“Strategic Freemasonry”: Shades of Anti-Semitic Protocols in The Irish Times
February 15, 2012 13:27 by Simon Plosker
This week’s terror attack in New Delhi focused the Irish Times‘ attention on the Israeli-Indian relationship, particularly on Israel’s position as India’s second largest supplier of arms.
But despite this rapidly proliferating association – Israel’s most significant in Asia – it is shrouded in secrecy, operating in an undefined smoke-and-mirrors environment.
Both sides go to great lengths to play down this strategic Freemasonry for fear of stirring up anti-Jewish sentiment among India’s substantial Muslim minority and straining ties with Arab states upon whom India depends for almost 70 per cent of its hydrocarbon imports.
Is the use of the term “strategic Freemasonry” merely an innocent mistake or a sign of subconscious prejudice on the part of the journalist responsible? And just because aspects of the Israel-India relationship, such as security cooperation and arms sales, are not openly publicized on either side, is there really, as the author’s language implies, some sort of conspiratorial aspect to the relationship?
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The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, London, 1978
For the charge of Jews or Zionists secretly working through Freemasonry to subvert nations is a classic canard promoted by the notorious anti-Semitic forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion:
- The Freemasons are a tool in the hands of the Zionist movement. In the fourth Protocol the author states: “The truth of the matter is that our power is hidden. The visible Freemasons serve us as a cloak and [in effect] only act to hide [our power] and our goals.”
- The Jews use words like liberty, justice, equality and liberality but they do not believe in them at all. The tenth Protocol [states]: “The Freemasons use words like liberality, liberty, equality and fraternity. When rule is ours we will change them to the right of freedom, the duty of equality, the perfection of fraternity.”
Likewise, the Hamas Charter, borrowing heavily from the Protocols also alludes to Jewish Masonic subterfuge:
- Article 17: “… their lackeys who are infiltrated through Zionist organizations under various names and shapes, such as Freemasons, Rotary Clubs, espionage groups and others, which are all nothing more than cells of subversion and saboteurs. These organizations have ample resources that enable them to play their role in societies for the purpose of achieving the Zionist targets and to deepen the concepts that would serve the enemy.”
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Tuvia Fogel
5:25 pm
Feb 15, 2012
What’s the surprise here? Ireland, like Spain and Norway, has been known for ‘Jewless Jew-hatred’ for decades. The three countries have negligible Jewish populatios, but excel in popular fascination for blood-libels about Jews. Hating Israel AND Jews in Ireland, in particular, is ALMOST as popular as getting drunk.
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David Sutherland
7:21 pm
Feb 15, 2012
When others are anti-semitic bring the facts out, don’t respond with racism in kind.
I don’t expect that with generalized racism — painting entire nations as drunkards, etc. — is any more honest than the racists who promote the nonsense of the Protocols of Zion.
While it may be true (but is it?) that there are more incidents of alcoholism in Ireland, before slandering an entire people you ought to site such proof, if it were even relevant which it is not.
Remarks such as ‘should we expect anything better from anti-Jewish [xyz people]‘ because we know they’ve always been anti-semitic?’ should be responded to with a “Yes! Expect more!
Hot debate. What do you think?
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Gerry Dorrian
5:44 pm
Feb 15, 2012
The term Freemasonry certainly seems to be used for the purpose of stirring up certain associations – maybe with the eejit in Norway, who proclaimed himself to be a Mason?
How out of touch can Hamas get? The Rotary Clubs raise money for charity, and the Lions do the same while drinking copious amounts of beer. All good stuff!
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Julian
5:46 pm
Feb 15, 2012
Gerry,
Don’t ever expect idiots like members of Hamas to ever bother to investigate the truth… it’s just so much easier to believe and continue to spread lies… That’s how they roll.
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Julian
5:44 pm
Feb 15, 2012
To take it one step further… unfounded, rampant, and unabated anti-semitism has been alive and well for centuries.
All the haters needed was this forgery to prove to themselves once and for all that we have a secret agenda of world domination… How easily they were fooled, but their hatred existed prior in any event.
A sad state of affairs for us… always was, and always will be…
“In every generation……
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steve mann
5:59 pm
Feb 15, 2012
Why dont they discuss “Opus Dei” The Catholic secret society-
The Vatican Bank conspiracies-
The priestly child abuses-that still go on-
And how sections of the Vatican smuggled Nazis out of Europe-
They have no room to demonize any one until they have looked deeper into their own “Mirror”
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Gerald Lush
6:13 pm
Feb 15, 2012
Forget the Free-Masons – There are other forces more powerful than Free Masons that are at work against Israel. It’s an individual affair – this is an age when “Everyone does what is right in their own eyes”, usually based on insane popular opinion and not sane truthful facts. The negative attitude which many have against Israel is proof of their insanity.
My father always said, “Son, don’t be fooled by intellectual education and knowledge, because a person can be an intellectual genius and still be an idioit”. This intellectual, highly educated world is dominated by highly intellectual, highly educated idioits. They have absolutely no “common sense”. Israel & Israelis is the only real SANE nation and people in the Middle East.
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Michael
11:23 pm
Mar 07, 2012
You stated . . . “There are other forces more powerful than Free Masons that are at work against Israel”.
Where did you get the idea that the Free Masons are against Israel?
The very last step to becoming a Master Mason is to take an oath to Almighty God to protect His Nation Israel!
That kind of misinformation reminds me of a Bob Dylan song . . . ” I heard 10,000 talkers who’s tongues were all broken. I heard 10,000 whispering . . . and no body listening. I heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world.”
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Elia Harris
6:18 pm
Feb 15, 2012
Children who are emotionally neglected and maltreated experience frustration, which turns to anger, which turns to hate, which turns to rage which as an adult is displaced toward those whom they envy. They envy those whom they perceive to be more, have more, achieve more than themselves.. In this case, it is Israel whom they envy because they know, deep within their soul, that they can never be as good nor as achieved as the Jew. Because there are a lot of people with deficient character developments, they join the ranks of the hateful because their self-hate from their own childhood keeps them from developing their brain’s frontal lobe which deals with higher intelligence, logic, impulse control, moral code. That is why they are a pain in the next in any society. They are simply lowly developed individuals who use Israel as a scapegoat as a way to discharge & throw out of themselves the hate they feel about themselves for their lack of development. Their parents have failed them miserably in their parental duties, and so have the schools failed to teach logic critical thinking. That is why we have more stupid people than smart ones in our societies – and they run governments.
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Nathan Zafran
10:00 pm
Feb 15, 2012
Make no mistake! Ireland is overwhelmingly anti-semitic, possibly including a strictly Catholic background, influence and commitment. I always recall an antisemitic cartoon in one of the Irish papers which I felt strongly symbolizes Ireland. This was during the Grapes of Wrath campaign in South Lebanon, which came as a retaliation for numerous attacks and atrocities against Israeli citizens. It depicted a giant dinasour chasing poor helpless people, while the caption read
“Jewrassic park”. Like the Norwegians, there was a great deal of collaboration with the Nazis in WW ll., so accept that Anti-semitism (and thus hatred of Israel) is rampant in Ireland
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Ryano
9:09 am
Mar 07, 2012
The Irish NEVER collaborated with the Nazis in WWII. Ireland was officially neutral although on some level they undoubetdly cooperated with the Allied forces.
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dbdent
11:35 pm
Feb 15, 2012
“Tis a great shame for the lovely band of Irish Freemasons having their names impugned
Wonder if they will respond?
Let there be light!
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Fred
3:50 am
Feb 16, 2012
How can anyne hate the Jewish People?
We love the Jewish people and pray for Israel. Did you forget that your God was a Jewish man? Also you have the Salk Polio Vaccine in your body. Salk was a Jewish doctor. If you still dislike Jewish people please do not listen or sing White Christmas, Easter Parade and the patriotic song God Bless America as they were written by Irving Berlin a Jewish composer. Also How Great Thou Art was written by a Jewish man Stuart Keene Hine who later on converted. How can some people worship Jesus who was a Jewish Rabbi and dislike his people. Go figure!
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R. Cross
8:11 am
Feb 16, 2012
If muslims actually believe this rubbish then I ask the question: Why is Zayed Al Fadad a Freemason? I am a Freemason and I have Jewish Freemasons as my friends too. If any nation has only one side of any argument presented to them, then their thinking process becomes distorted and eventually corrupt. These people must not be scorned but they must be pitied! Just don’t trust them but expect the verbage, lies, accusations to increase and, unfortunately, somebody will believe it to the point of commiting an act of horror
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Michael
4:53 pm
Feb 19, 2012
Everyone seems to forget the most important part of the Freemasonry scenario. God Almighty commanded His servant King Solomon to find a man who could solve the basic arithmetical problem of placing 55 chairs around His 3 sided Holy Altar inside His soon to be constructed Temple . The only man in the Jewish and or Gentile world who could solve this basic problem was King Hiram of Tyre.
This man Hiram was made Master Builder over God’s Holy Temple to be reigned over by King Solomon, and was named as the ‘First Master Mason’.
Any really good brick mason can solve this problem when they incorporate the 3-4-5 method for squaring a right angle corner. Guess it all came down to God not wanting anyone to lay a hand on His Holy Temple that didn’t know how to lay-up a square and perfect masonry corner in the first place.
How hard is it on some people’s egos to comprehend that this Holy Father makes no mistakes, doesn’t say things just to hear Himself speak, and doesn’t make promises He doesn’t intend on keeping? (Down to this present day)
He sent His Holy Nation of Israel forward to the present day with one & only one purpose. That purpose being to bring a Godly morality to our world as it stands at this moment.
How could it not possibly be that this Father’s guardians of His people Israel are the Master Masons, or Freemasons, that He placed in charge all those years ago? He said this was the case and called His Holy guardians ‘The Great Speckled Bird’. The Masonic Dollar Bill & Roy Acuff come in there somewhere . . .
Well here we all stand at the End Times and there are still millions who think they know better about what constitutes moral values than those very specific instructions on morality set forth in God’s 613 Commandments or Mitzvahs. These are also known as Good or Negative deeds.
So what is so difficult, aside from letting down our own ‘know-it-all-egos’ and admitting to ourselves that any other way except God’s Way hasn’t worked-out so well, from the look of the world around us?
It hurts to have to let that ego down, like all those times we so artfully argued with our own parents over why our way was the correct way, knowing full well it made our inner voice clear its throat so many times in the background in disapproval.
These Freemasons from King Solomon’s Temple founded our great nation of America. But there are those among us who still think they know better as to the reason & purpose of so noble and moral an undertaking that these Master Masons fostered on our founding documents and moral foundation.
Although its still hard for me to walk the straight and the narrow every day, at least I have my ideal as to why our Holy Father wanted the best for us by following His instructions to ‘Love our neighbor as ourselves’. Its tough but we gotta’ try with all our might to find favor in His eyes just as we tried to find favor in our own parent’s eyes.
I have read lots of opinions and have read lots of books, but Edgar Cayce’s use of the, ‘Love our neighbor as ourselves’ mantra seems to ring with with the clearest bell sound I’ve come across so far in this lifetime.
Edgar Cayce also stated that the promise of peace on earth rested with all people integrating Masonic Freemasonry principles in their lives at the end times.
That’s enough for me to contemplate for the rest of my life.
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Gerald Lush
7:14 pm
Feb 19, 2012
PLEASE, let’s keep the discussion in the ‘middle of the road’ realm of “Honest Reporting” and Israel’s right to exist, based on Hebrew and Christian Bible teachings, versus the anti-Israeli Media reporting and lies. Let’s try and stop trying to promote Free Masonary, Catholicism, Protestantism, etc.. This can produce religious conflict among those defending Israel.
Stick to basic Bible teachings – it is very clear re Israel’s Right to the Land and it’s Right to exist.
We’re defending Israel and believing that God in His time and according to His Plan will “Interpret His Own Word by bringing it to pass.”
GRACE and PEACE!
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steve mann
7:49 pm
Feb 19, 2012
Gerald, with the greatest of respect one dose not have to base anything on Hebrew and Christian Bible teachings- Theology to a non believer can be argued without end-
However archeological and artifact historical evidence is without question.
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Mr. Light-Bright
10:00 pm
Feb 19, 2012
I know some things about Freemasonry. It is seemingly innocent, and my grandfather left the order before he died… he said “tell them I want nothing to do with them.”
BUT this for me is NOT about whether the “Freemasons” as a whole, are evil or not… I am more concerned about the use of it to justify some … conspiracy, which I think is a conspiracy in its self, given by the devil (if secular subtract d from the word “devil” = evil).
A conspiracy of devils, which is designed to disguise its self as a “conspiracy” … all with the intention of blaming a group no truly affiliated with the conspiracy. (too much usage of the word “conspiracy” is probably the problem).
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steve mann
4:20 pm
Feb 20, 2012
Mr….
I can tell you that Freemasonry is based on the building of King Solomons temple- the 1st Temple.
So anyone who uses it for anti-Israeli (Hebrew) causes- is in total denial.
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Gerald Lush
1:11 am
Feb 20, 2012
Steve, I agree! But IF an individual wants to base his ideas on ideology or theology – heep it basic. I would welcome archeological and artifact historical evidence thoughts. My email was to get across the idea that we need to stick to “basics” – whether its ideology, theology or archeology. As someone has already expressed – Hamas, Terrorist, etc. won’t even consider it. They’ll do what they want to do. (P. S. I am a Pastor)
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steve mann
4:17 pm
Feb 20, 2012
Gerald I respect everyone’s right to believe how they wish- I draw the line at “lobbing off heads” if one refuses to follow a certain way-
The Inquisition ended a long time ago- However Islam is still living in the 8th century and as you say Hamas (The Muslim Brotherhood) is part of that doctrine-
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Kip Gonzales
3:04 pm
Feb 21, 2012
The picture shows real Masonic symbols in the background, but the flag isn´t the one of Ireland, but of India!
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6:26 am
Feb 23, 2012
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R. Cross
6:47 pm
Feb 23, 2012
This is the INDIAN flag. If that is the best they can do, then the rest must be lies too!
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steve mann
1:51 pm
Mar 07, 2012
Author: Ryano
Comment:
The Irish NEVER collaborated with the Nazis in WWII. Ireland was officially neutral although on some level they undoubetdly cooperated with the Allied forces.”"”
You are of course joking.
Sure many an Irishman volunteered to fight with the allies- Meanwhile- Develerer the Irish president went to the German Embassy to give condolence of the death of Hitler- When Rooseleltd died I dont think he even sent a letter!
The war ended- and hey presto- 10s of U-Boats emerged from around the Irish coast.
I wonder how they got supplies-
Meanwhile British shipping coming from the US with goods could not use Irish waters-
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R. Cross
9:16 pm
Mar 07, 2012
It is not only the Irish Minority that was pro-nazi. It was also the English minority, South African Afrikaaner minority and the North American minority. So there is nothing new about the Irish minority being pro-nazi at all, even if they were blatantly so. So what? The nazis are gone – even if some are floating as the diehards on the flotsam of life. This does not however exonerate the reporters from not assisting a woman while they photographed her car been pelted by rocks as she drove past them! They are to be scorned than praised! There is a line between moral obligations and duty to one’s employer and, in the reporter business, many kudo’s can be obtained by photographing events – BUT NOT IF IT IS WITHIN THEIR POWER TO PREVENT IT! For this reason they are as guilty and it as if they threw the rocks themselves.
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