Two blurts on Zionism

The heart of the matter:

In certain academic and media circles, Zionism is synonymous with colonialism and imperialism.

Israel is in fact the last euro-white settler state in Africa, located in a region that was already fairly densely populated by Palestinians, a small part of a broader region of Arab Muslim civilization, when European Zionist Jews began to settle there in the late 19th Century.

Since World War Two, euro-white settler states in Africa have, through relentless propaganda, acquired in the world at large, but not quite entirely in America, in the morally mandatory conventional view, much the same moral status as racism, slavery, and even Nazism.

Only the massive media and political power of the relentlessly Zionist American Jews, seconded by the influence of a somewhat weirdly Zionist portion of the Christian right, has prevented American opinion, and with it public policy, going along with what is now pretty nearly the standard global view of things.

But that's OK because Israel is a success

What we need is nuance

Of course, Israel was supposed to provide European Jews a safe place in the world, beyond the reach of violence so common in anti-Semitic Europe.

And of course in that regard, the chief point of Zionism, it has been a spectacular failure, almost from the beginning.

So evident was its folly from the very outset that this is just the sort of thing about which, in our time, snide liberal bloggers write "Hey. What could go wrong?"

If I don't see another story about Israel on the front pages for the rest of August, that would be fine.

At least Rwanda wasn't dead weight on America's pocketbook and America's foreign policy.

Enough, already.