Why I’m Not a Zionist

Harris Brio · Why I’m Not a Zionist

By Harris Brio

Before, one gets into why they are not a Zionist, one should really explain who current day Zionists are. Outlining who today’s Zionists are will give a better understanding of what Zionism is about and what it creates.

We are all familiar with what is going on in Palestine. For this purpose I won’t get into too much detail regarding Palestine. Israel was founded by terrorists using terrorism, that is something which is not debatable as any person with the slightest knowledge of history can easily look up the Zionist terrorist groups that were active in that region since the 1930's. Irgun, Stern Gang, Haganah, all these world designated terrorists organization were the introduction to terrorism in that region. Tribal conflicts were settled not by blowing up hotels but on the battlefield, soldiers fighting soldiers. Attacking women, children the elderly via hijacking, planting explosives in market places and kidnaping persons were tactics introduced by Zionists. And we all saw the Israeli Defense Forces telling Lebanese women and children to leave their homes for the purpose of safety. Then the IDF systematically bombed the roads and bridges the Lebanese women and children used as their escape route. Killing, perhaps thousands. What we need to understand is, this is not defense, it is Zionism. Strike terror in the hearts and minds of civilians.

So why am I not a Zionist? Well George Bush is a Zionist. That should, really be enough said.

Everything George W. Bush does is authorized by Zionist thinkers and policy makers. Karl Rove, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz are all Zionists, they designed Bush Administration’s policies and plans. The invasion of Iraq. The United States had no reason to invade Iraq. But Israel did. Oil. Oil is becoming scarce in Saudi Arabia. Technically speaking, Saudi Arabia is running out of oil. Iraq has a large number of oil deposits, Iraq is close to Israel. We all witnessed the first thing the invading army did was to re-open the Mosul to Haifa oil pipeline, before even securing all of Iraq. Every foot of the pipeline is heavily guarded. With over a 150,000 US troops and almost half a million mercenaries the oil flow is secure, but the Baghdad market places are not. What’s even more chilling is that the largest mercenary group Blackwater, in Iraq, is led by Zionist Erik Prince. Sound familiar? The largest Zionist terrorist group in Palestine, was Irgun. Both Blackwater and Irgun are foreign entities in that region. Blackwater and Irgun are not local resistence groups. They are foreign terrorist groups carrying out missions for foreigners to secure foreign interests. Neither of these groups cared, one iota, for the local populace.

Which brings us to whom in this world thought invading, Iraq and placing foreign, terrorist organizations in Iraq was a great idea. Who stood shoulder to shoulder with President George W. Bush in invading Iraq? Well look at those that applauded the invasion, such as Pastor John Hagee, Pat Robertson, Billy Graham, then ask, who are these people, I for one can easily see who all applauded George Bush. Evangelical Zionists. A marriage of convince sanctioned by the Devil. Zionists known for introducing terror, the systematic killing of women and children, as a national policy and Evangelicals, who state they follow the Prince of Peace claim they are guided by the Lord. What kind of Lord sanctions the killing of women and children, as defense policy? Most likely the Lord of Darkness. The marriage between, Zionists and Christians is a great idea if you want to make Jesus look bad. I for one would never accept that the Prince of Peace is for peace, going by what I’m seeing taking place by claimed followers in Iraq.

So who’s to blame? Well everyone is blaming George Bush, he is a mad man. But really is it just him, or is it his policies?

If you agree with George W. Bush, then you agree with Zionism. It is very simple. Prominent Zionists such as Ariel Sharon Daniel Pipes, Charles Krauthammer, William Kristol, Rupert Murdoch have all backed George W. Bush as the President that will implement Zionism.

What George W. Bush did was follow Zionist polices to the letter. Bush's failures are actually Zionism's failure. George Bush has implemented Zionism, in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Lebanon. Has it worked out in any of those places? He has applied Zionist economic theories in the US. Has it worked out? Are we richer, working shorter hours, owning our homes sooner? Have medical coverage, streets are safer, disaster management is better?

It doesn't matter who carries out Zionist policies, they are failed theories. Hitler tried, and failed. Mussolini tried, and failed. Mustapha Kamal Ataturk tried, and it now seems the Turks are sick of Zionist policies. Zionists want every world leader to carry out their policies. To put Zionist theories into practice. The President of Pakistan Musharef tried, and was voted out. None of these politicians, mostly out of fear, are going to admit Zionism is a failed theory.

Zionism is a failed theory, as we see in Iraq, it is a failed theory because it is supported by failures such as Daniel Pipes, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle and a host of others. If you don't agree with Pipes and think George Bush’s actions resulted failure, then you don't agree with Zionism. If you think Iraq is a failure, you should think Zionism is a failure.

In the last eight years what has Zionism brought to the United States, in fact the world. Foreign, terrorists in Iraq, a depressed US economy, falling dollar. More nations looking at us as total failures, thinking of us as war criminals, barbaric applauders of war. Zionism has not given us a good reputation, it hasn’t given Israel a good reputation. Not because of anti-Semitic racism, but because Zionism has been forced down our throats and has resulted in dismal failure. How long are we going to tolerate a failed ideology? Hillary Clinton is next in line to carry out the same failed theories, this time in Iran, maybe China, who knows, cause it’s an expansionist policy. It wants too trot the globe. Perhaps that is the reason they hate us. I know I sure hate putting a failed and doomed idea on a pedestal, gather around it, look up to it in awe, like a small child.Work with it, only to fail.

I don’t want to be a Zionist, I don’t want to drown in misery and failure all because Daniel Pipes and his friends need a job.

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I am a Zionist
By: Gil Troy

Today, more than half a century after Israel's founding, it remains all too tempting for friend and foe alike to define Israel, and Zionism, solely by the Arab world's hostility.

To do so is to miss the normal miracles that occur in Israel daily, the millions who are able to live and learn, laugh and play, in the Middle East's only democracy. To do so is to underestimate the power of Zionism, a gutsy and visionary movement which has outlasted the twentieth century's grander and seemingly more permanent revolutions: Bolshevism, Nazism, fascism and communism.

The sad truth is that little more than a century after its founding, Zionism seems to be losing its luster. Arabs have demonized Zionism as the modern bogeyman, and many have clumped Zionists, along with Americans and most Westerners, as the Great Satans. The Palestinian attacks that began with renewed intensity in September 2000 have revived the United Nations libel equating Zionism with racism. In Israel, a small but influential group of intellectuals fancies themselves to be post-Zionists, while a negligible but voluble minority of Jews in the Diaspora please editorial page editors enamored of novelties by proudly proclaiming themselves Jewish anti-Zionists.

During these challenging times, Jews should reaffirm their faith and pride in Zionism, while the world should marvel at its achievements. Zionists must not allow their enemies to define and slander the movement. No nationalism is pure, no movement is perfect, no state ideal, but today Zionism remains legitimate, inspiring, and relevant, to me and to most Jews. A century ago, Zionism revived pride in the label "Jew"; today, Jews must revive pride in the label "Zionist."

I am a Zionist because I am a Jew -and without recognizing a national component in Judaism I cannot explain its unique character. Judaism is a world religion bound to one homeland, a people whose Holy Days are defined by the Israeli agricultural calendar, rooted in theological concepts, and linked with historic events.

I am a Zionist because I know my history -and after being exiled from their homeland more than 1900 years ago, the defenseless, wandering Jews endured repeated persecutions at the hands of both Christians and Muslims -centuries before this anti-Semitism culminated in the Holocaust. I am a Zionist because Jews never forgot their ties to their homeland, their love for Jerusalem. Even when they established autonomous self-governing structures in Babylonia, in Europe, in North Africa, these were governments in exile yearning to return home.

I am a Zionist because those ideological ties nourished and were nurtured by the plucky minority of Jews who remained in the land of Israel, sustaining continued Jewish settlement throughout the exile.

I am a Zionist because in modem times the promise of Emancipation and Enlightenment was a double-edged sword, often offering acceptance for Jews in Europe only after they assimilated, yet never fully respecting them if they did assimilate. I am a Zionist because in establishing the sovereign state of Israel in 1948, the Jews were reconstituting in modem Western terms a relationship with a land they had been attached to for 4,000 years, since the time of Abraham -just as India did in establishing a modem state out of an ancient civilization.

I am a Zionist because in building that state, the Jews were returning to history and embracing normalcy, a condition which gave them power, with all its benefits, responsibilities, and dilemmas.

I am a Zionist because I celebrate the existence of Israel, and like any thoughtful patriot, though I might criticize particular governmental policies which I dislike, I do not delegitimize the state itself.

I am a Zionist because I live in the real world of nation-states, and I see that Zionism is no more or less "racist" than any other nationalism, be it American, Armenian, Canadian, or Czech, all of which rely on some internal cohesion, some tribalism, some sense of solidarity among some historic grouping of individuals, and not others.

I am a Zionist because here in North America we have learned in this multicultural world that pride in one's heritage as a Jew, an Italian, a Greek, can provide essential and time-tested anchors in a world overdosing on materialism, consumerism, and the sensationalism of the here and now.

I am a Zionist because in our world of post-modem identities, I know that we don't have to be "either-ors", we can be "ands and buts" -a Zionist AND an American patriot; a secular and somewhat assimilated Jew BUT also a Zionist.

I am a Zionist because I am a democrat, and for the last two centuries, the history of democracy has been intertwined with the history of nationalism. Similarly, for the last century democracy has been a central Zionist ideal, despite being tested under the most severe conditions.

I am a Zionist because I am an idealist, and just as a century ago, the notion of a strong, independent, viable, sovereign Jewish state was an impossible dream -yet absolutely worth fighting for -so, too, today, the notion of a strong, independent, viable, sovereign Jewish state living in true peace and harmony with its neighbors appears to be an impossible dream -yet absolutely worth striving for.

I am a Zionist because I am a romantic, and the vision of the Jews rebuilding their homeland, reclaiming the desert, renewing themselves, was one of the greatest stories of the twentieth century, just as the vision of the Jews maintaining their homeland, reconciling with the Arab world, renewing themselves, and serving as a light to others, a model nation state, could be one of the greatest stories of the twenty-first century. Yes, it sounds farfetched today. But, as Theodor Herzl, the father of modem Zionism, said in an idle boast that has become a cliche: "If you will it, it is no dream."

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