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@Sam_Schulman @davidharsanyi @soccerdhg 1. My take on Trotsky is slightly different. He was among the very first Jews (alongside Jabotinsky) to fully understand that a catastrophe was brewing for European Jews. I don't see Bernie Sanders blessed with such acumen. But Trotsky did misunderstand the Zionists.

@Sam_Schulman @davidharsanyi @soccerdhg 2. In July 1940 he wrote:
"The attempt to solve the Jewish question through the migration of Jews to Palestine can now be seen for what it is, a tragic mockery of the Jewish people. Interested in winning the sympathies of the Arabs who are more numerous than the Jews,

@Sam_Schulman @davidharsanyi @soccerdhg 3. the British government has sharply altered its policy toward the Jews, and has actually renounced its promise to help them found their “own home” in a foreign land. The future development of military events may well transform Palestine into a bloody trap

@Sam_Schulman @davidharsanyi @soccerdhg 4. for several hundred thousand Jews. Never was it so clear as it is today that the salvation of the Jewish people is bound up inseparably with the overthrow of the capitalist system."

@Sam_Schulman @davidharsanyi @soccerdhg 5. Trotsky, a quintessential (Jewish) intellectual credited with founding the Red Army, was still heavily biased against the possibility that Jews could actually defend themselves and prevail. The thought that the 100Ks Palestinian Jews would have the motivation, perseverance,

@Sam_Schulman @davidharsanyi @soccerdhg 6. stamina and passion to transform the "bloody trap" into a winning strategy never crossed his mind. Somehow his own ability to transcend the softness of unworldly Jewish upbringing did not factor into his assessment of the possibility that Jews could defend themselves.

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