I'm going to be totally honest, I've been thinking a lot lately about the hypothesis that Cristofo Colon/Christopher Columbus, whose background was really murky, was a crypto-Jew with proto-zionist (rather than neo-crusader, to the extent that those are different things) intentions. I may be misremembering, but IIRC Norman Finkelstein has even brought up the possibility that Columbus was actually Jewish (or of Jewish heritage, which regularly passes as "Jewish" regardless of religious affiliation) at some point.
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/16/g-s1-28462/christopher-columbus-spanish-jew-documentaryThe rest is stuff I put together from learning about how Christopher Columbus wrote about wanting to raid the Americas in order to use the profits to pay for an army to take Jerusalem:
https://www.amherst.edu/system/files/Medieval%2520Ind.%2520Project%2520SOURCE%2520FINAL.pdfConventional wisdom is that this was a Catholic thing, but if Christobal Colonitus was, in fact, super-secretly Jewish, it's not impossible that his apparent Catholic piety was a ruse or that it was genuine but that the aim of colonizing Palestine had dual motives. He was an incredibly shady figure, and yes, Jewish or not, he was vile and a swine even by the standards of the time.
You then have a series of events which follow the colonization of the Americas over a much longer time frame than Columbo's notes might suggest. The American Revolution takes place, and the first President of the new USA is George Washington, a Freemason (a fraternal order whose symbol is a thinly veiled hexagram, and whose ritual myth is about building Solomon's Temple, and whose name refers to "Masons building Solomon's temple - bit weird!), and, following this, Christian Zionism emerges in the US and UK. Strangely, it took more than 1800 years of Christianity for this theological doctrine of Christian zionism to be discovered and catch on anywhere, and among its earliest prominent advocates was an ancestral cousin of future ultra-zionist U.S. President George Bush, and his CIA/President father George H. W. Bush, and his father Nazi collaborator/"Business Plotter" Prescott Bush. During the 20th century, figures l
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