[Paladin2]

ISLAM is a MASSIVE past and current Colonial operation [virus].

Be Aware.

[DesertRhino]

Not a surprise. Ben-Gurion was an atheist who admired Lenin. His biographer said he thought Trotsky was smarter, but he liked that Lenin would not hesitate to take decisive action.

He was really kind of an all around prick. I suspect that is why Ike and JFK were not great big fans of Israel back then.

[Verginius Rufus]

Ho Chi Minh was in Paris at the time of the Paris Peace Conference after WWI but couldn’t get a hearing for self-determination for the Vietnamese. Woodrow Wilson was a champion of self-determination for Europeans (except those oppressed by the victorious allies), but not for non-Europeans. France and Britain were in no mood to give up any of their colonies.

[DSH]

In fact, the Jewish peoples search for repatriation to their ancient homeland was part of a worldwide search by various national liberation movements from the European colonial powers. It was a part of the global effort by countries seeking national self-determination.

There's a fair amount on incoherence reflected in just these two sentences.

[marktwain]

This movement was fully embraced by the American Left following World War II. So, it’s ironic that today’s progressive Leftists vilify Israel as colonialism. The David Ben-Gurion-Ho Chi Minh friendship and alliance obliterates that theory.

Exactly so. Both Ho Chi Minh and Ben-Gurion were committed Leftists.