
world in council."
Not only did Herzl declare that the Jews formed a
nation, but in relating the action of this Jewish nation to the
world Herzl wrote:
"When we sink, we become a revolutionary
proletariat, the subordinate officers of the revolutionary party;
when we rise, there rises also our terrible power of the
purse."
This view, which appears to be the true view in that
it is the view which has been longest sustained in Jewish
thought, is brought out also by Lord Eustace Percy, and
re-published, apparently with approval, by the Canadian
"Jewish Chronicle." It will repay careful
reading.
"Liberalism and Nationalism, with a flourish of
trumpets, threw open the doors of the ghetto and offered equal
citizenship to the Jew. The Jew passed out into the Western
World, saw the power and the glory of it, used it and enjoyed it,
laid his hand indeed upon the nerve centers of its civilization,
guided, directed and exploited it, and then - refused the offer
. . . Moreover - and this is a remarkable thing - the Europe of
nationalism and liberalism, of scientific government and
democratic equality is more intolerable to him than the old
oppressions and persecutions of despotism . . .
"In a world of completely organized territorial
sovereignties he (the Jew) has only two possible cities of
refuge: he must either pull down the pillars of the whole
national state system or he must create a territorial sovereignty
of his own. In this perhaps lies the explanation both of Jewish
Bolshevism and of Zionism, for at this moment Eastern Jewry seems
to hover uncertainly between the two. In Eastern Europe
Bolshevism and Zionism often seem to grow side by side, just as
Jewish influence molded Republican and Socialist thought
throughout the nineteenth century, down to the Young Turk
revolution in Constantinople hardly more than a decade ago - not
because the Jew cares for the positive side of radical
philosophy, not because he desires to be a partaker in Gentile
nationalism or Gentile democracy, but because no existing
Gentile system of government is ever anything but distasteful to
him."
All that is true, and Jewish thinkers of the more
fearless type always recognize it as true. The Jew is against the
Gentile scheme of things. He is, when he gives his tendencies
full sway, a Republican as against the monarchy, a Socialist as
against the republic, and a Bolshevist as against socialism.
What are the causes of this disruptive activity?
First, his essential lack of democracy. Jewish nature is
autocratic. Democracy is all right for the rest of the world, but
the Jew wherever he is found forms an aristocracy of one sort or
another. Democracy is merely a tool of a word which Jewish
agitators use to raise themselves to the ordinary level in places
where they are oppressed below it; but having reached the common
level they immediately make efforts for special privileges, as
being entitled to them - a process which the late Peace
Conference (Versailles: Ed.) will remain the most startling
example. The Jews today are the only people whose special and
extraordinary privileges are written into the world's Treaty of
Peace. (Original published in July, 1920: refer also to the
present United Nations: Editor).
In all the explanations of anti-Jewish feeling which
modern Jewish spokesmen make, these three alleged causes are
commonly given - these three and no more: religious prejudice,
economic jealousy, social antipathy. Whether the Jew knows it or
not, every Gentile knows that on his side of the Jewish Question
no religious prejudice exists. Economic jealousy may exist, at
least to this extent, that his uniform success has exposed the
Jew to much scrutiny. The finances of the world are in control of
Jews; their decisions and their devices are themselves our
economic law.
Economic jealousy may explain some of the anti-Jewish
feeling; it cannot account for the presence of the Jewish
Question except as the hidden causes of Jewish financial success
may become a minor element of the larger problem. And as for
social antipathy - there are many more undesirable Gentiles in
the world than there are undesirable Jews, for the simple reason
that there are many more Gentiles.
None of the Jewish spokesmen mention the political
cause, or if they come within suggestive distance of it, they
limit it and localize it. The political element inheres in the
fact that the Jews form a nation in the midst of the nations. It
is not the fact that the Jews remain a nation in the midst of
the nations; it is the USE made of that inescapable status, which
the world has found to be reprehensible. The nations have tried
to reduce the Jews to unity with themselves, but destiny seems to
have marked them out to continuous nationhood. Both the Jews and
the World will have to accept that fact. The Jewish world
program, and the political basis of anti-Jewish feeling which
that program creates, is exposed by Jewish cosmopolitanism with
regard to the world, and by Jewish nationalistic integrity with
regard to themselves.
JEWISH NATIONALISM AND THE PROTOCOLS
No one now pretends to deny, except a few
spokesmen who really do not rule the thought of the Jews but are
set forth for the sole benefit of influencing Gentile thought,
that the socially and economically disruptive elements abroad in
the world today are not only manned but also monied by Jewish
interests.
For a long time this fact was held in suspense owing
to the vigorous denial of the Jews and the lack of information on
the part of those agencies of publicity to which the public
looked for its information. But now the facts are coming forth.
Herzl's words are being proved to be true - "when we sink,
we become a revolutionary proletariat, the subordinate officers
of the revolutionary party." These words were first
published in English in 1896!
Just now these tendencies are working in two
directions, one for the tearing down of the Gentile states all
over the world, the other for the establishment of a Jewish state
in Palestine. The latter project engaged the attention of the
whole world. The Zionists make a great deal of noise about
Palestine, but it can scarcely be designated as more than an
unusually ambitious colonization scheme. The Jewish
"home" idea so sedulously cultivated is a very useful
smokescreen for the confiscation of the immeasurable sources of
mineral and oil wealth. It is also serving as a very useful
public screen for the carrying on of secret activities.
International Jews, the controllers of the world's
governmental and financial power, may meet anywhere, at any time,
in war or peace time, and by giving out that they are only
considering the ways and means of opening up Palestine to the
Jews, they easily escape the suspicion of being together on any
other business.
Though Jewish nationalism exists, its enshrinement in
a state to be set up in Palestine is not the project that is
engaging the whole Jewish nation. The Jews will not move into
Palestine just yet; they will not move in at all merely because
of the Zionist movement. Quite another motive will be the cause
of the exodus out of the Gentile nations, when the time for that
exodus fully comes.
The world has long suspected - at first only a few,
then the secret departments of the governments, next the
intellectuals among the people, now more and more the common
people themselves - that not only are the Jews a nation distinct
from all other nations and mysteriously unable to sink their
nationality by any means they or the world may adopt to this end,
but that they also constitute a STATE; that they are nationally
conscious, not only, but consciously united for a common defense
for a common purpose. Revert to Herzl's definition of the Jewish
nation as held together by a common enemy, and then reflect that
this common enemy is the Gentile world! Does this people which
knows itself to be a nation remain loosely unorganized in the
face of that fact? It would hardly be like Jewish astuteness in
other fields! The interest of the Protocols is their bearing on
the questions: Have the Jews an organized world system ? What is
its policy ? How is it being worked?
These questions all receive full attention in the
Protocols. Whosoever was the mind that conceived them possessed a
knowledge of human nature, of history and of statecraft which is
dazzling in its brilliant completeness, and terrible in the
objects to which it turns its powers. If, indeed, one mind alone
conceived them. It is too terribly real for fiction, too
well-sustained for speculation, too deep in its knowledge of the
secret springs of life for forgery. Jewish attacks upon it thus
far make much of the fact that it came out of Russia. That is
hardly true. It came by way of Russia.
The internal evidence makes it clear that the
Protocols were not written by a Russian, nor originally in the
Russian language, nor under the influence of Russian conditions,
but they found their way to Russia and were first published there
about 1905 by a Professor Nilus, who attempted to interpret the
Protocols by events then going forward in Russia.
They have been found by diplomatic officers in manuscript in all
parts of the world. Wherever Jewish power is able to do so, it
has suppressed them, sometimes under the extreme penalty.
Their persistence is a fact which challenges the mind
Sheer lies do not live long, their power soon dies. The Protocols
are more alive than ever. They have penetrated higher places than
ever before. They have compelled a more Serious attitude to them
than ever before. The Protocols are a World Program - there is no
doubt anywhere of that - whose program is stated within the
articles themselves. But as for outer confirmation, which would
be the more valuable - a signature, or six signatures, or twenty
signatures, or a 50-year unbroken line of effort fulfilling that
program?
The point of interest for this and other countries is
not that a "criminal or a madman" conceived such a
program but that, when conceived, this program found means of
getting itself fulfilled in its most important particulars. The
document is comparatively unimportant; the conditions to which it
calls attention are of a very high degree of importance.