Ace on The Jews

[joanna bujes]

At 01:58 PM 03/14/2002 -0500, Hakki wrote:
>Perhaps the most shocking example of this type is the delight with which
>some Zionist leaders in Germany welcomed Hitler's rise to power, because
>they shared his belief in the primacy of 'race' and his hostility to the
>assimilation of Jews among 'Aryans'. They congratulated Hitler on his
>triumph over the common enemy - the forces of liberalism. Dr Joachim Prinz,
>a Zionist rabbi who subsequently emigrated to the USA, where he rose to be
>vice-chairman of the World Jewish Congress and a leading light in the World
>Zionist Organization (as well as a great friend of Golda Meir), published in
>1934 a special book, Wir Juden (We, Jews), to celebrate Hitler's so- called
>German Revolution and the defeat of liberalism

I read a book on the history of Zionism; the book started with a map of 
Europe, showing in each country the date in which the Jews were 
emancipated. Do these dates remind you of anything? : 1789, 1848, 1917. But 
the liberation of an oppressed people is not a boon for everyone; what were 
all the little ghetto bosses going to do? Well, as it turns out, build 
their very own ghetto, with their very own army and their very own bombs 
and their very own concentration camps.


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>This is not a state of affairs that would naturally enchant the
>better-educated Jews of the US diaspora, many of whom are no longer
>practising Jews (whence the apostrophes). But like the progressive Israelis
>who were mobbed out of power by wave after wave of forced immigration,
>progressive US Jews for whom Sharon's brand of zionism is abhorrent dare not
>raise their voices for fear of what Mossad and its confederate the ADL would
>do to them.

Well, all the socialist jews I know do raise their voices...but who will 
publish or broadcast what they say?


>As far as Cockburn is concerned, his piece obscures the fact that Jews are
>not a socially or politically homogeneous entity except in antisemitic and
>zionist propaganda. Some Jews hate and fight against what Israel has become
>and others are its silent and bewildered victims almost to the same extent
>as the Palestinians.

Yup.

Joanna