zionism

[Brad DeLong]

>It's funny: I've never heard a Palestinian argue against letting Iraqi Jews
>return to Iraq (why would they make such an argument?). Yet I'm always
>hearing Americans and Israelis earnestly explaining why justice demands that
>millions of Palestinian refugees never be allowed to return home.

We're not talking about "justice" here. Justice requires that 
Palestinians be able to return to Jaffa. Justice requires that Iraqi 
Jews be able to return to Baghdad. Justice requires that the 
Palestinian Authority, the Saudi Kingdom, and the Egyptian state 
transform themselves into democracies. Justice requires that 
non-Jewish Russians cease to be anti-semitic, and that dry bones of 
the six million Jews killed by Europeans half a century ago come to 
life again.

We're talking about peace--a very different thing than justice. And 
to shut out peace on the grounds that it isn't justice is to 
guarantee that you will get neither.

Brad DeLong