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The myth of Jewish colonialism
9 hours ago ago from Harry's Place
This is a cross post from Point of No Return In much discourse about the Middle East, there is a widespread myth that Jews are interlopers from Europe and the US white westerners who came to ‘colonise’ and ’steal land’ from the ‘native’ Palestinian people to whom it rightfully belongs. This myth, drawing on Marxist terminology, gained increasing legitimacy after 1967 when Israel annexed East Jerusalem and ‘conquered’ the West Bank. The ...
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22 hours ago ago from Love of the Land
Robert M. Goldberg American Spectator 14 December 09 Based upon his recent article in the Financial Times (" Israel must unpick its ethnic myth"), I know what Tony Judt wants for Hanukkah: The evaporation of a collective Jewish existence and the elimination of the Zionist entity -- the state of Israel -- which is essential to that dream. In the FT article, Judt complains that when he was a lad in Israel his Zionist teachers told ...
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20 hours ago ago from My Favorite Excerpts
What became crystal clear in the post-1967 war period was that Israeli society was essentially a diverse, turbulent organism which tended to have a monolithic aspect only when facing urgent external danger. And this is precisely what made the 1967 war such a turning point in the life of the Israeli nation and society. For while the war seemed to remove a great external danger to Israel – whose cities were now far from the front – it also, ...
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16 hours ago ago from Uncensored News from Israel
Jews of the Eastern European country of Moldova erected menorah at the capital's main square. Local Christian vigilantes quickly tore it down, at which point Jews started protesting and a local Judenrat leader even asked the church to condemn the vandals. Now, the Moldovans are right. They are a Christian country, dislike Jews, and do not want to see Jewish ritual candelabra in their main square. Just as we want to remove Al Aqsa, they ...
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