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Israel and The Endtimes: Writings on the Logic and Surface Turbulence of History

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Boston University and Cambridge College Professor Eugene Narrett's essays in this collection, as in "Gathered against Jerusalem" (2000) and "Israel Awakened" (2001), are written in sculptured prose, with marbling from rich veins of literature: Greek myths to Hawthorne and Orwell. His messages about the threat of Islam and the threat to Israel are astoundingly clear. The West in on a runaway train to suicide and apocalypse. And Bush and the Neocons are barely applying the brakes.

The essays in this latest collection are not just different for treating events up to winter, 2006: notably, the failed War on Terror, the Gaza Disengagement, the Paris "intifada," and the anti-religious Israeli "Cossacks" brutality in the Amona settlement. The literary allusions get far more ominous and biblical. The ancient cast of characters is recast so that America is Asshur, the EU is Edom, Ishmael is Islam and the dangerous wild card is Persia/Iran.

Narrett could not know then that a new Lebanon war would make it impossible for Olmert and his Potomac puppetmasters to
further squeeze the Jewish State behind tightening ghetto walls. Then again, the nations of the world (in the form of Unifil) are at Israel's northern border, too much like the Armageddon scenario that Narrett paints.
Miss this book at your own risk.

Any student of history knows that international terrorism has ancient roots but the real revelation is that the problem is not simply the Jihadists. True, they have one goal and that is the utter destruction of Israel and the Jewish people. However, that bloody agenda is underwritten and supported by much of Western civilization. And the template for the "modern" concepts of the West come from the Roman Empire whose foundation is linked to Biblical Esau, brother of Jacob (Israel).

Like Esau, the West shares a cultural, ethical and familial tie with the Jewish People. Yet, that ancient connection has become dangerously strained by the selfish need to dominate the Jews and to claim their rightful inheritance (one that includes more than just real estate). Professor Narrett demonstrates how Western civilization's boast--that it embodies the highest ideas of Greco-Roman thought--is a hollow boast. As an ideology it will eventually fail because it is man-made.

The book should be required reading for our leadership who seem to have utterly missed a vital historical lessson from the Roman Empire. They realized, after it was too late, that the Jews were entrusted with a set of vibrant, life-sustaining laws (the Torah) that provide a genuine path to peace.

If you want to understand the conundrum of the so-called peace process and its equally worthless 'Roadmap' you need to read Eugene Narrett's lucid revelation, Israel & the Endtimes. His book is more than an urgent call for sanity, it also reveals the folly of the New Middle East.

I recommend it highly.

Everyone knows that every American administration
supports Israel because Israel is the only democracy
in the middle east. Right ?

Actually both of these statements are WRONG. Israel
is only a virtual democracy controlled by a perennial ruling
elite that takes orders from the US state department and
the EU, and the goal of every American administration
has been and is to prevent Israel from defeating Jihad.

If you read Dr. Narrett's book, you will understand all
this, and also why the West, whose culture is an unstable hybrid
of Jewish notions of morality and human rights blended into
Grecho-Roman paganism is collapsing.

Why does the U.S. gov't alway pressure Israel to stop
killing terrorists? Dr. Narrett exposes how the phrase
"Israel has the right to defend itself," in fact means
just the opposite, and how the aim of American
policy is to undo Israel's military victories and
reduce Israel to a dependent vassal-state, restricted
to Auschwitz borders and fenced by the "security
barrier" into a ghetto.

Why doesn't the US support Israel's war against
fanatic Islam, isn't it the same "War against Terror?"

Dr. Narret shows that if the US really wanted to win
the war against terror, the real target would be Saudi
Arabia (whose oil industry was stolen from the west
and could be re-taken in a couple of days).

The War against Terror is yet another lie, a ruse
fabricated by the global elite to do away with all
people's rights. Israel especially must go because it
reminds the world of the Torah's notions of morality
and the dignity and limits of human life and that is
inconvenient to the ruling elite.

Lastly, Dr. Narrett points out the ironic parallels
between the blue-helmeted UN troops to be stationed in
the heartland of Israel to end-of-days Bible prophecies
about the nations attacking Jerusalem.

Christians who are in denial about the pagan origins
of their faith (i.e. virgin birth of their god parallel to
Zeus's impregnation of Semele, Europa, etc.)to beget gods or
demi-gods like Dionysus or Heracles may have their eyes and
minds opened by this book.

Dr. Eugene Narrett's third book, Israel and the Endtimes: Writings on the Logic and Surface Turbulence of History, is a collection of decisive and succinctly-worded essays on the world events impacting the nation of Israel during the years 2003-2006, especially the years of the deportations, 2005-06. These essays examine the obvious and subtler trends and issues endangering the vitality and the very existence of the Jewish people and nation of Israel. Narrett then expands his commentary to address the nations that befriend and assail Israel and traces these conflicts back to their roots, some of which are firmly anchored in antiquity.

It is rare in today's world to find an individual possessing such penetrating vision into what the "powers that be" strive so hard to conceal. Eugene Narrett communicates his insights clearly and intelligently, with integrity and conviction. The author's impressive knowledge of world history, of Torah, of Tanach and the Zohar, as well as the great works of classical literature and mythology, turn his essays into compelling tapestries of revealed facts, insights and foresights that demand a response from the reader. The emotions stirred by an honest reading of Israel and the Endtimes are diverse: Astonishment, dismay, anger, sadness, trepidation, perhaps for some disbelief, while others will feel a growing sense of resolve, a need to respond to what the author lays bare on the pages of his book. The discerning eye will see unmistakable evidence of the faithfulness of the G-d of Israel to His Word and to His nation despite the disconcerting antics of man and governments.

It is clear that the sweep of Jewish history past and present continues to affect the entire world. The author demonstrates that therein we can find the source of much that modern civilizations and religions seek to claim as their own, even as they thrash about attempting to sever any identifiable connection with their Jewish root. Looking ahead to the future amidst the growing chaos of present, Narrett infuses a sense of hope for Israel by drawing upon the prophetic voices of her past, while simultaneously laying before us the stark and often shocking array of the political cards being dealt the beleaguered nation from within and without.

One might posit that the title "Israel and the Endtimes" is misleading. The scope of the author's writing is so broad that there is little of western civilization that has not been the focus of his thought, the target of his pen. Yet since its inception this small nation has been at the crosshairs of bow and rifle, edict and sanction, politics and religion. Israel has rarely been out of mind for the leaders of the nations of the world. This collection of essays reveals the reason for the nations' obsession and posits the outcomes of their fixations should they stay their present course.

At a time in world history when the cry of "peace, peace" is bandied about in both staterooms and streets, by politicians, activists, antagonists and even terrorists themselves, Eugene Narrett deftly reveals its hollow ring by setting a stage upon which one sees the "land for peace" players with greater clarity. As a result, the reader gains an understanding of why "peace," as it is presently sought, can never be and where true "peace" originates and how it must be attained.

From Hevron, the most ancient of Jewish settlements, to Gush Katif and Amona, the most shocking examples of client-state politics and societal injustice in Israel's short history as a re-born nation, Narrett's cutting commentary follows the events striking at the spiritual spine that has anchored the Jewish nation since antiquity. From Islam and Jihad to American and British politics and the War on Terror, the author's pen is unrelenting and precise. From Pharaoh to Greece and Persia to Rome, from deities of by-gone eras to modern-day gods and present-day policies, Eugene Narrett displays an almost clairvoyant discernment into the sources of conflict and the forces that have sustained these conflicts for centuries.

Reading Israel and the Endtimes is an education in and of itself, but it is also a call to action ... one cannot read it and remain unmoved or inert. Cutting through the media spin and dredging up for study that which the media disregards, Eugene Narrett presents a thought-provoking overview and analysis of a wide expanse of history as he has seen it unfold and resurface in the events of the past few years. For anyone interested in the Land of Israel and the Jewish people, this book is a must-read.


Ashirah Yosefah
[...]

It is with great appreciation that I write this short note in honor of Professor Narrett and his work, "Israel and the Endtimes." As I have so often stated he is truly "a voice of sanity amidst madness... empowered by simple faith, common sense, a view of history both detailed and panoramic, and Torah knowledge... thus his insights are both intense and indispensable."

In this work, Professor Narrett writes of a "war against memory," because obviously if you do not know where you came from you cannot know where you are headed. As a human being interested in the peace and prosperity of the World, Professor Narrett's insights are of the utmost importance to me. As a Jewish Torah teacher of non-Jews his deductions are crucial to me. It is the Jewish mission to bring the light of G-d and Torah to the World, and this work (as with all of his works) advances that mission admirably.

In his battle to remind us of origins and history, some may get offended as the Professor takes them back through the history and development of their particular brand of religion, but like it or not, this book is right-on! Eugene, my friend, keep hitting the nail on the head.

It is my sincere prayer that many will read this book, learn its lessons, take to heart its light and then put all this into practical action. One thing I have learned from him over the years is that you can do something, you can make a difference.

Sam Peak
Director of Biblical Faith

This book could have been called, "The Gospel of Hopelessness." Mr. Narrett starts out w/ a tirade against Christianity in his introduction. These are some quotes:
Revitalized helenism forces the New Testament into the Hebrew Scriptures. After a recap of the myth of Dionysus, Aphrodite and Kronos he states: "The story intertwines several of the polytheist and proto feminist origins of Christianity to which is added the genesis of Dionysus, son of a god w/ a human mother..." Then there's a reference to "polytheist priests that were and are..." So I'm assuming he's referring to the Roman Catholic priests.
He goes on to state that the Greeks and Helenized Jews "composed a cult" in which "their god in defiance of the laws of nature, but consistent w/ Hesiod would be both father and son, a triune, dying resurrected god in the pattern of the ancient Middle East."
"As in the Dionysus cult they would drink the wine that was also the blood and body of their god." "The test of Abraham's faith w/ Isaac was hijacked into the passion story w/ a vicious antiJewish edge..."
"Their god-man a sexless Dionysus, a caricature of Jewish loving kindness and their gospels told the Jews to follow their commandments... the new cult professes to worship the Creator."
end of quotes
Not all Christians agree w/ the doctrine of the human priesthood, transubstantiation and replacement theology. Nor are we all hostile to the Jew and the Land of Israel. Yet we're all lumped together as Jew hostile. I'm deeply sorry evil atrocities were done in the name of Christianity, but those acts were not representative of the foundational teachings of Jesus.
I can accept the idea that Western hedonism has its roots in Greek self worship, but to say that Christianity has its roots in the vile, corrupt and immoral Greek mythology just expresses Mr. Narrett's hostility to Christianity. Throughout the book he pepper's the text w/ vitriolic remarks about Christians.
Oh yes, and there was something there about Middle East politics.