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Nicolai Levashov. Russian History Viewed through Distorted Mirrors. Vol. 1

What a favour it must have been, if the Israelites redeemed the promise given to
a non-Israelite and glorified the name of the harlot forever, as an example of a “good
deed”? Probably, Rahab and the members of her family opened the city gates and let
the enemies in. The name of the king is not even mentioned in the Old Testament, but
the name of the harlot who betrayed her own people is glorified down the ages. From
my point of view, it is a very strange “sacred” book in which any abomination or
meanness is glorified, if it is done for the good of the “chosen” people. There are
plenty of these “exemplary” deeds in the Old Testament...

Thus, the complete elimination of the city of Jericho and its inhabitants shows
very clearly the “mechanism” of the accumulation of initial capital by the Israelites
— the genocide of people and tribes that were in their way. But maybe this is a tragic
“misunderstanding” or “preconceived” approach? Maybe these are pages of Judaic
history which the Israelites remember with shame and bitterness, as almost every
people or nation have facts of this kind in their past?

Nobody says that all other people and tribes did nothing of the kind, but not a
single people on Midgard-earth has given to the perpetrators of similar acts the label
of “paragons of virtue” and written them into their sacred books. Only the Israelites
present treachery, deception and murder of women and children, etc., as deeds
pleasing to the God Jehovah and as highly virtuous for an Israelite! There is one main
thought that passes through the whole Old Testament — all means are good for
achieving the ends which the God assigned to the chosen! To verify this, it is enough
to pay attention to Judaic holidays.

“The Jewish holiday Purim is celebrated annually according to the Hebrew cal-
endar on the 14th day of the Hebrew spring month of Adar (corresponds to the end of
February — beginning of March according to the Gregorian calendar) in memory of
the miraculous rescue of the Israelites living in the Persian empire in the days of the
king Ahasuerus (367-353 B.C.) from the intrigues of the malicious anti-Semite Ham-
an who decided to exterminate the Jews”.

In fact, the whole month of Adar is declared the month of merry-making. Let us
understand why all the Jews have such fun and rejoicing. For this purpose we will re-
turn to the Old Testament, to the Book of Esther:
1. So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.

2. And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine,
What is thy petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy re-
quest? and it shall be performed, even to the half of the kingdom.

3. Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight,
O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people
at my request:

4. For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish.
But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, alt-
hough the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.

5. Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he,

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