Wouldn't it have been a sounder and more democratic approach to root out and destroy all those social forces and persons that had collaborated with Nazism, and had supported Jew-hatred? Of course, for the US, England and France that would have meant eliminating those they hoped to rely on to oppose the Soviets. Hence, though Israel itself wasn't a cold-war conflict at first, a cold-war logic did preclude the democratic alternative to Zionism.
Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema
Gordon Fitch wrote:
> Forstater, Mathew:
> > > ... And to my mind, Ashkenazi Jews had the same 'right' to
> > Palestine
> > > that the Boer had to South Africa--none.
> > > ...
>
> Gordon:
> > In general, what right does a person have to be anywhere?
>
> Forstater, Mathew:
> > a farmer or pastoralist whose family has tilled the soil or herded
> > livestock for generations as a basic mode of subsistence has a right to
> > continue that way of life in the face of an invasion by outsiders
> > carrying bibles and/or guns. no?
>
> I don't know. I don't think too many of us would have a
> right to be anywhere under that sort of rule. Very, very
> few of _my_ ancestors have tilled any soil in a serious way
> going back _quite_ a few generations.
>
> The primary reason most of the Ashkenazis wound up in
> Palestine was that some Germans didn't think they had any
> right to be in Germany -- a certain lack of soil-tilling was
> probably mentioned there as well. Of course they learned
> their lesson and made the desert bloom, etc.
>
> Maybe I should buy a hoe or something.