Writer's Diary Volume
1: 1873-1876 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"they are all faithfully awaiting the Messiah, every one of them, from the very lowest Yid to the very highest and most learned among them, the philosopher and cabalist-rabbi . . . they all believe that the Messiah will gather them together in Jerusalem once more and will use his sword to bring down all the other peoples to sit at their feet" Dostoevsky thus advances a second apocalyptic myth: the final conflict will be between Jews (representing materialism) and Christians (representing brotherhood). That is the real reason that Disraeli, directing British foreign policy in part from the perspective of a "Spanish Yid," opposes Russian attempts to liberate the Balkans. This perfidy is only the first terrible plot of the Jews: "Their reign, their complete reign is drawing nigh! Coming soon is the complete triumph of ideas before which feelings of love for humanity, the longing for truth, Christian feelings, the feelings of nationhood and even national pride of European peoples must giveway. What lies ahead, on the contrary, is materialism, a blind, carnivorous lust for personal material security" If the Jews ruled Russia, Dostoevsky contends, we could expect them to enslave everyone, to skin them, or to "massacre them altogether, exterminate them completely, as they did more than once with alien peoples in times of old in their ancient history"
