What is "Palaeo"conservatism?

My own questions | november 13, 2001 | Me

[TopQuark]

WRT the Arab/Israeli question, the truth is easy enough to discern. For a thousand years, Arabs treated Jews and Christians decently in Palestine. As second-class citizens, true - but decently. Then a group of Jews decided that they should have first-class status and Arabs should come second, so they created a racist state in Palestine. After that, all hell broke loose...

Interesting and simple indeed. And no British empire in sight, to whom both groups belonged. And no division (artificial, granted, but so are the boundaries of Iraq or Jordan). No division into, yes, Jewish state and Transjordan?

I guess this is what another group of Jews have done in Germany, in the 1940s. No wonder there all hell broke loose as well.

[nonliberal]

I think a paleo-conservative is a conservative who believes in the philosophies of post WW2 conservatives like Robert Taft, Joe McCarthy and William Jenner. They see the battle at home as well as abroad. They tend to be America First people.

I tend to be a paleoconservative under this definition. I think there are many others on this board who would fit this definition.

[Architect]

The British empire had little to do with it. It simply served as the tool of the Zionists, bringing foreign colonists to Palestine against the wishes of the people who lived there - Jew, Moslem and Christian alike.

Your comment about Transjordan is historically wrong and that about Germany is simply stupid. Of course, it is true that the Zionists have repeatedly used world events from the Nazi Holocaust to the fall of the Berlin wall to bring more Jews to Israel, often against their will.

[TopQuark]

Your comment about Transjordan is historically wrong I am always entertained when someone says,"You are wrong but fails to tell what is allegedly true: it's a giveaway.
"...and that about Germany is simply stupid. I am sorry that you do not differentiate between sarcasm and stupidity. Does not speak much neither the social graces of the writer nor his/her intelligence.

Of course, it is true that the Zionists have repeatedly used world events... to bring more Jews to Israel, often against their will. And prosecutors "use" events like murder to bring a perpetrator to trial. I see: it's all a pretext.

No need, of course, to give home to a people who have lost up to 90% of their population in some countries. No need, of course, to remember that Palestine was their historic homeland. It's all very simple: I come to your home, rape your wife, kill your daughter and then... I am appaled that these "events are used" to bring me to trial. No need for you to remember that Zionists came to Palestine for decades prior to the first war against Israel. No Arabs were displaced from their land.

You surely are very versed in logic and history.

more Jews to Israel, often against their will. This does not deserve a comment. I think you could benefit from talking to a professional.

I now know where you stand on the issues and how you maintain a discourse. I am no longer interested in continuing this discussion.