Filed under: Historical | Tags: episodes in middle east history, israel/palestine, zionist highlights
“Yet, as Ben-Gurion’s Palmach battalions in the winter of 1947 were poised to pounce on fields they had not tilled and orchards they had not planted and towns and villages they had not built or lived in, the Zionists, by accepting the 1947 UN partition according to their own lights, also wrapped themselves in the sanctimonious garb of moral superiority as adherents, in a posture of self-defense, to the impartial will of the international community. By the same token, the Palestinians, who since 1897 had stood in dread of occupation and displacement by an alien people, for whom partition was the negation of their elemental birthright to the territorial integrity of their ancestral homeland, and who were now at the receiving end of a more predatory partition plan than Peel’s ten years earlier, were dubbed the aggressors for not meekly submitting to the dismemberment of their country.”
Walid Khalidi – “Revisiting the UNGA Partition Resolution”
George Gilder’s global best-seller Wealth and Poverty made the moral case for capitalism. Now Gilder makes the case for Israel, portraying a conflict of barbarism and envy against civilization and creativity.
Gilder reveals Israel as a leader of human civilization, technological progress, and scientific advance. Tiny Israel stands behind only the United States in its contributions to the hi-tech economy. Israel has become the world’s paramount example of the blessings of freedom.
Hatred of Israel, like anti-Semitism through history, arises from resentment of Jewish success. Rooted in a Marxist zero-sum-game theory of economics, this vision has fueled the anti-Semitic rantings of Hitler, Arafat, Osama, and history’s other notorious haters.
Faced with a contest between murderous regimes sustained by envy and Nazi ideology, and a free, prosperous, and capitalist Israel — whose side are you on?
The Israel Test (was he trying to pick a stupid name for his book?)
Filed under: Political | Tags: israel/palestine, non-controversy, zionist highlights, zionists gonna zionate
Israeli Apartheid Week
A lecturer at UC Santa Cruz submits a 29-page complaint to the Education Department. Yeah.
“The lecturer who brought the complaint is Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, who teaches Hebrew at the school. You can read Rossman-Benjamin’s complaint to the Education Department here. Among the events she sites as examples of anti-Semitism on campus was a screening of the film Occupation 101 and another event called “Understanding Gaza.” This event featured speakers from Jewish Voice for Peace which she characterizes as “an extreme and disreputable fringe of American Jewry.” The Chronicle quotes her letter:
The anti-Israel discourse and behavior in classrooms and at departmentally and college-sponsored events at [Santa Cruz] is tantamount to institutional discrimination against Jewish students, which has resulted in their intellectual and emotional harassment and intimidation, and has adversely affected their educational experience at the university.”
Filed under: Historical, Political | Tags: historical, zionism, zionist highlights, zionists gonna zionate
Israeli stamps
“Palestine is our unforgettable historic homeland. The very name would be a marvelously effective rallying cry. If His Majesty the Sultan were to give us Palestine, we could in turn undertake the complete management of the finances of Turkey. We should there form a part of a wall of defense for Europe in Asia, an outpost of civilization against barbarism.” — Theodor Herzl in The Jewish State (1896)
Dear Ottoman Sultan,
Give us a state. We will give you financial services in return (because Jews are good at that sort of thing idk I am not well-known for my logic) and protect you from barbarian Asians.
Love,
Herzl
