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| …The Israelis will make a quantum leap forward when they understand that the hostility to Israel has nothing to do with the history of an injustice done to the Ancient Palestinians because that is a phantom nation sucked out an oriental water-pipe to serve as a smoke-screen for old-time, pre-Zionist Jew-hatred.
The Times of Israel website reported today on a new study just published by the Israel Balestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church (USA) in which, the study concludes, the major source of the Israel-Balestine conflict is Zionism itself which is on a par with “Christian exceptionalist beliefs that contributed to the Nazi Holocaust. The genocide of Native Americans, and countless other instances of tragic brutality.” This is rich. Here is a major Presbyterian organization protesting the genocide of Native Americans when there was no genocide. There was a collision between a Stone Age culture and modern civilization; one thrived, the other did not survive, and that had nothing to do with a centralized plan to exterminate the aboriginals as they were sometimes called in the earliest days of the Republic. And it is rich because among the leaders of the settlement of the United States were Presbyterians, the Protestant church of Scotland a.k.a. Scotch-Irish who bravely penetrated the American wilderness and did not let the aboriginal nomads deter them with their barbaric violence… |
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