Zionism

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Zionism is a political secular movement, with religious roots, concerned principally with the establishment of a Jewish state, formally established by the Austro-Hungarian journalist Theodor Herzl in the late 19th century. The movement seeks to encourage Jewish migration to the Promised Land, demanding that Jews have the right to possess all land between the Nile and the Euphrates as claimed by "YHWH" (god) in the Old Testament (Genesis 15:18).

1 History
2 Israel
3 Conflict
4 Zionism vs Judaism
5 Conspiracies
6 ATS Discussion Threads
7 External Referenced Sources

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History

While Zionism is based upon religious tradition linking the Jewish people to the Land of Israel, where the concept of Jewish nationhood first evolved somewhere between 1200 BCE and the late Second Temple era (i.e. the Romans destruction of Judah and Samaria, 70 CE), the modern movement is mainly secular, beginning largely as a response by European Jewry to antisemitism across Europe. At first Zionism was one of many Jewish political movements that offered alternative positions. After WWII when the world was awakened to the Holocaust, Zionism became the dominant Jewish political movement.

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Israel

It began in the late 19th Century and attained its stated objective with the creation in 1948 of the state of Israel by the United Nations at the insistence of the United States and without the agreement of existing Middle Eastern states. Subsequently Israel doubled the amount of territory it controlled by means of its occupation of the West Bank in the 1967 and 1973 wars.

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Conflict

Wall annexing parts of the West Bank to Israel, in Baqa El Gharbiya, 2004

The land called Palestine was occupied by the Ottoman Empire, who found itself on the losing end of World War I. Great Britain had the most troops in Palestine when the war ended, and so Britain "won" the right to decide the future. One of the many actions taken by the British government and army was the announcement and enforcement of the Balfour Declaration, which stated that the British people and soldiers supported the construction of a homeland for the Jewish people—in Palestine. This was way back in 1917, long before the Holocaust.

Beginning in 1922, large numbers of Jewish people migrated to Palestine, pursuant to the Balfour Declaration. This migration continued for the rest of the decade and accelerated in the 1930s and 1940s. In 1937, many Palestinians rebelled, calling for an independent nation, just like their neighbors were granted. Great Britain tried to find a way to satisfy both sides with no success, after the end of World War II, they turned the problem over to the newly formed United Nations.

The U.N. proposed side-by-side Israeli and Palestinian states, with Jerusalem being part of both. Jews flocked to the area by the thousands after the Holocaust. Israel proclaimed its independence in 1948 and promptly set about occupying three-quarters of the Palestinian state, including part of Jerusalem. Jordan and Egypt occupied the other part.

Tensions flared between the neighboring nations for years. In 1967, Israel struck out against Egypt and Jordan. This was the Six-Day War, and it resulted in the expansion of Israel into all of Palestinian territory and land formerly claimed by Egypt and Jordan, including the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights, and all of Jerusalem.

The United Nations called on Israel to give back the territory it had seized, but the calls fell on deaf ears. Israel controls this territory to this day.

After this, Israel continued to insist that it had earned the right to occupy these territories. Palestinians, on the other hand, expressed what they saw as their right to live in a land that the U.N. recognized as theirs.

Wars of words led to wars with bullets and tanks. Both sides had "hawks" who thought that violence was the answer. Over the years peace process after peace process unraveled again and again, as the jewish settlements expanded and expanded, claiming/taking more and more Palestinian's land.

The Palestinians want the Israeli "occupiers" to leave, and they desperately want a homeland of their own, a country of their own, but ever proposal and negotiation they present is not honored. Out of frustration in loosing their land, resources and livelihood, many Palestinians ended their lives in suicide terrorist acts, as a result Israel has erected a concrete wall through the more densely populated areas.

The World Court ruled that Israel's West Bank barrier, which has wrought hardship for thousands of Palestinians, violates international law and should be torn down.

"Zionism is ... racist, it is nationalist, and it is Biblically inspired (rather than spiritually inspired). Being a fundamentalist movement, Zionism is not categorically different from Nazism. Only when we understand Zionism in its nationalist and racist context will we begin to comprehend the depth of its atrocities." — Gilad Atzmon: Not In My Name: An Analysis of Jewish Righteousness

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Zionism vs Judaism

Zionism should not be equated with Judaism. The treatment of the Palestinians by the Israeli government is supported and approved of by most Israeli Jews but not by all Jews. There are some Jews who are totally opposed to Zionism and to Israel's policies in the occupied territories of the West Bank.

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Conspiracies

It is no secret that some Zionists do conspire to control all the land that, according to scripture, God gave to them. With this basic fact established by the Old Testament, Zionist involvement in just about any real or imagined conspiracy makes its way into inquiring minds. To give credibility to some of these theories demands that one’s natural skepticism be suspended, yet others merit independent academic research.

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The Protocols

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is claimed to be the secret minutes of Jewish élitists on how they planned to take over the world and enslave non-Jews. Used often in reference as an excuse to persecute Jews and have been promoted by many famous and powerful people, for the past century. Despite being dismissed by many academics as a forgery, The Protocols have continued to be published throughout the world as fact.

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9/11

Zionists organized 9/11 to pull the USA (and UK) into direct military involvement in the Middle East to protect Israel from it's enemies. Some theorist go so far as to make the false claim that thousands of Jews were warned not to turn up for work in the Twin Towers on 9/11.

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Princess Diana

Princess Diana was assassinated because her boyfriend Dodi was an Arab.

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JFK

An interview published in newspaper's Arabic supplement Al-Wassat, quoted nuclear whistleblower, Mordechai Vanunu, said "near-certain indications", Kennedy was assassinated due to "pressure he exerted on the then head of government, David Ben-Gurion, to shed light on the Dimona's nuclear reactor", use in illegally manufacturing atomic warheads.

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Armageddon

The Book of Revelations has done a great deal to provoke restless minds into associating Israel, and hence Zionism, with the “End of Times”, the Rapture, apocalyptic horsemen and the rest, by referring to the location of the “last battle” as being at Armageddon.

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