From: "wayne mcguire" <wayne.mcguire@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: talk.politics.mideast
Subject: jews as a race
Date: 21 Jan 93 23:32:19 EST
Reply-To: "wayne mcguire" <wayne.mcguire@channel1.com>
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To: Itzhak Kremer

 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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