"Our God is Your God Too, But He Has Chosen Us": Essays on Jewish Power

8vo, br. ed. 218pp. David Ben-Gurion once declared that, ìthere can be no worthwhile political or military education about Israel without profound knowledge of the Bible.î If that statement is true for the Israeli leadershipóand Benjamin Netanyahu would certainly not contradict itó, then it is also true for any serious analyst: there can be no real understanding of Israel, its history and its geopolitical agenda without profound knowledge of the Bible.The Hebrew Tanakh is not just the inspiration for Zionism. It is the single root connecting all expressions of Jewishness. Its core ideology is encapsulated in Yahweh, the national god of the Israelites, who by the Mosaic Covenant promised his people domination over the nations on the condition of separateness. It was not before the Babylonian Exile that Yahweh was promoted as the Supreme God of humankindówho happens to have chosen one nation. Christianity and Islamís submission to that preposterous claim has become the source of enormous symbolic poweródespite the equally nonsensical counterclaim that the Jews have lost the election. Yahwehís impersonation of God is perhaps the most devastating deception ever played on the human race. The sociopathic personality of the Old Testament divinity has ultimately ruined Godís reputation and led to Western godlessness.In these ten essays originally published on the Unz Review, Laurent GuyÈnot reflects on the Jewish God, the Jewish People, and the Jewish State.Laurent GuyÈnot is a graduate engineer from the Ecole Nationale SupÈrieure de Techniques AvancÈes (Paris), with a Master in Biblical Studies and a Ph.D. in Medieval history. He has already published in English JFK-9/11: 50 years of Deep State (2014), and From Yahweh to Zion: Jealous God, Chosen People, Promised Land Ö Clash of Civilizations (2018).