Hiramic Brotherhood
HIRAMIC
BROTHERHOOD
Ezekiel’s Temple Prophecy
William Hanna
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Contents
Prologue
1 Tuesday, 1 December
2 Friday, 4 December
3 Saturday, 5 December
4 Sunday, 6 December
5 Wednesday, 9 December
6 Friday, 11 December
7 Saturday, 12 December
8 Tuesday 15, December
9 Thursday, 17 December
10 Friday, 18 December
11 Saturday, 19 December
12 Saturday, 19 December
13 Sunday 20, December
14 Monday 21, December
15 Tuesday, 22 December
16 Thursday, 24 December
17 Friday, 25 December
18 Sunday, 27 December
19 Monday, 28 December
20 Tuesday, 29 December
21 Wednesday, 30 December
22 Saturday, 2 January
23 Sunday, 3 January
24 Monday, 4 January
25 Tuesday, 5 January
26 Sunday, 10 January
27 Thursday, 5 May
28 Saturday, 7 May
29 Thursday, 25 August
30 Wednesday, 9 November
31 Friday, 23 December
32 Sunday, 8 January
Epilogue
Prologue
“When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.”
George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
1
Tuesday, 1 December
Little Venice, London, England
Journalist and documentary filmmaker Conrad Banner was a habitual early riser who, since Freya Nielson had moved in to live with him, always took time before getting out of bed to think how lucky he was as he marvelled at the serenity of her angelic face – a serenity that would no doubt dissipate when she woke up to face the challenge and at times less than pleasant realities of being a freelance photojournalist recording “man’s inhumanity to man.” Conrad got out of bed quietly so as not to wake her, slipped on his dressing gown, and crept downstairs where in the kitchen he switched on the pump espresso coffee machine for his first caffeine fix of the day. Minutes later he was sat at his desk with laptop open checking his inbox. Amongst some 15 notifications there were a couple from Adam Peltz and Sami Hadawi in Jerusalem. Peltz was a Jew involved with an Israeli organisation of archaeologists and community activists who were concerned about the use of archaeology by Israel to facilitate political objectives through various organisations of which the most prominent was the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA). Sami was a Palestinian Christian who though unlicensed, was nonetheless a knowledgeable tourist guide with a roguish but spontaneous, endearing, and defiantly irrepressible grin despite the humiliating and hazardous hardships of life under an oppressive occupation. But of prime importance for Conrad was an email from his father Mark in Beirut, whom he had asked for general advice and ideas for a title regarding the documentary Conrad was planning to make about Jerusalem and the current conflict on the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount.
Dearest Conrad,
As always glad to hear that you are both keeping well. Freya is an adorable and very special young lady deserving of all that you have to give, and much more. Equally pleased to learn that since your return from Jerusalem you have resolved to make a documentary about the tragedy of Palestine and am flattered you have asked for my advice and suggestions for a title. As requested, I have given the matter some thought and in view of the fact that the concept of a “Promised Land” is a central tenet of Zionism that is coupled with a Judaic yearning for the building of a “Third Temple” on Temple Mount – I will collate all the information I have about the Hiramic Brotherhood of the Third Temple and send it to you later this week – I can think of nothing more appropriate than a title with a biblical connotation such as The Promised Land and Ezekiel’s Temple Prophecy.
“I will bring them out from the nations and gather them from the countries, and I will bring them into their own land. I will pasture them on the mountains of Israel, in the ravines and in all the settlements in the land.”
Ezekiel 34:13 (written between 593 – 571 BCE)
As an atheist I have never given any credence to the Bible with its prophets who were generally presented as having received revelations from God Himself which they subsequently penned for posterity. Such prophetic passages which supposedly foretold or predicted what was to come, were interspersed throughout the Bible with the most frequently cited being from Ezekiel, Daniel, Mathew 24/25, and Revelation.
While some biblical prophecies were conditional with either the conditions implicitly assumed or explicitly expressed, others were depicted variously as being direct statements from God, or were expressed as the privileged though deliberately portentous perceptions of their alleged authors who were credited with inexplicable prophetic powers.
Believers in biblical prophecy engage in exegesis, the critical explanation or interpretation of a text, and hermeneutics, the theory of text interpretation of scriptures which they believe contain descriptions of global politics, natural disasters, Israel’s emergence as a nation, the coming of a Messiah, a Messianic Kingdom, and the Apocalypse.
So as you work on your film, and with that in mind, you will have to clearly demonstrate the downside of biblical prophecy which is that it has often been hijacked and exploited by fraudulent religions and questionable ideologies as justification for actions and policies that if impartially examined by an international criminal court or tribunal would be adjudged as being in violation of the Geneva Conventions – comprising of four treaties and three additional protocols – and tantamount to crimes against humanity.
One of the most ever successful fraudulent exploitation of biblical prophecy was and still is being currently perpetrated by the much vaunted “only democracy in the Middle East” which as an Apartheid Zionist Jewish state cites biblical narratives to justify both its arrogant disregard with impunity for every one of the 30 articles of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and for its ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people which, incidentally, is defined as a crime against humanity under the statutes of both the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
Israel’s ethnic cleansing has involved the systematic forced removal of indigenous Christian and Muslim Palestinians from Palestine with overwhelming military force so as to make it ethnically homogeneous. Such cleansing has included the removal of physical and cultural evidence in Palestine through the destruction of homes, social centres, farms, and infrastructure; and the desecration of Palestinian monuments, cemeteries, and places of worship.
Your film should argue that concocted biblical narratives alone, are insufficient to justify brutal colonisation and ethnic cleansing of a territory supposedly promised to the Jews by God himself. It should also make apparent that the perpetration of crimes against humanity in Palestine is being assisted by highly organised and abundantly financed Jewish lobby groups; by a consistent mainstream media’s unforgivable portrayal of the brutal Jewish colonisers as the victims; by an unconscionable demonisation of the indigenous population; and by the ruthless suppression of freedom of speech through the exploitation of “anti-Semitism” and the “Holocaust” to silence and criminalise criticism of Israel throughout the world.
The extent of Zionism’s Nazification of our freedoms was recently illustrated with the interrogation by British anti-terrorism police of a pupil who wore a “Free Palestine” badge and wristbands to school. Rather than encouraging their pupils to learn about and support human rights, teachers reported the boy to the police for what can only be described as his commitment to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which starts off by categorically stating that “all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.” But supporting such sentiments where Palestini
ans are concerned, is now apparently a crime in Britain. The teachers’ action in this case was reminiscent of Nazi Germany when the roles were reversed with the Hitler Youth Movement grooming schoolchildren to report any “subversive” talk or action by their teachers, friends, neighbours, and even their own parents. In Britain, the existence of a Zionist Thought Police is now a reality and their suppression of free speech is killing off what little is left of British democracy.
The onerous task you have undertaken is fraught with many dangers that should not be underestimated so that you and Freya must take all necessary precautions to ensure your safety. It is not for me to question your decision to allow Freya to accompany you, but it is a decision which you may wish to reconsider. Also remember that you have already been stigmatised as an enemy of Israel by virtue of your surname and its association with my alleged “anti-Semitic” newspaper articles and books. By simply raising the question of Israel’s criminality, you will automatically be accused of anti-Semitism and of wanting to do to the Jews, what Israeli Jews have with cheerful chutzpah been, and still are doing to the Palestinian people with impunity.
Finally, you must neither surrender your principles like most of the mass media’s petrified “presstitutes,” nor lose heart because as a journalist you have a responsibility to both your own conscience and the rest of humanity whose liberties are gradually but surely being curtailed. As was once observed by Christopher Dodd, the American lobbyist, lawyer, and politician: “When the public’s right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.”
Love and best wishes, Mark.
The White House, Washington, D.C.
“Arrogant slime-ball,” the President said angrily at his Oval office desk as he slammed the telephone receiver back into its cradle, “that guy’s a certifiable lunatic,” he said referring to the Israeli Prime Minister.
The Chief of Staff – who had just witnessed the President’s expressed disapproval over the fact that during the past month Israeli forces had killed 142 Palestinians, and injured a further 15,620 – was sympathetic but not particularly impressed. He had heard and seen it all before and knew only too well that when the Israeli PM came to Washington, both leaders would carefully conceal their mutual animosity when in front of the cameras with the President mealy-mouthing all the obligatory and reassuring pro-Israel soundbites regarding the Jewish state’s security “requirements” and its right do whatever was necessary to “defend itself.”
The Chief of Staff had long been reconciled with such unconditional U.S. support for Israeli aggression despite the fact that token Palestinian resistance to it – epitomised mostly by stone-throwing youths and children who on flimsy evidence could be jailed for up to 20 years for their symbolic defiance – was a justified reaction to an oppressive, brutal and illegal occupation. Such well rehearsed geniality between the two leaders would be followed up by meetings where hundreds of millions of dollars of additional aid would be pledged to Israel as a token of America’s unconditional love and fealty to an Apartheid war criminal state. As far as the Chief of Staff could make out, it was always more convenient for the American government to pay off the bellyaching Israeli blackmailers in hope that they would stop chanting their tiresome mantra about the Holocaust and go away. As was observed in The Jerusalem Post by Reuven Ben-Shalom – who served for 25 years in the Israel Defence Force as a helicopter pilot; in various international relations positions including director of Israel-US military cooperation; and as director of the International Fellows Program at the Israel National Defence College – “We get so carried away in presenting our case that listening to us is sometimes exhausting, depressing, boring, and annoying.”
During the visit the Israeli leader would no doubt also scoop up a pile of large amount cheques from the Wall Street fraternity of financial felons and deep pocket Jewish billionaire members of the world’s wealthy one-percenters; would be grovelled to by a bicameral Congress consisting mostly of quislings totally controlled by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC); and would receive fawning praise from compliant media whores – especially in The New York times – to the applause of the brainwashed and blinkered American public. George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four with its portrayal of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, and public manipulation was now a flourishing reality in the land where the star-spangled banner was no longer fluttering in triumph “O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.”
In view of the President’s current agitated mood, the Chief of Staff reluctantly gave him the Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB), a top-secret document compiled by the Director of National Intelligence whose office combined intelligence reports from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA), the National Security Agency (NSA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and other U.S. intelligence agencies. Today’s Briefing, as had been the case for the past few months at the President’s request, also contained a summary of Israeli media reports which were invariably not well received by the President who was often portrayed as being anti-Semitic and an enemy of Israel.
U.S.-Israeli relations had been at an all time low for some time as a consequence of continued Jewish settlement building in the illegally occupied Palestinian territories; mischievous Israeli efforts to derail the the Iran nuclear negotiations; and the stalled charade of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. During his presidential campaign in July 2008, the President – apart from pledging not “to waste a minute” in tackling the Middle East conflict if elected president – had also asserted “you and I, we’re gonna change this country, and we will change the world,” to the ecstatic chants of “yes we can,” all of which would eventually prove to be yet another example of how the hopes of the American people had triumphed over the reality of their past experience of broken promises by treasonous politicians who sold their souls to AIPAC.
So despite his election marking a new era of expectation and his having been prematurely awarded the Nobel Peace Prize the following year, the President had not only failed to deliver on any of his pledges for peace and a better world, but had actually expanded war powers well beyond those of his semi-literate predecessor George W. Bush by establishing precedents that made it even easier to use lethal force abroad without congressional approval.
Just like all his recent presidential predecessors, the President had been very quickly taught that as far as the Middle East was concerned, it was Israel through AIPAC which dictated U.S. Middle East policy and not the White House or Congress. Israel had made that point by launching the barbaric Operation Cast Lead in Gaza – which started on December 27, 2008 and ended on January 18, 2009 – just two days before the President’s inauguration on the twentieth.
“What have you got for me?” a testy President asked as he took the morning’s briefing papers and started reading the summary of Israeli media reports which included a controversial revelation that Israel was the major purchaser of oil produced and sold by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) which was producing between 20,000 and 40,000 barrels a day in those two countries to generate between $1m and $1.5 million in profits; that one of Germany’s largest department store chains – with over 100 branches and 21,000 employees – had removed Israeli products from its shelves in response to new EU labelling regulations; that members of the extreme right, anti-Arab assimilation group Lehava had protested against a Christmas tree decorating event – intended for Jerusalem’s Christian population – which they claimed was targeting Jewish children; that after meeting the Russian President in Paris, the Israeli PM had said that Israel would continue to protect its interests by acting in Syria to prevent the transfer of game-changing weaponry to Hezbollah; and that according to the Jewish Agency, almost 30,000 Jews – the largest influx in 15 years – had moved to Israel in 2015 as part of the continuous aliya that was necessary for the gradual but constant encroachment on Palestinian territories with new illegal settlements.