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| The Moral Case Of Zionism |
| 2014-04-19 |
| [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 |
| #2 So leave us alone There is a running joke about wild animals in the movie "The Gods Must Be Crazy" - if you don't bother them, they won't bother you. Pops into my head every time I read about the Paleos bitching about how mean the Juices are to them. If you don't want Israeli bombs falling on your heads or Israeli bulldozers driving through your living room, then just leave them the f**k alone! If you don't bother them, they won't bother you. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2014-04-19 18:29 |
| #1 I doubt the intended audience is capable of grasping the author's arguments. So let me try. "We are crazy, and we have an equalizer. So leave us alone. You'll live longer." |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-04-19 04:12 |