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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran

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To: hal jordan who wrote (4496)3/26/2004 4:25:51 PM
From: steve kammerer  Read Replies (1) of 22250
 
"My understanding is a Zionist is someone who believes that Israel has a right to exist and the movement that pulled for statehood in 1948. Do you believe there is some other definition?"

I believe your definition is a partial definition. I believe that in addition to your definition, Zionism's goals include an Israel that is as large as Israel was at one time in the old testament. Ben Gurion was furious that he didn't receive all the land in the Mandate.
I believe that Zionism might mean a jewish state with controls on the number of non jews. That might be why there was a concerted effort to drive out the inhabitants in 47/48. That might be why Count Bernotte, before the United Nations could act on any of his was assassinated by, in the Israeli official view, the Stern Gang, one of several terrorist organizations whose activities had become more open since the end of the Mandate.

That might be why the Palestinians today might believe that terrorism works since it was so successfully introduced by Zionists. Of course, now that 77% of the land has be taken, Zionists would argue that since I got mine, terrorism is now wrong.
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