By Dr. Diego Rodriguez
THE GOTEN
The Visigoths, or Goten, conquered the city of Rome in 410. They took the money, and moved to the sunny part of Europe. The place with the excellent beaches. Spain.
Had a realm centered around the capital city of Toledo (Hermann Schreiber, Auf den Spuren
der Goten, Weltbild, 1973, p. 304). The kingdom covered all of the territory currently occupied by Portugal and Spain, plus the province of Narbonne. The other provinces were Gallaecia, Tarraconensis, Lusitania, Baetica, and Carthaginiensis. (Roger Collins, Visigothic Spain 409 - 711, Blackwell Publishing, 2004) The winters were much warmer than in their ancestral homelands in Sweden (Götaland), and life was sweet.
They could conquer Rome, and Hispania. But there was a problem more difficult than all of these achievements, and that was dealing with the Jews. The Goths took the wrong approach to this most difficult problem, and it cost them the kingdom.
ATTEMPTS TO OUTLAW PERVERSE RITUALS
In Spain, as elsewhere, the perverted sexual desires of the Jews (see Chapters 9, 15, 21, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 46) made them unpopular.
The first major problems with Jews in Spain were documented in the year 306, when a council was held at Elvira in Andalusia. It decided that Catholic woman could not get married to Jews. Married Catholics who had sex with Jews could be punished. (id., p. 293) (pic: http://www.guerillastickers.com/abu_ghraib_040521_2_ssh.jpg)
The Jews had no respect for this law, so King Alaric II made some new laws in 506. Intermarriage of Jews and Christians was banned. Jews were excluded from public office, since they were forbidden from having positions of power from which they could harm Christians. Jews couldn't build new synagogues, but could maintain the old ones. (Roger Collins, Early Medieval Spain, MacMillan Press, 1983, p. 130)
The laws of 506 didn’t have the desired effect. Consequently, the Third Council of Toledo in 589 prohibited the Jews yet again from having Christian wives or mistresses.
The Jews were a real problem in the Narbonne area (Septimania), which was
scornfully referred to as a brothel of blaspheming Jews. The eight bishops in the area met in Narbonne in 589 to enact laws for the Jews. Naturally, this approach didn't meet with much success. The Jews continued with their Zionist agitation, boldly displaying Hebrew signs in public. (Edward James, Visigothic Spain: New Approaches, Clarendon Press, 1980, p. 224)
These laws didn’t do much good either, so King Sisebut (612 – 621) ordered all Jews to become Christians. (pic: http://www.infrancia.org/occitania/occitanie/narbonne.html)
The Goths thought it was wrong that Christians slaves should have to serve the perverted desires of their Jewish masters. (Schreiber, p. 294) One of the laws the Jews most disliked came from the King Sisebut. He said the Jews couldn't own Christian slaves any longer. (James, pp. 164, 165)
King Sisebut was an “educated” king. He gave the Jews two choices: 1) leave the country (Schreiber, p. 294), or get 
baptized (id., p. 295). (be sure to compare with Chapter 150)
One of Sisebut's rules was that if a Jew failed to get a child or servant baptized within one year, the Jew would be punished with 100 lashes, lose all his possessions, and be expelled from the country. The laws were relatively effective, in that some 90000 lost Jews were baptized. (Dr. Julius Furst, The Jews in Spain Under the Visigoths, The Occident and American Jewish Advocate, November 1849, http://www.jewish-history.com/Occident/volume7/nov1849/visigoths.html)
Getting these baptized Jews to keep the Christians laws and rules of life was extremely difficult. The bishops associated with the Gothic kings had lots of power, and so issued a lot of special laws to help the Jews be good Christians.
There were a lot of laws to limit the worst excesses of the Jews. Jews had even been baptized. (see Chapter 150) Naturally, the baptisms generally didn’t “take”. The consequence was that some of the Jews became outwardly Christians, but continued with their rituals (ritual sexual mutilation, JRM, slavery, passover, etc.) in some secrecy. (Collins, p. 131)
All this effort hadn’t worked, leading the Seventh Council of Toledo to denounce the "abominable and impious faithlessness of the Jews". (Collins, p. 132)
King Reccesuinth passed the Law Code of 654. He tried to stop the judaizing. No more passover. No more ritual sex mutilation. No more ritual slaughter of animals. (Collins, p. 133)
King Recared I., made laws prohibiting the baptized Jews from offending against the Christian faith (blasphemy), as well as ritual sexual mutilation of children. (Frust, id.)
The church came together at the Ninth Council of Toledo in 654. They decreed that Jews had to spend all Christian feast days in the presence of the bishop so he could verify they were celebrating properly. (id.)
In 638, the Jews of Toledo promised to give up judaizing (Collins, p. 137). But this didn’t happen. In 654, the baptized Jews promised not to associate with unbelieving Jews. They specifically stated that any Jew who went back to the old life could be stoned to death or burnt alive. (Collins, p. 138)
These promises were not meant sincerely, as King Ervig found the Jews had engaged in “perfidy and unfaithfulness”. (Collins, p. 135)
King Ervig banned celebration of the Sabbath and all other Jewish rituals. He decreed that the Jews could not work on Sundays or Christian feast days. (Collins, p. 133) He further required Jews to keep a copy of the royal laws on their person at all times. If they engaged in ritual sexual mutilation or ritual slaughter, Jews would be punished by 100 lashes. These measures were formally confirmed by the bishops at the XII Council of Toledo in January 681. (id., p. 134)
The laws were not respected, so in 694 it was decided that the Jews were no longer owners of the property they had. It was decreed, yet again, that Christian slaves were to be liberated. (Collins, p. 135)
The basis for the severe laws of 694 was that Jews were conspiring with external powers to overthrow the kingdom. (Collins, pp. 135 - 136) Naturally, the Jews denied this. The pretension was that they were loyal citizens. But they were lying. As we shall see.
When a king was too strict with the Jews, he often died an untimely death. Like King Gundemar, whose reign lasted for only two years -- between 610 and 612. Another damaging factor was that the Jews were in the money business, and the princes were often in need. Like the gothic noble Froga, who supported the Jews for pecuniary reasons. (Collins, p. 137)
THE ROLE OF THE CHURCH
In those times, the church was quite powerful. They told the kings the solution was to make the Jews get baptized and lead religious lives. While this approach can work in a small number of cases, it has always been a failure when attempted on any scale (see Chapters 41, 150). The kings believed this theory, and lost their kingdom as a result.
In 680, the baptized Jew Renegat managed to became the archbishop of Toledo. (Schreiber, p. 295) He called himself Julian, and ruled until 690. Once Jews have the top positions in the church, and run the banking businesses as well, a free society cannot last much longer.
JEWISH RESPONSE
Sometimes Jews pretended to be Christians. When pressed to actually live according to Christian principles, the Jews were generally unable to do so. Rather than reform their lives, many Jews took off for North Africa. (id., p. 296)
The prophet Mohammed died in 632 (Gabriele Crespi, Die Araber in Europa, Belser, 1992, p. 23), and his fanatical followers were already in possession of today’s Morocco 70 years later.
JEWISH BETRAYAL
On arrival in north Africa, the Jews worked together with the Moslems to prepare an invasion of Spain. King Egika recognized this danger in 694, when he stated in Toledo: “We have recently learned from reliable sources that the Jews in Spain are working with Jews in other countries to conspire against the Christians.”
Arab historians all agree that the Jews, both in and outside of Spain, help to arrange 
the Islamic conquest of Spain. (Schreiber, p. 298) Jews traveled freely between Spain and North Africa, and spied on the Gothic armies and military arrangements.
They stirred up trouble in the Basque areas of northern Spain. When the Jews knew that King Roderic and his military were busy in the north, an Arab army commanded by Tarik ibn Ziyad crossed over to the Bay of Gibraltar. Things looked peaceful, so the 
Jewish fighters came over in a second wave commanded by Kaulan al Jahudi. These two armies, Jewish and Arab, marched off to Cordoba. (id., p. 299) But note that Tarik was "a Berber recognized as Jewish of the tribe of Simeon". (Spanish-Jewish Chronology, http://sefarad.rediris.es/english/cronologia_english.htm)
In many cases, when the Arab armies had conquered a city, they left it in care of the Jews, and moved on to conquer other cities. This arrangement seemed to work well because Jews always lived in cities, and they had their settlements in all cities of any commercially-significant size. (id., p. 298) Some cities seemed to have almost completely Jewish populations, like Granada and Lucena.
So, the Arab combat troops conquer the city. They leave the Jews in charge. What happens?
In 1944 and 1945, the Russian combat troops swept through Germany. The Jews came in the second wave (see Chapter 5). They set up prisons for all their enemies, like at Tost. This was the site of an insane asylum, and was located near Gross-Strelitz in Oberschlesien. Especially inhumane conditions characterized this facility. Out of 7000 admissions, 3000 were killed. (Karl Fricke, Politik und Justiz in der DDR, Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, 1979, p. 79)
The frighteningly high mortality rates were caused by inadequate accommodations and chronic malnutrition over years. A one-man cell often had 12 occupants. (id., p. 80) The first replacement clothing (used, of course) was distributed in the summer of 1947. (id., p. 81) There was no toilet paper. Food consisted of 300 – 600 grams of bread per day plus two liters of soup. (id., p. 82)
A COUNTRY LOST - JUST A HOLY CAVE LEFT
Not all of the Christians (Goten) were destroyed at the big battle. The Knight Pelagius survived the defeat at Jerez de la Frontera, and led a group of gothic survivors to the north of Spain. (id., p. 303)
He set up his headquarters in the holy cave of Covadonga (pictured at left - sourced from http://z.about.com/d/gospain/1/7/u/7/-/-/xcavechurchincovadonga.jpg). This is in the region of Asturia. (id., p. 304)Pelagius led the war against the Jews and Moslems. Between 718 and 722 (id., p. 305) he was able to inflict about 150000 casualties on the enemy. (id., p. 306)
The following years were bloody ones. In the time period 936 to 937, a large number of Christians in Calatayud were ritually murdered. (Brian Catlos, The Victors and the Vanquished, Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 29)
This is what happens when a country entertains Jews. Make all the rules you want. They’ll find a way to keep on living by the Talmud. And then you lose your country. The Gothic kings and their bishops baptized a lot of Jews, some by force. It didn’t help them at all.
And so the noble Goths ended up living in caves in the mountains. All because they didn’t expel the Jews when they could have.
