Declarations of Independance
Posted by Nathan in Uncategorized, tags: Israel, Zen, ZionistRead this, the Israeli Declaration of Independence.
Why was I reading this today? I forget, but I was curious about this moment in history. Notice this:
The catastrophe which recently befell the Jewish people - the massacre of millions of Jews in Europe - was another clear demonstration of the urgency of solving the problem of its homelessness by re-establishing in Eretz-Israel the Jewish State, which would open the gates of the homeland wide to every Jew and confer upon the Jewish people the status of a fully privileged member of the comity of nations.
Notice the use of the third person. Not even once does this document say ‘we’ or ‘us’. Odd, since so much of what it written about Jews by Jews purposefully uses the first person.
Also, note the seeds of what was to come:
WE APPEAL - in the very midst of the onslaught launched against us now for months - to the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to preserve peace and participate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due representation in all its provisional and permanent institutions.
No Zionist rah-rah here today. Just primary document research I wanted to share.
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