Chapter 8: One Must Know the Jews to Truly See America
Part 1
I was originally planning to translate the book from cover to cover in order. This morning I was flipping through the book on the bus and I got sucked into the eighth chapter, which deals with the history of Judaism. When I set out to translate this book I expected to find some interesting perspectives. Without further ado, Chapter 8: One Must Know the Jews to Truly See America: Jews, the powerful force that moves America. My comments are in italics this color, particularly interesting portions are in red.
p220)Is this accurate? I was led to believe that the majority of American Jews come from Eastern and Central Europe.
Among all the countries of the world, there is only one race in which a majority of the people don't live in their country of origin (본국), and that is the Jews.
Cartoon Korean man: "Korea = The country of Koreans."
Cartoon Chinese man: "China = The country where 95% of the people are of the Han nationality."
Cartoon Chinese man: "The largest population of people living outside their home country is the 40 million Chinese who live abroad. But that's only 0.3% of their home country's 1.3 billion people."
Israel has a population of 6.2 million. There are 6.5 million Jews in the U.S.
The nationless race of Jews (나라 없는 민족 유대인) were chased out of their homeland of Palestine in 70AD. They spread throughout the whole world for almost 2000 years.
(Graphic shows lines radiating out of Palestine to Western Europe and subsequently to America, Central Europe, East Europe, Africa, India, Asia and subsequently China).
The Jewish race, that advanced from Africa to China, share something with the Chinese, in that there is not a corner of the world in which either has not set down roots.
In all the world, Korea is the only place where the Jews failed to set down roots.
(Graphic shows a Joseon soldier in a guard tower)
Soldier: Only in Korea, where there aren't even any Chinatowns, were Jews unable to settle.
It's impossible to know which of the two races is the most "severe" (or harsh or sharp, "어쩌 보면 두 민족은 전세계에서 가장 '지독한' 민족일지도 몰라")
We Koreans, who are hard-working and diligent and are sad to come in second, can amass great victories in America with our competitive spirit. But in the end each and every time we hit a barrier, and that barrier is the Jews.
p221)
We Koreans, who don't know how to lose to any other race . . .". . . [We] can never surpass the wall of Jews in American society."
This is not only true of Koreans: Every other race and ethnicity has this in common.
Cartoon Jew: "So many people hate us, but no one can mess with us."
Jews make up slightly more than 2% of the American population. They control American finance and naturally the American economy controls the world economy. They twist the media to their own ends and control the world of politics. They pilot the U.S. government from behind the scenes and they even have world politics wrapped around their finger (좌지우지). They have a monopoly on Hollywood and paint a picture of the Jewish people as virtuous victims. They play the part of herald for the message that the Arabs and Muslims that they oppose are a barbarous and violent mass.
In a word, the whites at the heart of America are called WASPs (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants). . .". . .but the real group that controls America through money and media pressure is the Jews."
So if you don't understand the Jews, you'll never understand America.
p222)
So what kind of people are the Jews? The Jews and their current implacable enemies the Arabs are sister races, both find their roots in the Semitic language family. They both draw their ancestry from their earliest forebear Abram or Abraham. According to the old testament, one of Abraham's great-grandson Judah lent his name to the Jews. Jews differed from other Arab (Semite) peoples as a specific line of Abraham and a particular subtribe of 12 or 13 tribes.
So he's saying that the Jews are a kind of Semite just to be clear here. Some say the word Jew is actually a medieval convention.
The book does use the word Isreal in cartoons depicting the modern state of Isreal. but whenever referring to the origin of Jews it uses the term Palestine, insinuating that Isreal is a modern invention, I imagine. There is some accuracy in that.They believe that the Jews were chosen by God and that some day God would send a messiah, i.e. a savior, to save the Jewish people from hardship. The Jews clashed strongly with neighboring peoples over their belief that they were the chosen people, based on their particular God. Even worse, their refusal to accept the gods of the invading Romans proved to be a stumbling block. Eventually in 70AD, they were expelled or became exiles from their homeland.
p223)
This is called the Diaspora, in which the Jews were chased out of their homeland, Palestine, by the Romans.
From then on it became sorrow for the Jews. They were the target of hatred and oppression as a parasitic race living in other people's lands and wealth. The Jews spread out to all the compass points, but there were two main groups. One group followed the Arabian conquest of the old Roman Empire into Spain and
Portugal. The other is the group that scattered into Germany and Central Europe.
The Jews of Spain and Portugal and the Arab world are called
Sefaradim. The Jews of Germany are called Ashkenazim. Even
today there are two religious leaders, one for each group. The Sefaradim and Ashkenazim existed in equal numbers during the
Middle Ages, but in 1492, Spain issued a complete order of deportation and the Sefaradim numbers fell.(Graphic shows a voice coming from under a flag and sword)
Voice: "Since we're expelling the Muslims, expel the Jews, who are of a different religion too."
Up until World War 2, their population in Europe didn't pass 1.5 million
out of a total 10 million Jews.
p224)
During World War 2, Nazi Germany somehow achieved the slaughter
of "6 million" Jews. They killed 1/3 of the world's Jews in
this act of barbarity. Regardless of numbers why would Christians hate Jews so much?
This is nearly the only reference to the holocaust in the book.
The first reason is that in their religion, central figures say that the Jews killed Jesus, but that's ridiculous. Jesus was born of non-Jewish father but we may assume that his mother was from Judah and a thus a Jew though the Bible does not say so. Among his first believers would have had to have been Jews if the stories are right. The New Testament (written by the Romans and Greeks) may give excuses for hating Jews but it also gives reason to believe that they were among his first followers. Many regard the passage about Pharisees, the priests at the Temple and the people that accused Jesus and mocked him. (The Bible says they will be a cursed people that will forever walk the earth.) The second and biggest reason for hating Jews is that they will never give up their belief they are the chosen race and become like others. Thus they were hated and treated like foreigners.
There's plenty more on it's way. The general gist is that the Jews are a particularly unpleasant kind of Arab or Semite from Palestine twisted by years of oppression into a malevolent and unbeatable force.
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