So let it be with me.  In that court I hear the rattle of swords in Carthage and the clatter of the hooves of Allenby's horses desecrating the ground of Jerusalem.  The ships at first sailed down the Nile carrying guns not bread, and the railways were originally set up to transport troops; the schools were started to teach us how to say 'Yes' in their language.  They imported to us the germ of the greatest European violence, as seen on the Somme and at Verdun, the like of which the world has never previously known, the germ of a deadly disease that struck them more than a thousand years ago.  Yes, my dear sirs, I came as an invader into your very homes: a drop of the poison which you have injected into the veins of history.  I am no <a href=othello.html>Othello</a>.  Othello was a lie.