Daniel Treiman reports at the JTA that David Horowitz says he is not a Zionist.
“I feel totally American – I don’t have an identification with Israel; they are as foreign a country to me as any other foreign county – but Jews are the most persecuted people on the face of the earth, and that’s just the truth,” said Horowitz. “If the Arabs disarm there will be peace, if the Jews disarm there will be a massacre. I’m portrayed as a big Zionist but I’ve never been to Israel. I just know when a country needs to be defended.”
The problem here is ethnocentrism. Who is being persecuted in Israel and Palestine? Zakaria says that millions of Palestinians are serfs. So if you are not a Zionist, you might seek to defuse that volatile situation by ending Jewish hegemony.
