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The Jewish War and the Destruction of Jerusalem (1498 words) |
 | The Jewish War and the Destruction of Jerusalem |
 | The Jewish War began in 66 AD and culminated in the destruction of Jerusalem in 70. |
 | The extreme Jewish patriots were not satisfied with the tame manner in which Josephus conducted his preparations; they had grounds to suspect that the aristocrat, who had formally belonged to the peace party, had not his heart in the undertaking. |
| The Jewish Declaration of War on Nazi Germany: The Economic Boycott of 1933. M. Raphael Johnson, Ph.D. (3954 words) |
 | Despite this, Jewish leaders in the United States and Britain determined on their own that it was necessary to launch a war against the Hitler government. |
 | The long term purpose of the Jewish boycott against Germany was to bankrupt her with respect to the reparation payments imposed on Germany after World War I and to keep Germany demilitarized and vulnerable. |
 | Jewish scholars such as Edwin Black have reported that, in response to the boycott, German exports were cut by 10 percent, and that many were demanding seizing German assets in foreign countries (Edwin Black, The Transfer Agreement - The Untold Story of the Secret Pact between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine, New York, 1984). |