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To: goldsnow who wrote (2362)	7/16/2001 3:48:49 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Re: The [Dreyfus] affair is followed all over the world. Theodor Herzl, a Jewish journalist from Vienna who covers the trial, concludes that assimilation is no protection against anti-Semitism and that even a person as well integrated as an officer on the French general staff is not safe from the hatred. He comes to believe that Jews will remain strangers in their countries of residence and need a country of their own. The Dreyfus affair has been a disgrace indeed... However, the remedy to Europe's discrimination against Jews IS NOT Zionism, that is, the creation of a Jewish homeland --at the expense of another, subservient people... Yet, Herlz's Utopia did make sense 100 years ago, when the nation-states were the cornerstone, the building blocks of Culture... Remember that Bismarck was painfully working at the unification of Germany, while Italy was also struggling for its national unity (against the Vatican, etc). Herzl's idea of a separate, autonomous Jewish state will prove to be a fool's paradise --especially in today's globalized world. The challenge for the Jews, as for any other minority, is to claim their right to stand up WITHIN the current socio-political fabric. After all, would the creation of Israel BEFORE 1930 have prevented the Nazi persecution against Germany's "remaining Jews" afterwards?? Even today, there are more Jews thriving in the US than there are in Israel and PM Sharon keeps complaining about American Jews' reluctance to drop by in their so-called homeland... "...assimilation is no protection against anti-Semitism..." but nor is rabid Zionism! Gus