ltlee1 <
ltlee1@hotmail.com> wrote:
[…]
The Khazar conversion is no revelation. It was the basis for a 1976
book by Arthur Koestler, The Thirteenth Tribe, which was reviled, then ignored, by mainstream Zionism. But the Jewish Khazars were recognised
by early Zionist historians, albeit as a numerically insignificant
curiosity. They were only dropped from the story in the 1960s. After
the 1967 Six Day War, to be precise.
Sand notes that the disappearance of converts from Israeli history
books coincides with increased occupation of Arab land. This is not a conspiracy theory. Zionism was a typical modern nation-building
exercise. It followed the pattern by which most European national
identities were forged in the 19th and 20th centuries. Intellectual
elites propagated myths that met "the deep ideological needs of their
culture and their society". In Israel's case that was the myth of
ethnic origins in a biblical kingdom based around Jerusalem." https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/jan/17/shlomo-sand-judaism-israel-jewish
History is hard to predict. It is rewritten so frequently :-)
What makes it relevant *here* ?
Israel/Palestine is far away from China.
Does PRC need this (handy) excuse?
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A. Filip
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