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“In the future, after years of War [in Palestine], the plants would mark those places where an Arab farm or town had once stood, a melancholy reminder that the beginning of one dream was the end of another.”

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This is exactly why I’m cautious of calling Zionism a colonial project, per se. Colonialism implies some benefit for the host nation and the colonists. Jews had nowhere else to go. It’s also why Zionism and Israel are inevitable, for better or for worse.

“Even after the Second World War, Europe remained treacherous for the Jews.”

- Poles were not suddenly sympathetic to Jews
- Germans were not instantly convinced they were wrong and, Cohen argues, “the descent Germany that appeared so soon … was an American construct”

Reading about Gens is so frustrating (for lack of a better word) in this current day…

And so relevant to the arguments of working within or against the system. A Jew working with the Germans to preserve the peace…

As Coben writes, Gens is not a bad guy. He tried. And failed miserably and fed Jews to Hell.

About members of the Einsatzgruppen, the mobile killing units that followed the German Army and killed every Jew and communist:

“They were bland psychopaths, squads of nobodies. Before the War, they had been shoe salesmen, bank tellers, telephone operators.”