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Rodger Kamenetz's avatar

“Jews gradually moved from offence to defence. “ Don’t you mean defense to offense?

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Arrr Bee's avatar

Zionism did not predict the Holocaust, nor was it predicated on preventing the Holocaust. It precedes the Holocaust by decades, as you well know, but choose to ignore.

Zionism did successfully provide a refuge for Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis before the Holocaust and fleeing other pogroms before then, and all of that before the state even. I exist because my grandmother escaped as a teen from Germany through Switzerland to British Mandate Palestine. Her family that stayed was destroyed. Similarly, Israel successfully prevented satelessness for the IDP Jews stuck in concentration camps by the Allies after the war, and the nearly million MENA Jews scapegoated by Arab societies during their ‘decolonization’, like the barbaric Algerians revoking the citizenship of Algerian Jews.

Zionism was justified before and after WW2 for the same exact reasons, and non-Zionists and antizionists have no answers for the questions Zionism addresses.

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