Sunday, April 01, 2012

Sully's Typo and Query

In his anti-Jewish presence post, Andrew Sullivan has a rather odd typo.

Trying to relate the essence of Ze'ev Jabotinky's political Zionism, Sullivan writes:

Vladimir Jabotinsky was a huge influence on Netanyahu's father and Netanyahu himself. He's a complicated figure, as Beinart readily concedes. For Jabotinsky, what it all came down to in the end was "the single ideal: a Jewish minority on both sides of the Jordan as a first step towards the establishment of the State, That is what we call 'monism'." My italics. The Revisionist Zionists (whence eventually Likud) envisaged a Jewish state that would not only include the West Bank but the East Bank as well, i.e. Jordan.





Now, while Sullivan may presume that the result of a Zionist state on both sides of the Jordann River could possibly result in a Jewish minority, that was not Jabo's intention.  In fact, until the year he died, the Jews were a minority in the area that eventually was declared the Jewish state of Israel and so it really didn't make a difference.  The goal was both a majority of Jews and the rightful territory of the Jewish national home, which, incidentally, did include regions on both sides of the Jordan until 1922, when the British separated the area, awarding to Abdallah Transjordan.

But, Sullivan's query: Why Continue To Build The Settlements?, the question should be: are Jews to be prohibited from residing in Judea and Samaria?

And if Sully would respond along the lines of 'forget rights, i'm talking about pragmatic issues' well, should we then suggest that Arabs be removed from Israel as a pragmatic need to reduce tensions and assist the furture of the "state of Palestine"?

Of course not.

So why are Jews always the ones to be the object of discrimination, bias, wrong-headed thinking?

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1 comment:

NormanF said...

When the author cannot get the Zionist program correct, you have wonder whether its a typo or if he is simply lazy about Jewish history.

The its "all Israel's fault" school does not seem troubled by the facts or acknowledge that what happened more than a century and continues into the future, Jews can't change.

Only their enemies can. But it says something about Far Left Jews that they insist on boycotting Jews, not their enemies who would like to murder them all.

And to Sullivan, that's not even a typo, that's a significant world of difference Israel is facing in the Middle East.