[Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News] Fatah offers a great lesson in Zionism for Nakba Day

The official Fatah Facebook page offers a list of "Nakba criminals" today, which ends up being a pretty good list of major Zionist historic figures. 

How many can you identify? Some are obvious, some not quite as well known.

Here's a crowdsourcing exercise: Pick a face or two or three, write up a three sentence biography (essentially the first paragraph of Wikipedia entries, such as #9: Mr. X, 18xx-19xx,  born in Y, active in the Z movement, became Israel's first P, well known for coining the phrase "AAA BBB CCC".) Number them left to right, top to bottom.

I will put them on this page in a few hours so we can have a decent reference of Zionist pioneers, thanks to Fatah!

(In the Facebook page, clicking on any of them opens up a link to a short, anti-Israel bio of the people in Arabic. Between Google Translate, Google Image Search and Wikipedia, you should be able to figure out everyone pictured.)

Note that most of the people on the list had nothing to do with the so-called "Nakba." This shows, more than anything, that it is Jewish self-determination that upsets the Arabs, not anything that happened to Palestinian Arabs in 1948.

1. Ahad Ha'am, pen name of Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginsberg (18 August 1856 – 2 January 1927), was a Hebrew essayist, and one of the foremost pre-state Zionist thinkers. He is known as the founder of cultural Zionism. With his secular vision of a Jewish "spiritual center" in Israel, he confronted Theodor Herzl. Unlike Herzl, the founder of political Zionism, Ha'am strived for "a Jewish state and not merely a state of Jews".

7. Nahum Goldmann (July 10, 1895 – August 29, 1982) was a leading Zionist and the founder and longtime president of the World Jewish Congress from 1948 to 1977. He was born in Vishnevo, Russian Empire but moved as a child to Frankfurt, Germany, and he narrowly escaped being arrested by the Gestapo in 1933. In 1936, Goldmann and Reform Rabbi Stephen S. Wise established the World Jewish Congress (WJC). He is credited with the early prediction of the threat posed by Hitler and Nazi Party. Addressing the Zionist Organization of America in October 1942, having heard the reports of genocide, he lamented, "Our generation is in the tragic position that one-half of the generation is being slaughtered before our eyes, and the other half has to sit down and cannot prevent this catastrophe."



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Posted By Elder of Ziyon to Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News at 5/15/2014 02:00:00 PM