Goldsnow,
This issue is NOT just territorial, it's CULTURAL and, as such, it's religious as well.
Of course the Jews didn't want to grab a piece of Germany or Austria back in the early XXth century --why would they have nourished such a folly?? They already OWNED the money! The Austrian Jewry, for instance, enjoyed the lifestyle of the most sophisticated bourgeoisie in Europe: Vienna was the centre of the cultural universe. Further, thanks to the internationalization of commerce in the late XIXth century, many financial institutions were controlled by Jewish fellows: Goldman Sachs (founded in 1869), Lazare Frères, S.G. Warburg, Rothschild, Salomon Brothers, etc. So, while anti-Semitism was widely spread in Europe at the time, Jews were facing pretty much the same challenge as the French aristocracy in the 1780s: people were resentful about them not because of what the aristocracy coveted but because of what the aristocracy already owned!
Likewise, if today's impoverished Albanians owned banks, newspapers, retail stores and other key industrial assets, they wouldn't waste their time scrambling for a muddy chunk of Serbia!! Hence, you just can't compare pre-WWII Jewish power elite with today's Albanian pariahs. Besides, you should recall Theodore Herzl, the founder/theorist of Zionism.... Herzl didn't see any hurdle at grabbing a chunk of some remote, colonial territory populated by such primitive (human?) folks as the Palestinians for instance. |
