John Mearsheimer, Judge Napolitano – A Brief History of Israel

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1. I listened to your podcast which was supposed to be a history, but Dr. Mearsheimer’s summary was in fact completely ahistorical. The professor told a tendentious story which starts from Netanyahu’s and Smotrich’s racist, genocidal regime and then explains that this was always what Zionism was and is. In fact, the government of Israel today is a corruption of Zionism. The more interesting question is how did Zionism, which is simply the movement for the national liberation of the Jewish people, the same desire shared today by the Palestinians the Kurds, and numerous other people who live under governments where their autonomy is denied, become so corrupted.
   This question which needs more analysis is intertwined with Dr. Mearsheimer’s simplistic answer that US support of Israel is all because of the Israel Lobby. This is inverted logic. Israel is supported simply because it does the dirty work of the US empire. Understanding the history behind events is the only way to make sense of them. Unfortunately, this podcast served up an overly simplistic narrative which did nothing to help us gain that better understanding.

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