Political Zionism

(from the Introduction)
Being the final product of his doctoral studies, Paul Wilkinson’s book, For Zion’s Sake, intends to reveal how John Nelson Darby’s detractors have distorted Christian Zionism while directly challenging academics who believe dispensationalism has little theological or historical value.  The purpose of this review is not to critique dispensationalism directly but to summarize and evaluate Wilkinson’s research and conclusions. In the end, Wilkinson’s ideological agenda and prejudicial research presents a thoroughly one-sided and indefensible case for Christian Zionism. In addition to his shameful demonization tactics against anyone who disagrees, Wilkinson’s research capabilities demonstrate a deliberate bias with little intention of conducting a fair and honest assessment of the subject. His style of writing amounts to nothing more than inflammatory claptrap, engaging in a puerile smear campaign against nondispensationalists that panders to the rhetoric of pseudo-intellectual prophecy pundits and apocalyptic hysteria. His research and conclusions are elementary at best, if not outright disgraceful.

Poster displaying the emblem of Irgun, the Jewish terror group of Mandate-era Palestine Oded Yinon, whose 1982 paper for Kivunim (Directions) entitled " A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s " , is often used as a reference point for evidence of an Israeli aim to balkanise the surrounding Arab and Muslim world into ethnic and sectarian mini-states, was recently interviewed. He discussed the notoriety of the document which came to a wider audience a few years later after it was translated into English by Israel Shahak. But while Yinon down plays the specific application of his paper to actual geopolitical events, the ideas posited in his article have arguably formed an enduring central policy plank of the Zionist state; balkanisation having been a necessary condition first in creating the modern state of Israel, and thereafter as a

"My paper examines the early history of Zionist thought and practice. To that end, it looks at the role of Theodor Herzl, someone widely considered the founding father of Zionism, in formulating and reifying Zionist thought into a functioning political movement.

I discuss the important historical steps in Herzl’s work and the eventual popularisation of the then nascent movement for a Jewish homland. The latter was mainly a result of Herzl’s pamphlet, The Jewish State, published in 1896, which for the first time brought the idea of a Jewish homeland into the consciousness of the wider public.

This publication will also be scrutinised given its historical importance, and it will be placed within its proper historical context; one of colonialism and Orientalism. By extension, we can then see that from its inception, the Zionist Movement, despite its apparent humanitarian motives, was a deeply flawed enterprise that was reliant on colonialist and Orientalist thought."

In an earlier article titled 'What Egypt needs now – Part I, Sinai', I suggested a series of measures that the Egyptian government must take immediately to make sure that civil order and concord will prevail in the area and nationwide. These measures are expected to thwart an existential threat against Egypt's national integrity. The existing threat is very real and the dangers tremendous. In the present article, I will reveal covert insinuations made by a key Israeli minister, proceeding through textual analysis. These hints do not augur well for Egypt's territorial integrity and must therefore be taken very seriously.
First published on 27th October 2014 here:
https://megalommatis.wordpress.com/2014/10/27/what-egypt-needs-now-part-ii-an-existential-threat-must-be-thwarted/