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Zionism: Peoples
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Prof. Shlomo Ben-Ami: "In its hundredth year, the term Zionism has been set off in quotation marks by many people. Zionism's relevance for the Jewish people in Israel and throughout the world has not declined; it has simply taken on a new form and is providing new challenges. No revolutionary concept in history - either national or social, and Zionism was both- is impervious to changes of emphasis and content. The Zionism of 1897 was not the Zionism of 1947, and that of 1947 is not the Zionism of 1997. The enigma lies in identifying the renewed challenges facing the Jewish nationalist concept as embodied in the State of Israel on the threshold of the third millennium, and the jubilee year of the establishment of the State. The same is true with regard to the Jewish Diaspora.
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If the world were as liberal idealists imagine, Zionism ought to have been forgotten long ago as a foolish idea, a cranky and hopeless project as unrealistic as Esperanto. And if mankind were ruled by reason, then Zionism would indeed have gone the way of Esperanto. You might have thought that secularism, by making Judaism a matter of involuntary race rather than one of voluntary religion, would have resulted in near-total integration and assimilation. This did not happen. The opposite did. It is therefore important to remember that most right-thinking people believed with utter certainty that assimilation would happen and Zionism would fail.
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[A] national animosity for Germany had to be generated in America over decades by boycotts and propaganda (and corresponding sympathy for Zionism). Done! (The super-merchandisers super-promoted the slaughter of their own people into a Holocaust, ignoring the millions of murdered Gentiles as inconsequential.)
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[W]here other people are concerned, Zionists work on public opinion by creating either a positive or a negative impression regarding those others, depending on what will be beneficial to Zionism. Rumours are spread which may be either plausible or absurd but are always persistently maintained everywhere and dinned into people by Zionists. Public opinion is formed regarding an event, a system, an organization, a person - in fact, regarding everything -, but it is formed in precisely the way which is required by Zionism and which will give Zionism some temporary or permanent advantage.
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