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Some more fun facts about Socialism and Zionism to keep folks like Zuhkov up at night.....


Israel's biggest military supporter was Socialist France (under Guy Mollet). They built Israel's nuclear reactor, and provided arms for every war fought up to '67 (and the Czechoslovakian Socialist/ Anarchist blackmarket provided the majority of weapons for the Indepedence war).

40% of Israel's economy is State owned, with another 20% run by cooperatives affiliated with the Israeli trade union organization, Histadrut. By all rights, Israel should be seen as a model of Democratic Social development.

Jews in the US formed a quarter to a third of the membership of the Socialist Labor Party. the Socialist Party, and the Communist Party. In 1966, at the SDS radicalist convention, 46% who declared themselves as having a religious background were Jewish (according to "Jews and the Left" by Arthur Liebman), and Jewish immigrants from Russia and Eastern Europe have been the mainstay of the left in America since the 1880's. The role Trostky and the Jews played was more then 25% of the membership of all Revolutionary parties in Russia during this period. Of the political prisoners deported to Siberia after the defeat of the Revolution in 1905, 37% were Jewish. Israel was financed in large part from the private donations of liberal Jews in the US.

It was the pogroms in Russia and Poland that led to Socialist agricultural settlements for Russian Jews in 1870, with the first proper Aliyah in 1882.

Even a right wing Zionist like Jabotinsky had origins in the Marxist movement.