Re: [Marxism] Shattering a 'national mythology'

["farmelantj@xxxxxxxx" <farmelantj@xxxxxxxx>]

Several years ago, historian Eric Hobsbawm,
no Zionist he, wrote an wrote
an article for the London Review of Books,
celebrating the benefits of the Disapora
for Jewish existence. 

"Benefits of Diaspora" 
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n20/hobs01_.html

Jim F.

---------- Original Message ----------
From: "Fred Feldman" <ffeldman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


I think we should come to view the founding of the state of Israel as a form
of expulsion from Europe, the completion of Hitler's work of the destruction
of European Jewry.

Note should be taken of the Christian Zionist, militant pro-Israel position
of the Christian Zionists that Jews of the world should all be gathered in
Palestine to prepare the war of anti-Christ (who will be Jewish and will
have a substantial Jewish following, the story goes).

I think it is more important to come to see the right to live in
"dispersion" around the world rather than being essentially forcibly
concentrated in a single "Jewish state" as a basic right of the Jews as a
people which must be energetically defended, rather than tormenting
ourselves over definitions of a "people" or a nation.

As for the idea that spending an hour each year commemorating the Nakba will
justify the existence of Israel, well, words fail me.



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