Whenever I write about Palestine, Israel, and Zionism -- especially when I point out that American Reform Jews en masse gagged on the thought that America was not their "homeland"; they insisted they were Jewish Americans not American Jews -- I am lectured on Facebook about how "keeping to one's own kind" is a natural inclination and that inclusion, not exclusion, requires aggression. We shouldn't be surprised, then, that alt-right-types who may dislike Jews nevertheless respect their expressed desire to live among themselves in a Jewish State. Why wouldn't the alt-right take this position? Israel is a (pseudo)ethno-state. It is identitarianism run amok.Read TGIF at The Libertarian Institute.
TGIF (The Goal Is Freedom) appears on Fridays. Sheldon Richman, author of America's Counter-Revolution: The Constitution Revisited, keeps the blog Free Association and is executive editor of The Libertarian Institute. He is also a senior fellow and chair of the trustees of the Center for a Stateless Society and a contributing editor at Antiwar.com.
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I know you can think better than that. We are supposed to have private property and freedom of association. The government screws with both- and happily uses force.
ReplyDeleteBut with private property and freedom of association the only force that may be necessary is the force of self-defense- i.e. a legitimate use of force.
Perhaps you should ponder this question with regard to some place like Japan...
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ReplyDeleteRead 'Why Palestine Matters' great article, a historical tour de force of the present day conflict.
ReplyDeleteThank you for caring
R.Alul