• dsemy
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    5 months ago

    The letter plainly shows he doesn’t support terrorists. As I wrote in my original comment, it makes no reference to Zionism at all.

    You’re claiming that draft, that I had to tell you about, which was written 7 years after the establishment of the state of Israel (when it was barely a functioning state) is Hasbara?

    Edit: Also, if he was against Zionism, why was he ashamed he couldn’t accept being Israel’s president? Why was he moved by the offer?

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      5 months ago

      You’re claiming that draft, that I had to tell you about, which was written 7 years after the establishment of the state of Israel (when it was barely a functioning state) is Hasbara?

      I’m not claiming that the draft speech and its contents are hasbara, only that I suspect they might be, and that if they aren’t, then I think less of Einstein if he wrote that, “the Arab hostility […] is the root cause of the tension,” because I think the root cause is Western settler-colonialism.

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        5 months ago

        I won’t tell you what to think of him but honestly, he was a Jew who saw firsthand the rise of violent antisemitism in Europe - he was extremely biased on this subject, his views don’t really surprise me.

        Edit: Btw after re-reading my replies to you, not sure why I was so hostile, sorry