The time for petty politics is over
The next century will bring with it the fight for the Dominion over the Earth ...
The compulsion to Great Politics.
[Nietzsche BGE 208]
'Rome against Judea, judea against Rome' is Nietzsche's "symbol for the historical struggles that have collectively defined the identity and destiny of European civilisation".
[Conway, ib.,]
This assertion implies the following;
"If European civilisation was determined by the polar opposition between 'Rome' and 'Judea', then he could not realistically have hoped to renew the cause of 'Rome' without vanquishing 'Judea' in the process ..."
[ib.,]
It is Conway's view that Nietzsche sought to vanquish 'Judea' by its racial/cultural assimilation in Europa - a breeding out to extinction;
"Nietzsche's proposal of a truce between 'Rome' and 'Judea' masks a veiled wish to energise 'Rome' and neutralise 'Judea' by means of assimilation. His overtures to the Jews are therefore strategic".
[ib.,]
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