Do you believe there's a racial component to Zionism?
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It was anti-Semitism – alone – that generated Zionism.
"Herzl could not ground his movement in anything positively Jewish. Although he sought the support of the rabbis, he personally was not devout.
"He had no special concern for Palestine, the ancient homeland; he was quite eager to accept the Kenya Highlands, at least on a temporary basis.
"He had no interest in Hebrew; he saw his Jewish state as a linguistic Switzerland.
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He had to think of race, for it was in the air; the Teutonic anti-Semites were talking of the Jews as a race,...
"Unconcerned with religion, he even proposed that an atheist, the then world-famous author, Max Nordau, should succeed him as the WZOÂ’s President. Again, the disciple was less liberal than the master. Nordau was married to a Christian, and was afraid that his wife would be resented by the Orthodox among the ranks. [2]
"He was already married when he converted to Zionism and, despite his own Gentile wife, he soon became a confirmed Jewish racist.
"On 21 December 1903 he gave an interview to Eduard DrumontÂ’s rabid anti-Semitic newspaper, La Libre Parole, in which he said that
Zionism wasnÂ’t a question of religion, but exclusively of race,..."
Lenni Brenner: Zionism in the Age of the Dictators (Chap. 2)
There are bad people among the Arabs, Jews and Christians getting rich from the violence in the Middle East. Laying all the blame on Arabs makes it hard to take anything you write seriously.
It certainly wasn't Arabs who imposed a Jewish state in the heart of Arab oil. And that is where the current problem began.