THE HANDSTAND

october(emergency issue re. Gaza atrocities)2004



THE MELT-DOWN

by Jocelyn Braddell

Ha ! said the mighty Jesus as Judas

Ripped open the wallet of the Judaic minstrel.

Ha!, What have we here in the heart of a whore?

Judas winked as he split open the pod

Where the worm dwelt in the heart of man.

The worm sang in the blood:

Let us refuse to worship in the cause of death

Let us worship no more

Let the women seeking the keel of a boat 

Keep in mind how you twist your spine,

To bend over the oar, and plough the wave!

Let the women be naked, dancing;

Let the men lie beyond in the harvest field

Cracking kernels and swilling water

From the gutter that runs under an altar.

Ha! Said Jesus sinking down

He placed his hand on the earth

He sang, and the note between his jaws,

Released on the world, sung thus:

I am also naked. I am the linen-sail hoisted

In air. The wind taughtens my seam…

That gust presses like an embrace

On the gut of my belly where a savage hand

Tied knots. That billow of the sea

Caresses the lip of my being and I roar

These lines, as I travel through waste pastures.

I am carried by an urge

Alone above the carcase of a plank

My surging shape thrusts beyond all

But a bird of passage whose wings

Reverberate with light…

A dim lantern at night, flashing,

A star; by dawn resting

In this wooden nest of the wave,

Is my companion.

Jesus, a man, glanced at his fists, he

Wrestled with Judas in word and glance

And the callus on the palm betrayed

A working man who left off the saw

To sharpen a blade of ice for the winter

Of the deluge of drought.

jocelyn braddell© 

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear: (Cicero Marcus Tullius SPQR)

AN INTERESTING LETTER ON BETRAYAL FOLLOWS:
From Replique

As one who is heavily involved in the effort to expose the self-terror of 9/11, pretext for three wars of aggression against Muslims and counting, I was fascinated to read of the fate of the Patria - the ship's name weirdly foreshadowing our new holiday "Patriot Day, Sept. 11," America's home-grown Guy Fawkes Day.

I would like to ask your opinion on the following: When does the self-terror tactic first arise in Jewish history?

My working hypothesis is that it started with Zionism, and that Zionism is an invention of the British Empire, Department of Divide and Conquer, Project Section: Fomenting Minority Rights to Destabilise Potential Rival Empires.

England expressed an interest in a Jewish state in Palestine around 1840, under Palmerston, giving the rationale of securing the passage to India, but with the effect of severing the African and Asian halves of the Muslim and Arab worlds. If the ground was prepared under Disraeli, it was done quietly; but at any rate, the plot emerged full-blown in the 1890's as the Zionist movement, intertwined with Britain's European policy of preventing Eurasian unity and cutting archrival Germany off from Iraqi oil.

The earliest perverse political trick of Jew using Jew which comes to my mind is the Dreyfus case, in which the British hand of Lord Rothschild is easily discerned; anti-semitism was synthesized to give life to Herzl's Palestine homeland idea, and to drive a wedge between France and Germany. (Such multiple effects, like a well-thought-out chess exploit, are the signature of state-planned covert operations.)

Does anyone know of any precedents of medieval European Jewry resorting to self-terror, for instance, to win the sympathy of royal patrons? Did the Kingdom of Khazaria ever use self-terror?

If not, then the prominent precedent is Guy Fawkes, the false-flag/patsy operation directed against Catholic Spain by a clique close to the British crown, and I would posit that zionist self-terror is a British invention, or rather, modern adaptation of tricks known to the ancients.
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