>the 'analogy' (or general category, really) for political zionism is not
>'third world' nationalism (of which modern Pan-Arab nationalism is one
>manifestation), but colonialism. third world nationalism was a reaction
>against colonialism, while pol. zionism was colonialism itself.
Well not exactly. Jews were subject to horrible persecutions in Europe, including a rather large-scale attempt to exterminate them. Of course, Israel later became a local imperialist state, backed by the global mega-imperialist, but still, there was a struggle against oppression at the origin.
Doug