David B. Shemano wrote: > > To the extent true, Jews lived as tolerated tiny minority in a > pre-modern society. It never would have occurred to an Iraqi > Arab that Jews should be treated as equal members of the > society
In point of fact, Jews were treated much better in Muslim countries (or empires) than they were in Christian Europe. This is a fact that Zionism tries to cover up, trying to essentially craft a Goldhagen thesis for the Muslim world against all the evidence. > That dynamic is entirely distinct from the present > post-enlightenment view of equality under the law, meritocracy, > social mobility, etc. The Israeli Jews would probably be happy > to treat Israeli Arabs as Jews were treated in Arab countries > -- a tiny minority tolerated as long as they kept their mouths > shut and heads low. Why do think such a dynamic is acceptable > in 1945 Iraq but nonacceptably racist in 2010 Israel? Probably because the land that the Israeli state controls was wrested through violence and the expulsion of the majority population. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
