A History of the Jews Quotes

“It was the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890), discoverer of Troy, who invented the legend of the blond, Aryan Greek. According to Schliemann, the first Greeks appeared from some mystic Nordic spawning ground, invaded Greece, and out of their own genius, effortlessly created a culture containing the seeds that gave birth to Western civilization. This hypothesis was so flattering that the West immediately accepted it as revealed truth, and endless repetition has hardened it into a dogma that is difficult to dissolve, even with contrary evidence. Greek history did not begin with Aryans but with Semites, and Greek civilization did not begin in Greece but in Crete. The first Greeks, referred to as “Achaeans” by Homer”
― Max I. Dimont, A History of the Jews: The Indestructible Jews, The Jews in America, and Appointment in Jerusalem