[Peace-discuss] Peretz Article

[David Green]

So if this is true, why did they want a Jewish homeland in Palestine? Was it because they loved Jews so much, or just wanted them to go somewhere else? Or was it because they dealt with their discomfort with Jews by projecting a biblical fantasy on to them? In any event, the vast majority of Jews either in Europe or America did not want a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Does that make any difference to Peretz? And why do Americans identify with Israel (if they do)? Only because propaganda since 1967 has exploited the Holocaust vis a vis Arabs and Muslims, and Israel has been identified with militarism.
   
  DG

"C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote

People like Walt and Mearsheimer are "facing a stone wall, which is the 
fact that the American people like Israel and identify with it," he 
says. That support has little to do with the Israel lobby. "We have 
petitions upon petitions from centuries ago by Americans who wanted a 
Jewish homeland in Palestine," he says. "That's from before there were 
any Jews in the U.S. There were maybe a dozen Jews in every city."



       
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