Comments on: But the situation of the Jews has never been better! http://medinatweimar.org/2008/06/14/but-the-situation-of-the-jews-has-never-been-better/ The Movement for a Jewish State in Thuringia. Deutschland. Sun, 15 Jan 2012 11:19:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael Monikowski http://medinatweimar.org/2008/06/14/but-the-situation-of-the-jews-has-never-been-better/comment-page-1/#comment-2954 Michael Monikowski Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:36:01 +0000 http://medinatweimar.org/?p=25#comment-2954 I do not have the impression that the creation of Israel had done anz harm to Diaspora. Only a tiny fraction of the Jewish population lives in Israel, so actually the Diaspora remained unscathed. Your idea of Jewish state, be it in Germany or in Poland, is nothing more than an attempt to repeat the tragedy of Palestine, only this time on European soil. If one wants to re-create a statehood that did not exist for 1,800 years, and one does not have the bulk of one's own population in one place, one should then go where there is plenty of space and hardly any people living there - so as to avoid the Zionist error of creation of a state in a "sea of enemies". Many people in Europe might seem to be "embracing" Jews now - but will they still be once a Jewish state is created in their midst and on THEIR soil? Arabs also were not necessarily hostile in the past, but anyone can see what the Jewish occupation had generated among them. This is why in my Polish article (http://www.monio.info/2009/07/22/czy-izrael-to-pomylka/) I suggested that today's Israel should be dismantled and recreated in a completely new place. it is up to the Jews to find whatever is still left for inhabitation on this planet. The Madagaskar-option is long dead (was a possibility over 70 years ago, not anymore). But as the early Zionists were considering different options in the past and were able to create a new Jewish statehood without the means they have now, so they should succeed this time as well - only this time they should abstain of pushing themselves INTO foreign, densely inhabited lands. Otherwise the Jewish question that once raged in Europe (and now is raging in the Muslim world) will be reignited there once again. It is high time to stop this happening again. On the whole however I am very much inclined to think about your initiative in positive terms. You are trying to solve the problems created by the politically brutal and morally insensitive creation of Israel at the expense of Arabs. I only think that an attempt to shift Israel to Europe, to that "completely Jewish" EU can be viewed as a kind of "lighthouse", which is WARNING lost sailors against coming to close to itself as to a dangerous cliff and rocks... Cheers!!! Michael Monikowski Perth, Australia I do not have the impression that the creation of Israel had done anz harm to Diaspora. Only a tiny fraction of the Jewish population lives in Israel, so actually the Diaspora remained unscathed. Your idea of Jewish state, be it in Germany or in Poland, is nothing more than an attempt to repeat the tragedy of Palestine, only this time on European soil. If one wants to re-create a statehood that did not exist for 1,800 years, and one does not have the bulk of one’s own population in one place, one should then go where there is plenty of space and hardly any people living there – so as to avoid the Zionist error of creation of a state in a “sea of enemies”. Many people in Europe might seem to be “embracing” Jews now – but will they still be once a Jewish state is created in their midst and on THEIR soil? Arabs also were not necessarily hostile in the past, but anyone can see what the Jewish occupation had generated among them. This is why in my Polish article (http://www.monio.info/2009/07/22/czy-izrael-to-pomylka/) I suggested that today’s Israel should be dismantled and recreated in a completely new place. it is up to the Jews to find whatever is still left for inhabitation on this planet. The Madagaskar-option is long dead (was a possibility over 70 years ago, not anymore). But as the early Zionists were considering different options in the past and were able to create a new Jewish statehood without the means they have now, so they should succeed this time as well – only this time they should abstain of pushing themselves INTO foreign, densely inhabited lands. Otherwise the Jewish question that once raged in Europe (and now is raging in the Muslim world) will be reignited there once again. It is high time to stop this happening again.
On the whole however I am very much inclined to think about your initiative in positive terms. You are trying to solve the problems created by the politically brutal and morally insensitive creation of Israel at the expense of Arabs. I only think that an attempt to shift Israel to Europe, to that “completely Jewish” EU can be viewed as a kind of “lighthouse”, which is WARNING lost sailors against coming to close to itself as to a dangerous cliff and rocks…

Cheers!!!

Michael Monikowski
Perth, Australia

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