Scott Lively’s penchant for, shall we say, unique takes on the world continued in his Jan. 27 WorldNetDaily column, in which he inadvertently admits “Jews have outsized influence,” but insisted that it’s God’s will so it’s OK:
The history of the world since the rise of Islam has been dominated by the “family infighting” of the “People of the Book” – Jews, Christians and Muslims – whose complex relationships have centered on repeated titanic clashes of Islam and Christianity, but are also influenced by constantly changing secondary dynamics. These secondary dynamics arise in part from factionalism in both of the larger religions (e.g., Roman Catholic vs. Protestant, and Sunni vs. Shiite) and in part to the machinations of the Jews, whose dramatically smaller numbers and history of suffering sometimes genocidal persecution under both Islam and Christianity have led them to pursue strategies and tactics that leverage their strengths, such as banking, information and distribution systems. Denying that they have and wield these asymmetrical powers is a politically necessary defense mechanism against the constant threat of “majority rule” populism (for which I do not fault them – except when they abuse these powers to push anti-biblical public policies).
The authority for Hebrew influence in this manner was set by God in the Abrahamic Covenant (i.e., “Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies,” Genesis 22:17) and was modeled in the Bible by Joseph and Daniel precisely as it is manifested today in the modern world. (To reiterate, yes, the Jews have outsized influence, and if you don’t like it, take it up with God – who never promised that influence would always be benign.) I say this as a staunch Hebrewphile and strong supporter of Israel for reasons not related to its cultural and political policies.
Lively then finds a way to blame this all on Western countries not letting Russia subjugate Ukraine without a fight:
It has been British-dominated NATO’s missteps toward Russia on the Ukraine front that now threaten to undo the balance of power that kept Islam in check, and have opened the door (as a cost of regime change in Syria) to Turkish resurgence toward its openly stated desire to reconstitute its former empire. NATO’s shameful breaking of its promises not to expand eastward to the Russian border has driven the Russians and some Islamist factions together in alliances of common necessity that have greatly strengthened the Muslims – to the severe disadvantage of Israel and the great benefit of NATO member Turkey.
But NATO is a defensive alliance, so Russia has nothing to worry about — unless, of course, it has its own plan of domination that Lively supports.
Lively spent his Feb. 3 column raging against British people for not hating black people and Muslims as much as he does, even demanding that the U.S. should stop supporting the U.K. and instead back the warmongerers in Russia:
“The U.K. boasts more civil servants per capita than China, more DEI employees per capita than anywhere else in the world, the highest tax burden since 1948, a national debt which equals 100 percent of GDP, record annual net migration of net-tax-recipients, and a capital city in which at least 1 in 12 is an illegal immigrant,” writes Connor Tomlinson.
I suggest that if this trend does not rapidly reverse course to fully align with the U.S. MAGA agenda, we should switch sides in the centuries-long Britain vs. Russia clash of empires.
LIvely went on to name-check a right-wing writer whom we hadn’t heard from in years:
A year ago this month, I read a long but utterly fascinating article by Richard Poe, “How the British Invented Communism (And Blamed It on the Jews): The Untold Story of Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky, MI6, and the Russian Revolution.” And the next day I read an excellent piece by Alex Krainer, titled “France under attack,” almost like an addendum to the Poe piece on the (still churning) chaos in France, also explaining behind-the-scenes geopolitics that point blame at the “Anglo-American Imperial Establishment.”
These articles, which remain timely and worth reading, offer a somewhat pro-Russian but still objective and scholarly perspective of the centuries-long rivalry of the British and Russian empires that you will never find among Western sources.
Lively then made a point of noting that he “offered constructive criticism to Mr. Poe in a private (unacknowledged) email to him.”
Lively went on to repeat a right-wing writer’s claim ranting about the alleged power of an “imperial cabal,” declaring without evidence that “In 1917 the whole family of the Czar Nicholas II was killed by the Bolsheviks on the orders of the New York banker Jacob Schiff.” Lively added:
If all this is true, has continued apace till today, and the U.K. decides not to repent and return to biblical values in the near future, perhaps we should consider partnering instead with conservative Christian Russia and the current religiously and socially conservative Israeli government that is so deeply hated by the Synagogue of Satan in London and New York.
Lively concluded by writing: “In my next article, ‘A vision for a U.S./Russia/Israel global order,’ I will explore what this might look like.” But that column was never published, and two weeks later Lively announced he would stop writing his column.