zionism

[Forstater, Mathew]

mbs says: Fact is that zionism was nothing before Hitler.
Hitler, not Herzl, made zionism.  I've made too
much of the diverse intellectual and cultural
roots.  The main motive was not colonialism
or the exaltation of a bloodline, but survival.

reply: (right, so the Jews should have taken Germany.)  Max--which one
of the following are you claiming led to the dispossession of the
Palestinian homeland, denial of their existence and subjection to acts
of terror on par with what Jews themselves had experienced?:

1) that it was the genuine *belief* of Jews and/or non-Jews that the
Jewish people would not survive

2) that the Jewish people in fact would not have survived

3) that the claim that the Jewish people would not survive was used to
convince Jews and/or non-Jews of the necessity of that strategy

mbf