>Couldn't agree more. Unfortunately, the mistake some on the left make is to
>confuse their own bias in favour of breaking down national barriers with the
>right of others who are disgruntled to opt out of multinational states. This
>has always been a problem on the Canadian left in relation to Quebec, for
>example, and there are many other similar examples of how leftists react to
>separatist movements which invoke the right to national self-determination.
>
And yet, one of the greatest problems in the founding of the Zionist
state was to get the "Jewish people" to be one people, rather than the
dozens of people with dozens of different cultural practices (and
languages) issuing from all of europe and the middle east.
Joanna