Posted on 03/15/2009 5:54:49 PM PDT by Alouette
Zionism is the problem
The Zionist ideal of a Jewish state is keeping Israelis and Palestinians from living in peace.
By Ben Ehrenreich
It's hard to imagine now, but in 1944, six years after Kristallnacht, Lessing J. Rosenwald, president of the American Council for Judaism, felt comfortable equating the Zionist ideal of Jewish statehood with "the concept of a racial state -- the Hitlerian concept." For most of the last century, a principled opposition to Zionism was a mainstream stance within American Judaism.
Even after the foundation of Israel, anti-Zionism was not a particularly heretical position. Assimilated Reform Jews like Rosenwald believed that Judaism should remain a matter of religious rather than political allegiance; the ultra-Orthodox saw Jewish statehood as an impious attempt to "push the hand of God"; and Marxist Jews -- my grandparents among them -- tended to see Zionism, and all nationalisms, as a distraction from the more essential struggle between classes.
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Silly Idiots, ending Islam will bring peace, not ending our allies.
No way would that bring peace because evey border of Islam with itself is currently in a state of trouble. Even within the area called Palestine now two different factions are killing each other off.
There is no peace in Islam. Nowhere.
Doesn’t this nutjob realize that we’re NEXT after Isreal in the arab mindset?
I make jokes about a lot of things, people. Ever since the US Army sold my nephew out as a scapegoat, payola for the Sunni Awakening, and threw his ass in Leavenworth for 10 years, I have absolutely NO USE for Moslems. Not that I had any to start. WE OWE THEM NOTHING.
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