On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Tony Tracy wrote:
> A PRIMER ON ZIONISM (by DAVID FINKEL)
>
> <continued from first email>...
>
> It is hardly surprising in view of all this that the large
> majority of the Jewish people rejected Zionism. Most Orthodox Jews
> opposed it on religious grounds, as a secularist usurpation of God’s
> unique role in bringing about the Messianic era. Reform Judaism in late
> 19th century America and Germany opposed it as a diversion from Jewish
> modernization and political emancipation. Socialist Jews reviled it for
> attempting to divide Jewish workers from the proletarian struggle. Most
> ordinary Jews regarded it as a curiosity irrelevant to their lives.
Who gives a fuck what those nuts, who are less than 10% of the Jewish
people think and who gives a fuck what antisemites think? Certainly not
me.
Harvey
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