"If we had this enshrined Hammurabi's code in India, the Brahmin invasion of India would likely not have been possible at all," said Indira. "Two millennia of dark ages might then have been avoided. The lives of hundreds of millions of people would have been spared, which were wasted in genocide. And still, I can see your point that the insertion of the Hammurabi code behind Moses' statement of universal principles was a step backwards. I can see that the 'empire' of the priests had to do this. Moses' code was a code for creating a humanist renaissance. It was an attack on imperialism. It would have erased every empire on the planet if its principles had been understood and acknowledged."

      "You don't have to go that far back into history," I interrupted her. "It would be well for society today if it would heed the ancient code of Hammurabi that was designed to curb barbarism. Under the Code of Hammurabi it would be inconceivable to allow what we see happening today in many parts of the world. For example the Israeli destruction of Lebanon would have been inconceivable. It was the case of two Israeli soldiers having been taken prisoner on Lebanese soil by a Lebanese militia. This quite normal military action let loose an Israeli rampage of revenge that destroyed the entire country of Lebanon as a functional entity. The captured prisoners had been offered back to Israel on a level playing field in exchange for prisoners that Israeli had taken. The Israeli response was to unleash the power of its high-tech might, backed by a super power, that blanketed the region with war that had brought a rain of terror and destruction on both countries. This horrendous excess of brutal military force would not have been possible under the Code of Hammurabi that had been designed to impose limits on barbarism."

      "The problem was that Hammurabi didn't go far enough," interjected Indira. "While Hammurabi curbed the excesses of barbarism, he provided nevertheless a legal concession for barbarism. He let it stand, instead of eradicating it as a matter of principle, like Moses suggested in his law of the Decalogue."

      I nodded with a smile. "It was precisely that concession for barbarism that was incorporated into Hebrew law in opposition to Moses' law of universal principles. It is this treacherous concession that the Jewish heritage became rooted in. The result is that the Zionist society no longer cares about such things as humanity and civilization in the pursuit of its state-terrorism for world imperial objectives? When Hitler opened the floodgate to false-flag state terrorism to pave the way to World War II he opened up the kind of sewer that Hammurabi had tried to pave over nearly four millennia earlier, but had left the foundation for it intact."

      "That tells me that there was probably still a strong enough background in barbarism prevailing at the time when Moses' Ten Commandments were presented," Indira interjected.

      "Moses came onto the scene a few centuries after Hammurabi," I said to Indira. "While Moses' Ten Commandments were designed to inspire a civilization built on universal humanist principles, the implementation might have seemed too idealistic so that an advanced form of the Code of Hammurabi was inserted after the commandments as a kind of contingency measure until the higher law based exclusively on active principles could be implemented. The concession must have seemed benign as it provided a totally equal playing field. The tragedy was that the eye for an eye code allowed barbarism rather than eradicating it. Even extremely curbed barbarism remains barbarism. And that may be the reason why it still rules today, even in India. Every empire is built on barbarism, while more and more the ancient curbs have been put aside again. But this is a trend that humanity cannot long survive, Indira. The killing machines in modern war have become too massively destructive on a global scale. We have to face the challenge that we've evaded for 4,000 years. We have to shut down barbarism with the power of universal principles, which means shutting down every empire that still rules or aspires to rule the world."

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