The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics

Thoughts for a Sunday morning

What we call "History" is written by the winners, by the masters of empires, by generals who devastate men's lands, by the financiers who loot the world's wealth and subjugate the genius of great scientific and technical inventors, putting it at the service of their economic or military domination.

French philosopher Roger Garaudy has exposed some of the Zionist myths in his book The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics – challenging the official Holocaust story and citing the Jewish role in the western media.


By Roger Garaudy

Introduction

Part I: Theological Myths

1. The Myth of the "Promise": Promised Land or Conquered Land?
   
   a. In Contemporary Christian Exegesis
   
   b. In the Prophetic Jewish Exegesis
   
   
2. The Myth of the "Chosen People"
   
   
3. The Myth of Joshua: Ethnic Purification
   
   
   

Part II: The Myths of the 20th Century

1. The Myth of Zionist Antifascism
   
   
2. The Myth of the Justice of Nuremberg
   
   
3. The Myth of the Holocaust
   
   
4. The Myth of "A Land Without a People for a People Without a Land"
   
   
   

Part III: The Political Use of the Myth

1. The Israeli-Zionist Lobby in the United States
   
   
2. The Israeli-Zionist Lobby in France
   
   
3. The Myth of the Israeli Miracle: The External Financing of Israel
   

Conclusion

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