zionism

[joanna bujes]

At 01:20 PM 07/14/2001 -0400, Yoshie wrote:
>Back when the Rosenbergs were being persecuted & then executed,
>Zionism was -- despite rampant anti-Semitism -- not popular among the
>American Jews, much less equated with the litmus test of the Jewish
>identity.  Nor was there any support for Zionism among fundamentalist
>Christians, I believe.  It may help us to remember that the
>widespread popularity of Zionism & its equation with Jewishness are
>of a very recent vintage.  It is not the Holocaust that made Zionism
>the dominant ideology in the USA; it is American imperialism that did
>the work, and it did *not* do so *until the late 1960s*.

Yes, absolutely!. For a fascinating and incredibly well-written account of 
this, see "Dangerous Liasons" (USA/Israel/CIA) by Leslie and Andrew 
Cockburn. And, please guys, though it may be the case that these folks are 
related to Alexander... Just never mind. It's still a great book.

Joanna