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

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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]

Do you not care that your "homeland" was built on other people's homes? Necessitated the forced removal of others? It's not like Israel was built on some vacant land.

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You’re right. It wasn’t vacant. It was a land that was occupied by Jews for millennia and has a Jewish population very much there. It also had a population of Arab Muslims - aka “Palestinians” - that had invaded over centuries and had been benignly and not so benignly occupying areas that were previously Jewish - and Christian and other groups, too. So Jews moved back to an area - their homeland - that they had to flee or were expelled from by invaders. Arab Muslims were offered their own state and they rejected that. And here we are.[/quote]

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