11-20-2008, 04:12 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-ramana+Nov 19 2008, 04:41 PM-->QUOTE(ramana @ Nov 19 2008, 04:41 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->This episode in French history is athte back of my mind as I heard of Lt Col Purohit.
A Hindu Dreyfus affair?
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Not many know that the birth of Israel has it's origins in the Dreyfus affair
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->However, during the ceremony where Dreyfus was publicly humiliated and stripped of his rank prior to being shipped to Devils Island, there was one particular journalist from Vienna reporting the events. This reporter was the young Theodore Herzl. The Dreyfus Affair has a tremendous personal impact on Herzl. <b>The Dreyfus Affair was the catalyst that inspired Herzl to write The Jewish State, which would become the âmanifestoâ or center point of the rise of modern Zionism</b>.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Wikki
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The anti-semitism and injustice revealed in France by the conviction of Alfred Dreyfus had a radicalizing effect on Herzl, demonstrating to him that Jews, despite the Enlightenment and Jewish assimilation, could never hope for fair treatment in European society. Historically, it is true that the Dreyfus injustice was not the initial motivation for Herzl's actions. <b>However it did go a long way to keep motivating him further into promoting Zionism. His persistent activism during his lifetime eventually led to the creation of a Jewish state long after his death.</b>
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Who's going to be motivated/spirited enough to write passionately about this travesty of justice? Will this affair sound the death knell of fake secularism as practiced by vote-bank charlatans?
A Hindu Dreyfus affair?
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Not many know that the birth of Israel has it's origins in the Dreyfus affair
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->However, during the ceremony where Dreyfus was publicly humiliated and stripped of his rank prior to being shipped to Devils Island, there was one particular journalist from Vienna reporting the events. This reporter was the young Theodore Herzl. The Dreyfus Affair has a tremendous personal impact on Herzl. <b>The Dreyfus Affair was the catalyst that inspired Herzl to write The Jewish State, which would become the âmanifestoâ or center point of the rise of modern Zionism</b>.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Wikki
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The anti-semitism and injustice revealed in France by the conviction of Alfred Dreyfus had a radicalizing effect on Herzl, demonstrating to him that Jews, despite the Enlightenment and Jewish assimilation, could never hope for fair treatment in European society. Historically, it is true that the Dreyfus injustice was not the initial motivation for Herzl's actions. <b>However it did go a long way to keep motivating him further into promoting Zionism. His persistent activism during his lifetime eventually led to the creation of a Jewish state long after his death.</b>
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Who's going to be motivated/spirited enough to write passionately about this travesty of justice? Will this affair sound the death knell of fake secularism as practiced by vote-bank charlatans?