Sunday, September 16, 2007

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: ZIONISM A MENTAL ILLNESS

National Aspirations: A Psychological Problem (BackSpin)

John Whitbeck got op-ed space in the Christian Science Monitor to peddle a one-state solution:

Traumatized by the Holocaust and perceived insecurity as a Jewish island in an Arab sea, Israelis have immense psychological problems in coming to grips with the practical impossibility of sustaining forever what most of mankind views as a racial-supremacist, settler-colonial regime founded upon the ethnic cleansing of an indigenous population.

What Whitbeck really wants to say is that Jewish aspirations for a national homeland are nuts. But being too inhibited to say so outright, he has to rely on the "racial supremacy" charge. See Professor David Bernstein's response to Whitbeck's logic.

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