Zionism:
The problem with Zionsim is that it doesn't take into account the people who lived in and around Palestine. These people lived here for thousands of years. Not only do these people precede the Zionsist state of Israel, some share the same ancestors as Jews. Likely some of these people descend directly from people which lived in Palesatine before Judaism existed. These people were never consulted, yet they paid the full price for the creation of a Zionist state which treats them differently because they are not Jewish.
Israel was imposed on them over their objections. Before Israel was created, terrorists had already begun ethnically cleansing Palestine. They tortured, raped and murdered innocent civilians both inside and outside areas reserved by the UN for a Jewish state. When Israel declared independance, these terrorists became Israel's leaders. The post 1948 war border/ceasefire attempted to legitimize the reality of a new hostile regime in the region.
It can't be a coincidence that Holocaust Day and Deir Yassin Day are the same day...
From a Palestinian's perception, thanks to outside intervention, terrorists moved in and started a war which continues to this day. Zionism has only increased anti-Semitism, not protected Jews from violence.
The horrors of The Holocaust accelerated the Zionist movement. Zionism may have been a solution for people fleeing Nazi Europe. But it created a new problem in Palestine. The architects of a Zionist state in Palestine failed to take into account the longterm implication on millions of non-Jews already living in Palestine. These people were never consulted, yet paid the full price. They lost everything.... property, a future, hope and their lives... Palestinians became the new Jews.
Each time Israel's Zionist leaders slaughter more innocent civilians, Arab/Muslim unity accelerates.
Palestinians will continue to fight for freedom and justice for as long as they suffer oppression and injustice. The Zionist solution is to impose harsher oppression and commit worse injustices. That only makes the problem worse.
In order for the Zionist state of Israel to exist, it must continually defeat its adversaries. In order for Zionist adversaries to win, they need only win once. Each time the Zionist state of Israel defeats its adversaries, its adversaries grow stronger. Over time, collapse is inevitable.
My concern isn't for the Zionist state of Israel, but the people of Israel. I don't believe in collective punishment. Most Israelis have not committed war crimes and do not want Palestinians to suffer. When the Zionist state of Israel falls, most Israelis should be allowed to stay without suffering oppression or injustice. People should not be awarded rights based on race/religion.
A fair and just society can only exist were each person has the same rights regardless of race or religion. Zionsim is a system where rights are based on race/religion system.
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"They say it is not possible to have a world without the United States and Zionism. But you know that this is a possible goal and slogan.
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Let's take a step back. We had a hostile regime in this country which was undemocratic, armed to the teeth and, with SAVAK, its security apparatus of SAVAK [the intelligence bureau of the Shah of Iran's government] watched everyone. An environment of terror existed.
When our dear Imam [Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Iranian revolution] said that the regime must be removed, many of those who claimed to be politically well-informed said it was not possible. All the corrupt governments were in support of the regime when Imam Khomeini started his movement. All the Western and Eastern countries supported the regime even after the massacre of September 7 [1978] and said the removal of the regime was not possible. But our people resisted and it is 27 years now that we have survived without a regime dependent on the United States.
The tyranny of the East and the West over the world should have to end, but weak people who can see only what lies in front of them cannot believe this. Who would believe that one day we could witness the collapse of the Eastern Empire? But we could watch its fall in our lifetime. And it collapsed in a way that we have to refer to libraries because no trace of it is left.
Imam [Khomeini] said Saddam must go and he said he would grow weaker than anyone could imagine. Now you see the man who spoke with such arrogance ten years ago that one would have thought he was immortal, is being tried in his own country in handcuffs and shackles by those who he believed supported him and with whose backing he committed his crimes.
Our dear Imam said that the occupying regime must be wiped off the map and this was a very wise statement. We cannot compromise over the issue of Palestine. Is it possible to create a new front in the heart of an old front. This would be a defeat and whoever accepts the legitimacy of this regime [Israel] has in fact, signed the defeat of the Islamic world.
Our dear Imam targeted the heart of the world oppressor in his struggle, meaning the occupying regime. I have no doubt that the new wave that has started in Palestine, and we witness it in the Islamic world too, will eliminate this disgraceful stain from the Islamic world."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12790.htm [/quote]
The above is the infamous quote by Ahmadinejad to "wipe (Israel) off the map". Most of us never read his entire speech and know only five words quoted out of context.
Ahmadinejad isn't calling for genocide, but for the collapse of a regime based on race and ethnic cleansing.
Ahmadinejad's demand for an end to Zionism is similar to demands to end South Africa Apartheid. When that regime fell, white South Africans didn't suffer genocide or discrimination. A call for an end to Zionism isn't a call for genocide but to rights based on race/religion. Its a call for an end race/religion based oppression and injustice.
All people, regardless of race/religion must have equality or war will continue.
The only solution which will lead to peace is for Israel to end Zionism and like the end of Apartheid will lead to peace in South Africa.
Ending Zionism means allowing four million displaced people the right to return to home and granting everyone the same rights (full Israeli citizenship). That would be freedom. Establishing a truth commission would be justice.
Given a choice between status quo "oppression and injustice", "national suicide" or "going down guns ablazing", ending Zionism is the least destructive, most just, path to peace.
Movement founded by the Viennese Jewish journalist Theodor Herzl, who argued in his 1896 book Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State) that the best way of avoiding anti-Semitism in Europe was to create an independent Jewish state in Palestine. Zionism was named after Mount Zion in Jerusalem, a symbol of the Jewish homeland in Palestine since the Babylonian captivity in the 6th century BC. The movement culminated in the birth of the state of Israel in 1948.
www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/browse/glossary.html
[SIZE=-1]The movement dedicated to establishing a Jewish homeland in Palestine.[/SIZE]
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The problem with Zionsim is that it doesn't take into account the people who lived in and around Palestine. These people lived here for thousands of years. Not only do these people precede the Zionsist state of Israel, some share the same ancestors as Jews. Likely some of these people descend directly from people which lived in Palesatine before Judaism existed. These people were never consulted, yet they paid the full price for the creation of a Zionist state which treats them differently because they are not Jewish.
Israel was imposed on them over their objections. Before Israel was created, terrorists had already begun ethnically cleansing Palestine. They tortured, raped and murdered innocent civilians both inside and outside areas reserved by the UN for a Jewish state. When Israel declared independance, these terrorists became Israel's leaders. The post 1948 war border/ceasefire attempted to legitimize the reality of a new hostile regime in the region.
It can't be a coincidence that Holocaust Day and Deir Yassin Day are the same day...
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Tuesday is Holocaust Day in Israel: and the anniversary of a 1948 massacre that triggered the Palestinian refugee crisis at the heart of today's conflict. Robert Fisk meets an Auschwitz survivor living at the site of the atrocity.
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Auschwitz -- "I will show you my museum," Josef Kleinman says, and scampers into a back room. He returns with a faded old khaki knapsack. "This is the shirt the Americans gave me after I was freed from Landsberg on 27 April 1945." It is a crumpled, cheap check shirt whose label is now illegible. Then he takes out a smock of blue and white stripes and a hat with the same stripes running front to back. "This is my uniform as a prisoner of Dachau."...
http://www.fromoccupiedpalestine.org/node/125
From a Palestinian's perception, thanks to outside intervention, terrorists moved in and started a war which continues to this day. Zionism has only increased anti-Semitism, not protected Jews from violence.
The horrors of The Holocaust accelerated the Zionist movement. Zionism may have been a solution for people fleeing Nazi Europe. But it created a new problem in Palestine. The architects of a Zionist state in Palestine failed to take into account the longterm implication on millions of non-Jews already living in Palestine. These people were never consulted, yet paid the full price. They lost everything.... property, a future, hope and their lives... Palestinians became the new Jews.
Each time Israel's Zionist leaders slaughter more innocent civilians, Arab/Muslim unity accelerates.
Palestinians will continue to fight for freedom and justice for as long as they suffer oppression and injustice. The Zionist solution is to impose harsher oppression and commit worse injustices. That only makes the problem worse.
In order for the Zionist state of Israel to exist, it must continually defeat its adversaries. In order for Zionist adversaries to win, they need only win once. Each time the Zionist state of Israel defeats its adversaries, its adversaries grow stronger. Over time, collapse is inevitable.
My concern isn't for the Zionist state of Israel, but the people of Israel. I don't believe in collective punishment. Most Israelis have not committed war crimes and do not want Palestinians to suffer. When the Zionist state of Israel falls, most Israelis should be allowed to stay without suffering oppression or injustice. People should not be awarded rights based on race/religion.
A fair and just society can only exist were each person has the same rights regardless of race or religion. Zionsim is a system where rights are based on race/religion system.
Quote:
"They say it is not possible to have a world without the United States and Zionism. But you know that this is a possible goal and slogan.
Quote:
Let's take a step back. We had a hostile regime in this country which was undemocratic, armed to the teeth and, with SAVAK, its security apparatus of SAVAK [the intelligence bureau of the Shah of Iran's government] watched everyone. An environment of terror existed.
When our dear Imam [Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Iranian revolution] said that the regime must be removed, many of those who claimed to be politically well-informed said it was not possible. All the corrupt governments were in support of the regime when Imam Khomeini started his movement. All the Western and Eastern countries supported the regime even after the massacre of September 7 [1978] and said the removal of the regime was not possible. But our people resisted and it is 27 years now that we have survived without a regime dependent on the United States.
The tyranny of the East and the West over the world should have to end, but weak people who can see only what lies in front of them cannot believe this. Who would believe that one day we could witness the collapse of the Eastern Empire? But we could watch its fall in our lifetime. And it collapsed in a way that we have to refer to libraries because no trace of it is left.
Imam [Khomeini] said Saddam must go and he said he would grow weaker than anyone could imagine. Now you see the man who spoke with such arrogance ten years ago that one would have thought he was immortal, is being tried in his own country in handcuffs and shackles by those who he believed supported him and with whose backing he committed his crimes.
Our dear Imam said that the occupying regime must be wiped off the map and this was a very wise statement. We cannot compromise over the issue of Palestine. Is it possible to create a new front in the heart of an old front. This would be a defeat and whoever accepts the legitimacy of this regime [Israel] has in fact, signed the defeat of the Islamic world.
Our dear Imam targeted the heart of the world oppressor in his struggle, meaning the occupying regime. I have no doubt that the new wave that has started in Palestine, and we witness it in the Islamic world too, will eliminate this disgraceful stain from the Islamic world."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12790.htm [/quote]
The above is the infamous quote by Ahmadinejad to "wipe (Israel) off the map". Most of us never read his entire speech and know only five words quoted out of context.
Ahmadinejad isn't calling for genocide, but for the collapse of a regime based on race and ethnic cleansing.
Ahmadinejad's demand for an end to Zionism is similar to demands to end South Africa Apartheid. When that regime fell, white South Africans didn't suffer genocide or discrimination. A call for an end to Zionism isn't a call for genocide but to rights based on race/religion. Its a call for an end race/religion based oppression and injustice.
All people, regardless of race/religion must have equality or war will continue.
The only solution which will lead to peace is for Israel to end Zionism and like the end of Apartheid will lead to peace in South Africa.
Ending Zionism means allowing four million displaced people the right to return to home and granting everyone the same rights (full Israeli citizenship). That would be freedom. Establishing a truth commission would be justice.
Given a choice between status quo "oppression and injustice", "national suicide" or "going down guns ablazing", ending Zionism is the least destructive, most just, path to peace.
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