Jewish American Heritage Month

Posted By admin on August 20, 2021

The trigger for the following is the short piece written on July 30 by Haaretz senior publicist Oudeh Basharat. It would be one thing to address a casual columnist writing for this anti-Zionist newspaper. It is quite another thing to address something a senior staff member has written and which genuinely reflects the position of the Israeli Left as a whole. Basharat, a Christian Arab Israeli, comes from a family that lived in the village Maalul that was destroyed during the 1948 War of Independence.

In this piece, Basharat (read: Haaretz) laments the fate of Maalul, whose lands were bought by the evil Zionist Yosef Weitz, who from the 1930s played a major role in land acquisition, a policy that was bitterly contested by those Jews who believed the land should be conquered. The buying of land, often at exuberant price, was called by Jews redemption, and characters like Weitz were called land redeemers. Thats how esteemed they were in the eyes of the early Zionists.

But...

Read more from the original source:
Against All Odds, the Zionist Projects Have Been Successful - Israel Today

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