Re: They had no hatred for either the British colonialist or the American masters of slaves. They did not consider martyrdom as strapping bombs and killing innocents. And they were finally rewarded by the world community. They finally succeeded in achieving their goal through the efforts of the world community.
Huh?! Do you include Native Americans in your "They"? A few casino reservations is all the Natives --that is, the surviving ones-- were eventually granted... Besides, I don't think the American story is equivalent to the Israeli's. I believe the former is tantamount to a large-scale transhumance (of European peoples across the Atlantic into South and North America) whereas Israel is basically a colonialist experiment... on a much smaller scale. I think several historians/sociologists have pointed out that demographics, mass-production economics and capitalism's division of labor, somehow, compelled the US ruling class into enfranchising African-Americans and, eventually, most minorities. In the aftermath of the Civil War, Northern states welcome the Negro workforce from the South while unions resented it as a way for employers to drive wages down....
Anyway, my point is that the American process involved a "scale factor" that doesn't apply to the Mideast, I mean, the Zionist state could remain FOREVER a segregationist, quasi-fascistic Dystopia. Hence it's delusive to brand the Israeli experiment as a mere replicate of the American saga.
My 2 cents,
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