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Ben_H's avatar

Some researchers identify Christian Zionism behind the Balfour Declaration of 1917.

Lawrence Davidson (for example)...

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"It allows the West to perceive the universalization of its culture — its manifest destiny — as a pursuit, in Arthur Balfour’s words, of ‘the general

welfare of mankind. Ipso facto, imperialism becomes altruistic"

Source:

Christian Zionism as a Representation of American Manifest Destiny (2010)

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10669920500135538

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The insanity of this idea that Jews have a right to Palestine because some lived there thousands of years ago is impressive in its idiocy and irrational support.

Christians ruled Istanbul and much of Turkey for more than a thousand years but have no right to it.

Muslims ruled India for 600 years, most of Spain and a lot of Europe but cannot claim it.

And when Jews arrived in the first place they were colonists. Judaism was invented in what is now Iraq so they were never native to Palestine in the first place.

And since there is virtually no evidence for most of the Judaic claims of this or that kingdom thousands of years ago, in Palestine, it is even sillier. The Egyptians did carve in stone, hieroglyphs, when a tribe called Judah rocked up in Palestine 3000 years ago. Palestine was ancient when Judaism was invented. But that tribe was one among many primitive tribal kingdoms pitching their tents in Palestine.

The Greeks, a people not a religion, founded Barcelona, Istanbul and Alexandria but have no claims on it. Followers of Minerva founded London and if they re-invented themselves would have no claim on it.

So much blood and suffering in the name of a fairy tale...

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