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“I am anti-Zionist. I don’t believe they [Jews] have the right, after 3,000 years, to reclaim the land with western bombs and guns on biblical injunction. When I was in Israel it was as though I was in the middle of The Fire Next Time.” James Baldwin, 1970

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"But the state of Israel was not created for the salvation of the Jews; it was created for the salvation of the Western interests. This is what is becoming clear (I must say that it was always clear to me). The Palestinians have been paying for the British colonial policy of ‘divide and rule’ and for Europe’s guilty Christian conscience for more than thirty years." James Baldwin, 1979

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Pretty much echoed by Edward Wadie Said, who put it in more stark terms. I wish I could recall that verbatim.
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If any refuge had been offered anywhere else, things would have been a whole lot different, wouldn't they. Survivors had no idea where their parents, children or siblings were.Jews who tried to go back to their old homes were killed--Did you think all the Nazis surrendered? German citizens converted to benevolent brotherly love? Survivors were sick, alone, grieving, despised, & carrying dying newborn babies they were too malnourished to nurse.
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