Charlie Stross on Nostr: Shiri Bailem npub1gtpqj…uk69t You pretty much nailed it, though! All I'd add is ...

Shiri Bailem (npub1srn…h8hy) npub1gtpqjk60rrsf0gufu62x5kqlp9xywsxmcvyrh4qh68dn98xa55zqzuk69t (npub1gtp…k69t) You pretty much nailed it, though! All I'd add is that zionism started out in the late 19th century as yet another component of the general European wave of ethno-nationalism that birthed Italy and Germany as well as the Balkan states, and broke up the Austro-Hungarian Empire: everyone else got a homeland, so why not the Jews? But then WW1 and the Balfour Declaration happened, and it turned from aspirational into a tool of oil imperialism.