Political
fiction, utopia and futurology have a legitimate function in politics
and in the writing of History, Did not Herzl's Judenstaat
and Altneuland serve as blueprints for the Jewish state?
Paul
Giniewski predicts at what horrid cost Israel survived the establishment
of an Arab state of "Palestine", which triggered off the most
destructive of its wars, in the year 2005: 600,000 Jewish victims,
Haifa razed to the ground by an Iranian nuclear bomb and even much more
severe destruction in the Arab world.
But inn
2020, the former foes are reconciled. They have rejected Islamism and
the European selfish mercantile yoke which had fanned the flames of hate
in order to sell arms of mass destruction to Israel's enemies. Instead
of pursuing the path of mutual destruction, Israel and her neighbors
have united in a viable and prosperous Confederation. The Arab
dictatorships have become democracies.
This
evolution had deep historical roots. As early as 1919, Zionists and
Arabs had concluded an ephemeral peace.
The Middle
East could have been spared decades of wars and bloodshed, had not the
disastrous Oslo agreement and the ensuing "peace process" impeded and
prevented real Peace.
