First word for Alchemists of the Gods, vol II, by Derrick Gaskin

First Word

When Israel was in Egypt land,

Let my people go,

Oppressed so hard they could not stand,

Let my people go. - negro spiritual

In Exodus (7:16) the God of the Hebrews says, "Let my people go." Yahweh is telling Moses to go to the pharaoh and to pass on the message, which is: let the Israelites out of bondage, let them migrate out of Egypt. The subsequent Exodus has been dealt with in Book One of Children of Israel (Sections 4 and 9) so the quest of this the second book is to test the validity of not only the Old Testament account of the Exodus but also the claim that the Israelites were in fact Hebrews.

Book One gives among other things a chronological history of the Hebrews, Israelites, Jews and Israelis. When dealing with the Hebrews and Israelites the main source was the Old Testament. When the Jews entered the story after the Babylonian exile again the Old Testament was referred to but it was also possible to verify much of this history by looking at the records of other cultures, races and nations. The Israelis needed no such verification, only the way that Zionists interpret their own Bible and their own history was questioned. In other words Book One was mainstream in that it used sources that are accepted by a majority, its conclusions were a concensus using the views and findings of scores of writers that were Atheists, Christians, Muslims or Jews. Having said that Book One was subjective and biased in favour of the Jews who were subjected to horrific abuse by Church and state for nearly two thousand years but Book One also put forward the case for the Palestinians in Israel and the Occupied Territories.

Book Two is not mainstream and uses very little Establishment history. Book Two is not interested in a winner's view of history, of state manipulation of events, but relies more on the history of ordinary people - on the opinions of the masses. Also, Book Two is not an attack on the Bible, per se  but in the manner of many Jews and Israelis the Old Testament is put under the microscope. Towards the New Testament, Christianity and Islam there is ambivalence. Bishop Athanasius of Alexandria "edited" the New Testament in 367CE, which is suspicious but many archaeological finds have substantiated the writers of the Christian bible - archaeology has given substance to the final Gospel, many places mentioned by John could have been put down to John's imaginative mind but recent excavations in Jerusalem (the pool of Bethesda John 5:2) have proved that this site exists in reality, not just inside the Fourth Gospel.

 The very meaning of the word Islam is "submission"; let no outsider forget this - one who is in a state of Islam or submission to the One True God cannot be judged by atheists, Jews or Christians. If Zionists of the 19th and 20th centuries had given just 1% of their 100% effort in establishing a colonial state in Palestine to understanding Islam there would not be the amount of violence in the Middle east there is today.

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The blame does not rest solely on Zionists but also on the British cabinet who knew  that their foreign secretary, Lord Balfour, was biased in favour of the Zionists but  prejudiced against the indigenous Arabs in Palestine. The French, the Russians, the League of Nations, the United Nations and also the USA - all must take responsibility for the subsequent nightmare in the Middle east. In addition there was the Holocaust, an unholy tragedy for millions of Jews but for Europe a quickly executed Hail Mary to expiate its State and Church guilt by allowing the formation of an unnatural State of Israel in the legitimate homeland of the Palestinians. Also following in the footsteps of the Sykes-Picot agreement the west were able to have some control over the Middle east, via the westernised Israelis. Oil in Saudi Arabia, Gulf States and Iraq is like a drug for the west. They can never get enough of it but it is locked beneath Arab land; the idea being for the USA to invade an Arab state then allow the Israelis to colonise it as they have done in Palestine. At the moment America has only a footprint in the desert sand. Soon they hope for a jack boot on the Muslim neck.

However, the wealthy bubble of prosperity in the west is being prodded and poked by "terrorism" in the twenty-first century. But the attack on the twin towers and the Chechnya freedom fighters backlash against Russia are logical consequences of the state terrorism of both America and Russia in the twentieth century: American terrorism against the Vietnamese people as well as their military and espionage strategy against central and south America, Iraq and Palestine - the USA has sown the wind and now reaps the whirlwind; Russia has tormented Hungary and Czechoslavakia and now (fatally for Russia) Chechnya. Chechens have always hated the Russians - Putin and his stormtroopers must now pay the piper. The state terrorism of the Israel Defence Force is a world-wide legend but for Palestinians it means exile, bulldozed homes, imprisonment without trial, massacres, assassinations, curfews and starvation, and especially the killing of women, children and babies - their homeland turned into Hell itself. Therefore Israelis cannot complain at the Palestinian backlash, what the Syrian president compared to the freedom fighters of France who fought the Nazis: the guerrillas of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, Fatah etc.

Book Two examines the ancient world and its legacy for modern civilisation. What has it given us? In its last will and testament it gave us the potential for democracy, freedom and dignity - inevitably this has been squandered by the powerful, the privileged and the wealthy. We now live on a planet divided by wealth. Those who own the west also have designs on the Third World. But the underprivileged have rebelled into what the controllers of governments and the governments of control call terrorism. If terrorism is defined as actions against civilian populations then few governments on this planet can plead innocent to this accusation. Nevertheless whether it is the firing of a cruise missile or the detonation of a bomb, all killings of civilians are acts of murder. Collateral damage is no excuse, few massacres are unintentional. Each one of us makes a choice. Which side are you on - peace seekers or war mongers, the innocent or the guilty?