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The Moral Case Of Zionism
[Ynet] If both Jews and Paleostinian Arabs start their historical narrative with beginning of Zionism, Jews have deeper moral claim to Land of Israel.Beginning the story of Jewish nationalism with the forerunners of the Zionist movement or the First Aliyah or the arrival of Herzl already grants Paleostinian Arabs their greatest moral argument. This is so because if the Jewish nationalist starting point is, say, 1890, then there were already large numbers of Arabs living in the Land of Israel. The exact numbers aren't known, but the standard demographic estimate is that there were probably close to 500,000 Moslems and Christians who were living in the land by 1890, with ten times more Moslems than the 43,000 Jews. It is those numbers that seem to present Zionism's founding with a moral problem. Posted by: trailing wife 2014-04-19 |
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