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exported this wrong before.

an ode to the dumbest Paisy combo route in existence.
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@The_GeRM1 Under the British Crown they had partial sovereignty. The mandate system was a trusteeship where each mandate had its own local government administered by the locals.

The point of mandates was moving towarss independence. You'd know this if you understood British history.

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@The_GeRM1 Instead, he chose the Aztecs, Canaanites, and Sioux.

This choice was deliberate. You have no argument.

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@The_GeRM1 If Iron Wall was about simple migration in this same way then Jabotinsky would have used literally any historical example of migration followed by a pogrom since Jews, especially Russian and Ukrainian Jews, would be more familiar with that than American Colonial history in 1923.

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@o8040 @biscuits35060 @leeseoslawyer yes.

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@The_GeRM1 The resistance that he expected Zionists to face is that of people who wish to remain sovereign on their own lands, not simple xenophobes. Not simple anti-semites. People whose homeland is being taken from them.

And to him, Zionists are rightful conquerors, not refugees.

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@The_GeRM1 I'll explain it to you simply:

Because those events are nothing like the resistance that Palestinians would put up. He sees their resistance as rational and predictable based upon a legitimate desire for sovereignty. Not irrational bigotry like the pogroms in Ukraine.

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@The_GeRM1 Eugenics was not always controversial. It was treated as settled science until the Nazis' implementation gave people pause.

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@The_GeRM1 It was written for Russian Jews—a dispossessed minority in a semi-feudal hellhole where literacy rates were under 50%.

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@The_GeRM1 "They" is not Jabotinsky. Jabotinsky is his own person and not an amorphous synthesis of all schools of Zionist thought. Jabotinsky was clear.

Your "interpretation" is, in fact, not an interpretation at all.

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@The_GeRM1 "Back in the day the concept was neutral!"

So was eugenics. So was Social Darwinism. Hell—even antisemitism!

The connotation changed, not the definition.

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@The_GeRM1 I have to say it to you because you evidently cannot read.

Iron Wall was written such that barely-literate Russian peasants could capture its meaning. Somehow, you, a "historian" has managed to fail where they succeeded!

Motivated reasoning takes you very far.

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@The_GeRM1 Only in terms of cruelty and kindness. In terms of the roles played by Jews and Palestinians, in his view, the Jew is the colonizer and the Palestinian is the colonized native.

It is not subtext.