First of all, not all people of Jewish descent or of the faith are Zionists, and some do not believe in the nation of Israel as it exists today. Some believe only the coming Messiah will be able to found a Jewish state, others believe in a state where Jews and others live equally under the law, etc.
It's not so cut and dried an issue.
There are many forms of Zionism...and some Jews just want a place to call home where they can protect their culture and be left alone. Nothing too zany about that, is there?
The Kurds, believed to be the world's largest race without a homeland, want the same thing, as do other peoples. Now that Israel has been established, maybe the world can start helping other victims out there....and Israel can pitch in, too. Nothing too zany about that, is there?
Also, Arabs are semites too, or at least many of them. If you don't like Arabs, you could very well be an anti-semite. It would be nice if people could forget their differences and focus on what they have in common.
Of course then you have the Palestinians, who have been in the region for thousands of years, some say going back to the Philistines or the Canaanites. You can't just kick those people out of their homes because somebody has a book that says that zone was promised to them...or because the British pull a fast one, like they did with the Kurds.
No offense to anybody from the UK...I happen to like you people a whole bunch.
As for the midget with the bad haircut and mustache...
Hitler was asked if he really wanted to go through with the extermination of the Jews and be tied to that for the rest of history, and hi sbasic reply was something like "Look at the Armenians...nobody cares about them, do they?" He was talking about the supposed (some say very real) Armenian genocide, which killed an estimated one quarter to one thidd of the entire population.
Many nations still refuse to recognise it (though I believe Canada does, as well as Sweden,Germany,Italy,France,The Vatican,Greece, Belgium, and a great many US states)...Turkey denies it of course.
For some reason, Israel doesn't seem to be on the list of nations that do recognise it, even though The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity issued a public document signed by over 50 Nobel Laureates that back Genocide Scholar's conclusions that the events of 1915 were in fact genocide.
Maybe if people had stood up for the Armenians way back then, the whole second world war purge might not have taken place. As for why victims of one genocide aren't standing up for those of another...that is anybody's guess.
Then there are the victims in the Ukraine, Rawanda...the list is not a short one. Is it right to throw more attention towards one horrible mass-murder than another? Do some victims of similar tragedies warrant more sympathy than others?
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Originally Posted by Fortesque Smythe Brown
Thank you for your good wishes I was actually aware that this the week long celebration of ''Passover'' celebrating the flight of the Jews from bondage and slavery in Egypt.
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Yes, and they were paid reparations..rightly so. When will the victims of slavery in the United States be paid their reparations? Why don't people talk about that very much? Why don't former victims of slavery who have been paid for their suffering say anything for their fellow man who hasn't?
It might help.
Wanting what you see as yours and demanding it can be seen as normal human nature...but standing up for your fellow man is just plain noble.
Oh, and for those who would try and construe this as somehow racist, it isn't...and I'm not, so good luck.