Last month, we were shocked to see the Israeli terrorist attacks in Lebanon. Israel detonated, simultaneously, hundreds of compromised electronic pager devices. The illegal Zionist state, not exactly known for possessing honesty and honor, claims the attacks were aimed at Hezbollah fighters, though they ended up injuring dozens of non-combatant innocent bystanders, including (at least) two children, who were highly unlikely to be militant fighters.
After all, pagers aren’t typically associated with being the go-to communication devices of soldiers and military personnel. In fact, they are probably most commonly used by those in the medical field—doctors, nurses, hospital staff, etc.
And even if every single victim actually turned out to be a card-carrying member of Hezbollah, practically all of them would have most certainly found themselves in a “civilian situation” at the time of the attack, i.e., shopping, driving, at home, socialising, etc., effectively also endangering their families, friends, and other innocent civilians.
Of course, Zionists didn’t even bother making any attempt at hiding their utter glee at this brazen terrorist attack. In fact, they openly applauded the logistics of it and what they celebrated as the “genius” of the attack.
The more rational analysts seized the opportunity to raise some significant and legitimate concerns. At first, it was thought to have been some sort of cyber-attack, with Israel’s spy agencies hacking the pagers so that, through causing an overheating failure, the lithium-ion batteries would explode. This theory was deemed improbable by the Los Angeles Times due to the intensity of the explosions. Like most of the more recent commentary, the article also suggests that the devices were likely sabotaged by Israel at the supply chain level, having inserted an explosive chemical that was triggered when desired.
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This might actually end up working against the Zionists, since now, even those that are formally their allies might have become skeptical of purchasing or using Israeli technology. After all, they may have compromised countless other electronic consumer goods. Arab states should thus review their decisions regarding increasing trade with the Zionist entity, as practically it would mean endangering their own citizens. The Taiwanese firm that produced the pagers has already come out and distanced itself from the Israeli terrorist operation. This could even lead to East Asian companies becoming highly antisemitic in the near future because they simply cannot trust Israel to not interfere with their technology, especially when they had no problem rigging their products with explosives, possibly pushing many to terminate their contracts and look elsewhere for other alternatives, such as Chinese technology.
And, of course, as we all know by now, here lies the real problem. Not all the dead and injured innocent Lebanese people. Not those dead Lebanese children. Antisemitism—humanity’s oldest and most widely perpetuated form of hate.
In fact, it is now Israel that is guilty of giving credence to a classic antisemitic lie.
Poisoning the Wells: A Medieval Antisemitic Lie
The idea of Jews poisoning the wells is one of the most common antisemitic lies found within medieval Europe. Rabbi Joshua Trachtenberg, in his classic work, The Devil and the Jews (1943), regarding how Catholic Europeans often considered Jews to be the Devil in quite the literal sense, has dedicated the entire seventh chapter of his book to this very issue.
Such accusations started primarily in the 14th century, as the Black Death—the plague that robbed Europe of almost half its total population—had supposedly been triggered by Jews intending to put an end to Christendom.
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This was obviously fake news (after all, the Jews themselves were also victims of the Black Death). However, some Jews do appear to have internalized this lie.
In The Jewish Alchemists: A History and Source Book (1994), Raphael Patai, who was a well-known Jewish academic, mentions Abraham Eleazar’s Uraltes Chymisches Werck, an alchemical treatise that he considers to be “unquestionably the most Jewish alchemical book in existence” (p.238).
What is of some interest to us here is where Patai mentions Eleazar in the context of the Black Death and the antisemitic lie of Jews poisoning the wells.
He writes (p.251):
The most problematic passage in the book of Abraham Eleazar, as far as its Jewish authorship is concerned, is the one in which he refers to an epidemic caused by the poisoning of wells. As is well known, when the great plague raged in Europe (1348-1350), killing between one-quarter and one half of the total population, the Jews were accused of having caused it by poisoning the wells. Under torture, several Jews confessed that they, or other Jews they knew, had indeed committed this terrible crime.
Patai then quotes Eleazar himself (ibid.):
Do not dare, without Elijah and our King [the Messiah] to gather against the heathen in order to destroy them, as some of our brothers did, by which they only made the exigency worse, so that often 1,000 of them fell in one day, as with Barchocheta [>]. He taught, because he understood the science, how to prepare the Mystenum, to prepare for the people a horrible, poisonous 🜄 [water] and they made out of it by Cohobatton [>] such a horrible smoke of poison that they themselves had partly to perish through it. They poured this into the wells, and when the sky was thick, dark, and gloomy, they poured it into a vessel. This they placed in abundance in addition upon the 🜂 [fire], so that it started to smoke, and thus they poisoned the 🜁 [air] so that men and beasts perished. A terrible sickness and plague spread among the people, they got a horrible burning pox which began to putrefy and to stink, some became black like pitch, and fell down suddenly, and if it entered a house the poison raged so strongly that there was no rescue. Those who were attacked by this poison sought to save themselves and fled into the country, whereby the whole land was ruined. Therefore beware of such things, so that you don’t make the burden even heavier upon you. But if you will walk in the commandments of your God, He will preserve you and you will see an early redemption. Be vigorous and watchful, for the yoke will soon be lifted from your necks.
Patai then comments (ibid.):
This passage reads as if its author had believed in the libel of poisoning of the wells and the responsibility of the Jews for the Black Death. Could a Jew, who lived during that epidemic or some time thereafter, believe such a thing? Alas, the answer must be yes the “confessions” were sent to various cities, the accusation spread like wildfire, and the belief in their truth was general in the Christian population. In this atmosphere it is little wonder that a Jewish alchemist like Abraham Eleazar came sufficiently under the influence of the general conviction to believe that one of his colleagues (to whom he referred by a possibly invented name) took unauthorized and reprehensible action to destroy the “heathen” by poison, and that he felt it necessary to warn his brethren not to follow his example.
Patai thus considers Eleazar to have been mistaken and that he had passively absorbed the general Christian misconceptions.
But what I find intriguing in the above quote from Eleazar is that, while embracing the antisemitic lie, his main point of contention was not that they have carried out the act but that the perpetrators should have waited for the arrival of the Messiah before doing so!
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Poisoning the Gentiles… A Prophecy?
According to Judaism, it seems that poisoning the Gentiles is something that would indeed occur during eschatological times and, for many, the inception of the modern state of Israel in 1948 is itself an indication that we live in times close to the Messianic era.
They base such a reading on Jeremiah (named after the prophet), chapter 25:
This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my hand this cup filled with the wine of my wrath and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it. When they drink it, they will stagger and go mad because of the sword I will send among them.” So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand and made all the nations to whom he sent me drink it […] all the foreign people there; all the kings of Uz; all the kings of the Philistines (those of Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the people left at Ashdod); Edom, Moab and Ammon; all the kings of Tyre and Sidon [in modern-day Lebanon]; the kings of the coastlands across the sea […] “Then tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Drink, get drunk and vomit, and fall to rise no more because of the sword I will send among you.’ But if they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink, tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty says: You must drink it! See, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears my Name, and will you indeed go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword on all who live on the earth, declares the Lord Almighty.’
You will notice that both Gaza and Lebanon have been mentioned (along with many other nations).
The rabbis have interpreted the above words as referring to administering poison to the Gentile nations. For example, Rashi (from 11th century France), the most notable commentator of the Talmud, wrote:
How then do I fulfill “A prophet to the nations I made you”? To the children of Israel who deport themselves with the customs of the nations. It can further be interpreted: “A prophet for the nations,” like “About the nations,” to give them to drink the cup of poison, to prophesy retribution upon them, as it is said: “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from My hand, you shall give all the nations to drink of it” (infra 25:15).
While referring to the four cups used during the Passover celebration, we read in the Daat Zkenim, a compilation of commentaries by the most celebrated rabbis of France and Germany from the 12th and 13th centuries:
Still another interpretation sees in the four cups a reference to the four cups of poison that G–d will force the gentile nations to drink in the future, which the prophet Jeremiah has spoken about in Jeremiah 25,15-18. These cups are also referred to in Psalms 75,9 as well as in Jeremiah 51,7 and in Psalms 11,6 as pointed out in the section of the Jerusalem Talmud we quoted earlier.
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More recently, Adin Steinsaltz, an influential Israeli rabbi who passed away in 2020 and an authority in the Jewish mystical tradition in particular, provided the following commentary:
In his vision, Jeremiah places dozens of nations, large and small, before him and gives them poison to drink.
It is worth noting that rabbi Steinsaltz was a global authority on Kabbalah, and his work regarding it, The Thirteen Petalled Rose, was in fact one of the very first works I had come across on the subject. Another fact worthy of mention is that he was a disciple of the Rebbe. (You can get some idea of the Rebbe’s philosophy by reading the following article: “Non-Jews Have Satanic Souls”: The Spiritual Mentor of Ben Shapiro.)
Israel and Chemical Warfare
We have thus seen that, through the prophecies of Jeremiah, rabbis might very well consider poisoning Gentiles, particularly towards the end of times, since Israel’s establishment indicates to them the inception of the Messianic era. It is thus no wonder that Zionists have had no problem with what we would refer to in modern terminology as chemical warfare.
And I’m not even talking about the use of white phosphorus in their military operations in Gaza or the use of “non-lethal (but harmful)” weapons such as skunk water and tear gas for “crowd control,” both in Gaza and the West Bank.
It all began with the advent of the state of Israel, during the 1948 war. The then Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and the IDF chief Yigael Yadin authorized and oversaw “Operation Cast Thy Bread,” which was essentially a scheme to contaminate drinking water wells in Arab villages as a way of terrorizing the innocent local non-combatant civilians.
In 2022, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported:
For decades, rumors and testimonies swirled about Jewish troops sent to poison wells in Arab villages. Now, researchers have located official documentation of the ‘Cast Thy Bread’ operation.
If you’d like to learn more about this incident, there’s a lot of information available online.
A few decades later, there was another display of what appeared to be mass poisoning: the (in)famous 1983 episode of the “fainting epidemic” in the West Bank.
A New York Times report from the time presented the events as follows:
The mass sickness, with symptoms of dizziness, fainting, nausea, headache and stomach pains, was the fourth outbreak in two weeks. A total of 700 to 800 West Bank residents, almost all of them teen-age girls, have been affected, as well as a few female Israeli soldiers.
The unexplained illness has heightened tensions in the West Bank, spread fear among the residents and led to extreme charges on both sides. Palestinian leaders have accused Israeli settlers and officials of using ”chemical warfare” in West Bank schools to drive Arabs out of the area or to sterilize Arab girls. Some Israeli officials have accused radical Palestinian factions of using gas or chemicals to incite demonstrations. U.S. and Red Cross Teams.
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The deposed Mayor of Anabta, Wahid Hamdallah, issued a statement today accusing the Israeli Government and Army of poisoning the pupils. He recalled remarks made March 16 by the Deputy Speaker of the Israeli Parliament, Meir Cohen, who told Parliament’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that Israel had made a grave mistake by not expelling 200,000 to 300,000 Arabs from the West Bank after capturing the territory from Jordan in the 1967 war.
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Israeli authorities of course dismissed all of this as a case of “mass hysteria,” something purely subjective and psychological, but Zionists aiming to poison Palestinians would be the least improbable theory. Let us also not forget the case of Israel “poisoning” female Ethiopian Jews.
Jews against Zionism, that is, the millions of decent Jews out there who reject and condemn the extreme beliefs within Judaism, should highlight such things in order to further discredit all of these old antisemitic tropes and lies, especially seeing as the recent events of compromised exploding pagers (and electronic devices in general) seem to revive and give credence to all of these terrible myths.
