The Jewish Political Program 39
Though Jewish nationalism exists, its enshrinem-ent in a state to be
set up in Palestine is not the project that is engaging the whole Jewish
nation. The Jews will not move into Palestine just yet; they will not move
in at all merely because of the Zionist movement. Quite another motive
will be the cause of the exodus out of the Gentile nations, when the time
for that exodus fully comes .
The world has long suspected-at first only a few, then the secret
departments of the governments, next the intellectuals among the people,
now more and more the common people themselves-that not only are the
Jews a nation distinct from all other nations and mysteriously unable to
sink their nationality by any means they or the world may adopt to this
end, but that they also constitute a STATE; that they are nationally
conscious, not only, but consciously united for a common defense, for a
common purpose. Revert to Herzl's definition of the Jewish nation as
held together by a common enemy, and then reflect that this common
enemy is the Gentile world. Does this people which knows itself to be a
nation remain loosely unorganized in the face of that fact? It would hardly
be like Jewish astuteness in other fields! The interest of the Protocols is
their bearing on the questions: Have the Jews an organized world system?
What is its policy? How is it being worked?
These questions all receive full attention in the Protocols.
Whosoever was the mind that conceived them possessed a knowledge of
human nature, of history and of statecraft which is dazzling in its brilliant
completeness, and terrible in the objects to which it turns its powers . If
indeed one mind alone conceived them. It is too terribly real for fiction,
too well sustained for speculation, too deep in its knowledge of the secret
springs of life for forgery. Jewish attacks upon it thus far make much of
the fact that it came out of Russia. That is hardly true. It came by way of
Russia.
The internal evidence makes it clear that the Protocols were not
written by a Russian, nor originally in the Russian language. nor under
the influence of Russian conditions, but they found their way to Russia
and were first published there about 1905 by a Professor Nilus. who
attempted to interpret the Protocols by events then going forward in
Russia.
They have been found by diplomatic officers in manuscript in all
parts of the world. Wherever Jewish power is able to do so. it has