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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (2891)	5/16/2003 10:18:38 AM
From: sammy levy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6945

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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (2891)	6/8/2003 3:57:40 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6945

<<< . . . Shakib Arslan as an agent al-Hussayni and later various Syrian Nationalists offered to facilitate the immigration of Ashkenazim into Arab countries if Zionists would renounce the goal of making Palestine a Jewish state. Arabs offered Ashkenazim more in the way of refuge than the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia or anyone else, but this fact is absent from practically all histories of the Pre-State Zionism because it belies “the compelling necessity” argument for Zionism . . . >>>

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (2891)	6/8/2003 4:01:49 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6945

This is strongly reminiscent of Israeli archeological efforts: <<< . . . Hitler’s Professors[xiii] by Max Weinreich describes in detail the Nazi Umvolkung program. Landeskunde or knowledge of country was the linchpin of this program, whose first step comprised dispatching academics and archeologists to find archeological evidence of ancient ancestors. The historical presence of ancient Teutons or the shedding of Germanic blood in a region would be verified to justify replacement of the current residents with German settlers. Thus, German academic Landeskunde was an intimate part of the racist German theory and practice of relations with subordinate non-Germans . . . >>>

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (2891)	6/8/2003 4:32:40 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6945

Fascinating article! I'm glad I finally got around to reading it. The author takes on the "radical" notion that Zionism was influenced by the environment in which it was born and nurtured. One more highlight: "An excellent case can be made that Palestinians from the beginning of Zionist aggression in the late 19th century through the fedayeen attacks of the 50s through the Munich Olympics attacks and Maalot until today have been mostly reacting to on-going Zionist genocidal acts, murder and torture." Tom