Sure, both Zionism and volkish thinking arose out of the same historical period, no? They also share some characteristics with Bolshevik thinking (which came out of the same era) about "nations" -- nationalities have (or should have) a definite territory, the "nation's" "own" "language," etc. (ergo Stalin's "homeland for the Jews" in the Far East.
Some of the Don Cossacks arwe demanding that the pre-Revolutionary territory of the Don Host be reunited as a homeland for the Cossacks. This stuff can get pretty silly (and dangerous).
--- joanna 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
And then consider that in this case "ancestral" means 50 years. So the Zionist jews deserve their two thousand year old ancestral home; but the Palestinians do not deserve theirs.
Joanna
Chris Doss wrote:
>Just to be a stickler, the Crimean Tatars were
finally
>allowd to return in the 1990s (but a lot have gone to
>Turkey).
>
>Personally I think the idea of people "deserving an
>ancestral homeland" sounds kind of volkish.
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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