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Israel's Arab Minority: The Beginning of a Tragedy
Draper, Hal
http://www.connexions.org/CxArchive/MIA/draper/1956/xx/tragedy.htmlhttp://www.marxists.org/archive/draper/1956/xx/tragedy.html Publisher: New International Year Published: 1956 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX7245 Excerpt: Without in the least derogating this moral indignation at the treatment of the Arab minority, which is richly justified, one aspect of the denunciation misses the mark. The moral indignation should not be visited in the first place against the miserable, harassed, driven Jewish DPs from Europe who, in their fear and need, were used as pawns to grab the land and property of the dispossessed Arabs. They were steered and pushed into this position by those who knew what they were doing - Zionist arms like the Jewish Agency, Zionist authorities in the armed forces and government, both by design and by toleration. Zionism - the ideology of Jewish chauvinism - showed that it was and is one of the deeply reactionary conceptions of the political world. The child of anti-Semitism, it became the father of another form of ethnic oppression; if genocide means the murder of a people as such, then there should be a word for the robbery of a people as such. What Zionism created in Palestine in 1948 was the first act of a tragedy. Subject Headings |