JUDAISM IN ITS FINEST HOUR

The Hanukkah Massacre in Gaza

by MARK GLENN

The following article was forwarded by email from a White Nationalist who is also of Jewish descent.

–Admin staff 2

“When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are to possess and casts out the many peoples living there, you shall then slaughter them all and utterly destroy them…You shall make no agreements with them nor show them any mercy…You shall destroy their altars, break down their images, cut down their groves and burn their graven images with fire. For you are a holy people unto the LORD thy God and He has chosen you to be a special people above all others upon the face of the earth…”

–Book of Deuteronomy, 7:1-8

The aerial assault on Gaza thus far resulting in several hundred deaths and close to a thousand casualties (much of which will result in even more deaths) must–if it is to be understood correctly–be placed within the historical context of the religious ideas expounded by Judaism since its inception and which today constitute the philosophical lifeblood of the state of Israel.

It is an increasingly popular fad these days amongst those taking the moral high road against Israel’s 60 year-long orgy of violence and bloodshed against the indigenous Semites of Palestine, Lebanon and other surrounding areas to erect a separation wall between “Zionism” as a violent, racist political movement and “Judaism” as a “holy religion” devoted to the worship of God. Such arguments, whether made by groups such as Neturei Karta or “Rabbis For Human Rights” or whoever maintain that the two ideologies are as  different from each other as the lion is to the lamb. Some go so far as to refer to Herzl, the founding father of Zionism as a “heretic” who abandoned the “godliness” of Judaism in favor of a secular, Marxist ideology responsible for creating the modern Jewish state.

However, despite some very impressive arguments made by prominent individuals and groups in trying to paint this picture the fact is that the aforementioned argument is as real as any other fantasy created by Jewish Hollywood that defies the laws of reason or reality. Modern day Zionism and Judaism are synonymous, and it has been the fundamental misunderstanding of this fact that has brought the situation to where it is today, both in the Holy Land and in the present “Clash of Civilizations” between the West and the Islamic world. (more…)

Robert Lappin Foundation — “Keep our children Jewish and thus reverse the trend of assimilation and intermarriage.” Imagine the media condemnation if the mission statement read “Keep our children White and thus reverse the trend of assimilation and intermarriage.” The same media that promotes Jewish pride and survival and supports the mass killing of Palestinians maintain that David Duke is evil simply because he wants to preserve White heritage and rights.

The Madoff Victims: Schadenfreude, Not Anti-Semitism

by Daniel McGowan

Introductory Commentary by David Duke — The following article appeared in Dissident Voice, and like many of the articles we share with you on Davidduke.com, it comes from a “liberal” perspective yet has something of value for both liberals and conservatives, right and left. McGowan effectively exposes the incredible media and political establishment double standards in regard to all things Jewish and all things Israel. Extremist Jews can imprison over 3 million people in Gaza and the West Bank, deprive a million people in Gaza of food, medicine, even medical supplies and cause the sickness, suffering and death of thousands over the last three years; on this Hanukkah bomb and slaughter hundreds of civilians, men, women and children, wound, cripple, or maim another 1000 in massive bombings of apartment buildings where children sleep and play, and all that President Bush, incoming President Obama and the controlled Media can do is to give full support for Israel rather than condemn this massacre of innocent people.

I watched CNN on December 29 spend ten minutes on the 1,400 Palestinian victims of Israeli firebombs and then  30 minutes on one Jewish victim of a rocket complete with tearful interviews with family, friends, and the “psycho-horror” of the terrible Palestinian Hamas. In another section in his essay McGowan points out that one of Madoff’s “victims” was The Lappin Foundation, an organization dedicated to “keeping our children Jewish, thus reversing the trend of intermarriage and assimilation.” He compares the media’s approval of the Lappin Foundation to the visceral hatred that would greet a David Duke Charitable Foundation using the same wording, but using “White” instead of “Jewish.” Good point. But, the problem really is not that Jews want to preserve their heritage, for all healthy people want to preserve themselves, their characteristics their unique heritage and identity. Why does the same political and media establishment that lauds Jews for this trait makes any White person wanting to preserve his people to be the epitome of evil? The problem is how Jews go about their goals, such as the 1400 victims of Jewish terror in Gaza right now. (more…)

Israeli Gunboats Came out of the Darkness and Rammed us Three Times

SS Dignity on a mercy mission delivering doctors and desperately needed medical supplies to Gaza nearly sinks.

www.freegaza.org

(Lebanon, Tuesday 30 December) – Today the Free Gaza ship “Dignity” carefully made its way to safe harbor in Tyre, Lebanon’s southern-most port city, after receiving serious structural damage when Israeli warships rammed its bow and the port side. Waiting to greet the passengers and crew were thousands of Lebanese who came out to show their solidarity with this attempt to deliver volunteer doctors and desperately needed medical supplies to war-ravaged Gaza. The Lebanese government has pledged to provide a forensic analysis of what happened in the dark morning, when Israel rammed the civilian ship in international waters, and put the people on board in danger of losing their lives.

The Dignity, on a mission of mercy to besieged Gaza, was attacked by the Israeli Navy at approximately 6am (UST) in international waters, roughly 90 miles off the coast of Gaza. Several Israeli warships surrounded the small, human rights boat, firing live ammunition around it, then intentionally ramming it three times. According to ship’s captain Denis Healy, the Israeli attack came, “”without any warning, or any provocation.”

Caoimhe Butterly, an organizer with the Free Gaza Movement, stated that, “The gunboats gave us no warning. They came up out of the darkness firing flares and flashing huge flood lights into our faces. We were so shocked that at first we didn’t react. We knew we were well within international waters and supposedly safe from attack. They rammed us three times, hitting the side of the boat hard. We began taking on water and, for a few minutes, we all feared for our lives. After they rammed us, they started screaming at us as we were frantically getting the life boats ready and putting on our life jackets. They kept yelling that if we didn’t turn back they would shoot us.” (more…)

Are White People Stupid or What?

“Whites are not stupid — they just don’t get accurate information from the public domain to consider and make conclusions”

By Philip Marlowe

So maybe now is a good time to ask this hard to ask question, since the holidays are all but over and the relatives have left for home — like that conservative, FOX news-loving Uncle Josh, with whom you had that “healthy” debate before turkey dinner; your touchy sister-in-law from Vermont, the one who gave you a pissed-off look when you said Obama was not even Constitutionally qualified to be prez; your Che-loving kid brother who just recently discovered Bob Marley music and that’s all he talks about now.

I know, I know, it’s tough because of what it means to racially awakened Whites who thinks of all the things “going down” in the US and elsewhere — often, he or she gets frustrated having to listen to the usual holiday blather. So this question must be asked. We hope that Whites, over-all, are not this stupid, not this oblivious to the reality of where this country is headed and why. Or are they?

Just think about all the interracial sex pushed in the media over the last few years — what could be the end result of that? What about allowing non-White immigration into the formerly White countries of the West? Don’t White people ever put two and two together about all this kind of thing? Yeah, one may very well think that Whites are stupid to ignore what is being done and allowing ourselves to be turned into minorities.

If you’re a White person who has read so far and are concerned with current events, you need to ask yourself some serious questions and find some way to divorce your personal, local ”world view,” so as to see the “big picture” going on today for our race. It behooves you to read on and think hard about these matters before you. (more…)

“The amount of death and destruction is inconceivable”

Safa Joudeh writing from the occupied Gaza Strip, Live from Palestine, December 27 & 28 2008

It was just before noon when I heard the first explosion. I rushed to my window and barely did I get there and look out when I was pushed back by the force and air pressure of another explosion. For a few moments I didn’t understand but then I realized that Israeli promises of a wide-scale offensive against the Gaza Strip had materialized. Israeli Foreign Minister Tzpi Livni’s statements following a meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak the day before yesterday had not been empty threats after all.

What followed seems pretty much surreal at this point. Never had we imagined anything like this. It all happened so fast but the amount of death and destruction is inconceivable, even to me and I’m in the middle of it and only a few hours have passed already.

Six locations were hit during the air raid on Gaza City. The images are probably not broadcasted on US news channels. There were piles and piles of bodies in the locations that were hit. As you looked at them you could see that a few of the young men were still alive, someone lifts a hand, and another raises his head. They probably died within moments because their bodies were burned, most had lost limbs, some of their guts were hanging out and they were all lying in pools of blood. Outside my home which is close to the two largest universities in Gaza, a missile fell on a large group of young men, university students. They’d been warned not to stand in groups as it makes them an easy target, but they were waiting for buses to take them home. Seven were killed, four students and three of our neighbors’ kids, young men who were from the Rayes family and were best friends. As I’m writing this I can hear a funeral procession go by outside; I looked out the window a moment ago and it was the three Rayes boys. They spent all their time together when they were alive, they died together and now they are sharing the same funeral together. Nothing could stop my 14-year-old brother from rushing out to see the bodies of his friends laying in the street after they were killed. He hasn’t spoken a word since. (more…)

Bernard Madoff Didn’t Just Hurt Jews… He was an Equal Opportunity Swindler!

So, why is it a more onerous “desecration of God’s name and the Jewish people who worship God,” as Rabbi Elliot Dorff of the American Jewish University in Los Angeles said.  Would it be less a sacrilege if Madoff had done the same to a strictly gentile clientele?

The above words are from this article which was written by Jewish author who dares to condemn the incredible double standards that exist with Jews and Gentiles in our Jewish Dominated Media establishment. It is nice to know that there are a few courageous Jews that will say what any Mainstream Media Gentile would not say, words that could only be found on websites such as www.davidduke.com! — David Duke

With thanks to my friend and fellow Jew, esteemed TV writer Allan Manings, who co-wrote the title for this piece, I was reading a front page article in the Los Angeles Times today, both intrigued and offended by writer Duke Helfand’s unbalanced reporting to the effect that Bernard Madoff had done the unthinkable.  He had cheated his own kind — members of the Jewish Faith.  Indeed the headline read, “Madoff an Outrage to L.A.’s Jewish.”  While it may be true that an enormous percentage of those individually affected were in fact Jewish, there were plenty of other decent people who lost big money as well.

And even if that weren’t the case, isn’t it racism or religious intolerance of the worst kind to presume that those from the same background ought to have a level of superior goodness towards one another?  Or that it’s somehow not as bad to wrong an outsider?  Why should Jews be any more surprised that one of their own is less than honorable?  Are we not subject to the same failings of other humans?  Do we see articles written in a like manner when a Christian con man makes off with money from folks who share the same faith?  Did the headlines during the Charles Keating scandal refer to his having pilfered the life savings of a lot of Christians?  Or that the U.S. Senators involved in the wrongdoing were Christians as well? (more…)

Merry Christmas . . . NOT!

Read both Part I and II by Edmund Connelly

As readers of Davidduke.com know, for years I have been exposing why Jewish control of the media is perhaps the single most important factor in the destruction of our heritage. The following is an excellent article by Edmund Connelly thoroughly exposing the real source of the “war on Christmas.”  It appeared on the VDARE.com website. We can all be thankful that there a number of excellent websites and publications in addition to Davidduke.com and stormfront.org that tell the truth without fear or favor. — Dr. David Duke

VDARE.com is again running their wonderful War on Christmas series, begun in 1999. Various contributors there document how an overwhelmingly Christian America which for centuries celebrated Christmas as both a religious and cultural holiday has in recent years moved vigorously first to quash religious observance of Christmas in the public square and is now mopping up the remaining secular symbols.

While much has been written and reported about this assault, few want to situate the attack on Christmas within a larger set of conflicts between Jews and white Christians. But to understand the hostility toward Christmas in America, one must do just that, as Jewish Townhall.com columnist Burt Prelutsky bluntly did in his 2004 column  The Jewish grinch who stole Christmas.

The blame for the brisk departure of Christmas observations in so many parts of American life now, Prelutsky argued, can be blamed on “my fellow Jews. When it comes to pushing the multicultural, anti-Christian agenda, you find Jewish judges, Jewish journalists, and the American Civil Liberties Union, at the forefront. . . . But the dirty little secret in America is that anti-Semitism is no longer a problem in society – it’s been replaced by a rampant anti-Christianity. ”

One could spend a year, from one Christmas to the next, reading about the Gentile-Jewish basis of the War on Christmas. Some accounts are scholarly, while others are more popular. Some overtly point to the religious split as the source of the hostility, while others cautiously skirt around the issue.  (more…)

Genes Are The Real Us

By H. Millard

Despite PC revisions of history that state otherwise, America was founded by the indigenous people of Europe in the European Diaspora–White people–and it became a great nation largely due to the genes of these people as they adapted to a new environment and miles of open space that allowed them a freedom of action and thought that was often difficult to achieve in their old European countries where social pressures often kept them within narrow intellectual confines.

Today, these European descended peoples in America–these European Indigenes–the people who built this country–are being told they must sit in the back of the bus and that they must not join together as a distinct people. Indeed, they are told that they must not even notice differences in different peoples or even think of themselves as a distinct and different people–even though the largest organ in their bodies (their skin) screams out their differences and their mutations.

Every assembly or meeting of these European Indigenes must now look like the Star Wars Bar, lest these people be called racists and similar terms by the haters of all things White.

These European Indigenes are daily being conditioned to believe that their natural genetic identity should be discarded and be replaced with just about any other identity such as “American” or (we kid you not) even superficial things such as which sports team they root for. The goal is to destroy them as a distinct people.

They are taught that America became great because of “freedom” or because of its Constitution or the Bill of Rights or this or that. We even hear highly paid so-called conservative radio talk show hosts say such things and we never hear them give credit to the people or to the genetic formula that made these people. And, that’s where the real credit lies. That’s where it always lies with all living things. Genes matter.

As we European Indigenes watch, we see the nation we built being swamped by peoples unlike us and we hear many of “our own people” tell us that this is a good thing. It’s a good thing that we are being exterminated? (more…)

We would like to salute the many patriots who have turned Dr. Duke’s excellent radio broadcasts into videos over the past few years. Below is a particularly well made video from Honest Media Today, it features Dr. Duke discussing the ramifications of interracial relationships as well as exposing the alien media’s relentless campaign to glamorize these relationships and their failure to report on the often tragic consequences. In this 46 minute video the hair raising story of Jana Shearer is highlighted, a naive young white woman who was brutally murdered and then eaten by her black boyfriend — admin:

 
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2314943085717382461&ei

(left)The radical Jewish supremacist hate group, Chabad Lubavitch, erects a huge Menorah in front of White House. (Right) Jewish extremist and torture advocate, U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, lights the first flame.

Huge Jewish Menorah Lit in front of White House
While the Cross is outlawed on public ground – huge Jewish Menorahs are erected!

Every year a huge Menorah is erected and lit on public land front of the America’s White House. The picture shows the Menorah lit by the radical Jewish supremacist organization called Chabad Lubavitch. It was lit by the prominent Jewish extremist and torture advocate, the new U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey. In America it has become illegal to put a Christian cross on public ground; no symbol representing any aspect of the Christian religion is allowed. But while crosses are banned from the White House and any public place, huge Jewish Menorahs are going up by the thousands all over the United States as well as  in many European countries. One of the main groups erecting them is Chabad Lubavitch, an organization that teaches that Gentiles are a lower and different species from Jews and that Gentiles entire purpose on earth is only to “serve Jews.” (do a search on Chabad on www.davidduke.com) Menorahs are also now erected in many of the most hallowed places of many respective nations.  You can find them in front of many European parliaments and government buildings. A huge Menorah is now in front of the White House and hundreds more adorn government buildings, both state and federal and local all over America.

The Menorah is symbol intrinsic with the Jewish religion, and long before the creation of the modern state of Israel, the Menorah was the most common symbol of the Jewish religion, it has been used for centuries as symbol of Judaism all over the world and was far more common as the symbol of Judaism than the Star of David. (more…)

Bernie Madoff; Would you buy a used Mutual Fund from this guy?

The Madoff Affair: A Guide to the Perplexed Antisemite

By Israel Shamir

Israel Shamir is that intrepid Talmudic Scholar/Israeli Veteran who has developed the incredible fortitude to expose the Jewish extremists with almost as much energy of, dare I say it, David Duke. He is multilingual, yet his English which is not his mother’s tongue is impeccable and more than that, extremely literary. Once more we have the pleasure of his weighing in on the latest scandal, the Madoff Affair. One of the things that Dr. Shamir exposes is that Madoff actually ripped off far more Gentiles than Jews, but in the controlled media, only Jewish losses really count. If in the Second the World War 60 million Christians perish, it the 6 million alleged Jewish victims that receive the lion share of media coverage. This Christmas (oops, sorry, I mean winter holidays!) there is whole spate of Holocaust derived movies, but not any films in sight for the many more millions of Russians, Poles, Eastern Europeans, Germans who suffered in horrible ways. -staff

The thinking-man’s antisemite would be baffled what to make out of Madoff Affair. Should he rejoice or bewail? If you read Jewish newspapers, you’d think that “antisemites” – the vast majority of mankind, according to Jewish sources (“scratch a goy and you’ll find an anti-Semite”) – should be bursting with joy.

Bradley Burston enthused in Haaretz: “For the true anti-Semite, Christmas came early this year. The anti-Semite’s new Santa is Bernard Madoff. The answer to every Jew-hater’s wish list. The Aryan Nation at its most delusional couldn’t have come up with anything to rival this”. He is echoed by the execrable Lipstadt: “He is an antisemite’s dream. The worst of them could not have dreamt up such a story.” And the ADL confirms: “We expect the antisemites to have a field day. They will exploit it.”

One would think that Jewish mega-cheats are a rare species, like white ravens. This is hardly the case. Dr. William Pierce made his valuable observation some years ago: “Jews aren’t the only crooks, but they’re certainly the biggest crooks. If you hear about a 100-thousand-dollar swindle, it could be anybody. If you hear about a 100-million-dollar swindle, then you know that it has to be a Jew.” Even more so if we hear about a 50-billion-dollar swindle!

Pierce reminded his readers about Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, Marty Siegel, Dennis Levine and the insider-trading scandal that nearly wrecked Wall Street a dozen years ago– and incidentally bankrupted tens of thousands of ordinary Americans who lost their investments as a result of the artificial manipulation of stock prices. Every major actor in that scandal was a Jew.

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The Jewish Grinch Who Stole Christmas
by Burt Prelutsky

An article in 2004 by Jewish columnist Burt Prelutsky speaks some truth about the forces behind destruction of Christian America. Burt Prelutsky has been a humor columnist for the L.A. Times, a movie critic for Los Angeles magazine and a freelance writer for TV Guide, Modern Maturity, the N.Y. Times and Sports Illustrated. He has also written TV scripts for shows such as “MASH,” “Mary Tyler Moore” and “Diagnosis Murder.” –DD

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I never thought I’d live to see the day that Christmas would become a dirty word. You think it hasn’t? Then why is it that people are being prevented from saying it in polite society for fear it will offend?

Schools are being forced to replace “Christmas vacation” with “winter break” in their printed schedules. At Macy’s, the word is verboten even though they’ve made untold millions of dollars from their sympathetic portrayal in the Christmas classic, “Miracle on 34th Street.” Carols, even instrumental versions, are banned in certain places. A major postal delivery service has not only made their drivers doff their Santa caps, but ordered them not to decorate their trucks with Christmas wreaths.

How is it, one well might ask, that in a Christian nation this is happening? And in case you find that designation objectionable, would you deny that India is a Hindu country, that Pakistan is Muslim, that Poland is Catholic? That doesn’t mean those nations are theocracies. But when the overwhelming majority of a country’s population is of one religion, and roughly 90 percent of Americans happen to be one sort of Christian or another, only a damn fool would deny the obvious.

Although it seems a long time ago, it really wasn’t, that people who came here from other places made every attempt to fit in. Assimilation wasn’t a threat to anyone – it was what the Statue of Liberty represented. E pluribus unum, one out of many, was our motto. The world’s melting pot was our nickname. It didn’t mean that any group of people had to check their customs, culture or cuisine, at the door. It did mean that they, and especially their children, learned English, and that they learned to live and let live. (more…)

CNN Reports “Anti-War” President Obama Plans to Double U.S. Troops in Afghanistan!

As I have said for a long time, the Left Wing Liberals are just as duped by the Zionists as are the Conservatives. As Noam Chomsky said, many of Obama’s new staff should be getting an indictment rather than an appointment. The man whose campaign was fueled by the anti-war movement in America has made it clear that he plans to double the American troops in the hell-hole of Afghanistan. He may yet to become perceived  as twice as worse as George Bush, especially since his top advisers such as Axelrod and Emmanuel are radical Zionists who support a war with Iran. That war would be even more catastrophic to America and the world than the war for Israel we have conducted in Iraq! The real threat to America is not in the mountains of Afghanistan or in the deserts of Iraq, but along the Mexican American border. The real threat is the thousands of American lives ruined, the billions expended, the anti-American sentiment engendered by these wars for Israel! We here at DavidDuke.com say: Bring our Boys Home! — David Duke

Military: Up to 30,000 new troops to be sent to Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) — Up to 30,000 additional U.S. troops could be sent to Afghanistan next year, military officials said Saturday.

Roughly 31,000 U.S. troops currently are in Afghanistan. (more…)

Who Mad(e)off with the Money?

Those who hold Madoff accountable are called “anti-semitic”–unless they are his victims, such as those awaiting bone marrow transplants (remember those folks?).
–Staff 2

The Madoff betrayal: Life imitates anti-Semitism
By Bradley Burston

For the true anti-Semite, Christmas came early this year.

The anti-Semite’s new Santa is Bernard Madoff. The answer to every Jew-hater’s wish list. The Aryan Nation at its most delusional couldn’t have come up with anything to rival this:

The former chairman of Nasdaq turns out, also, to be treasurer of the board of trustees at Yeshiva University and chairman of the university’s business school. Rich beyond human comprehension, he handles fortunes for others, buying and selling in a trading empire that skirts investment banks and other possible sources of regulation. He redefines avarice, knowingly and personally bilking charities and retirees in the most classic of con games.

Even better, for those obsessed with the idea that Jews control finance, entertainment and the media, is the idea that Madoff’s greed was uncontrollable enough that he targeted fellow Jews, even Holocaust survivors, some of them his own friends, as well as Israeli companies who insured Jews, including Holocaust survivors.

The beauty part, for the anti-Semite: Madoff’s machinations, which could have been put to use for the sake of humanity, have directly harmed Jewish welfare and charity institutions.

He has managed to harm contemporary Jewry in ways anti-Semites could only dream about. He has sapped the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles of 11 percent of its endowment, or more than $6 million. In the words of prominent educator Avraham Infeld, he “obliterated” long-standing charitable foundations for Jewish causes in Israel, Eastern Europe and North America.

Along the way, Madoff assured the story enormous play, not only with the scale and the impudence of the scheme, but with his A+ roster of celebrity victims, among them Stephen Spielberg, Elie Wiesel, and billionaire real-estate tycoon, media mogul, commentator and former chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations Mort Zuckerman. A senior U.S. senator is one of his client-marks, as well as present and past owners of professional football and baseball teams.  (More…)

See also: Did Madoff Move $100 Billion to Israel?

Who is Bernie Madoff, the man behind the 50 billion fraud? by Christopher Bollyn

This heart gripping piece of history about The Battle of Blood River as related by Deirdre Fields must be told to the Aryans of the world, as at this moment again we are faced by overwhelming odds:

The Battle of Blood River

It Was Boer versus Zulu in a Life & Death Struggle For the Survival of the ‘White Africans’

By Deirdre Fields — MP3

The 16th of December 2008 marked the 170th anniversary of the Battle of Blood River, an event that lies at the heart of Afrikaner nationalism. It is a story of courage, determination, sacrifice, suffering and of undaunted faith in God. It even has mystical aspects. But it is a battle that could have spelled the fate of the Boer nation—perhaps even should have been their end—but miraculously was not. It enabled an entire saga of the whites of South Africa to unfold. Here, then, is the remarkable saga of the Battle of Blood River.

The Boers climbed “Execution Hill” (Hlomo Amabutu) in the hot, subtropical, Natal sun; the stench of rotting flesh filled their nostrils. This had been the Zulu King Dingaan’s execution site—and many had been the executions he had ordered. Thousands had found their tortured, final resting place here. Mostly, executions were conducted with the aid of a sangoma or witchdoctor, who would conduct “smelling out” ceremonies, during which he would claim to sniff out those people who were evil, wizards, or plotting some mischief against the chief.

Sometimes he would “smell out” hundreds at a time. Then they would be taken to Hlomo Amabutu to be executed, their bodies left for the vultures (which Dingaan affectionately referred to as his “children”) to feed upon. Holding their noses, the Boers picked their way over countless bones and bodies. Vultures rose to the air reluctantly, squawking their protest, their stomachs distended—with rotting human flesh.

At last, the Boers recognized the remains of the bodies of the white men: Piet Retief and his party, whom Dingaan had murdered treacherously and cruelly.

The Zulus had held Retief and forced him to watch, as one by one, his comrades, and finally his own teenage son were murdered before his eyes—bludgeoned with a knobkerrie (war club) or sliced up with an assegai (Zulu spear). When it was all over, Retief’s heart and liver had been cut out and presented to Dingaan. But what was that? Beside Retief’s body lay a leather pouch. Inside lay that precious treaty he had signed with Dingaan, granting the Boers all the land between the Tugela and Umzimvubu rivers. Here was proof that the Voortrekkers had won the land two ways: by treaty and by battle. (more…)