The Death of the Celtic Tiger
Why is modern Ireland like ancient Egypt?
From 1995 to 2000 Ireland had one of the fastest growing economies in the world. In fact, Ireland reached the second highest per capital income in the world (close behind the USA) at one point. This period of unprecedented growth in the Irish economy is known as the Celtic Tiger.
The Celtic Tiger was more than just growth of the Irish economy. It was the explosive growth of everything Irish. The influence of Ireland also grew to an unprecedented level in its long history. It seemed like almost overnight Irish culture took the world by storm. Shows featuring Irish entertainment like river dancing and Celtic music from Ireland had sold out crowds in large venues all over the world. Ireland, Irish people and Irish culture became featured in many movies like "Titanic". A book about how Ireland saved Western Civilization became an international best seller. Irish pubs featuring Irish food popped up in places where they had never been before.
The Celtic Tiger was also the beginning of a rare period of peace in Ireland. The almost 35 years long guerrilla war called “The Troubles” that was fought between mostly Protestant Loyalists and mostly Catholic Republicans quickly collapsed soon after the Celtic Tiger began to rise.
The Celtic Tiger began to slow down considerably during the early 2000's. The rate of economic growth fell to about half of what it had been. Irish culture began to wane in popularity. Ireland began to lose its influence in European and world politics.
Then suddenly it all came to an end in 2008. The interest of the world in Irish culture ended as well as the influence of Ireland. It was the death of the Celtic Tiger.
Irish people everywhere would like to see the Celtic Tiger resurrected. If this is to be done then one has to determine what caused the Celtic Tiger to be born, what caused it to grow, what caused it to decline and, most importantly of all, what brought about the death of the Celtic Tiger.
Some people have said that the Celtic Tiger happened in Ireland because of a low tax rate on corporations there, its trade advantages that came from it belonging to the EU, English being the common language of Ireland, its lower wages and its timezone advantage for dealing with problems early compared to the US. However, all of these things were true from 1973 to the present and cannot account for the birth, growth and death of the Celtic Tiger. Nor can the favorable industry polices that Ireland adopted at the start of the Celtic Tiger to attract companies like Dell, Intel and Microsoft because those policies are still in effect.
There obviously has to be another factor that caused things to change in Ireland in direct response to it. So while there are many threads that weave together the story of the Celtic Tiger real understanding can only come from finding the thread that tied everything else together. Fortunately there is one single thread of the story of Celtic Tiger that when followed reveals the answer to all of these questions.
This thread begins with the double taxation treaty of 1995 between Israel and Ireland that opened up the markets for Irish exports to not just Israel but indirectly to many of the trading partners of Israel in the Middle East. Ireland was one of the most pro-Israel nations in the world in 1995 and went out of its way to ensure a fair trading policy with Israel when other European nations were moving towards boycotts of products from Israel. This treaty that was created to show solidarity with Israel brought about the birth of the Celtic Tiger.
As trade with Israel expanded so did the relationship between the two countries. Israel used its influence with American tech companies, often headed by American Jews, to demonstrate the advantages of Ireland over other EU countries for European operations. Ireland kept buying more products and services from Israel that were needed to make it into a viable headquarters for the European operations of tech companies and as a leading center for American companies to use for off shoring information technology work. Of course, there was a lot more than just information technology being exchanged.
Ireland would buy Israel products and use them to make Irish products to resell to other EU countries that were boycotting Israel. Ireland would buy products from these same EU countries, use them to make Irish products and resell them to Israel. Israel could then resell these products to other Middle Eastern countries. In effect, Ireland acted as a broker to make Israeli products available in EU countries that were boycotting Israeli products and Israel acted as a broker to make Irish products avail to countries in the Middle East that had no direct ties to Ireland.
The same dynamics applied to cultural products such as Celtic music and river dancing. The connections that Jews in Israel had with Jews in the American entertainment industry made it possible to introduce America and the world to these treasures.
These types of mutually beneficial relationships spread across all areas of the economy so that Ireland and Israel went from about 75 million dollars of trade with each other when the agreement was signed in 1995 to over 400 million dollars of trade with each other in 2000. The Celtic Tiger had enjoyed a five year long growth spurt that took it from being a cub to being a fierce competitor in the business world.
This friendship grew deeper and deeper so that by the year 2000 Ireland had became the number one tourist destination for Israelis vacationing abroad. However, this would soon change due to forces that already been at work in the underbelly of Irish society.
When "The Troubles" ended with the Belfast Agreement in 1998, there were suddenly a lot of out of work terrorists in Ireland. The heads of these various terrorist organizations had managed to profit quite nicely from "The Troubles", but many had lost their influence when peace broke out. They had strong ties to Libya and the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) until about 1987. They lost favor with the PLO when they turned down an offer of weapons and training, because they were certain that it was impossible for weapons to be smuggled out of the area without alerting Israeli intelligence. So the PLO began working with the Irish government instead. Israeli intelligence was also suspected in helping to end the supply of weapons from Libya in 1987 as well. Without these Muslim sources of arms, money, and training, the Irish terrorists would eventually lose their ability to wage an effective terrorist campaign. They had little choice but to accept a cease fire in 1997, and negotiate for the best deal that they could get in 1998.
As these heads of terrorist organizations moved from terrorism to politics, they began to court favor with the PLO, who was now in cahoots with many of the politicians in Ireland, particularly from the opposition party Fianna Fail, when the double taxation treaty had been signed with Israel in 1995. The Fine Gael party that was in power when the trade treaty with Israel was negotiated and signed, had a long history of being in total opposition to achieving Irish Republicanism by violence. The Fianna Fail party that took over in 1997, had a long history of working with political parties that supported such terrorist tactics. So when the Belfast Agreement was signed in 1998, these Irish terrorists began a new tactic to restrengthen their ties with the PLO and other Islamic terrorist organizations. They began to stir up public sentiment for the PLO, their fellow terrorists, and against Israel, who they painted as being like the British. They waged an effective campaign to convince the Irish people that the PLO really just wanted peace, but the Israelis had came and taken away their land.
Of course, this was an obvious lie, being that there never was a country called Palestine, to begin with. Palestine was what the Romans renamed the providence of Judaea, after the ancient enemies of the Jews, the Philistines, when they expelled most of the Jews from it in 135 AD, to add insult to injury. Between then, and when the state of Israel was born in 1948 AD, one foreign power after another ruled the land of Israel. Not once, during that entire time, was there ever an Arab country called Palestine.
In fact, when Mark Twain went diagonally across the country of modern Israel from Haifa to Jerusalem in 1867, he said, the land was totally empty to the point that he did not see so much as a goat for three or four days. When he arrived in Jerusalem, he was very disappointed. It had a very small population, and was about 75 percent Jewish, with the remainder being composed mostly of professionals from various religions, who took care of their particular religious sites. There simply were never millions of Arabs living in present day Israel for the Jews to push out. Most of the Arabs of British Mandate Palestine had immigrated into Israel, to seek employment from the Jews, when the Jews made the place livable again, after they had began returning in 1870 AD.
These facts did not seem to matter to the Irish public. Many of them still resented the British being in the six northern most counties of Ireland, which is known as Northern Ireland. They still held up the Irish terrorists as the heroes of Ireland, and simply wanted to believe their stories about the struggle of the PLO against Israel - no matter how far fetched they were. They simply wanted to believe these stories, which had no more validity than stories of leprechauns leading people to pots filled with gold.
This campaign to sell the Irish public on this faerie tale was very effective. The Fianna Fail party had long managed to be a mainstay of Irish politics, because it responded to the mood of the Irish public. The Taoiseach (Prime Minister of Ireland) Bertie Ahern formally announced in September of 2000, the support of Ireland for the PLO against Israel. This was the beginning of the decline of the Celtic Tiger.
The next Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, also from Fianna Fail, took things even a step further. He visited Yasir Arafat and snubbed Israel in 2003, even though Palestinian terrorism against Israel was at its height, and virtually no one believed that Yasir Arafat wanted peace. The same Irish government in that year openly opposed Israel building the security wall, which effectively ended that phase of Palestinian terrorism. In 2004, it began working inside of the EU, to effect an EU wide boycott of Israel. In 2006, it blocked the US from using the Shannon airport to deliver military equipment to Israel, during the war to end terror attacks originating from Lebanon. All during this time, the economic growth of Ireland that had been fueled by its cooperation with Israel, continued to wane with short periodic relapses. The Celtic Tiger was being destroyed by a cancer from within.
Then, in May 2008, an outright boycott of Israeli goods and services across Ireland was initiated by IMPACT (the Irish Municipal, Public And Civil Trade union). Shortly after that, Ireland had its first economic collapse since 1983. The lifeblood of the Celtic Tiger had been trade with Israel, and the influence of Israeli business men with Jewish business men across the world, to do business with Ireland. This boycott ended most of the main economic advantages that Ireland had over other EU countries, which had previously boycotted Israel. Israel would now have to look for another country to provide, what Ireland had provided since 1995. It was the death of the Celtic Tiger.
Now this synchronization of events in the Ireland-Israel relationship with the birth, growth, decline, and death, of the Celtic Tiger might seem to be just a strange set of coincidences, if taken by itself. After all, since Israel was vital in helping Irish economy rise in the first place, then it only makes sense that Irish economy would fall, once they pushed Israel out of it. However, this is not an isolated incidence, nor a historical glitch, but rather only one of hundreds of similar stories. These stories all follow a similar pattern: the Jews are helped and things begin to prosper, then the Jews are resented and things begin to decline, finally the Jews are mistreated and things come to ruin.
For example, consider the British Empire that had been headquartered just across the Irish Sea from Ireland. England had become a safe haven for Jews that were being expelled or persecuted in other countries in Europe. These Jews brought their talents with them and the British Empire began to be revitalize after a long period of stagnation. The only Jewish Prime Minister of Britain, Benjamin Disraeli, created a foreign policy that significantly expanded the British Empire. As this policy was followed by successive Prime Ministers the British Empire continued to grow until it wrapped around the Earth. It was literally true that the sun never set on the British Empire.
Then came WWI (World War I). The Germans blockaded Brazil and cut off England's main supply of saltpeter which was necessary to create gunpowder. A Jewish chemist named Chaim Weizmann discovered a way to create gunpowder without saltpeter. The British were saved from certain defeat and went on to win WWI. The British got British Mandate Palestine from the Ottoman Turks along with other assets from the Axis powers as part of the treaty of Versailles. The British Empire was now at its peak.
The British King, George V, offered Weizmann anything that he wanted as a reward for saving the British Empire. Weizmann asked for all of British Mandate Palestine to be given to the Jewish people for a homeland since many of the British had came to resent the Jews being in Britain despite their various contributions to British society. The British agreed and issued the Balfour Declaration.
Then the British began taking back parts of British Mandate Palestine from the Jews contrary to their agreement. They gave everything east of the Jordan River to the Arabs - which was about 70 percent of the land that they had promised. They then cut out one piece after another until the Jews were left with a bunch of small enclaves that were not even connected together. Finally, the British left them in these enclaves with General Cunningham remarking that without British protection the Arabs would push the Jews into the sea. He was wrong and on May 14, 1948 Israel was born a nation in a single day.
During this same time the British lost a piece of their empire each time they took away a piece of what they had promised to the Jews. By the time Israel became a nation they had lost about everything except their homeland. They had went from ruling over 700 million people outside of Britain when the Balfour Declaration was issued in 1917 to ruling about 5 million foreign subjects in 1948. Their entire infrastructure had been destroyed by German bombs in WWII (World War II). They were completely bankrupt and only saved from starvation by a massive loan from the US that they did not finish paying back until 2006. The sun had set on the British Empire.
There are hundreds of examples of this exact same pattern that happened with the Celtic Tiger and the British Empire that has played out over and over again in history whether it is an empire, an country, a city, or even a business. If history has only one lesson to learn it is this: Don't screw with the Jews.
What causes this pattern that was demonstrated by the Celtic Tiger? Are the Jews just so clever and smart that they somehow manage to always get the upper hand? Do they run some sort of global clandestine operation that manages to control the destiny of anything they come across? Do the Jews possess some sort of better DNA that makes them more fit than everyone else? Are Jews just somehow lucky?
There is an outside force that orchestrates the events that bring this pattern to pass time after time. This outside force and the pattern shown by the Celtic Tiger is explained completely in the Book of Truth (The Bible).
This outside force is the Father of Truth (Yahoveh aka Yahweh aka God aka The Lord). The Celtic Tiger was born, grew, declined and died due to a promise that He had made. He promised Abraham (Abram) that He would bless those that blessed Abraham and curse those that curse Abraham if Abraham would move to Canaan (modern Israel) (Genesis 12:1-3). Abraham took Him up on the deal (Genesis 12:4-6). The Father of Truth then extended this promise to his descendants if Abraham would be circumcised (Genesis 17:7-11). He promised to provide these descendants through a son that his old and barren wife would bear named Isaac (Yitzhak) (Genesis 17:19-21). Abraham took Him up on this deal as well (Genesis 17:24-26). The Father of Truth then announced that Jacob (Ya'acob aka Israel) would be the one to start the nation that this promise would come upon (Genesis 25:23-26). Isaac then passed this promise to Jacob (Genesis 25:27-30). The Father of Truth confirmed that his descendents were the one chosen to receive this promise and to be given the land of Canaan when He changed the name of Jacob to Israel (Genesis 35:10-12).
This pattern demonstrated in the Celtic Tiger can be plainly seen in the history of ancient Egypt.
A Jew named Joseph (the son of Israel) told Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, that the Father of Truth was telling him that the economy was about to have a major boom followed by a terrible depression (Genesis 41:29-32). He then told the Egyptians how to prepare for a coming disaster (Genesis 41:33-36). Pharaoh and all the leaders recognized that the Father of Truth was with Joseph the Jew (Genesis 41:37-39). Joseph the Jew became the prime minister of Egypt (Genesis 41:40-43). Joseph the Jew was treated as a national hero throughout Egypt and called "savior of the world" (Zaphnath Paaneah) for saving Egypt from ruin (Genesis 41:44-46). (After he died the Egyptians deified him and called him Imhotep.) This was like the birth of the Celtic Tiger.
Not only Joseph, but all the Jews were held in high esteem by the government of Egypt for their industrious work (Genesis 47:4-6). The king of Egypt was blessed when Israel was around (Genesis 47:7-10). When Israel died the Egyptians mourned for him as one of the great men of Egypt (Genesis 50:2-3). The Egyptians had a massive burial procession when he was buried because they recognized how much his family, the Jews, had blessed Egypt (Genesis 50:7-9). The Jews continued to grow in number and influential in the society of Egypt long after the initial Jewish immigrants had died off (Exodus 1:5-7). The years that the Jews, the family of Israel, were appreciated Egypt enjoyed great prosperity like the growth of the Celtic Tiger.
Then new leadership arose that made baseless accusations against the Jews because he resented them (Exodus 1:8-10). So the heart of the people of Egypt were turned against the Jews and they began to oppress them (Exodus 1:11-13). This was the beginning of the decline of Egypt just like the beginning of the decline of the Celtic Tiger.
Since the king of Egypt refused to cease oppressing the Jews the Father of Truth brought disaster after disaster upon the land of Egypt (Exodus 7:4). These disasters were so terrible that the people of Egypt were in awe of the Jews (Exodus 11:1-3). However, the king still refused to recognize that these disasters came upon Egypt for oppressing the Jews (Exodus 11:8-10). Finally, the Father of Truth brought a disaster that killed at least one person in each Egyptian home (Exodus 12:28-30). The kingdom of Egypt was in decline like the decline of the Celtic Tiger.
The Egyptians begged the Jews to leave them and go to the land of Israel (Exodus 12:31-33). The Jews took the wealth that the Egyptians owed them for their labor when they left (Exodus 12:35-36). Without the Jews the Egyptians soon realized that their economy was doomed so they tried to force the Jews to return to Egypt (Exodus 14:5-7). When they did this they lost their political leaders and their army (Exodus 14:28-30). So Egypt came to economic ruin and lost its influence just like the death of the Celtic Tiger.
So modern Ireland is like ancient Egypt because its prosperity was also determined by how it treated the Jewish people and Israel.
You might be wondering why the Father of Truth has based the prosperity of everyone that Jews encounter on how they treat the Jewish people and Israel.
There is nothing special or superior about the Jewish people. They were not chosen to be the instrument of blessing and cursing because they were the strongest or best (Deuteronomy 7:6-7). It is not because they were more more willing to obey Him for they were stiffnecked and provoked Him to almost destroy them (Deuteronomy 9:6-8).` The Jews are no better than the Gentiles (Romans 3:9).
This protection of the Jewish people and Israel is to fulfill the promises that the Father of Truth made to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Deuteronomy 9:5). He is as sure to keep these promises as day and night are to continue (Jeremiah 33:25-26). The Jews are still loved and protected even after most of them have rejected the Man of Truth (Yah'shua aka Yeshua aka Jesus aka Mashiach aka Messiah aka Christ) because that is what His Father promised Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Romans 11:28-29). The Father of Truth must keep this promise because He cannot lie (Titus 1:2).
This promise of protection was first made to Abraham as part of a plan to save the entire human race (Genesis 12:3). Abraham was not chosen to be used to save the human race in some willy-nilly fashion but because the Father of Truth knew that he would command his descendents and those that were joined to his house to obey His commandments (Genesis 18:17-19). Despite their many weaknesses and flaws, Isaac and Jacob continued to follow Him as well (Genesis 31:53). So in due time the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law) was given to Moses so that the people of Israel could be taught His commandments (Exodus 24:12). So even though most of Israel did not keep His commandments there was always a remnant that did so which He spared from judgment so that His plan to save the human race could continue (Isaiah 1:7-9). He committed the Word of Truth to them even if most of them did not believe it (Romans 3:1-3). He committed everything to them because they were the people of THE JEW - the Man of Truth (Romans 9:3-5). He has never cast off the people of THE JEW and taken away this promise of protection but has continued to use Jews like Paul (Shaul aka Saul) the Jew to carry out His plan (Romans 11:1-2). It was Jews like Paul that have been used to bring the Gentiles (non-Jews) back to the Father of Truth and when Israel returns to Him it will be life from the dead for the entire human race (Romans 11:13-15). The Jews and Israel continue to be protected because the salvation of the entire human race depends upon all of Israel accepting THE JEW as their king so that they will all be saved (Romans 11:25-27). The promise of protection will never end because this promise depends upon the faithfulness of the Father of Truth to their fathers (Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob) instead of their faithfulness to Him (Romans 11:28).
The good news is that this promise of protection is available to anyone that will come into the House of Truth. Since Abraham did not withhold his only son from the Father of Truth he was promised a two part seed, one part that was of the Earth like sand, the Jews and Israel, while the other part was of heaven like the stars, the Children of Truth (those that obey the Father of Truth because they love Him) (Genesis 22:16-18). Both Jews and Gentiles will be treated according to whether or not they came into the House of Truth (Romans 2:5-11). Both those that are Jews and Gentiles by their ancestry are elevated to being part of that heavenly seed when they come into the House of Truth (1 Corinthians 10:32). Both Jews and Gentiles can can only be saved by coming into the House of Truth (Galatians 2:14-16). The Father of Truth gave His Son so that the blessing of Abraham can come upon the Gentiles as well as the Jews that come into the House of Truth (Galatians 3:12-14). The Gentiles can only come into the House of Truth by the Father of Truth keeping his promise to THE SEED OF ABRAHAM of protection for the Jews and Israel (Galatians 3:15-18).
THE SEED OF ABRAHAM, the Man of Truth, was given by the Father of Truth to be lifted up on a cross so that you can come into House the Truth (John 3:14-16). You can come into the House of Truth by surrendering control of your life to the Man of Truth because you believe that His Father raised him from the dead (Romans 10:9). When you come into the House of Truth and remain there then you too will inherit the promises given to Abraham (Hebrews 6:10-12).
Come into the House of Truth
From 1995 to 2000 Ireland had one of the fastest growing economies in the world. In fact, Ireland reached the second highest per capital income in the world (close behind the USA) at one point. This period of unprecedented growth in the Irish economy is known as the Celtic Tiger.
The Celtic Tiger was more than just growth of the Irish economy. It was the explosive growth of everything Irish. The influence of Ireland also grew to an unprecedented level in its long history. It seemed like almost overnight Irish culture took the world by storm. Shows featuring Irish entertainment like river dancing and Celtic music from Ireland had sold out crowds in large venues all over the world. Ireland, Irish people and Irish culture became featured in many movies like "Titanic". A book about how Ireland saved Western Civilization became an international best seller. Irish pubs featuring Irish food popped up in places where they had never been before.
The Celtic Tiger was also the beginning of a rare period of peace in Ireland. The almost 35 years long guerrilla war called “The Troubles” that was fought between mostly Protestant Loyalists and mostly Catholic Republicans quickly collapsed soon after the Celtic Tiger began to rise.
The Celtic Tiger began to slow down considerably during the early 2000's. The rate of economic growth fell to about half of what it had been. Irish culture began to wane in popularity. Ireland began to lose its influence in European and world politics.
Then suddenly it all came to an end in 2008. The interest of the world in Irish culture ended as well as the influence of Ireland. It was the death of the Celtic Tiger.
Irish people everywhere would like to see the Celtic Tiger resurrected. If this is to be done then one has to determine what caused the Celtic Tiger to be born, what caused it to grow, what caused it to decline and, most importantly of all, what brought about the death of the Celtic Tiger.
Some people have said that the Celtic Tiger happened in Ireland because of a low tax rate on corporations there, its trade advantages that came from it belonging to the EU, English being the common language of Ireland, its lower wages and its timezone advantage for dealing with problems early compared to the US. However, all of these things were true from 1973 to the present and cannot account for the birth, growth and death of the Celtic Tiger. Nor can the favorable industry polices that Ireland adopted at the start of the Celtic Tiger to attract companies like Dell, Intel and Microsoft because those policies are still in effect.
There obviously has to be another factor that caused things to change in Ireland in direct response to it. So while there are many threads that weave together the story of the Celtic Tiger real understanding can only come from finding the thread that tied everything else together. Fortunately there is one single thread of the story of Celtic Tiger that when followed reveals the answer to all of these questions.
This thread begins with the double taxation treaty of 1995 between Israel and Ireland that opened up the markets for Irish exports to not just Israel but indirectly to many of the trading partners of Israel in the Middle East. Ireland was one of the most pro-Israel nations in the world in 1995 and went out of its way to ensure a fair trading policy with Israel when other European nations were moving towards boycotts of products from Israel. This treaty that was created to show solidarity with Israel brought about the birth of the Celtic Tiger.
As trade with Israel expanded so did the relationship between the two countries. Israel used its influence with American tech companies, often headed by American Jews, to demonstrate the advantages of Ireland over other EU countries for European operations. Ireland kept buying more products and services from Israel that were needed to make it into a viable headquarters for the European operations of tech companies and as a leading center for American companies to use for off shoring information technology work. Of course, there was a lot more than just information technology being exchanged.
Ireland would buy Israel products and use them to make Irish products to resell to other EU countries that were boycotting Israel. Ireland would buy products from these same EU countries, use them to make Irish products and resell them to Israel. Israel could then resell these products to other Middle Eastern countries. In effect, Ireland acted as a broker to make Israeli products available in EU countries that were boycotting Israeli products and Israel acted as a broker to make Irish products avail to countries in the Middle East that had no direct ties to Ireland.
The same dynamics applied to cultural products such as Celtic music and river dancing. The connections that Jews in Israel had with Jews in the American entertainment industry made it possible to introduce America and the world to these treasures.
These types of mutually beneficial relationships spread across all areas of the economy so that Ireland and Israel went from about 75 million dollars of trade with each other when the agreement was signed in 1995 to over 400 million dollars of trade with each other in 2000. The Celtic Tiger had enjoyed a five year long growth spurt that took it from being a cub to being a fierce competitor in the business world.
This friendship grew deeper and deeper so that by the year 2000 Ireland had became the number one tourist destination for Israelis vacationing abroad. However, this would soon change due to forces that already been at work in the underbelly of Irish society.
When "The Troubles" ended with the Belfast Agreement in 1998, there were suddenly a lot of out of work terrorists in Ireland. The heads of these various terrorist organizations had managed to profit quite nicely from "The Troubles", but many had lost their influence when peace broke out. They had strong ties to Libya and the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) until about 1987. They lost favor with the PLO when they turned down an offer of weapons and training, because they were certain that it was impossible for weapons to be smuggled out of the area without alerting Israeli intelligence. So the PLO began working with the Irish government instead. Israeli intelligence was also suspected in helping to end the supply of weapons from Libya in 1987 as well. Without these Muslim sources of arms, money, and training, the Irish terrorists would eventually lose their ability to wage an effective terrorist campaign. They had little choice but to accept a cease fire in 1997, and negotiate for the best deal that they could get in 1998.
As these heads of terrorist organizations moved from terrorism to politics, they began to court favor with the PLO, who was now in cahoots with many of the politicians in Ireland, particularly from the opposition party Fianna Fail, when the double taxation treaty had been signed with Israel in 1995. The Fine Gael party that was in power when the trade treaty with Israel was negotiated and signed, had a long history of being in total opposition to achieving Irish Republicanism by violence. The Fianna Fail party that took over in 1997, had a long history of working with political parties that supported such terrorist tactics. So when the Belfast Agreement was signed in 1998, these Irish terrorists began a new tactic to restrengthen their ties with the PLO and other Islamic terrorist organizations. They began to stir up public sentiment for the PLO, their fellow terrorists, and against Israel, who they painted as being like the British. They waged an effective campaign to convince the Irish people that the PLO really just wanted peace, but the Israelis had came and taken away their land.
Of course, this was an obvious lie, being that there never was a country called Palestine, to begin with. Palestine was what the Romans renamed the providence of Judaea, after the ancient enemies of the Jews, the Philistines, when they expelled most of the Jews from it in 135 AD, to add insult to injury. Between then, and when the state of Israel was born in 1948 AD, one foreign power after another ruled the land of Israel. Not once, during that entire time, was there ever an Arab country called Palestine.
In fact, when Mark Twain went diagonally across the country of modern Israel from Haifa to Jerusalem in 1867, he said, the land was totally empty to the point that he did not see so much as a goat for three or four days. When he arrived in Jerusalem, he was very disappointed. It had a very small population, and was about 75 percent Jewish, with the remainder being composed mostly of professionals from various religions, who took care of their particular religious sites. There simply were never millions of Arabs living in present day Israel for the Jews to push out. Most of the Arabs of British Mandate Palestine had immigrated into Israel, to seek employment from the Jews, when the Jews made the place livable again, after they had began returning in 1870 AD.
These facts did not seem to matter to the Irish public. Many of them still resented the British being in the six northern most counties of Ireland, which is known as Northern Ireland. They still held up the Irish terrorists as the heroes of Ireland, and simply wanted to believe their stories about the struggle of the PLO against Israel - no matter how far fetched they were. They simply wanted to believe these stories, which had no more validity than stories of leprechauns leading people to pots filled with gold.
This campaign to sell the Irish public on this faerie tale was very effective. The Fianna Fail party had long managed to be a mainstay of Irish politics, because it responded to the mood of the Irish public. The Taoiseach (Prime Minister of Ireland) Bertie Ahern formally announced in September of 2000, the support of Ireland for the PLO against Israel. This was the beginning of the decline of the Celtic Tiger.
The next Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, also from Fianna Fail, took things even a step further. He visited Yasir Arafat and snubbed Israel in 2003, even though Palestinian terrorism against Israel was at its height, and virtually no one believed that Yasir Arafat wanted peace. The same Irish government in that year openly opposed Israel building the security wall, which effectively ended that phase of Palestinian terrorism. In 2004, it began working inside of the EU, to effect an EU wide boycott of Israel. In 2006, it blocked the US from using the Shannon airport to deliver military equipment to Israel, during the war to end terror attacks originating from Lebanon. All during this time, the economic growth of Ireland that had been fueled by its cooperation with Israel, continued to wane with short periodic relapses. The Celtic Tiger was being destroyed by a cancer from within.
Then, in May 2008, an outright boycott of Israeli goods and services across Ireland was initiated by IMPACT (the Irish Municipal, Public And Civil Trade union). Shortly after that, Ireland had its first economic collapse since 1983. The lifeblood of the Celtic Tiger had been trade with Israel, and the influence of Israeli business men with Jewish business men across the world, to do business with Ireland. This boycott ended most of the main economic advantages that Ireland had over other EU countries, which had previously boycotted Israel. Israel would now have to look for another country to provide, what Ireland had provided since 1995. It was the death of the Celtic Tiger.
Now this synchronization of events in the Ireland-Israel relationship with the birth, growth, decline, and death, of the Celtic Tiger might seem to be just a strange set of coincidences, if taken by itself. After all, since Israel was vital in helping Irish economy rise in the first place, then it only makes sense that Irish economy would fall, once they pushed Israel out of it. However, this is not an isolated incidence, nor a historical glitch, but rather only one of hundreds of similar stories. These stories all follow a similar pattern: the Jews are helped and things begin to prosper, then the Jews are resented and things begin to decline, finally the Jews are mistreated and things come to ruin.
For example, consider the British Empire that had been headquartered just across the Irish Sea from Ireland. England had become a safe haven for Jews that were being expelled or persecuted in other countries in Europe. These Jews brought their talents with them and the British Empire began to be revitalize after a long period of stagnation. The only Jewish Prime Minister of Britain, Benjamin Disraeli, created a foreign policy that significantly expanded the British Empire. As this policy was followed by successive Prime Ministers the British Empire continued to grow until it wrapped around the Earth. It was literally true that the sun never set on the British Empire.
Then came WWI (World War I). The Germans blockaded Brazil and cut off England's main supply of saltpeter which was necessary to create gunpowder. A Jewish chemist named Chaim Weizmann discovered a way to create gunpowder without saltpeter. The British were saved from certain defeat and went on to win WWI. The British got British Mandate Palestine from the Ottoman Turks along with other assets from the Axis powers as part of the treaty of Versailles. The British Empire was now at its peak.
The British King, George V, offered Weizmann anything that he wanted as a reward for saving the British Empire. Weizmann asked for all of British Mandate Palestine to be given to the Jewish people for a homeland since many of the British had came to resent the Jews being in Britain despite their various contributions to British society. The British agreed and issued the Balfour Declaration.
Then the British began taking back parts of British Mandate Palestine from the Jews contrary to their agreement. They gave everything east of the Jordan River to the Arabs - which was about 70 percent of the land that they had promised. They then cut out one piece after another until the Jews were left with a bunch of small enclaves that were not even connected together. Finally, the British left them in these enclaves with General Cunningham remarking that without British protection the Arabs would push the Jews into the sea. He was wrong and on May 14, 1948 Israel was born a nation in a single day.
During this same time the British lost a piece of their empire each time they took away a piece of what they had promised to the Jews. By the time Israel became a nation they had lost about everything except their homeland. They had went from ruling over 700 million people outside of Britain when the Balfour Declaration was issued in 1917 to ruling about 5 million foreign subjects in 1948. Their entire infrastructure had been destroyed by German bombs in WWII (World War II). They were completely bankrupt and only saved from starvation by a massive loan from the US that they did not finish paying back until 2006. The sun had set on the British Empire.
There are hundreds of examples of this exact same pattern that happened with the Celtic Tiger and the British Empire that has played out over and over again in history whether it is an empire, an country, a city, or even a business. If history has only one lesson to learn it is this: Don't screw with the Jews.
What causes this pattern that was demonstrated by the Celtic Tiger? Are the Jews just so clever and smart that they somehow manage to always get the upper hand? Do they run some sort of global clandestine operation that manages to control the destiny of anything they come across? Do the Jews possess some sort of better DNA that makes them more fit than everyone else? Are Jews just somehow lucky?
There is an outside force that orchestrates the events that bring this pattern to pass time after time. This outside force and the pattern shown by the Celtic Tiger is explained completely in the Book of Truth (The Bible).
This outside force is the Father of Truth (Yahoveh aka Yahweh aka God aka The Lord). The Celtic Tiger was born, grew, declined and died due to a promise that He had made. He promised Abraham (Abram) that He would bless those that blessed Abraham and curse those that curse Abraham if Abraham would move to Canaan (modern Israel) (Genesis 12:1-3). Abraham took Him up on the deal (Genesis 12:4-6). The Father of Truth then extended this promise to his descendants if Abraham would be circumcised (Genesis 17:7-11). He promised to provide these descendants through a son that his old and barren wife would bear named Isaac (Yitzhak) (Genesis 17:19-21). Abraham took Him up on this deal as well (Genesis 17:24-26). The Father of Truth then announced that Jacob (Ya'acob aka Israel) would be the one to start the nation that this promise would come upon (Genesis 25:23-26). Isaac then passed this promise to Jacob (Genesis 25:27-30). The Father of Truth confirmed that his descendents were the one chosen to receive this promise and to be given the land of Canaan when He changed the name of Jacob to Israel (Genesis 35:10-12).
This pattern demonstrated in the Celtic Tiger can be plainly seen in the history of ancient Egypt.
A Jew named Joseph (the son of Israel) told Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, that the Father of Truth was telling him that the economy was about to have a major boom followed by a terrible depression (Genesis 41:29-32). He then told the Egyptians how to prepare for a coming disaster (Genesis 41:33-36). Pharaoh and all the leaders recognized that the Father of Truth was with Joseph the Jew (Genesis 41:37-39). Joseph the Jew became the prime minister of Egypt (Genesis 41:40-43). Joseph the Jew was treated as a national hero throughout Egypt and called "savior of the world" (Zaphnath Paaneah) for saving Egypt from ruin (Genesis 41:44-46). (After he died the Egyptians deified him and called him Imhotep.) This was like the birth of the Celtic Tiger.
Not only Joseph, but all the Jews were held in high esteem by the government of Egypt for their industrious work (Genesis 47:4-6). The king of Egypt was blessed when Israel was around (Genesis 47:7-10). When Israel died the Egyptians mourned for him as one of the great men of Egypt (Genesis 50:2-3). The Egyptians had a massive burial procession when he was buried because they recognized how much his family, the Jews, had blessed Egypt (Genesis 50:7-9). The Jews continued to grow in number and influential in the society of Egypt long after the initial Jewish immigrants had died off (Exodus 1:5-7). The years that the Jews, the family of Israel, were appreciated Egypt enjoyed great prosperity like the growth of the Celtic Tiger.
Then new leadership arose that made baseless accusations against the Jews because he resented them (Exodus 1:8-10). So the heart of the people of Egypt were turned against the Jews and they began to oppress them (Exodus 1:11-13). This was the beginning of the decline of Egypt just like the beginning of the decline of the Celtic Tiger.
Since the king of Egypt refused to cease oppressing the Jews the Father of Truth brought disaster after disaster upon the land of Egypt (Exodus 7:4). These disasters were so terrible that the people of Egypt were in awe of the Jews (Exodus 11:1-3). However, the king still refused to recognize that these disasters came upon Egypt for oppressing the Jews (Exodus 11:8-10). Finally, the Father of Truth brought a disaster that killed at least one person in each Egyptian home (Exodus 12:28-30). The kingdom of Egypt was in decline like the decline of the Celtic Tiger.
The Egyptians begged the Jews to leave them and go to the land of Israel (Exodus 12:31-33). The Jews took the wealth that the Egyptians owed them for their labor when they left (Exodus 12:35-36). Without the Jews the Egyptians soon realized that their economy was doomed so they tried to force the Jews to return to Egypt (Exodus 14:5-7). When they did this they lost their political leaders and their army (Exodus 14:28-30). So Egypt came to economic ruin and lost its influence just like the death of the Celtic Tiger.
So modern Ireland is like ancient Egypt because its prosperity was also determined by how it treated the Jewish people and Israel.
You might be wondering why the Father of Truth has based the prosperity of everyone that Jews encounter on how they treat the Jewish people and Israel.
There is nothing special or superior about the Jewish people. They were not chosen to be the instrument of blessing and cursing because they were the strongest or best (Deuteronomy 7:6-7). It is not because they were more more willing to obey Him for they were stiffnecked and provoked Him to almost destroy them (Deuteronomy 9:6-8).` The Jews are no better than the Gentiles (Romans 3:9).
This protection of the Jewish people and Israel is to fulfill the promises that the Father of Truth made to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Deuteronomy 9:5). He is as sure to keep these promises as day and night are to continue (Jeremiah 33:25-26). The Jews are still loved and protected even after most of them have rejected the Man of Truth (Yah'shua aka Yeshua aka Jesus aka Mashiach aka Messiah aka Christ) because that is what His Father promised Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Romans 11:28-29). The Father of Truth must keep this promise because He cannot lie (Titus 1:2).
This promise of protection was first made to Abraham as part of a plan to save the entire human race (Genesis 12:3). Abraham was not chosen to be used to save the human race in some willy-nilly fashion but because the Father of Truth knew that he would command his descendents and those that were joined to his house to obey His commandments (Genesis 18:17-19). Despite their many weaknesses and flaws, Isaac and Jacob continued to follow Him as well (Genesis 31:53). So in due time the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law) was given to Moses so that the people of Israel could be taught His commandments (Exodus 24:12). So even though most of Israel did not keep His commandments there was always a remnant that did so which He spared from judgment so that His plan to save the human race could continue (Isaiah 1:7-9). He committed the Word of Truth to them even if most of them did not believe it (Romans 3:1-3). He committed everything to them because they were the people of THE JEW - the Man of Truth (Romans 9:3-5). He has never cast off the people of THE JEW and taken away this promise of protection but has continued to use Jews like Paul (Shaul aka Saul) the Jew to carry out His plan (Romans 11:1-2). It was Jews like Paul that have been used to bring the Gentiles (non-Jews) back to the Father of Truth and when Israel returns to Him it will be life from the dead for the entire human race (Romans 11:13-15). The Jews and Israel continue to be protected because the salvation of the entire human race depends upon all of Israel accepting THE JEW as their king so that they will all be saved (Romans 11:25-27). The promise of protection will never end because this promise depends upon the faithfulness of the Father of Truth to their fathers (Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob) instead of their faithfulness to Him (Romans 11:28).
The good news is that this promise of protection is available to anyone that will come into the House of Truth. Since Abraham did not withhold his only son from the Father of Truth he was promised a two part seed, one part that was of the Earth like sand, the Jews and Israel, while the other part was of heaven like the stars, the Children of Truth (those that obey the Father of Truth because they love Him) (Genesis 22:16-18). Both Jews and Gentiles will be treated according to whether or not they came into the House of Truth (Romans 2:5-11). Both those that are Jews and Gentiles by their ancestry are elevated to being part of that heavenly seed when they come into the House of Truth (1 Corinthians 10:32). Both Jews and Gentiles can can only be saved by coming into the House of Truth (Galatians 2:14-16). The Father of Truth gave His Son so that the blessing of Abraham can come upon the Gentiles as well as the Jews that come into the House of Truth (Galatians 3:12-14). The Gentiles can only come into the House of Truth by the Father of Truth keeping his promise to THE SEED OF ABRAHAM of protection for the Jews and Israel (Galatians 3:15-18).
THE SEED OF ABRAHAM, the Man of Truth, was given by the Father of Truth to be lifted up on a cross so that you can come into House the Truth (John 3:14-16). You can come into the House of Truth by surrendering control of your life to the Man of Truth because you believe that His Father raised him from the dead (Romans 10:9). When you come into the House of Truth and remain there then you too will inherit the promises given to Abraham (Hebrews 6:10-12).
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Labels: British Empire, Egypt, History, Ireland
posted by The House Of Truth @ March 09, 2014
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