Christopher Coloumbus - Was he a "Secret Jew"

 

I was asked:"IS" there proof that Christopher Coloumbus was a "Secret Jew"?

As an educator I always told my students one needs to understand the times and circumstances but more importantly to do the research "Due Diligence" by searching as many documented references /sources you can find, and ONLY then the true picture is revealed.

Additionally, all good honest historians who are worthwhile are those who see the person or incident within the confines of the time and comprehend how those influences motivate an individual. 

The theory that Christopher Columbus (Cristóbal Colón) was a "Secret Jew" (a Converso or Crypto-Jew) is a long-standing historical debate. 

While there is no "smoking gun"—such as a birth certificate or a diary entry—there is a significant body of circumstantial evidence that historians like Salvador de Madariaga and Simon Wiesenthal have highlighted.

It is factual that there was a Colon family living in Northern Italy and that there was evan a famous Rabbi, who was one of the foremost Talmudist of Italy in the second half of the fifteenth century.

Rabbi Josef Colon, the son of Rabbi Solomon Trabbotto, known as the Maharik, in Northern Italy was born probably at Chambéry, Savoy, about 1420 .

During the reign of Isabella and Ferdinand, Columbus could have many reasons to rewrite his own personal history. 

“His past is murky — apparently purposefully so,...the idea of him blurring his past because he was of Jewish ancestry is very possible,”

This according to Prof. Ram Ben-Shalom, director of Hebrew University’s Center Hispania Judaica.

"According to a 1934 JTA article discussing then-breaking edge research indicating Columbus’s Sephardic Jewish origins, “In Spain, it was fatal to admit being a Jew, because there was more chance of being favorably accepted in Madrid as a foreigner rather than as a native from Galicia, which at that time was not in the good graces of the ruling provinces of Castile and Aragon.”"

Now for the true documented facts:

• One of the strongest arguments that Coloumbus was a "Secret Jew" comes from the language Columbus used:
• That despite claiming to be from Genoa, Columbus never wrote in Italian, even when writing to his family or the Bank of San Giorgio in Genoa. He wrote in Castilian Spanish.
• Linguists have noted that his Spanish was peppered with Ladino nuances (Judeo-Spanish) syntax and archaic terms that were common among the Jewish population of the Iberian Peninsula but not in Italy.
• Some point out Columbus’s signature was a "Hebraic" Signature in a cryptic, triangular cipher.
• Some scholars interpret the letters (S. S. A. S. etc.) as a substitute for the Kaddish or other Hebrew prayers, intended to be read by those "in the know."
• In the margins of his personal books, Columbus frequently used a unique dating system.
• He occasionally calculated dates based on the destruction of the Second Temple rather than the birth of Christ.
• In letters to his son Diego, he often included a small, handwritten mark in the top left corner that looks remarkably like the Hebrew letters Bet-He (ב"ה), an abbreviation for B'ezrat HaShem ("With the help of God").

The timing of his departure in 1492 is often cited as more than a coincidence:

• It came when the The Edict of Expulsion (Alhambra Decree) required all Jews to leave Spain by July 31, 1492.
• Columbus was originally scheduled to sail on August 2nd, but he moved his departure to August 3rd. August 2nd happened to be Tisha B'Av, the Jewish day of mourning for the destruction of the Temple—a day on which religious Jews traditionally do not begin new journeys.
• His crew included several prominent Conversos, including his translator Luis de Torres, a Jew who converted just before sailing because he was needed for his knowledge of Hebrew (which Columbus believed might be the language of the "Ten Lost Tribes").

As to financial backing and contrary to the popular myth, it wasn't Queen Isabella’s jewelry that funded the voyage. 

The venture was largely financed by Louis de Santángel and Gabriel Sanchez, both of whom were Conversos (New Christians) who held high positions in the Spanish court and were eager to find a safe haven or a new route to wealth outside the reach of the Inquisition.

On the otherhand, there are the "Counter-Arguments" by many "Mainstream historians" and the official Genoese record that argue that:

His use of Spanish and his cryptic behavior were attempts to hide his "low-born" Genoese origins and pass himself off as a member of the Spanish nobility.

That much of his writings are filled with intense, almost fanatical Catholic imagery and a desire to fund a new Crusade to Jerusalem, which some argue is inconsistent with being a "Secret Jew."

Hugo Gutmann the Jewish Officer and Adolf Hitler

 Yet, another historical and profound and ironic fact,  given Hitler's subsequent role in the Holocaust. Was the tragic irony of Jewish soldiers', veterans of WWI , and their deep loyalty to Germany and their subsequent persecution by the Nazi regime.

Approximately 100,000 German Jews served in the German Army during WWI, with around 12,000 killed in action and 18,000 receiving the Iron Cross. Many believed their wartime service proved their patriotism and would guarantee their place in German society.

For a period, some Jewish WWI veterans—especially those decorated (like with the Iron Cross) or wounded—were given limited, temporary privileges and exemptions from the most severe Nazi persecutions. This was partly due to the influence of sympathetic senior military officers and the elderly, highly respected Paul von Hindenburg, a WWI Field Marshal, who was the President of the Weimar Republic and who personally intervened to protect "Frontline Fighters" (Frontkämpfer).

This protection by President of the Weimar Republic Paul von Hindenburg, a WWI Field Marshal was slowly and systematically stripped away as the Nazi regime consolidated power. The Nuremberg Laws and subsequent decrees gradually eliminated any privileges based on their service. The Reichsbund jüdischer Frontsoldaten (Reich Federation of Jewish Front-Line Soldiers), the Jewish veterans' organization, was outlawed in 1936 and dissolved in 1938.

Ultimately, for the vast majority of Jewish veterans, their decorated service provided no immunity. They were subject to the same deportations and extermination as all other Jews. Many decorated and wounded veterans were specifically targeted for the Theresienstadt Ghetto beginning in 1942, which was falsely portrayed as a "model ghetto" for privileged veterans, but was, in reality, a transit and death camp.

While it is difficult to detail the fate of every Jewish soldier who served in Hitler's List Regiment (Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment 16), their stories generally reflect the wider, horrific fate of Jewish German veterans.

Among these stories is the story of The Jewish officer Lieutenant Hugo Gutmann. who recommended Adolf Hitler for the Iron Cross First Class during World War I.

Gutmann was Hitler's superior officer, serving as the adjutant (administrative officer) of the battalion in the Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment 16 (known as the List Regiment) where Hitler was a corporal and a dispatch runner.

On August 4, 1918, Lieutenant Hugo Gutmann made the recommendation for Hitler to receive the Iron Cross First Class decoration which was a relatively rare award for a soldier of Hitler's low rank (Gefreiter).

Gutmann's case is one of the rare exceptions. He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1938 but, according to some accounts, was released through the help of former comrades from the List Regiment. 

He managed to emigrate to the United States in 1940 and survived the war. Some historians suggest Hitler himself may have intervened on his behalf, as he reportedly did for a few individuals with ties to his life (like his mother's Jewish doctor).

Despite his service to the German army and his action recommending Hitler for the medal, Gutmann was persecuted under the Nazi regime. 

He was allowed to emigrate and ultimately fled to the United States in 1940, where he changed his name to Henry G. Grant.

The Irony in History

Nick Fuentas recently referred in his interview with Piers Morgan to Adolph Hitler as a "cool guy". I wonder if these Aryan Neo nazi types who hate Jews realize the truth about Hitler.

Do they know a well-known, profound irony of history due to Hitler's later antisemitism and the Holocaust of the relationship Hiler had with Dr. Eduard Bloch, the Jewish doctor who treated Adolf Hitler's mother, Klara Hitler, for breast cancer until her death in 1907?

Dr. Bloch was a highly respected physician in Linz, Austria, known as the "poor people's doctor" for often reducing or waiving fees for his indigent patients, including the Hitler family.

He treated Klara Hitler in 1907 who was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer. Dr. Bloch oversaw her care, which included a mastectomy and a then-common, but extremely painful, chemotherapy-like treatment using daily applications of iodoform gauze directly to the wound.or breast cancer, a painful and ultimately fatal illness. 

Klara died in December of that year.The young Adolf Hitler was reportedly devastated by his mother's suffering and death.

Dr. Bloch later recalled that he had never seen anyone so distraught with grief. Bloch described young Adolf as a "respectful, well-mannered, quiet, and neatly dressed boy" who seemed characterized by a "certain inwardness—a strangeness... he was a lad who seemed to live within himself."

The most striking feature Bloch recalled was Adolf's profound love and devotion to his mother, Klara. He noted a strong familial bond, particularly between Adolf and his mother and sister.

Following his mother's death, Adolf visited Dr. Bloch, expressed his everlasting gratitude, and promised to remain thankful. 

In later years, he sent several postcards to Bloch reiterating his appreciation and his "everlasting thankfulness" to Dr. Bloch through postcards and handmade gifts.The Gestapo later seized these postcards in the 1930s, likely to suppress evidence of this relationship.

Decades later, after the Nazi annexation of Austria (the Anschluss), Dr. Bloch was subject to anti-Jewish laws. He reportedly wrote to Hitler asking for help, and Hitler is alleged to have intervened, referring to Bloch as an "Edeljude" (a noble Jew) and stating that if all Jews were like him, there would be no Jewish question.

In 1940, Bloch and his wife, Emilie, immigrated to the United States, settling in the Bronx, New York City, to join their daughter's family.

In March 1941, Dr. Bloch published a two-part essay in Collier’s Weekly titled "My Patient, Hitler." In it, he details young Adolf's "everlasting gratitude," his desolation at his mother's death, and the postcards he received.

It should be noted that within the context of the essay is particularly famous line where Bloch asks himself: 

"What does a doctor think when he sees one of his patients grow into the persecutor of his race?"

—a question that perfectly underscores the "profound irony" 

This video provides a concise historical overview of Dr. Eduard Bloch's unique relationship with the Hitler family and how he managed to survive the Holocaust through the dictator's personal intervention.

Works Cited:

Bloch, Eduard. "My Patient, Hitler." Collier’s Weekly, vol. 107, no. 11, 15 Mar. 1941, pp. 11-39.

Geheran, Michael. Comrades Betrayed: Jewish World War I Veterans Under Hitler. Cornell University Press, 2020.

Hamann, Brigitte. Hitler's Noble Jew: The Life and World of Eduard Bloch, Joseph Stalin, and the Other Doctors Who Treated the Dictators. Translated by Alan Bance, I.B. Tauris, 2008.

"Hugo Gutmann." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, www.ushmm.org. Accessed 5 Jan. 2026.

"Jewish Veterans in the German Army." Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History, lbi.org/collections/jewish-veterans-german-army/. Accessed 5 Jan. 2026.

Marmor, David. "Dr. Eduard Bloch: The Physician Who Treated Hitler’s Mother." Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal, vol. 3, no. 2, Apr. 2012, doi:10.5041/RMMJ.10072.

Weber, Thomas. Hitler's First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War. Oxford University Press, 2010.

The Teacher, Vladimir Putin - the Student, and the Tel Aviv Apartment

 

While the world's stage is often dominated by geopolitics, there is a deeply personal story that bridges the gap between the Soviet Union of old and the Israel of today. 

It is the story of Mina Yuditskaya Berliner, a Jewish woman who taught German to a young Vladimir Putin in Leningrad, and how that bond survived decades of silence and a move across the world.

The Leningrad Classroom In the late 1960s, at High School No. 281, Mina was more than just a teacher; she was a mentor to a young man who was reportedly quite reserved. She remembered him as a student who excelled in her German classes—a skill that would later define much of his early career in the KGB.

The Aliyah In 1973, Mina left the Soviet Union and made Aliyah, joining the "People of Israel" in their indigenous home. For decades, she lived a quiet, humble life in a small, rent-controlled flat in Tel Aviv, likely never imagining that her former student would one day become one of the most powerful men on Earth.

The King David Hotel Meeting (2005) When Putin arrived in Jerusalem for an official state visit in 2005, Mina reached out to the Russian Consulate. She didn't want a favor; she simply wanted to see her student.To her surprise, she was invited to the King David Hotel for tea with the President of Russia.

"I walked in and told him: 'Now you really look like yourself.' He looked at me and said: 'See, I haven't changed much,'" she later recalled."

The reunion was filled with nostalgia. She later told the press that they sat and talked about their old school days as if no time had passed at all.

The Gift on Pinsker Street Following that meeting, Putin demonstrated a level of loyalty that is rarely seen in international politics. After discovering his former teacher was living in cramped conditions, he instructed the Russian government to purchase a comfortable apartment for her on Pinsker Street in Tel Aviv. He also sent her a signed copy of his autobiography and a clock.

The Final Honor Mina passed away in December 2017 at the age of 96. In a final act of respect, the Russian Embassy funded her funeral in Petah Tikva, and Putin himself reportedly sent a wreath to be laid at her grave.

A Teacher’s Legacy As a retired teacher myself, I find this story particularly resonant. It reminds us that:

• The relationship between a teacher and a student transcends borders, political shifts, and even the "civil" frameworks of states.
• Even those who rise to lead empires cannot forget the Jewish educators who shaped their formative years.

Mina’s journey from a Leningrad classroom to a Tel Aviv apartment is the story of our people—the quiet, persistent return to Zion.

For those of us observing the Hebrew calendar and the approaching Tu BiShvat, Mina’s life is a reminder of a different kind of "planting"—the seeds of knowledge and language planted in a classroom that bore fruit decades later in the Land of Israel.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) Tu BiShvat and the Jewish New Year for Trees

As always when the two old guys had began to argue I woke up made coffee and opened my computer and came to the Facebook prompt; "What is on my mind? 

So as a historian and retired teacher of English literature what was "On my mind" from the argument in this old guys head, was memory of a recent post by a "Lover of Balestine" in their abysmal attempt to belittle the "People of Israel" regarding the lack by Jews / Zionists in our non observance of the New Year as proof that Jesus was indeed a Balestinian.

As indigeneity is defined by whose calendar matches the land’s seasons, the Symbolism of Tu BiShvat to the "People of Israel" means that we ARE the true indigenous inhabitants of the land of "Eretz Yirael" and Zion. 

The "secular" calendar doesn't know when the rains of Israel start or when the almond blossoms; the Hebrew calendar does. This is the ultimate proof of who is truly "native."

For those of us in Israel today we note that we are entering the Hebrew month of Tevet, the contrast is particularly sharp. 

While the secular world is focused on the "New Year" and mid-winter, the Hebrew calendar is moving toward Tu BiShvat (the Jewish New Year for Trees) which is the exact time those early returnees / Halutzim would have been preparing for tree-planting ceremonies, reaffirming that the land was no longer "forsaken" but "remembered."

Our celebration of our Hebrew / Jewish calender highlights the difference between a calendar based on a human-made starting point and one based on the natural and spiritual cycles of the Land of Israel.

So for the record while the Christian and secular world is focused on the "New Year" and mid-winter, we the indigenous inhabitants of "Eretz Yisrael" the "Land of Israel" -aka "Eretz HaKadosh" the Holyland-  recognise the Hebrew calendar which is moving toward Tu BiShvat (the Jewish New Year for Trees) in just a few weeks. 

As such when the first Jews returned to Israel one of the first thing these Jewish returnees did was to plant trees.

To reinforce my story I refer you to one of the most stark and famous descriptions of the Land of Israel in modern literature, the description given by Samuel Longhorn Clemmens of the country side of the Holyland.

While reading this blog entry note how we the "Native inhabitants" go from Twain’s "ghosts of trees" to the millions of trees planted by the pioneers, which is one of the most significant environmental "translations" in history.

I of course am referring you to some of the most famous and stark descriptions of the Land of Israel in modern literature, given by Samuel Longhorn Clemmens of the "bleak and barren" country side of the Holyland that he and his compatriots encountered.

When Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) visited in 1867, he recorded his observations in newspaper articles which he later made into a book entitled simply, The Innocents Abroad. In his work, his prose painted a picture of absolute desolation that serves as a powerful "before" to the Zionist "after."

Twain’s description is often cited by historians as the proverbial "Sackcloth and Ashes" story because he had no political agenda; he was simply a cynical, sharp-eyed traveler. 

Clemens (Mark Twain) famously wrote:

"Of all the lands there are for dismal scenery, I think Palestine must be the prince. The hills are barren, they are dull of color... The valleys are unsightly deserts fringed with a feeble vegetation that has an expression about it of being sorrowful and despondent."

Most specifically regarding the absence of trees, he described the land as "blistering" and "naked". In Chapter 46 of The Innocents Abroad, page numbers vary depending on the edition (for example, in the original 1869 American Publishing Company edition, this begins around page 485), the chapter is the most reliable way to locate it. 

In this passage he describes the journey from the Sea of Galilee toward Mount Tabor and the surrounding plains:

"We traversed some miles of desolate country whose very rocks intended for blistering nakedness; we passed the traditional spot where the five thousand were miraculously fed... There was not a single foot of shade, and the sun beat down with a power that was almost insupportable."

Twain's specific choice of "blistering nakedness"is fascinating in that he isn't just describing a lack of plants; he is personifying the land as something exposed and suffering.

Later in the same chapter, he reinforces this "unshaded" theme:

"The desertion of the country was complete... we never saw a human being on the whole route. We moved blindly on, through the blistering heat."

There is, "A desolation is here that not even imagination can grace with the pomp of life and action... there was hardly a tree or a shrub anywhere. Even the olive and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had almost deserted the country."

Here Twain uses "fast" in the archaic/literary sense of "firm" or "loyal" (like a "fast friend" or "color-fast"). He is marveling that even plants known for being indestructible and loyal to the poorest dirt have "given up" on this land.

It is worth noting that while Twain saw the "pallid" cactus as a "friend of a worthless soil," the Halutzim saw the "Sabra" as symbol of the "People of Israel" proving once again that the land was only waiting for those who knew how to speak its language.

In Chapter 52 of "The Innocents Abroad" on their journey from Samaria toward Jerusalem, note his rhythmic use of "mournful" and "desolation"as he builds a prose of despair that makes the absence of life feel almost intentional.

"The narrow canyon in which Nablous, or Shechem, is situated, is green and fertile—happily we call it so, for it is one of the very few spots in a dismal territory that is entitled to the epithet—but beyond it we came again upon the side-hills of Zion, with their sear and barren terraces.

It is a hopeless, dreary, heartbroken land. Small shreds and patches of it must be very fertile, but there is no help for it—it is only a rocky desert after all. The olive and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had almost deserted the country, and the trees were few and far between and had no majestic size about them. They were only the ghosts of trees—pallid and discouraged."

Clemens (Mark Twain) describes the Sea of Galilee as a place of terrible "solitude" and Jerusalem as "mournful," reinforcing the idea that the "Prince" of dismal scenery was a land stripped of its former glory. For it' s indigenous inhabitants the "People of Israel" have been exiled. 

Clemens (Mark Twain) concluded by stating that the land sat in "sackcloth and ashes," which is famously cited in the final chapter of Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad (1869)—specifically Chapter 61. By using "sackcloth and ashes" (traditionally symbols of Jewish mourning and repentance found in the books of Esther, Job, and Daniel). Clemens (Mark Twain) is reinforcing to his readers a true view that the appearence of the Holyland without the "People of Israel" that the land itself appeared to be under a spell as though in a state of grieving or mourning in a divine punishment that had withered its fields.

When the first wave of early pioneers (Halutzim), the Biluim- "Bilu" is a Hebrew acronym for the biblical verse Beit Ya'akov Lekhu Venelkha ("House of Jacob, let us go [up]" those first returnees to Zion, who arrived shortly after Twain's visit. They didn't just see the desolation he described; they saw a mandate for reversing the desolation in restoration since the planting trees was not just an agricultural necessity—it was a foundational act of reclaiming the land.

Yet another of one of the most famous early efforts by these early returnees was the planting of Eucalyptus trees (often called "the Jewish tree" by locals at the time) specifically to drain the malaria-ridden swamps in places like Hadera and the Hula Valley.

In 1908, the Jewish National Fund (JNF) or Keren Kayemeth LeYisrael (KKL), is a Zionist organization founded in 1901 to buy land and develop infrastructure for Jewish settlement in historic Palestine, playing a crucial role in land acquisition and reforestation for the future state of Israel. The JNF / KKL  planted its first forest at Ben Shemen. 

This began a movement that transformed the "verdureless" hills Twain saw into the green landscape of modern Israel.

It is a profound irony of history that a man as famous for his wit and skepticism as Mark Twain provided the very "baseline" of despair that makes the subsequent greening of the land look like a literal fulfillment of prophecy.

The New Tower of Babel: A Tale of Two Middle Easts

The ancient story of the Tower of Babel is often read as a divine punishment—a sudden fracturing of humanity into a "confusion of tongues." 

In reality, Babel is a timeless warning about the collapse of shared understanding.

Today, the Middle East stands as a vivid reflection of this narrative, split between those building "new towers" of progress and those trapped in the rubble of ideological hatred.

The Blueprint of 1919: A Lost Translation

In 1919, Prince Faisal wrote a remarkable letter to Felix Frankfurter, outlining a vision where the "educated among us" could transcend tribalism:

"We Arabs, especially the educated among us, look with the deepest sympathy on the Zionist movement... we regard them as moderate and proper... we will wish the Jews a most hearty welcome home."

Faisal was the architect of a "reformed and revived Near East." As I noted in a previous entry from 2014, this was a moment where the "educated" on both sides attempted to prevent the rivalry and hatred that has since consumed the region. Faisal warned that "less informed" parties—the anti-Semitic nationalists and extremists—would misrepresent these aims to the "peasantry." This was the first "Tower" of the modern era, toppled not by God, but by the "confusion" of radicalized ignorance and the Machiavellian maneuvers of colonial powers.

The Divine Pedagogy: From Tanakh to the Stars

In the Tanakh, the message of HaShem (YHWH) to humanity was never meant to be a static set of rituals, but a "Divine Pedagogy". This is the method by which HaShem progressively teaches and reveals the path of righteousness to a primitive mankind, adapting His communication to human understanding as it evolves through history.

Instead of culminating in a single individual, this pedagogy culminates in Tikkun Olam—the repair of the world through the collective pursuit of knowledge and moral clarity. It is the quest to create the utopian future for mankind that was later echoed by Gene Roddenberry in his vision of the 23rd century.

The Tanakh provides us with the moral scaffolding that allows a society to transition from barbarism to civilization. The overwhelming tragedy, however, lies in the corruption of "His words" by religious dogmatists. 

These corruptions have stalled the pedagogy, turning a process of education into a tool for tribal control. To reach the "Federation" future, we must oust these corrupted beliefs and return to the original Divine intent: the education of an enlightened, unified humanity.

The "Rose-Colored Glasses" of the West

A major obstacle to this future is the perspective of the liberal Western world, particularly in the USA. Many in the West view the globe through "rose-colored glasses," projecting their own stability and liberal values onto cultures that do not share them.

Living in a protected "Federation-like" "Kumbaya" bubble,(which is shorthand for a specific kind of forced, naive harmony), those outside of the "Middle East" have no inkling of the "Heart of Darkness" that still beats in much of the world. 

They assume that everyone, if given the chance, wants the same democratic freedoms. They fail to recognize that in many regions, the "language" being spoken is not one of civil rights, but of raw, primitive conquest. 

This naivety allows the "less informed" to exploit Western sympathy while they sharpen their swords. The "Kumbaya" bubble is a psychological defense mechanism used by those who cannot fathom the existence of the truth of the barbarity that still beats in the  "Heart of Darkness."

I wish all my readrs to comprehend that I am not just being cynical here; I am describing a documented psychological state that exists in "Western denial."

The Abrahamic Accords: HaShem’s Vision Reclaimed

The Abrahamic Accords are not just a political treaty; it is HaShem’s intended vision for ALL mankind. 

In a modern-day reversal of the division at the Tower of Babel, the Accords provide a "common tongue" of progress and mutual recognition. The Accords envision a Middle East built on technology, joint security, and mutual prosperity. It is a regional "Federation" where Israel and its Arab neighbors build upward together, reversing the scattering of Shinar.

Opposing the Abrahamic Accords set of agreements is the "Heart of Darkness" like those radical Islamic extremists in Iran and Yemen—who remain trapped in the rubble of ideological hatred. They do not want to build; they want to ensure that if they cannot reach the heavens, no one can.

Facing the "Klingons" Realistically

In this blog entry of mine of the realization to the truth, I was reminded of Gene Roddenberry's vision of the 23rd century of a "humanoid warrior" species developed by screenwriter Gene L. Coon in 1967 called "Klingons".

Both the Klingons and Hamas, Hezbollah, the IRGC, and the Houthis of radical Islam speak a "tongue" that the Western "Kumbaya" bubble cannot translate. It is a language where power is the only currency and conquest is the highest virtue.

In the Star Trek universe, the Klingon Empire initially viewed the Federation’s talk of "peace" and "diplomacy" as a sign of weakness. Similarly, Hezbollah and the IRGC view Western diplomacy not as a bridge to peace, but as a tactical opening to be exploited. This strategy is deeply rooted in the seventh-century Truce of al-Hudaybiyya (Sulh al-Hudaybiyya). While the West sees a signed document as a resolution, the "Heart of Darkness" sees it as a Hudna—a period to "sharpen their swords" and wait for the moment of betrayal.

My comparison here is a warning. In the Federation's history, the Klingons were eventually brought into a state of peace because they followed a Code of Honor. Even at their most barbaric, there were rules, a hierarchy, and a sense of "civilized" warfare.

Unlike the fictional Klingons, groups like Hamas and the Houthis have corrupted the "Divine Pedagogy" into a cult of death. They do not seek a seat at the table of a "United Federation of Planets"; they seek to burn the table and everyone sitting at it. They represent a "Klingon" impulse that has lost its honor and replaced it with the Heart of Darkness—the targetting of the innocent as a primary religious duty.

In Star Trek, the peace treaty (The Khitomer Accords) only happened because the Federation stood its ground with unwavering strength. * The Federation didn't "Kumbaya" the Klingons into submission. They showed the Klingons that the Federation’s "common tongue" was backed by a phaser bank that could match their own.

The Abrahamic Accords can only succeed if they are backed by the strength of a "Federation" that understands the "Klingon" mindset. You cannot negotiate with the IRGC or the Houthis using the grammar of a liberal arts college; you must use the grammar of strength that they respect.

For us in Israel, specifically all of those screaming and protesting demanding a commision of inquiry. It is not "just" the abject failure of "King Bibi" and our Israeli failed form of government, but that of the non-Mizrachi mindset in our "intelligence branches". This failure was essentially like the failure of a Federation officer who has never left Earth. ("Their are always two sides to a coin!")

The Israeli leftist liberal camp looked at the  "Palestinians" (Klingons) and assumed and mistranslated "that" they were just "Arabs with grievances"  thinking that the conflict was one of "socio-economic dispute over land" who could be incentivized with the "Peace Now " acceptance of a "Two State" policy.

They failed to see that the Palestinian's on the whole are a radicalized "warrior cult" that is devoted to a religious war of annihilation! 

They have consistently misread the reality of the radical Islamic Moslem Brotherhood version of the "Heart of Darkness" and that lost translation led directly to the tragedy of the 7th of October.

Conclusion: Eradicating Ignorance through Tikkun Olam

The lesson of the Tower of Babel is that hatred and division must be faced realistically. We cannot build a stable region on the sand of "lost translations" or Western naivety.

The "Tower" of a stable world can only be rebuilt when the "educated among us" stand united against the forces of ignorance. True security requires an intelligence that is culturally grounded—not one that views the Middle East through the filters of the West. 

To reach the "reformed Near East" of 1919, the divine vision of the Abrahamic Accords, and the "United Worlds" of the future, we must accept a hard truth: peace is only possible when we oust the ideologies of the sword and stop pretending the "Heart of Darkness" can be cured by mere rhetoric.

This is the true work of Tikkun Olam—repairing the fracture of Babel by facing reality with strength and logic. Ultimately, the "Chance of a Peace Lost" was not just a historical footnote, but a warning that remains unheeded by the current Westernized intelligence establishment.

The Liberty Incident: Why the "Betrayal" Narrative is a Soviet Ghost Story

The Liberty incident is often compared to the "Lavon Affair" or other "False Flag" theories it’s worth noting that the Liberty is the only maritime incident of its kind that has been investigated ten times by the U.S. and found to be accidental, yet it remains the "favorite" topic for those looking to foster distrust.

The Liberty Incident / Affair is one of the most complex chapters of the 1967 war. 

On 8 June 1967, the USS Liberty, a United States Navy technical research ship (a spy ship), was mistakenly attacked by Israeli Air Force jet fighter aircraft and Israeli Navy motor torpedo boats.

The combined air and sea attack killed 34 crew members (naval officers, seamen, two marines, and one civilian NSA employee), wounded 171 crew members, and severely damaged the ship.

Vasili Mitrokhin, the senior KGB archivist who defected to the UK in 1992, was one of the most consequential Russian defectors in history. He was turned away several times by the US before he was eventually accepted by Britain and exfiltrated with his family from Russia by MI6 operatives using a tourist minibus as a disguise..

According to revelations in a 1999 book Mitrokhin, provided a wealth of information that confirmed the Soviet Union's expertise in "Active Measures" (disinformation and subversion) during the Cold War.

Mitrokhin, an introvert who was sent to work in the KGB archives after a failed career as a spy, was motivated by a sense of disgust at the KGB and its role in the Soviet system and made it a condition of his defection that the documents he had copied of top-secret documents on some of the most sensitive Soviet spies and operations should be made public.

Mitrokhin retired from the KGB in 1984, but it was only after the Soviet collapse, in 1992, that he decided to offer up his secret archive to western intelligence services. He travelled, disguised as a dishevelled villager so as not to attract attention from border guards, with a sample of his documents hidden below lengths of sausage in a scruffy bag. 

His disguise was so good that when he arrived as a “walk-in” at the newly opened US embassies in Riga and Vilnius, he was not taken seriously. On one occasion, a cable about him was sent back to CIA headquarters, but was not acted on.

Instead, he tried the British embassy, and a young diplomat in Vilnius offered him a cup of tea and suggested he return later, when MI6 officers could be sent out to assess his credibility. 

When that happened, MI6 realised that the strange walk-in was sitting on a potential goldmine. In a strange twist, the Treasury refused to pay the substantial costs for his exfiltration and resettlement, and so MI6 asked the Americans, who ended up footing the bill for the defector they had originally turned down, in exchange for full access to his material.

Mitrokhin’s archive of copied documents, which were exfiltrated separately, formed the basis for hundreds of counterintelligence investigations across the world during the 1990s. 

His defection was made public in 1999, when a book about his findings was published jointly with the historian Christopher Andrew. Mitrokhin lived under a new identity in Britain, and died in 2004.

In his book Mitrokhin confirmed that the entire Six-Day War was sparked by a deliberate Soviet lie. 

In May 1967, the KGB and Soviet leadership fed false intelligence to Egypt and Syria, claiming Israel was massing 10 to 12 brigades on the Syrian border for an imminent invasion. This was a "masterstroke" of disinformation intended to force Arab mobilization and pull the U.S. into a diplomatic crisis.

They successfully tricked Egypt into the war with false intelligence of troop reports, so it is entirely within their 'Active Measures' playbook to have fed conflicting data to both sides to spark a confrontation between the U.S. and Israel.

Vasili Mitrokhin mentions the USS Liberty, in his book; "The Sword and the Shield" and subsequent research into his archives highlights a broader Soviet strategy of instigation and deception during the 1967 Six-Day War. 

While Mitrokhin's published notes do not contain a single "smoking gun" file stating, "We tricked Israel into hitting the Liberty," they describe a massive KGB apparatus dedicated to creating friction between the U.S. and its allies. 

This  KGB apparatus dedicated to creating friction was called Service "A" which was part of the KGB (Committee for State Security) that was the unit responsible for "Active Measures" (Dezinformatsiya), a key part of Soviet foreign policy focused on influencing foreign governments, media, and public opinion through propaganda, disinformation, political subversion, and supporting foreign movements, all while operating under the First Chief Directorate (foreign intelligence). 

They conducted covert operations, like discrediting Ukrainian nationalists or spreading false narratives to justify invasions, aiming to weaken adversaries and promote Soviet interests. 

Though we may never see the internal KGB files, regading "Service A" which was tasked with "deepening the contradictions" within the Western alliance. We know for a fact that the USSR was the 'Master of Disinformation' from the archives of Vasili Mitrokhin.

Mitrokhin's archives reveal that the Soviets had extensive radio-intercept and jamming capabilities in the region. There has long been an intelligence theory—consistent with the KGB tactics Mitrokhin described—that the Soviets may have jammed or manipulated the frequencies used for identifying the Liberty, or even used "ghost" radio signals to confirm the false reports that an Egyptian vessel was shelling the coast.

The Liberty Incident / Affair 

As for the incident of the USS Liberty itself, here is the context that often gets lost in the media and in the Fog of War: 

• The incident happened in a combat zone during a lightning-fast war when Israeli pilots mistook the ship’s silhouette for the Egyptian vessel El Quseir. 
• Israel apologized immediately, paid millions in reparations to the families and the U.S. government. 
• and ten official U.S. investigations (including the CIA and NSA) concluded it was a tragic mistake, not a deliberate attack.

Figures like Tucker Carlson and other neo Nazi Aryan Nation racists that have "weaponized" the tragic incident into a "conspiracy theory". 

These "Conspiracy Theories omit that at the time, the fact THAT the USS Liberty- WAS a US Spy ship - positioned dangerously close to a war zone without a destroyer escort. 

The "Conspiracy theory" Carlson  and his ilk do mention, is that the Soviets fed false info. 

Mitrokhin's archives reveal that the Soviets had extensive radio-intercept and jamming capabilities in the region. 

There is a strong intelligence theory that the Soviets used "ghost signals" or frequency manipulation to confirm the false reports that an Egyptian vessel was shelling the coast, drawing Israel into the trap aligns with the "Operational Code" found in Mitrokhin's files.

Under "Service A" the Soviets frequently used "third-party" intelligence services to provoke actions they could then use for propaganda.

Immediately after the attack, Soviet propaganda outlets (such as Radio Moscow) flooded the airwaves with the narrative that the attack was a deliberate "joint U.S.-Israeli conspiracy" to create a pretext for the U.S. to enter the war. 

This "double-blind" disinformation is a classic KGB tactic: cause a tragedy, then provide the "explanation" that divides your enemies.

So resurrecting this 57-year-old tragedy now is rarely about the sailors; it’s about trying to isolate Israel from its strongest allies.

The Mitrokhin Archive confirms and is the best proof we have that when a "wedge" appears between allies, the hand of a third-party instigator is often not far away.

From the archives we learn the pattern of 1967 was one of Soviet instigation and Israeli survival—not a calculated attack on an ally.

While the Israeli pilots who hit the ship suffered from a tragic chain of misidentifications (misjudging the ship's speed and mistaking its silhouette for the Egyptian El Quseir), the "fog of war" was made infinitely thicker by Soviet disinformation operations happening in the background.

The resurrection of this incident by media figures like Carlson often ignores this Soviet context, choosing instead to present a complex wartime tragedy as a simple act of betrayal. 

The Mitrokhin Archive is the best proof we have that when a "wedge" appears between allies, the hand of a third-party instigator is often not far away.

History shows that while empires like Rome or the Soviets try to use 'False Narratives' to divide us, the truth usually rests in the broader pattern. The pattern of 1967 was one of Soviet instigation and Israeli survival—not a calculated attack on an ally."

This lecture provides a deeper look into how the Mitrokhin Archive transformed our understanding of the KGB's role in global conflicts like the 1967 war.