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Hey Graham. That was an excellent essay and it basically reflects my own thinking about the Jewish state. Such extreme cognitive dissonance in understanding the two-headed Jewish mindset. It is maddening that they are not "one" but, hey, they fit the same normal curve all races do.

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Joel W. Hay, PhD's avatar

Geography and demography are destiny. The Israeli’s can keep “mowing the grass” every 20 years but at some point, they’ll run out of bodies to commit human rights violations with. They might even run out of US tax dollars to fund it all. And as you say not all Jews are Zionists

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Graham Seibert's avatar

Kevin Macdonald's trilogy on the Jews - A People that shall dwell alone, Separation and its Discontents, and The Culture of Critique (as I recall the titles from memory) are written in a neutral, scholarly tone. Much like Solzhenitsyn's "Two Hundred Years Together."

It didn't work. Jews, who founded the sciences of anthropology, sociology and psychology, don't handle it well when they become the subjects. They received these works with great hostility. It would have been better just to ignore them. Maybe even learn something from them.

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