"Our God is Your God Too, But He Has Chosen Us": Essays on Jewish Power

by Laurent Guyénot

David Ben-Gurion once declared that, “there can be no worthwhile political or military education about Israel without profound knowledge of the Bible.” If that statement is true for the Israeli leadership—and Benjamin Netanyahu would certainly not contradict it—, then it is also true for any serious there can be no real understanding of Israel, its history and its geopolitical agenda without profound knowledge of the Bible.The Hebrew Tanakh is not just the inspiration for Zionism. It is the single root connecting all expressions of Jewishness. Its core ideology is encapsulated in Yahweh, the national god of the Israelites, who by the Mosaic Covenant promised his people domination over the nations on the condition of separateness. It was not before the Babylonian Exile that Yahweh was promoted as the Supreme God of humankind—who happens to have chosen one nation. Christianity and Islam’s submission to that preposterous claim has become the source of enormous symbolic power—despite the equally nonsensical counterclaim that the Jews have lost the election. Yahweh’s impersonation of God is perhaps the most devastating deception ever played on the human race. The sociopathic personality of the Old Testament divinity has ultimately ruined God’s reputation and led to Western godlessness.In these ten essays originally published on the Unz Review, Laurent Guyénot reflects on the Jewish God, the Jewish People, and the Jewish State.Laurent Guyénot is a graduate engineer from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (Paris), with a Master in Biblical Studies and a Ph.D. in Medieval history. He has already published in English JFK-9/11: 50 years of Deep State (2014), and From Yahweh to Jealous God, Chosen People, Promised Land … Clash of Civilizations (2018).

Genres: Politics, Judaism

218 pages, Paperback

Published February 7, 2020

About the author

After earning an engineering degree (National School of Advanced Technology, 1982), Laurent Guyénot pursued his interests in the history and anthropology of religions, earning his doctorate in Medieval Studies (PhD in Medieval Studies at Paris IV-Sorbonne, 2009). He has authored numerous books on the subject.
His current research focuses on the religious and civilizational backgrounds of Zionist geostrategy.

Reviews

[Roy · Rating 5 out of 5]

A profound insight into the jewish psyche and what forces drive it. From the time of Yahweh to today and how we got here. A must read.

[Scott Mann]

At the beginning of this book Guyenot says that the ideology of the old testament 'was originally a means of oppression imposed on the Jewish people by the Levites...who created Yaweh in their own image as a cover for their tyranny...this book is aimed at the emancipation of the Jews and gentiles alike from the biblical matrix. ' so.
.religion as a tool of class oppression through mystification. Religion as ideology.
Yet by the end he is ridiculing a Marxist class analysis in favour of a Nazi style history as racial conflict idea. The last chapter on Marx is indeed a travesty. 'the most essential concepts of Marxs Capital...would be borrowed from Proudhon', .... Marxs economic theory was largely plagiarized from Proudhon.....
I read Guyenot' s book on Zionist involvement in the Kennedy assassinations and found it to be clear, accurate and well argued so I was looking forward to this.
But it soon became clear that the basic thread here was to try to argue that Judaism in its essence is an ideology and movement of ruthless world domination through manipulation and divide and rule tactics applied to other groups.
Yes there is plenty of stuff in the old testament that can be interpreted to support such an idea and Zionists have indeed referred to such materials to support just such goals and policies. There are some good elements of analysis scattered through the book in relation to the realities of. Contemporary Zionism. .But Guyenot s attempt to trace a path of all and only such beliefs and practices as dominant amongst all or most Jewish groups from biblical.times through to the present is incredibly weak and probably accurately characterised as antisemitic