Algemeiner
By Einat Wilf
April 28, 2014
To argue that without the genocide of a third of their people, the Jewish people would not have had their sovereign state is to engage in Zionism Denial. It is to deny the Jewish people their actions and their history……
Had the Holocaust not taken place, the State of Israel would still have come into being, like many other states in the later 1940’s and early 1950’s due to the dissolution of the British Empire. To argue that all other peoples rising to demand their self-determination after WWII would have had their state, and only the Jews “needed” an industrial genocide to get theirs, is to single out the Jews from a world of history.
The State of Israel was not “given” to the Jewish people by a guilty world, seeking to give them some place to live once it became clear that the Final Solution was not final. Enough evidence exists today for us to know that the last thing that was felt by the world after WWII was guilt. Those who fought and won felt they had done right by history, and those who lost felt victimized. It took at least a generation for some to begin feeling guilty.
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