11-28-2017 November 28, 2017 The Inevitable Apartheid Nation: Where is Zionism Taking Us? – Lawrence Davidson Counterpunch

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/11/28/the-inevitable-apartheid-nation-where-is-zionism-taking-us/

 

We know where Zionism has taken Israel. The Balfour Declaration of 1917 led the way. In that imperial and colonial document, the British promised the World Zionist Organization a "Jewish National Home" in Palestine...Right from the start the Zionists understood "national home" to mean an eventual Jewish state. Actualizing that assumption has had enormous implications not only for the Palestinians but also for the Jews...Zionism can be seen as a strange twist on the Spanish philosopher George Santayana's warning that "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." The Zionists certainly remember the persecutions suffered by European Jews. But they forget that this mistreatment was most often organized by racist states that sought to ethnically cleanse the Jews. Having forgotten about this state-based aspect of their own past, the Zionist state now commits this same offense against the Palestinians. It also needs the rest of us to forget the sins of past racism if it is to carry on its effort to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians. Our response should be to embrace the motto, "Never Again!" It is time to direct this demand to the shameful behavior of Israel and the Zionists.

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