The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, September 5th, 2001
Richard Cohen
Understanding Zionism
By RICHARD COHEN
The Washington Post
Wednesday, September 5, 2001
In 1903, a pogrom swept through the ghetto of Kishinev, Russia. Forty-nine people were killed, 495 injured, countless women raped and about 1,500 stores looted. The killers were the usual collection of drunks and morons, but Leo Tolstoy knew who really was responsible. "The crime of Kishinev is the direct consequence of the propaganda of violence and lies promoted with such energy by the Russian government," he wrote.
It is impossible to overestimate the importance of that statement by R...
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