Re: [Marxism] Zionism - or Jewish chauvinism? [original piece referenced]

[Einde O'Callaghan <einde@xxxxxx>]

M. Junaid Alam schrieb:
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> Red State Jews By THANE ROSENBAUM Wall Street Journal August 9, 2006; 
> Page A10
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> This is a soul-searching moment for the Jewish left. Actually, for many 
> Jewish liberals, navigating the gloomy politics of the Middle East is 
> like walking with two left feet.
I see nothing here to indicate that the writer is really left in any 
sense that most of the participants in this list would understand. At 
best this is an example of wishy-washy bourgeois liberal soft Zionism, 
which is unable to cope with the current crisis, where the Zionist state 
and Establishment has decided to dispense with any pretence of 
liberalism. There is no future for this sort of position; hence the 
anguish - but as an Irish poet said in another circumstance "the centre 
cannot hold".

This position has nothing in common with that of the anti-Zionist 
left-wing Jews I have known and worked with over the years.

Einde O'Callaghan

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