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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really hope most Jews will agree with Peter Beinart.

https://youtu.be/X5kXCdzt_us?si=Kn9na_3uGdH-16RG[/quote]

I don't know about Jews in the US but  the overall majority of Israeli's are perfectly fine with the ongoing atrocities, this problematic nature of Zionism is deeply ingrained into Israeli society.[/quote]

Zionism is the belief that Jews should be able to live in peace in their homeland - the one Jewish homeland in the world. If anything, as a Jew, I feel more supportive of Israel and Zionism in the wake of 10/7 and the unbridled hatred it unleashed for Jews all over the world. The only thing “problematic” about Zionism is Jew haters don’t want Jews to live anywhere in peace, especially not the Arab Muslims who invaded the Levant and thought they’d suppressed / gotten rid the Jews who lived there for millennia only to find Jews returning after WWII. I don’t like Netanyahu or his government, but I’m ever more committed to Israel. [/quote]

But this is the crux of the issue.  The Jewish homeland was land that people were already living on for hundreds of years.  While in the Zionist / birthright mindset, kicking them off the land was a-ok bc they Zionist positioned them as “invaders” that is pure fiction.   The genetic evidence and archeology record tells the more likely story that they were were descended from the same ancestors as the Jewish people, continued to live in the land (intermarrying with others from the ME as travel became easier), and eventually converted to Christianity and then Islam.

But since the zionists believe so whole heartedly the Palestinians were invaders they treated them as the enemy, kicking them out of the homes and sequestering them to smaller and smaller pieces of land (not recognized as a country) subject to air / land / sea blockades.  Understandablythe Palestinians did not like this treatment and fought back.  And so it is - the back and forth cycle of violence that did not just begin on 10/7.

How do you argue against such extreme brainwashing? [/quote]

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