The New Ensign February 2025 – The Controversy Zion – Douglas Reed
Mon 5:52 pm +00:00, 3 Feb 2025The Controversy of Zion
A History of Jewish Tribalism and Revolution from
Ancient to Modern Times
Text copied by me from a private publication
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This is a must read book for all truth seekers
It is a massively informative work by a very brave man
The text below gives a good flavour of the author Reed and his opus magnum
The book is VERY revealing
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British journalist and author Douglas Reed was
the Central European correspondent for the
London Times during the late 1920’s, and was
a brilliant analyst who had interviewed many of
the major political figures of the period.
Following his experiences during the second
World War, he wrote this lengthy and
controversial book which remained unpublished
for over 20 years.
In it, he traces the development of the Jewish
concept of the “chosen people” and the
“promised land” from the time of the ancient
Levites through the World Wars of the 20th
century and the founding of the modern State of
Israel. It is must reading for anyone interested in
the hidden hand behind world events, and the
ongoing conflict centred around the Jewish State.
The Banner of The Tribe of Judah
“The sect which attached itself to and mastered
the tribe of Judah took this rising concept of ‘one
God of all peoples’ and embodied it in its
Scripture only to destroy it, and to set up the
creed based on its denial. It is denied subtly, but
with scorn, and as the creed is based on the
theory of the master-race this denial is necessary
and inevitable. A master-race, if there be one,
must itself be God…
Thus the achievement of the itinerant priests who
mastered the tribe of Judah, so long ago, was to
turn one small, captive people away from the
rising idea of a God of all men, to reinstate a
bloodthirsty tribal deity and racial law, and to
send the followers of this creed on their way
through the centuries with a destructive
mission… The end was to be the triumphant
consummation in Jerusalem, when world
dominion was to be established on the ruins of
the heathen and their kingdoms.”
(from Chapter 1)
“The political and military operations of two
world wars have been diverted to promote the
Zionist ambition and the life and treasure of the
West have been poured out in support of it. Forty
years of continuous bloodshed in Palestine have
obviously been but the prelude to what is yet to
come there.
Any third world war may begin and spread
outward from Palestine, and if one were to start
elsewhere it would in its course foreseeably
revolve around and turn on the ambition of Zion,
which will not be fulfilled until a much greater
area in the Middle East has been conquered,
‘other Gods’ have been thrown down, and ‘all
nations’ have been enslaved.”
(from Chapter 13)
The Jewish State
“I believe [this book] will still be valid in five,
ten or more years, and I expect it to be published
one day or another because I anticipate the
collapse, sooner or later, of the virtual law of
heresy which has prevented open discussion of
“the Jewish question” during the past three
decades. Some day the subject will be freely
debated again and something of what this book
records will then be relevant… The West
approaches the climax of its relationship with
Zion, publicly begun fifty years ago, and the
climax is precisely what was to be foreseen when
that servience started.”
(from Chapter 46)
The narrative is divided into five periods: the
Levitical, the Pharisaic, the Talmudic, the brief
Emancipation, and the Zionist. A final section,
the Climacteric, was then added. For easier
online reading, the chapters have been grouped
into parts, some long paragraphs have been
divided, and section headings have been added
that do not appear in the original text. Reference
links for Bible verses quoted by the author have
also been included.
Throughout the text, the author references “a
most zealous Zionist historian, Dr. Josef
Kastein”, quoting from his book (above) “The
History and Destiny of the Jews” (1933).
Whenever “Dr. Kastein” is mentioned, that is the
source.
Comments
In the latter half of the book, the author
concentrates on the twin forces of Zionism and
Communism. However, he only briefly touches
on the “most secret and jealously guarded field
of all” regarding the money power behind the
scenes which has enabled these movements, an
area which deserves more scrutiny. For instance,
the name “Rothschild” is only mentioned once
in passing without any discussion of that dynasty
or its influence in world affairs for the past two
centuries.
“There is also that second network, of influential
men at the higher level where “the power of the
purse” may be used to exert “irresistible pressure
on the international politics of the present”
through rulers and politicians…
All experienced observers know of the existence
of this force at the highest level of international
affairs… Nothing less could explain the action
which the British Government took, and if there
was doubt earlier about the concerted action of
this force, above and distinct from nations, the
events of our mid-century have removed it.”
(from Chapter 26)
The Author
In Europe during the years immediately before
and after World War II the name of Douglas
Reed was on everyone’s lips; his books were
being sold by scores of thousand, and he was
known with intimate familiarity throughout the
English-speaking world by a vast army of
readers and admirers.
Former London Times correspondent in Central
Europe, he had won great fame with books like
“Insanity Fair”, “Disgrace Abounding”, “Lest
We Regret”, “Somewhere South of Suez”, “Far
and Wide” and several others, each amplifying
a hundredfold the scope available to him as one
of the world’s leading foreign correspondents.
The disappearance into almost total oblivion of
Douglas Reed and all his works was a change
that could not have been wrought by time alone; indeed, the correctness of his interpretation of
the unfolding history of the times found some
confirmation in what happened to him when at
the height of his powers.
After 1951, with the publication of “Far and
Wide”, in which he set the history of the United
States of America into the context of all he had
learned in Europe of the politics of the world,
Reed found himself banished from the
bookstands, all publishers’ doors closed to him,
and those books already published liable to be
withdrawn from library shelves and “lost”, never
to be replaced.
His public career as a writer now apparently at
an end, Reed was at last free to undertake a great
task for which all that had gone before was but
a kind of preparation and education that no
university could provide and which only the
fortunate and gifted few could fully use
— his years as a foreign correspondent, his travels
in Europe and America, his conversations and
contacts with the great political leaders of his
day, plus his eager absorption through reading
and observation of all that was best in European
culture.
Experiences which other men might have
accepted as defeat, served only to focus Douglas
Reed’s powers on what was to be his most
important undertaking — that of researching and
retelling the story of the last 2000 years and more
in such a way as to render intelligible much of
modern history which for the masses remains in
our time steeped in darkness and closely guarded
by the terrors of an invisible system of censorship.
The Book
Commencing in 1951, Douglas Reed spent more
than three years — much of this time separated
from his wife and young family — working in
the New York Central Library, or tapping away
at his typewriter in spartan lodgings in New York
or Montreal. With workmanlike zeal, the book
was rewritten, all 300,000 words of it, and the
Epilogue only added in 1956.
The story of the book itself — the unusual
circumstances in which it was written, and how
the manuscript, after having remained hidden for
more than 20 years, came to light and was at last
made available for publication — is part of the
history of our century, throwing some light on a
struggle of which the multitudes know nothing:
that conducted relentlessly and unceasingly on
the battleground of the human mind.
It needed some unusual source of spiritual power
and motivation to bring to completion so big a
book involving so much laborious research and
cross-checking, a book, moreover, which seemed
to have little or no chance of being published in
the author’s lifetime.
Although there is correspondence to show that
the title was briefly discussed with one publisher,
the manuscript was never submitted but
remained for 22 years stowed away in three
zippered files on top of a wardrobe in Reed’s
home in Durban, South Africa.
Relaxed and at peace with himself in the
knowledge that he had carried his great
enterprise as far as was possible in the
circumstances of the times, Douglas Reed
patiently accepted his forced retirement as
journalist and writer, put behind him all that
belonged to the past and adjusted himself
cheerfully to a different mode of existence, in
which most of his new-found friends and
acquaintances, charmed by his lively mind and rich sense of humour, remained for years wholly
unaware that this was indeed the Douglas Reed
of literary fame.
Of this he was sure, whether or not it would
happen in his lifetime, there would come a time
when circumstances would permit, and the
means be found, to communicate to the world
his message of history rewritten, and the central
message of Christianity restated.
Interpretation
For the rest, “The Controversy of Zion” can be
left to speak for itself; indeed, it is a work of
revisionist history and religious exposition the
central message of which is revealed in almost
every page, understanding and compassionate of
people but severely critical of the inordinate and
dangerous ambitions of their leaders.
In the final chapter, under the heading “the
Climacteric”, Douglas Reed remarks that if he
could have planned it all when he began writing
his book in 1949, he could not have chosen a
better moment than the last months of 1956 to
review the long history of Talmudic Zionism and
re-examine it against the background of what
was still happening on the stage of world politics.
For 1956 was the year of another American
presidential election in which, once again, the
Zionists demonstrated their decisive power to
influence Western politics; it was the year in
which the nations of the West stood by as
helpless spectators as Soviet forces were used to
crush a spontaneous revolt and re-install a
Jewish-Communist regime in Hungary; and it
was the year in which Britain and France, under
Zionist pressure, were drawn into the disastrous
fiasco of an attempt to capture the Suez Canal,
an adventure from which, once again, Israel
alone gained any advantage.
Everything that has happened since Reed wrote
those last sentences in 1956 has continued to
endorse the correctness of his interpretation of
more than 2000 years of troubled history.
The Middle East has remained an area of intense
political activity and of the maximum
falsification of news and suppression of genuine
debate, and it was only the few with some
knowledge of the role of Talmudic Zionism and
Communism who could have had any chance of
solving the problem of successive events of
major importance, like the so-called Six Day
War in 1967 and the massive Israeli invasion of
Lebanon in 1982.
The Six Day War
Those who have read “The Controversy of Zion”
will not be surprised to learn that there were clear
signs of collusion between the Soviet Union and
Israel in precipitating the Israeli attack on Egypt,
for it was only because Colonel Nasser had been
warned by the Kremlin bosses that Israel was
about to attack Egypt’s ally Syria that he moved
nearly all his armed forces to his country’ s
northern border, where they fell an easy prey to
Israel’s vastly superior army.
It seemed as if nothing had changed when in
1982 Israel launched a massive and most ruthless
attack on Southern Lebanon, ostensibly for the
purpose of rooting out the Palestine Liberation
Organisation, but actually in furtherance of an
expansionist policy about which Jewish leaders
have always been remarkably frank.
By this time, however, the pro-Zionist
mythology generated by Western politicians and
media in which Israel was always represented as
a tiny and virtuous nation in constant need of
help and protection, was obviously beginning to
lose much of its plausibility, so that few were
surprised when the British Institute of Strategic
Studies announced that Israel could now be
regarded as fourth in the world as a military
power, after the USA, the Soviet Union and the
People’s Republic of China — well ahead of
nations like Britain and France.
More deeply significant was the reaction of the
Jewish people, both in Israel and abroad, to an
apparent triumph of Zionist arms in Lebanon.
While Western politicians and media remained
timorously restrained in their comment, even
after news of the massacre of an estimated 1500 men, women and children in two Beirut refugee
camps, 350,000 of the residents of Tel Aviv
staged a public demonstration against their
government and there were reports in the Jewish
press that controversy over the Lebanese war had
rocked the Israel army and affected all ranks.
Of this, too, Douglas Reed seems to have had
some presentiment, for among the last words in
his book are these: “I believe the Jews of the
world are equally beginning to see the error of
revolutionary Zionism, the twin of the other
destructive movement, and, as this century ends,
will at last decide to seek involvement in
common mankind”
To Be Continued
