Ace on The Jews

Max Sawicky sawicky at bellatlantic.net
Thu Mar 14 10:53:34 PST 2002



> Israel Shahak made a pretty good case in his Jewish History, Jewish
> Religion, that zionism is a continuation of classical Judaism, which is
> totalitarian in nature, as I maintain that Islam is. The foundation of
> zionist ideology is talmudic. What's more, religious fanatics wield great
> political clout, not to mention Uzi's and M-16's, in Israel. Remember also

mbs: I see the link, but as you know zionism was founded by secularists, and the most orthodox were the last to jump on the bandwagon.


> that zionists were originally anti-socialist and pro-nazi, i.e. political
> opponents of Jewish progressive thought. Here's a quote from ch. 4:

mbs: this is way overdrawn. a non-trivial proportion of the secularist founders were socialists. The context in which the fact of contacts and collaboration are raised is important. Zionism was not 100 percent rotten, and the citation of nazi connections lends itself to you-know-what, so one needs to be careful.



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