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The facts I then knew led to interesting new questions:
- Does it make me an anti-Semite to accept the historical fact that the "Rus-sian Revolution" was not actually Russian but a takeover of Czarist Rus-sia by an antagonistic, non-Russian nationality?
- Is there a historical nationalism among the Jews that is hostile toward other peoples?
- Do Jewish interests and the interests of the Christian West synchronize or conflict?
- If those interests sometimes conflict, did the well-coordinated, worldwide Jewish effort to fiercely fight for their perceived ethnic interests in Russia have implications for Western Europe and America?
- How did their organized power create our "special relationship" with Is-rael in modern times?
- And, finally: Did asking these questions have anything to do with "hate"?
When I saw programs on television about anti-Semitism, hate was the word almost always used to describe any negative opinion about Jews. I felt no hatred toward Jews. My investigation had been purely an intellectual exercise. I was an interloper looking into a world where I did not belong, but it was a world that intrigued me. Pondering the "hate" question, I asked a teacher at school why the word hate wasn't ever used by the media to describe the motivation of the mass murder of millions of Russian Christians in the Soviet Union. Certainly, it would have taken a great deal of hate to have committed such monstrous crimes. She had no answer and all I had were a lot more questions.
Once I discovered the shared roots of both Communism and Zionism, I decided to examine the history of the Jewish people, both historical Judaism and the development of modern Zionism. I felt that I had access to the best sources in the world for my investigation. I started with three excellent and exhaustive Jewish encyclopedias.