Israel: Playing the Victim since 1948
Two kinds of victim myths that Zionists tell
Zionists tell two kinds of victim myths. The first are ancient Jewish myths of being slaves in Egypt, captives in Babylon, and exiles driven from Judea by Rome. Those myths are just-so stories that hurt no one — they were created to explain why the nomadic people that the Egyptians called Habiru settled down in Canaan, then had their religion modified by the Persian Empire, then spread through much of the Roman empire.
The new Zionist victim myths are different. They were created to justify harming millions of Muslims — and, ultimately, millions of Jews as well, because every theft of land that the United Nations gave the Palestinians makes everyone who conflates Judaism and Zionism blame Jews for what Zionists do.
What follows is revised from an earlier article:
Six old Jewish myths
Schlomo Sand, an Israeli Emeritus Professor of History at Tel Aviv University, destroys six Jewish myths in Israel deliberately forgets its history. (I have numbered the points for the reader’s convenience.)
1. Moses could not have led the Hebrews out of Egypt into the Promised Land, for the good reason that the latter was Egyptian territory at the time.
