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Title: | to David R. Zukerman #4 - right you are | |||
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| Name: | zeev | | |||
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| City: | Beersheva | State: | Israel | | |
| "When do we begin to take instruction from history?" (D. R. Zukerman) Yes, we should have began a long time ago. See, "Mr. Prime Minister, with all due respect to the head of the government and the fellow historian, allow me to inform you on the basis of decades of research into the history of nationalism, that however ancient, special, noble, and unique our subject motives are, the striving to dominate and rule, at the end of the twentieth century, a hostile foreign population which is different in its language, history, culture, religion, national consciousness and aspirations, [...], is like the attempt to revive feudalism." From an Open Letter to PM Begin, 1980, by Professor Jacob Talmon (1916-1980), Prof of Modern History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. www.fmep.org/analysis/analysis/a-prophetic-message-from-the-past PM Begin did not respond to Talmon`s Open Letter. It figures. In 1980, our leaders were still denying the very existence of a distinct Palestinian people, and Hamas was still an obscure welfare organisation, whose name no one had heard yet. |
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