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Friedman is guilty of the same simplistic construction of which he accuses Uris.
By focusing on the 1950s, he obscures the primarily European extraction of the early, pre-Holocaust, leaders of the Zionist movement.
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Friedman is guilty of the same simplistic construction of which he accuses Uris.
By focusing on the 1950s, he obscures the primarily European extraction of the early, pre-Holocaust, leaders of the Zionist movement.
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theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Let me be clear: As Jews, their/our birthright was and remains Israel. I say this, even as I understand that our Arab neighbors do not buy into the religio-cultural assumptions that have carried us through the millennia.
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Nor do our Arab neighbors assign the same meaning to the extensive archaeological record that demonstrates an early and continued Jewish presence in Israel.
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The approach of the early Zionists to the overwhelming majority of Arabs, in the region, was certainly informed by the perspective of immigrants from MENA, most of whom were from communities that endured centuries of Dhimmi status.
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Paradoxically, many of those same immigrants were, at least indirectly, relegated, by European Zionists, to the underclass of Israeli society.
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In short, this article offers, at best, a partial corrective to the Exodus mythology.
As an aside, Friedman stands on much more solid ground, when he critiques the objectivity
and, thus, journalistic value of news outlets that operate under the thumb of dictatorships.
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As an aside, Friedman stands on much more solid ground, when he critiques the objectivity
and, thus, journalistic value of news outlets that operate under the thumb of dictatorships.
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