What Professor Joyce enlightened me to is how much European royalty were complicit in elevating ]ews above Europeans. This is something that goes all the way back to Charlemagne. Sometimes they used them as a pressure release valve too, but eventually their interests became one.

As an example, the monarchs would position them as money lenders exempt from productive work, and skim. When the peasants became too angry at being indebted to these ]ews, the monarch would direct the anger against them and expel them (until they brought back again).

Sometimes the monarch would use this opportunity to cancel his own debts to the ]ews. But because of how he positioned them, ultimately ]ews were able to acquire a lot of power. So much that they were eventually permitted to by titles.

There would be no lsraeI had the European monarchs not enobled ]ewish families like the RothchiIds. And it is unlikely that the ]ews would be anything but marginal had the European monarchs not allowed them to monopolise money lending.

And by now their blood is heavily commingled—as are their interests. So there will be no more temporary expulsions—no more ‘pressure release’.

The privileged Court ]ew has given way to the Court G0y as the roles have been reversed.

It was destined to be this way. Charlemagne was an illiterate. The ]ews were illiterate. The nobles have always been barbarians that acquired culture from a Roman Empire in its twilight.

They excelled at a particular outmoded style of warefare under favourable conditions (Roman decline), and positioned themselves well as a result. But they were not capable of dealing with the canniness of the ]ews they enobled.

And now they live in fear of assassination and intrigues, despite technically owning most of the real estate in Europe.

Please excuse the typos.