[Marxism] NYTimes.com: The Kibbutz Sheds Socialism and Gains Popularity

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NY Times - The Kibbutz Sheds Socialism and Gains Popularity 
---------------------------------------------------------------- The function 
of the kibbutzim/collectives has always been to "sell" Zionism to leftist Jews. 
Indoctrination speeches about the necessity of "transferring" Palestinians, 
i.e. ethnic cleansing to create a Jewish ethnocracy were given to other 
audiences. Leftist Jews heard about "socialism", "equality" and "making the 
desert bloom". Notice how this article fails to mention that the land of the 
kibbutzim was stolen - former Palestinian villages, homes, farms. According to 
Ilan Pappe, the kibbutzniks were among the most vicious advocates of the 
dispossession of the native population in 1948. The kibbutzim were always 
heavily dependent upon the banks and never had more than 4% of the Israeli 
population. They were completely unrepresentative of Israeli society except 
that they, like the rest of the colonial settler state benefitted from the 
removal of an unwanted human element.


INTERNATIONAL / MIDDLE EAST | August 27, 2007
Kibbutz Yasur Journal: The Kibbutz Sheds Socialism and Gains Popularity
By ISABEL KERSHNER
Israel's kibbutzim are once again thriving, attracting new members with a 
mellower version of collective living.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/27/world/middleeast/27kibbutz.html?ex=1188878400&en=b92775abaa7b3bd6&ei=5070&emc=eta1






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