[Dean's World] Dean: An Idea That Goes Way Back

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Posted by Dean:
An Idea That Goes Way Back
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1168437720.shtml


   Quoted:

     In 1844, a biblical scholar and professor of Hebrew at New York
     University published a pamphlet urging the establishment of a
     Jewish state in the place then known as Palestine.

     The name of this early Zionist who argued for the recreation of
     Jewish sovereignty over the land of Israel: George Bush.

   But wait:

     Oren's book is filled with a host of such encounters that may be
     new even to those who have been reading about the subject their
     entire lives.

     For example, how many know that the first American arm sales to the
     Middle East was not to Israel or an Arab state but goes back to
     Andrew Jackson's treaty with Ottoman Turkey?

     Another little known episode that Oren recounts deals with American
     veterans of the Civil War, both Union and Confederate, who helped
     found and train the Egyptian army.

   Read the whole review [1]at Jewish World Review.

References

   1. http://jewishworldreview.com/0107/tobin011007.php3