‘The great capitulation’: why key US figures are seeking Trump’s favor
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People from tech executives to foreign leaders and even some mainstream
media figures are ‘acquiescing in advance’, experts say, because of greed
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Judaism Does Not Equal Israel
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Einstein on Israel and Zionism: His Provocative Ideas About the Middle East.
Einstein supported a “homeland” for Jews in Palestine, but he opposed a Jewish state “with borders, an army, and a measure of temporal power.” Since two-thirds of the population of Palestine consisted of Arabs, he preferred bi-national status with “continuously functioning, mixed, administrative, economic, and social organizations.” Only cooperation with Arabs, led by “educated, spiritually alert” Jewish workers, he wrote, “can create a dignified and safe life…. What saddens me is less the fact that the Jews are not smart enough to understand this, but rather, that they are not just smart enough to want it.”