Nerd, didn't you see the part where I said (re: the synagogue) that I had heard or misremembered? Please read that part again.

I've read the Protocols. My take on them is that they were written by Monarchists who were using the Jews as a "boogy man" to scare the peasantry into not supporting any movements that would give them (the peasantry) democracy. The real agenda (from my perspective), was to control the behavior of the peasants. The Jews in this case were convenient scapegoats, as they have been at various times during much of the last several centuries.

What I see happening now, is that the Muslims and Arabs are the new scapegoats. Todays "powers that be" are using them in the exact same way that the Monarchists who wrote the Protocols were using the Jews.

The piece that I quoted that was written by the Iraqi Jew cannot in any way be equated with the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.