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- From: "wayne mcguire" <wayne.mcguire@channel1.com>
- Newsgroups: talk.politics.mideast
- Subject: jews as a race
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.1777.23047@channel1>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 23:32:19 EST
- Reply-To: "wayne mcguire" <wayne.mcguire@channel1.com>
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- To: Itzhak Kremer
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- IK> Any sensible person would realize that Maimonides, Buber or
- IK> Jabotinsky were aware of all this, so to use them in
- IK> order to support a Jewish racial theory is ludicrous. It
- IK> is clear that their words are being misunderstood and/or
- IK> misquoted.
-
- Hmmm, I fancy I am a fairly sensible person. Try to convince me
- that you are a sensible person by explaining to me how
- Jabotinsky's words below are being misunderstood or misquoted.
- If Jabotinsky is not promoting a Jewish racial theory, then what
- is he doing?
-
- Nor was Jabotinsky chopped liver. He was the most influential
- ideological leader of the political movement of which Likud is
- the heir. Begin and Shamir, among others, are his ideological
- children:
-
- Schoenman, Ralph. The Hidden History of Zionism. Santa
- Barbara, CA: Veritas Press, 1988. Page 26.
-
- It's interesting to recall, as well, that Jabotinsky located
- his colonial impulse in the doctrine of the purity of blood.
- Jabotinsky spelled this out in his "Letter on Autonomy:"
-
- "It is impossible for a man to become assimilated with
- people whose blood is different than his own. In order to
- become assimilated, he must change his body, he must become
- one of them, in blood. There can be no assimilation. We
- shall never allow such things as mixed marriage because the
- preservation of national integrity is impossible except by
- means of racial purity and for that purpose we shall have
- this territory where our people will constitute the racially
- pure inhabitants."
-
- This theme was further elaborated by Jabotinsky:
-
- "The source of national feeling ... lies in a man's blood
- ... in his racio-physico type and in that alone.... A man's
- spiritual outlook is primarily determined by his physical
- structure. For that reason we do not believe in spiritual
- assimilation. It is inconceivable, from the physical point
- of view, that a Jew born to a family of pure Jewish blood
- can become adapted to the spiritual outlook of a German or a
- Frenchman. He may be wholly imbued with that German fluid,
- but the nucleus of his spiritual structure will always
- remain Jewish."
-
- The adoption of chauvinist doctrines of racial purity and
- the logic of the blood were not confined to Jabotinsky or to
- the revisionists. The liberal philosopher, Martin Buber,
- located his Zionism equally within the framework of European
- racist doctrine:
-
- "The deepest layers of our being are determined by blood;
- our innermost thinking and our will are colored by it."
-
- Now, I can fully understand why a few emotional pro-Israelists
- here have to drown out any careful consideration of texts like
- these with shouts of "anti-Semitism." What else do they have to
- fall back on?
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