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My Zionism began on the eve of the 6 Day War.I was 13. For months Nasser had upped the rhetoric and it looked like Israel was about to be wiped out. Al Ahram daily told us a river of Jewish blood would run through Tel Aviv to the Med
My Zionism began on the eve of the 6 Day War.I was 13. For months Nasser had upped the rhetoric and it looked like Israel was about to be wiped out. Al Ahram daily told us a river of Jewish blood would run through Tel Aviv to the Med
2 At school, the pupils looked at me with pity. It was to be a new Holocaust, especially when the first ( false news ) came in that the Israeli Air Force has been destroyed and Egyptian forces had swept into the Negev. Days later the facts came out
3. Israel had beaten three Arab Armies. I suddenly became associated by my religion with this famous victory. For a day I basked in my classmates admiration. The Jew had gone from zero to hero and I was 2,500 miles away and 13 years old
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For 2000 years our survival depended on the kindness of our host nation; when it wained we were slaughtered
We would adopt our host's language & culture, but were never accepted, we remained a perpetual guest whose invitation could be rescinded in a moment
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For 2000 years our survival depended on the kindness of our host nation; when it wained we were slaughtered
We would adopt our host's language & culture, but were never accepted, we remained a perpetual guest whose invitation could be rescinded in a moment
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We contributed so much richness to the world, the moral philosophy that underpins western societies, social justice, the sciences, humanities, political and economic models.
But what did it get us? The Farhud, the Holocaust.
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But what did it get us? The Farhud, the Holocaust.
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6 million dead in the Shoah
1 million forced to flee from Muslim lands
We could no longer depend on the kindness of others to save us.
We had to become our own saviours, we had to redeem ourselves.
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1 million forced to flee from Muslim lands
We could no longer depend on the kindness of others to save us.
We had to become our own saviours, we had to redeem ourselves.
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