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Originally Posted by Marulus
Yes, some ideas pointing towards desirability of founding of a Jewish state in Palestine can be found in works of the 12th-century Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides, as well as among some of adherents of the 17th-century Jewish movement of Sabbateans. Or it is at least a biased a posteriori Zionist interpretation of those ideas that attempts to see in those scattered ideas a precedent of the modern Zionist conception of the State of Israel. |
Well, sometimes I wander if some roots of the zionism are not to be found in certain passages of the Old Testament, in some of the historical books like Joshua or Chronicles, when the children of Israel are instructed to "chase" (exterminate? Genocide?) all the Nations that preceded them in the Promised land (Amorites, Philistines, Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites;, and the Jebusites)