The Jews have been heavily involved in banking and merchant activities for thousands of years. Banking and finance are always near the heart of any economy that uses money, which is most of them throughout history. Financial ties extend all the way to the rulers themselves. Royal families, etc. So, if you study military history, for example, you soon connect Jews with military events. That happens because armies cost huge money to operate, and that money often comes in the forms of loans. Where you have money you also have people who count the money. The same is true for ship financing, the financing of trade cargoes, etc. While the Jews may not cause all of the wars, they are very often deeply involved in them at the highest levels. Armies must be supplied. Win or lose, conflict is nearly always very profitable for the financiers. Think of all of the merchant trading that went on in just the Mediterranean, since biblical times. Empires rise and fall, but always there is merchant activity. America began by being built around merchant activity and a good deal of military conquest. All those ships sailing back and forth from Europe. And today we have Jews once again at the very heart of the world's conflicts, precisely because those conflicts revolve around the world of finance and economy. The banks are at the heart of it all. The more things change, the more they remain the same.

Crusade time