Zionism, from the Congress in Basel, set its objective of an independent country for the Jewish people, recognized by international law. They did not want a de-facto Jewish entity but a legal and recognized country. Jews in the modern times always strove for legal recognition, for example, they lived and traded almost freely in the German States, Hungary and France, but their position was precarious, semi-legal and unprotected. They demanded charters, like achieved by Prussian Jews, and Herzl spent his fortune trying to get one from the Turkish Sultan. Hundred years after, we are slowly achieving legality.
Legality is an overrated concept.
ReplyDeleteIf you have nukes and ICBM you can do anything you want and face no consequences.
That is why every state, and non-state actor must strive to acquire nukes.
Yes, even African tribes.
Of course, if people were nice to each other and lived in kind and productive communities, we would have no need for weapons of mass destruction and so on.
ReplyDeleteBut people are mean and brutish. Even your smart and intelligent tribe, after having lived among arabs for so long, and fought with them for so long, have become rather brutish.
Yes, but... we are a very small people, we have no desire to spend our energies fighting peoples ten times larger. America has a population sixty times ours, Europe a hundred times, we were always a small marginal minority.
ReplyDeleteJews have done very well for themselves in America, and Europe, and occupy maybe the highest social echelon. They are universally respected, and not a single word can be said about them in the press or publicly, without risking losing your job and being marked as a very bad person.
DeleteOf course anything can change.