On the Virtues of Pacifism
“The distortion of the teachings of Jesus with the non-acceptance of the commandment of non-resistance has brought Christian nations to mutual enmity and to consequent calamities as well as to continually increasing slavery…”[1] Tolstoy wrote in 1905. Over a hundred years later nominally Christian America and nominally Christian Russia are actively engaged in a proxy war with one another, and, with measures such as AI, 5G, repugnant gels in “vaccines”, lockdowns, masking and digital currency, we are all inching ever closer to complete and utter slavery.
If the ongoing proxy conflict in the Ukraine doesn’t actually result in a nuclear exchange it won’t be for want of trying and if the Globalists fail to impose slavery via the WHO Treaty, it won’t be for want of trying either. Genocide Joe, for all his mendacious claims that Trump would cause war and enslave Americans has brought not only all Gazans but humanity itself, due to his neo-con, imperialistic, Fascistic militarism, close to extinction. That America is once more faced with the very real threat of civil war, as a direct result of Biden’s Globalist “open door” policies, is no accident. Given this unhappy reality Biden oughtn’t seek re-election; the world would be a better place without him at the helm of state.
Whether one is a Christian or Jew or whether one believes in God or not, there’s much to be said for the precept of non-violence. In fact, it’s no coincidence that the most ardent critics of Zionists are Jews.
Rabbi Y D Weiss opined in 2008: “The Zionists rely on the Bible, the Torah, for their imaginary right to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian people and to subjugate them. This is a pathetic joke! The Zionists have always been heretics and rejected all the fundamental tenets of our faith, and yet they have the nerve, the arrogance, the audacity, the chutzpa, to pretend to base their behaviour on our holy Torah.”
“We know what our holy writings and our great rabbis have taught us — that we are forbidden to subjugate or oppress anyone or to desecrate the holiness of the Holy Land with paths of violence, ethnic cleansing, discrimination and military power. Our religion teaches justice. It teaches peace. It teaches compassion. In fact, the greatest and ultimate hope and prayer of the Jewish people is, that when the Messiah comes that then “Nation shall no longer lift up sword against nation, and they will make war no more.” All nations will serve God together in peace.”[2]
To be a Jew, a real Jew, is to be a pacifist. Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro tells us in his work: “The empty wagon: Zionism’s journey from identity crisis to identity theft”: “The weapons of the Jews are not the sword or the bow; they are prayer and supplication. Our only weapon is our voice.”
Likewise, to be a Christian, a real Christian, is also to be a pacifist. “‘True pacifism,’ or ‘nonviolent resistance,’ King wrote, is ‘a courageous confrontation of evil by the power of love’ (King, Stride, 80). Both ‘morally and practically’ committed to nonviolence, King believed that ‘the Christian doctrine of love operating through the Gandhian method of nonviolence was one of the most potent weapons available to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom’”
Franz Jägerstätter for example, “refused to serve in the German Wehrmacht in an unjust war of aggression: ‘Why kill people who have done nothing to you?’ He was also disobedient to ‘his’ bishop, who, also in the interests of his family, strongly urged him to comply with the call-up order.”[3]
Likewise, many Israelis are currently refusing to get involved in the ongoing genocide.
One refusenik, Tal Mitnick, said:
“I believe that the Israeli army is an operational arm of Jewish exclusivism in this region. (This army) relies on the oppression of the Palestinian people, and I refuse to be a part of this oppression. Instead, I continue with human rights activism…I refuse to agree with the idea that killing civilians in Gaza would provide security for anyone. It doesn’t bring security to anyone, neither to the people of Gaza nor to the people of Israel. I believe that the only path to security and peace lies in coexistence.”[4]
Another is Ariel Davidov, who stated:
“There has been an ongoing genocide since the beginning of Zionism. It didn’t start in 1948 (the year Israel was established) or in 1967 (the year East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza were occupied).”
“Prior to that, there was settler colonialism. They wanted to use this land (Palestine) and its people (Palestinians) for their own interests. However, this situation cannot continue like this.”
“Many of my close friends have refused military service. The group I have been involved with in human rights activism has been calling on everyone to refuse to serve in the Israeli army. This is a major part of my struggle.”
“Many of my friends who refused (military service) ended up in jail. These days, they usually get a 150-day prison sentence, whereas before it was 200 days. Some have served 60 days, and others 50. I think it’s up to the judge.”[5]
Another refusenik, Ella Keidar, opined:
“I don’t want to serve in an army that enforces the occupation, implements a racist regime, and plays a role in oppressing the Palestinian people in this exploitation project…Like Israelis, Palestinians also deserve freedom. I believe in the possibility of an equal future, which includes the right of return for Palestinians (to the land from which Israel expelled them).”[6]
It is these voices of reason, sanity and humanity that we should be listening to.
[1] p.28 Government is Violence, Leo Tolstoy
[2] https://nkusa.org/activities/Speeches/20081227.cfm
[3] https://www.doew.at/erinnern/fotos-und-dokumente/1938-1945/lob-des-ungehorsams/ein-katholischer-bauer-der-nicht-fuer-hitler-kaempfen-wollte-franz-jaegerstaetter#:~:text=Franz%20J%C3%A4gerst%C3%A4tter%2C%20der%20Mesner%20von,im%20Innviertel%2C%20war%20kein%20Pazifist.
[4] https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/a-group-of-israeli-youth-refusing-to-serve-in-army-oppose-bombing-of-gaza-occupation-of-palestine/3040670
[5] Ibid
[6] Ibid
Non-Violence and the Nazis
The argument that “non-violence” against the Nazis wouldn’t have worked doesn’t pan out for a number of reasons. Firstly, and most importantly, the “Global Deep State”, which was responsible for World War One (which the British started), made a Second World War inevitable by means of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. Secondly, Germany was rearming in the 1920s (American investors had bought up the arms industry, although it was, at that point in time unprofitable) and German rearmament was reasonable given that neither the French nor the British had disarmed (as they had promised to). Consequently, the German military was, in 1939, relatively weak (they were largely dependent on Czech tanks) and the British and French relatively strong. Thirdly, as Sutton proved beyond any shadow of a doubt, the Nazis were financed by Wall Street and the Bank of England and were used as a means of propping up a failing Zionist colony in Palestine (had it not been for the help of the Nazis the proto-Zionist state would have failed). Fourthly, a Jewish boycott against the Nazis would have worked had the Zionists (with mafia-like threats to the lives of those involved) not sabotaged it in 1933-4. Fifthly, the Nazis, rightly, saw Germany threatened by the British and French military build-up in 1935-39. This enabled them to characterize the attacks of 1939-40 as defensive, which is what they essentially were (the Americans tricked the Poles into taking an extremely aggressive stance in negotiations and many Poles thought they could defeat Germany, which is why they attacked German trains and planes and provoked war in 1939). Sixthly, had the Nazis not attacked France in 1940, France and Britain would have attacked the Soviet Union (the British had sent a force to attack Russia but the Finns made peace just before it arrived). In other words: The Global Deep State wanted war (to fund the arms industry, to boost the economy, to justify high taxes and enforce tighter political, social and psychological control (we have been living with the all-dominant Orwellian, kleptocratic, military-intelligence-industrial-police state ever since)). Fighting in the Soviet Army might have entailed involvement in the Katyn Massacre or simply the murder of fellow Russians (Stalin killed even more people than Hitler). The best option is to simply refuse getting involved in the entire killing machine (all ORGANIZED violence is evil, as Kant pointed out centuries ago). And peaceful demonstrations against the Nazis did work. Thus, the Germans stopped the killing of the handicapped by means of peaceful protests.