This is a fascinating take on Zionism. I also was reading a document expressing the position of Albert Einstein on a Jewish state. His name has been thrown around a bit lately in support of Israel.

Einstein was not critical of Zionism as such, He saw it's value as building up community among Jews. But he also warned about his fear of where Zionism was going. He explains it here: Einstein reviews and explains his testimony. He went solely to act “in favor of our just cause,” he says. He believes in Palestine as a Jewish homeland but not as a separate state. He feels the Zionists, by asking for more, are taking an intransigent position, which will only “damage our cause.” What he would like to see is a “secured bi-national status in Palestine with free immigration,” adding that it defies common sense to “ask to be given the political rule over Palestine where two thirds of the population are not Jewish.”

Einstein foresees the intrinsic challenges that Zionism could lead to, and his expressed concerns have shown his insight to be fundamentally sound.

The Jewish people clearly have a right to exist and indeed grow in safety and freedom. But that is a right that is no less deserving to the Palestinian people.

It should not take a rocket scientist to have realized where this was headed, Einstein however did.