Ebook: The Zionist Factor: A Study of the Jewish Presence in 20th Century History

THE BOOK:

Developments in the Middle East which threaten to draw all mankind into the catastrophe of another world war make it more urgently necessary than ever to explore Zionism as one of the major forces shaping the history of our century. As the Jewish historian Professor Hannah Arendt has put it: " ...the need for an impartial, truthful treatment of Jewish history has recently become greater than it has ever been before".

In the handling of a subject so complex and multi-faceted, the author of this book has used the method of presenting a series of separate studies, each of which it is hoped will contribute something to a deep and comprehensive understanding of the long troubled relationship of Jew and gentile. The important message of the book is this: The entire burden of responsibility for "the decline of the West" in our century must rest squarely on the shoulders of the peoples of the West and not on the Jews, for the peoples of the West have themselves created the morally unhygienic social and political conditions which render them susceptible to debilitating influences which hitherto they were able to resist quite easily.

THE AUTHOR:
Born in Bethlehem, South Africa, schooled in Rhodesia and Natal, Ivor Benson is a former South African and Fleet Street journalist, whose career included two years with the Daily Telegraph and Daily Express, London; later he was Chief Assistant Editor of the Rand Daily Mail, Johannesburg, and Assistant Editor of the Sunday Tribune, Durban. During World War II he served with the armoured cars in Abyssinnia and the Western Desert and in a tank unit in Italy. As a freelance in the Belgian Congo in 1960, his pictures and reports in the Sunday Mail, Rhodesia, were a world scoop of the Elisabethville riots. In 1963 Benson was a news analyst/commentator with the South African Broadcasting Corporation, and in 1964/1965 he was Information Adviser to the lan Smith Government in Rhodesia, resigning after two years. Ivor Benson is an independent political analyst, writer and lecturer on international affairs, and has travelled widely; he produces a monthly newsletter, entitled Behind the News, and is the author of several books.

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