*Which is to say a multiethnic army; throughout I will use the term nation as referring to a cultural, ethnic group that may or may not have a state. The Kurds, for example, constitute a nation though they as yet have no national state; the state of Aruba is composed of only a fragment of a nation, even though it is a member state of the United Nations. The Hebrew nation long antedates the founding of Israel and survived Roman occupation. The Cherokee nation never had a state. Nationalism is a political movement of peoples, not states. Recall Jonah's cry, “Of what nation are you?”