-Caveat Lector- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 10:24:06 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [neah] The Fabrication of Jewish Nationalism and Cooperation Against Terrorism One of the inputs into the conflicts that occasion attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon is the Zionist version of Jewish nationalism, which is racist, antidemocratic, colonialist and genocidal -- basically everything to which the USA is ideologically opposed. Perhaps, if the USA remained true to its ideology, such murderous hatred would not arise. But that is another issue. Right now, I am more interested in the questions how did the Zionist version of Jewish nationalism come to be and why is an abomination that is justifiably hated and disdained by decent people. The following hyperlink and abstract describe a useful article that investigates the fabrication of the Zionist version of Jewish nationalism. http://www.univie.ac.at/Wirtschaftsgeschichte/OeZG/OeZG942.html#A1 Uri Ram: Narration, Education and the Invention of Jewish Nationalism The debate about nationalism and nationality has in the last decade been characterised by the clash of 'primordialist' and 'modernist' positions. But is the discrepancy between the two really as large as often assumed? The paper argues that nationalism is an invented tradition where pre-national collective identities both prevailed and did not prevail. The author analyses the circumstances which determined this particular invention of tradition, what symbolic and rhetorical means were employed in its process of invention and by which social mechanisms and social agents this process was executed. In contrast to the contentions of Zionist ideology it is argued, that it was the Zionist movement which constructed the Jewish nation, and not the other way round. In this process intellectuals played a major role. The thesis is demonstrated by focusing upon the scholarly and public activities of Ben-Zion Dinur, historian and educator, who contributed to this invention of Jewish national tradition, first, by designing a new historical paradigm and, second, by implementing it in the Israeli curriculum. ÖZG 5/1994/2, 151-177 If the Zionist movement constructed the Jewish nation, then the claim that Palestine is the historical homeland of the Jewish nation is purely an invention of the Zionist movement. Studying the true Jewish history discloses the pure falsehood of Zionist propaganda. The earliest Greek mention of Jews puts the homeland of Jews in India (probably with some confusion between India and Mesopotamia) -- not an unreasonable perception, during the Persian period the vast majority of Jews (descended mostly from Mesopotamian converts) lived in Mesopotamia, and Mesopotamian Jewish colonists sponsored by Persia declared the native Canaanite/Israelite population of Palestine to be non-Jews. In the Hellenistic Empires most Jews seem to have described their ethnos as Pars not Yehud. Jerusalem was considered the primary oracular sanctuary rather like Delphi in Greece -- obviously with the exception of Samaritans who considered the primary oracular sanctuary to be at Nablus. But the adherents to the Delphic and Yahwe cults did not equate spiritual center with national homeland. Such a claim is a completely modern anachronism. And probably most Delphic cult adherents and Yahwe cult adherents were the descendants of Hellenized or Judaized populations that had no connection to Greece or to Palestine. But how do we understand the hatred that Zionism inspires? A lot of Judeochristian mythology and remorse gets in the way of dispassionate analysis. Creating an hypothetical analogous situation not subject to such irrelevant interference is worthwhile. Maybe in a thousand years, when Roman Catholicism is a vanishing fossil religion, and Europe has sunk into decay under some form of New Age neo-Druidism while Roman Catholics in East Asia (the most numerous remaining Roman Catholic population) are treated with suspicion because of their connection to ancient European imperialists, leaders of Asian Roman Catholics will obtain a declaration from the Prime Minister of some vital East Asian imperial power that his country would look favorably upon the establishment of a Roman Catholic national home in Italy, and after 50 years of abusing the native population of Italy under East Asian protection, the Roman Catholic colonialists (mostly of East Asian origin who have no real interest in the European Roman Catholic population that have long lived on good terms with European wiccans and neo-druids) massacre and drive out the native population and proceed to abuse the remnant population while terrorizing the neighboring neo-Druidic countries. It is not surprising that the new Catholic state is justifiably hated by all Europeans, is a source of great hostility and suspicion of the Eastern great powers and serves as the proximate cause of much terrorism in future Europe and East Asia. Can the USA build an alliance today against terrorism while maintaining an alliance with a terrorist state like Israel, whose core values and principles are so alien and inimical to those of the USA? Joachim Carlo Santos Martillo Ajami ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> FREE COLLEGE MONEY CLICK HERE to search 600,000 scholarships! http://us.click.yahoo.com/47cccB/4m7CAA/ySSFAA/XgSolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To post a message, send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To receive all messages in one daily email, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! 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