Which Israel to support?

A Democrat split over Israel?

A tiny one or something closer to full size?

How close?

The Israel created by the partition of 1948 was minute and extremely vulnerable, a mere fragment of historic Israel and far smaller in area than the Israel the Zionist movement and settlers hoped to re-create.

Recall that British Palestine covered a quite large territory all of which east of the Jordan River became today's Arab state of Jordan.

It is to that that they refer who say that there already is a Palestinian State, and that with the creation of Jordan a two-state solution was built in from the start to the Brit withdrawal from its Palestinian Mandate.

And it was always in the cards that by whatever and various means the restored Jewish State, the re-created Jewish National Homeland, was going to be demographically dominated by ethnic Jews, mostly from Europe.

If you are or ever were on board for Zionism at all, on board for a re-creation of Israel, you were on board for a late European colonialist adventure of which ethnic cleansing was an absolutely essential part - as in varying measures and by various means it had been integral to European colonialism (as distinct from imperialism sensu strictu) and, historically, for any policy of actual colonialism by anyone at any point in history or on the globe.

As for the Americas, think not only of the European peopling of the hemisphere but also its peopling by their predecessors who spent thousands of years of genocide, slave raiding, and ethnic cleansing among themselves before Columbus - and before the Vikings.

In Africa, of course, it was millions of years of genocide, slave raiding, and ethnic cleansing before the modern intrusions of Europeans.

True history.