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Colonialism
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Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?
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Actually—and this was where I began to feel seriously uncomfortable—some such divine claim underlay not just 'the occupation' but the whole idea of a separate state for Jews in Palestine. Take away the divine warrant for the Holy Land and where were you, and what were you? Just another land-thief like the Turks or the British, except that in this case you wanted the land without the people. And the original Zionist slogan—'a land without a people for a people without a land'—disclosed its own ne
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― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
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