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Defending Zionism - Defending the Indefensible
By Stephen Lendman (about the author) Page 2 of 4 page(s)
-- enslaved, oppressed, and tormented for centuries; and
-- the myth that God bestowed a "Greater Israel" for Jews alone - "A land without people for a people without land."
According to Israeli journalist Tom Segev and others:
-- there never was a Jewish people, just a Jewish religion;
-- there was no exile, therefore no return, and much of the Jewish Diaspora was voluntary; and
-- the story was a Zionist invention, a conspiracy to justify a future Jewish state, and now vilify Palestinian self-determination as a plot to destroy it.
With regard to other "bonded collectives," France, Spain, America and other states are nationalities, not religions. Israel is a Jewish state with rights for Jews alone. They matter. Others don't, and therein lies the difference. Palestinians, in contrast, are occupied, impoverished, oppressed, driven from their land, vilified for being Muslims, and victimized by slow-motion genocide to destroy them and any hope for self-determination.
"Are Jews a nation," asks Pearl? "Some philosophers would argue Jews are a nation first and religion second." He cites the usual mythology:
-- the Exodus and return to the "promised land before they received the Torah at Mt. Sinai;"
-- "the unshaken conviction in their eventual repatriation to (their) birthplace (since) the Roman expulsion;" and
-- their "shared history, not religion (as) the primary uniting force behind the secular, multiethnic society of Israel" - favoring Jews alone in a quasi secular/religious state where practicing another one is dangerous.
The "Jewish identity today feed(s) on Jewish history (more precisely folklore and myths) and its natural derivatives -
-- the state of Israel" despite its illegitimate birth and mythological roots;
-- "its struggle for survival" in spite of being the world's fourth most powerful military, nuclear-armed; with no enemies except the ones it makes; and having a history of aggressive wars; violence over conciliation; confrontation, not diplomacy; and claiming self-defense as justification when there is none;
-- "its cultural and scientific achievements," much of the latter involving militarism and hard line security; and
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