Iranian Jewish Traders Ply the Silk Road
In a historical twist of irony, Iranian-speaking Jews became the chief trading agents along the Silk Road routes in the medieval period. The Silk Road was a network of ancient trade routes, formally established during the Han Dynasty of China in 130 BC, which linked the regions of the ancient world in commerce between 130 BC-1453 AD.
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According to another extensive study by Elan Elhaik and other scientists, “Jews played a major role on the Silk Roads in the Ninth to Eleventh century. In the mid-Ninth century, in roughly the same years, Jewish merchants in both Mainz and at Xi’an received special trading privileges from the Holy Roman Empire and the Tang dynasty court … and the Jews played a dominant role on these routes as a neutral trading guild with no political agendas.”
Furthermore, “The central Eurasian Silk Roads were controlled by Iranian polities, which provided opportunities for Iranian-speaking Jews, who constituted the overwhelming bulk of the world’s Jews from the time of Christ to the Eleventh century … It should not come as a surprise to find that Yiddish (and other Old Jewish languages) contains components and rules from a large variety of languages, all of them spoken on the Silk Roads … In addition to language contacts, the Silk Roads also provided the motivation for widespread conversion to Judaism by populations eager to participate in the extremely lucrative trade, which had become a Jewish quasi-monopoly along the trade routes.”
The world order of the Middle Ages was divided into two camps, Christian and Muslim. After the Fall of the Roman Empire and the Rise of Islam, the frequent wars in the Middle East disrupted trade relations and sometimes led to the shutdown of the trade channels between the Islamic East and the Christian West.
The Radhanites
These geopolitical circumstances gave a group of Jewish merchants known as “Radhanites” the chance to become an international economic elite. Radhan was a region near, or part of Baghdad, which had control over strategic trading routes along the Tigris—it is logical the Radhanite Jewish traders would locate there.
In his Book of the Countries, Arab geographer, Al-Yaqoubi said, “[Baghdad] was the place where all the world’s wealth was gathered and all the blessings of the universe existed.” Goods and supplies arrived at Baghdad in various kinds from India, Sindh, China, Tibet, Turkey, Daylam, Khazar, Abassania and other countries. Baghdad was an international shopping mall of trade.
The Book of the Roads and the Kingdoms by Muslim geographer Ibn Khordadbeh tells of these Jewish merchants, fluent in several languages, who “journey from west to east, from east to west, partly on land, partly by sea.”
The Radhanites would commence their trade route from France, southward into Spain, then sail across the Mediterranean into Morocco, from where they navigated across the entirety of North Africa into the Middle East, by camel caravan, and then through Baghdad and Basra, across to India, before finally arriving at the route’s terminus in central China.
The Radhanites could navigate such incredibly long trade routes because of a series of Jewish communities all along the way. According to linguist, Aleksa Vučković,
“One of the biggest sources of income for the Radhanites was mediating between East and West, between Christendom and Islam, and between the Kings, Caliphs, and Khagans, who all engaged in enslavement of tribes and peoples. Radhanite Jews came to dominate all early medieval trade routes and river systems, and gained a virtual monopoly on the transit of slaves, which they took with them throughout the world … The slave trade monopoly of the Radhanite Jews grew so large that it eclipsed their spice and luxury goods trade. So common were the Slavic slaves in Europe at the time, that the only known name for a slave (of any kind) was Sklave. Sklave is the Greek spelling of Slav … And thus it became the word for slave.”
History Rewinds, it Doesn’t Repeat
There is a popular saying that history repeats itself. Mark Twain famously updated this, claiming history doesn’t repeat but it rhymes. Neither of these idioms are entirely accurate. What really happens is societies and civilizations rewind history—they go back to the beginning, and do it all over again, under different circumstances and a different time period, but a similar pattern. They keep repeating the same mistakes, because they didn’t learn the lessons the first time. We go through the same process as individuals—we repeat the same patterns of behaviour over and over again. When we fail to master the situation, we are doomed to repeat it.
Israel, the United States and China are in a similar situation to that of 2000 years ago, when the Roman Empire was in bed with ancient Israel, and the Han Dynasty managed the Eastern trade routes. The American Empire is the descendent of the Roman Empire, inherited from the British.
The New Silk Roads Project (Belt and Road Initiative) is the pet project of Xi Jinping’s administration that will open up trade across Eurasia. The key difference between now and 2000 years ago is that China is building the roads, not Rome, (also an indication of the shift in power on the world stage.)
Mythology Goes Backwards and Forwards
Zionism is the vessel for the unfulfilled political longings of an ancient tribe of militant quasi-religious zealots. The modern Israelis share ancient Israel’s anticipation of a secular messiah who will defeat their enemies, and install them as world rulers after a protracted global war.
Christian Zionists are their useful idiots, who are also working feverishly to enable Israel to fulfil this suicidal project, due to the fact that Christianity’s end times prophecies are inexorably intertwined with Israel. They too have delusional longings for a global Christian Empire, that will appear after a divine messiah returns in a final epic battle to slay the forces of Satan, which includes Islam, Russia, China and the rest of the non-Western world.
For a deep dive into messianic dreams:
The Apostle Paul’s Christianity is broader than Judaism, in that it is promotes a Western-centric civilizational God, in comparison to the racial God of Israel. But Christianity is not a universal religion, in comparison to the religion of Jesus of Nazareth, who taught that the entire planet was a spiritual family in a relationship with a universal Father.
Mythology goes backwards and forwards. End times prophecies are the projected future mythologies that Christianity is attempting to re-create in real time. The various Bible verses in Revelation, Daniel, Ezekiel and Matthew are the script for this epic tragedy.
“I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and wages war. His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. He will rule them with an iron sceptre.”
The stage is set, the curtains are drawn and the actors walk majestically onto the stage.
For more discussion on Christian end times prophecies:
The British Empire Cuts a Deal with the Khazarian Zionists
It is hardly surprising that in 1917, the British Empire, founded on Romanized Christianity, cut a deal with the Khazarian Zionist Jews in Europe. The British Empire’s racial supremacist visions were fully in line with the Zionists’ racial dreams of a Utopian state in Palestine.
The Balfour Declaration is considered a joint project, authored by Walter Rothschild, Arthur Balfour, Leo Amery and Lord Milner. The Round Table group, the white supremacist club of uber wealthy British aristocrats was created by Lord Arthur Milner in apartheid South Africa. It is also not surprising that “Milner’s Kindergarten” would be involved in the creation of another apartheid state in Palestine.
Carroll Quigley, the British historian who chronicled the rise of the Anglo-American establishment, claimed,
“This declaration, which is always known as the Balfour Declaration, should rather be called ‘the Milner Declaration,’ since Milner was the actual draftsman and was, apparently, its chief supporter in the War Cabinet. This fact was not made public until 21 July, 1937. At that time Ormsby-Gore, speaking for the government in Commons, said, “The draft as originally put up by Lord Balfour was not the final draft approved by the War Cabinet. The particular draft assented to by the War Cabinet and afterwards by the Allied Governments and by the United States ... and finally embodied in the Mandate, happens to have been drafted by Lord Milner. The actual final draft had to be issued in the name of the Foreign Secretary, but the actual draftsman was Lord Milner.”
Birds of a feather flock together. Another one of the other key architects of the new Middle East, after World War I, was Sir Mark Sykes, who brokered the secret Sykes-Picot deal with the French, and reneged on promises made to the Arabs for an independent Arab state. Other interested parties were representatives from America, Russia, Italy, and even the Pope. All parties agreed on partitioning the defeated Ottoman Empire.
The British had just won an empire in the Middle East, and they needed a military presence in the region to keep the Arab proletariat in line. They were also short of cash, and the Rothschild banking dynasty stepped up to fill the empty piggy bank.
The British army temporarily aided the new European Jewish colonists to migrate safely, but the expectation was that Israel would eventually take over management of the region on behalf of the British.
This deal is still in effect, with the Empire being transferred to the Americans after WW2. Israel has been called “America’s air craft carrier in the Middle East” for this reason. Israel has practised a policy of gradual blackmail, via such nefarious plans as Operation Epstein’s Island, to manoeuvre the American establishment into more open support for Israel’s agenda of conquest of the region.
There is no honour among thieves.
The Camel in the Tent
“There is a British proverb about the camel and the tent,” said the Zionist leader and first Israeli President Chaim Weizmann. “At first the camel sticks one leg in the tent, and eventually it slips into it. This must be our policy.”
This became the incremental strategy of the early Jewish colonizers. The Rothschild family bought acres of land as early as 1882. The first few shiploads of European Jews landed in Palestine and dug in for the long haul. Many were Russian Marxists who created socialist communes (kibbutzim). They grew crops and attempted to reconcile international socialism with the nationalist Zionist project.
The great lumbering camel in the tent continues to cause havoc, smashing the Palestinians in their ongoing massacre of Gaza. The American buffalo and the English rhino also crawled into the tent and are busy helping to destroy Palestine, in order to complete their agenda of dominating trade routes, oil, pipelines, shipping traffic and ultimately to subdue the entire Middle East.
The roaring Christian lion is aiding and abetting the destruction of the Middle East, in direct contradiction of everything worthwhile that Christianity stands for—meanwhile the dove of peace is banned from the tent, because peace, love and brotherhood cannot achieve geopolitical goals of world dominance.
Israel is a Pinocchio State
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Both 'Israel' and America are colonies of the British Empire and both Trump and Netanyahu useful idiots, fulfilling the wishes of the Crown Corp City of London which still controls 40% of the financial markets. Their brand is chaos. They have yet to lose.