Jean Bricmont on Zionism (in French)

My French is pretty poor, but for those whose French is non-existent, there's an article on CounterPunch that I believe says essentially the same thing: http://www.counterpunch.org/bricmont02122009.html

of course, electricpolitics itself has a very nice interview with bricmont in the archives, who is insightful and incisive... one of this site's finer moments.

Great post. Bricmont's analysis is concise and compelling.

However I had a problem with his ideas regarding collective guilt for past disasters. Bricmont claims Europeans born after 1945 should carry no culpability for the Holocaust. By the same token then, surely Israeli Jews born after 1947 should not be impugned for the events leading to the creation of the Israeli state?

Re: "By the same token then, surely Israeli Jews born after 1947 should not be impugned for the events leading to the creation of the Israeli state?"

To the extent they prolong the same attitudes and moral bankruptcy, yes. Collectivities, however, are by definition a passive "substance" — they are molded or "informed" by elements and forces of which they are largely unaware. This, btw, is the Achilles heel of "democracy" as it exists in modern collectivities numbering millions and immersed in the mass media. Democracy in this sense is simply a mythological construct, a tool for demagoguery.