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In the book “Black terror, White soldiers “ by David Livingston, which I’m currently reading, there is a reference to a Frenchman, Issac La Peyrère (1596–1676) who was a Kabbalistic messianist …possibly of Marrano Jewish descent, who is regarded by some as the father of Zionism. La Peyrère served as secretary to Henry Prince of Condé (Protestant relation of the then French King), who together with Cromwell and Christina (abdicated Queen of Sweden) were negotiating to create a theological-political world state involving the overthrow of the Catholic king of France. Then in conjunction with the new French King (the Prince of Conde) the Jews would set up the new Zion , rebuild the temple and create and run a new world government from Jerusalem.

This occurs in the time of Cromwell in England and some of the Puritans who came to the American colonies were already familiar with these Zionist ideas. So Lord Palmerston might not have been the first with the political Zionism.

La Peyrère had written a book published in 1655 that was sponsored by Queen Christina called “Prae-adamitae” which was “banned and burned everywhere for its heretical claims that Adam was not the first man, that the Bible is not the history of mankind, but only the history of the Jews, that the Flood was a local event, that Moses did not write the Pentateuch and that no accurate copy of the Bible exists”. Quotation from David Livingston.

On a side note, I’m struggling to keep up with your output together with my own reading ! but I do find that your summaries are great in that respect. There’s just not enough hours in a day to find out how much I don’t know.

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Your deep research and distilled spoon-feeding is a shock to the system. Grateful for your commitment to enlightening those of us who were taught BS at best. Acknowledging the infiltration & subtle machinations of puppeteers is "conspiracy theory" and "beneath" the "intellects" of today's elite. Chaitkin's account of "intelligence" operations following the revolution tracks traitorous "founding fathers" back even further. Off topic, wondering how you assess Eric Larson's mainstream books & research on (most recently) Lincoln and other periods.

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