It is the holocaust-obsessed who are the most anti-Zionist. Their first claim is that Israel was only established to help out the survivors, which I think we all agree with them is not any sufficent reason to colonize Europeans into a (mooted) "Palestinian Lands". Their second claim is that by keeping Yiddish & bagels alive, they are doing enough. (Not much discussed amongst them is that they aren't actually keeping Yiddish alive in any non-Chassidic secular sphere; none of them can show me even a single Yiddish kindergarden). Whereas much of the Western World currently has private (and nowadays, even Public) hebrew-language kindergardens. I am one who claims that "Torah Judaism", notwithstanding the fervor of its believers such as your circles, doesn't really date back any further than Ezra & Nechemiah. Whereas the evidence that people in Eretz Yisrael were speaking Hebrew a thousand years before that, is quite strong by scientific standards.
American born, my wife and I moved to Israel in 1970. We have lived at Shiloh together with our family since 1981. I was in the Betar youth movement in the US and UK. I have worked as a political aide to Members of Knesset and a Minister during 1981-1994, lectured at the Academy for National Studies 1977-1994, was director of Israel's Media Watch 1995-2000 and currently, I work at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem. I was a guest media columnist on media affairs for The Jerusalem Post, op-ed contributor to various journals and for six years had a weekly media show on Arutz 7 radio. I serve as an unofficial spokesperson for the Jewish Communities in Judea & Samaria.
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It is the holocaust-obsessed who are the most anti-Zionist. Their first claim is that Israel was only established to help out the survivors, which I think we all agree with them is not any sufficent reason to colonize Europeans into a (mooted) "Palestinian Lands". Their second claim is that by keeping Yiddish & bagels alive, they are doing enough. (Not much discussed amongst them is that they aren't actually keeping Yiddish alive in any non-Chassidic secular sphere; none of them can show me even a single Yiddish kindergarden). Whereas much of the Western World currently has private (and nowadays, even Public) hebrew-language kindergardens. I am one who claims that "Torah Judaism", notwithstanding the fervor of its believers such as your circles, doesn't really date back any further than Ezra & Nechemiah. Whereas the evidence that people in Eretz Yisrael were speaking Hebrew a thousand years before that, is quite strong by scientific standards.
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