The best refutation of the Zionist propaganda and promotion of the 1 state solution is from this anti-Zionist Jew from Palestine, named Henry Lowi.
From: http://www.palestineremembered.com/Article.../Story1654.html
Quote- Israel is not a "Jewish state" in the sense that its laws are based on Halacha. They are not. It is not a "Jewish state" in the sense that most Jewish people live there or plan to live there. They do not. It is a "Jewish state" only in the sense that the Jewish ethnic group enjoys privileges that are denied other ethnic groups, and that within the Jewish ethnic group much misery is caused by there being a state monopoly to define "who is a Jew".
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The State of Israel is ethnic nationalism institutionalized and gone wild. With all the limitations of historical analogies, Israel is a "Jewish state" in the sense that racist South Africa was a Boer state and in the sense that Nazi Germany was an Aryan state. In short, there is nothing "Jewish" worth preserving in the "Jewish state".
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Zionism is a political movement that was founded in Europe at the end of the 19th century. It was an expression of European colonialism, as Theodor Herzl was the first to acknowledge.
Throughout the 20th century, most Jewish people, in Europe, America , Asia, and Africa , did not subscribe to Zionism. Most saw Zionism as a threat to the political status of Jewish people in their countries of residence. The Zionist parties were in the minority among the political parties supported by Jewish people. In most of the countries of Europe and America , Jews chose to support liberal, democratic, socialist, or communist parties. The focus was on the improvement of the quality of life in those countries. Until after the Second World War, Zionism did not have much appeal in the Jewish communities of America , Asia or Africa . Zionism was widely recognized as a movement that was nurtured from the same roots as anti-semitism, that subscribes to the view that there is no future for the Jews among the peoples of the world. The
Zionist colonization of Turkish Ottoman Palestine, and then British Mandatory Palestine, was spearheaded and supported by a tiny minority of Jews.
Zionism was victorious in Palestine only after the Holocaust of the Second World War, in which the Allied powers, including Canada , were complicit in the destruction of the Jews of Europe. After Europe became virtually Judenrein, the victorious Allies decided to steer Jews to Palestine and to support the Partition of Palestine into 2 mini-states. In the context of de-colonization, the British Empire should have granted independence to Palestine , and permitted its people to exercise their right to national self-determination. Instead, they put in place a new colonialist structure.
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As was the case with Apartheid in South Africa , Zionist racism and colonialism must be combated, and defeated, and a new basis found for democratic political life in the Holy Land . A Jewish "national home" in historic Palestine cannot exist for long as a racist, colonial-settler state. A secular state, with a democratic constitution that upholds equality and human rights, is in the interest of Israeli Jews, and Jews worldwide. It is the only mode of reconciliation with the Palestine Arabs -- those who remained in Israel in 1948, those who became refugees, and those who have been under Israeli military domination since June 1967.
So, to your question: No, I do not consider myself as a Zionist.
I am an IDF veteran of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Some of my best friends died in Sinai in October 1973 in the war to hold onto Egyptian territory that had been seized in June 1967. I am a veteran of the 1982 Peace for Galilee operation, and the struggle of IDF reservists against Ariel Sharonï؟½s war of aggression against the Palestine refugees. I have participated in the lives, the struggles, and the defeats of peace-seeking Israelis of my generation. The fate of Jewish people anywhere concerns me as my own fate.
Zionism had short-term appeal to many Jews. But its days are numbered. Jewish history will continue, while Zionism will be viewed as a temporary aberration.
While I am not a Zionist, "some of my best friends are Zionists." Many Israelis who consider themselves Zionists are risking their lives to resist Israeli repression of the Palestinian intifada. Critical Zionists have long demanded the removal of the Israeli settler colonies from the West Bank and Gaza , and have advocated the sharing of Jerusalem . Some people who consider themselves Zionists recognize the Palestine refugeesï؟½ right of return.
However, most people who support the right of return realize that this right is incompatible with anti-democratic Zionist domination of Palestine . Many people who are engaged in the practical struggle for peace realize that the goal of the struggle is a new Palestine , with a democratic constitution that upholds human rights, and in which Jews and Arabs will be able to live peacefully on an entirely new basis.
* Picture of former Iranian President Sayyed Mohammad Khatami visiting a Jewish synagogue in Iran, and talking with an Iranian Jewish Rabbi
From: http://www.palestineremembered.com/Article.../Story1654.html
Quote- Israel is not a "Jewish state" in the sense that its laws are based on Halacha. They are not. It is not a "Jewish state" in the sense that most Jewish people live there or plan to live there. They do not. It is a "Jewish state" only in the sense that the Jewish ethnic group enjoys privileges that are denied other ethnic groups, and that within the Jewish ethnic group much misery is caused by there being a state monopoly to define "who is a Jew".
...
The State of Israel is ethnic nationalism institutionalized and gone wild. With all the limitations of historical analogies, Israel is a "Jewish state" in the sense that racist South Africa was a Boer state and in the sense that Nazi Germany was an Aryan state. In short, there is nothing "Jewish" worth preserving in the "Jewish state".
...
Zionism is a political movement that was founded in Europe at the end of the 19th century. It was an expression of European colonialism, as Theodor Herzl was the first to acknowledge.
Throughout the 20th century, most Jewish people, in Europe, America , Asia, and Africa , did not subscribe to Zionism. Most saw Zionism as a threat to the political status of Jewish people in their countries of residence. The Zionist parties were in the minority among the political parties supported by Jewish people. In most of the countries of Europe and America , Jews chose to support liberal, democratic, socialist, or communist parties. The focus was on the improvement of the quality of life in those countries. Until after the Second World War, Zionism did not have much appeal in the Jewish communities of America , Asia or Africa . Zionism was widely recognized as a movement that was nurtured from the same roots as anti-semitism, that subscribes to the view that there is no future for the Jews among the peoples of the world. The
Zionist colonization of Turkish Ottoman Palestine, and then British Mandatory Palestine, was spearheaded and supported by a tiny minority of Jews.
Zionism was victorious in Palestine only after the Holocaust of the Second World War, in which the Allied powers, including Canada , were complicit in the destruction of the Jews of Europe. After Europe became virtually Judenrein, the victorious Allies decided to steer Jews to Palestine and to support the Partition of Palestine into 2 mini-states. In the context of de-colonization, the British Empire should have granted independence to Palestine , and permitted its people to exercise their right to national self-determination. Instead, they put in place a new colonialist structure.
...
As was the case with Apartheid in South Africa , Zionist racism and colonialism must be combated, and defeated, and a new basis found for democratic political life in the Holy Land . A Jewish "national home" in historic Palestine cannot exist for long as a racist, colonial-settler state. A secular state, with a democratic constitution that upholds equality and human rights, is in the interest of Israeli Jews, and Jews worldwide. It is the only mode of reconciliation with the Palestine Arabs -- those who remained in Israel in 1948, those who became refugees, and those who have been under Israeli military domination since June 1967.
So, to your question: No, I do not consider myself as a Zionist.
I am an IDF veteran of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Some of my best friends died in Sinai in October 1973 in the war to hold onto Egyptian territory that had been seized in June 1967. I am a veteran of the 1982 Peace for Galilee operation, and the struggle of IDF reservists against Ariel Sharonï؟½s war of aggression against the Palestine refugees. I have participated in the lives, the struggles, and the defeats of peace-seeking Israelis of my generation. The fate of Jewish people anywhere concerns me as my own fate.
Zionism had short-term appeal to many Jews. But its days are numbered. Jewish history will continue, while Zionism will be viewed as a temporary aberration.
While I am not a Zionist, "some of my best friends are Zionists." Many Israelis who consider themselves Zionists are risking their lives to resist Israeli repression of the Palestinian intifada. Critical Zionists have long demanded the removal of the Israeli settler colonies from the West Bank and Gaza , and have advocated the sharing of Jerusalem . Some people who consider themselves Zionists recognize the Palestine refugeesï؟½ right of return.
However, most people who support the right of return realize that this right is incompatible with anti-democratic Zionist domination of Palestine . Many people who are engaged in the practical struggle for peace realize that the goal of the struggle is a new Palestine , with a democratic constitution that upholds human rights, and in which Jews and Arabs will be able to live peacefully on an entirely new basis.
* Picture of former Iranian President Sayyed Mohammad Khatami visiting a Jewish synagogue in Iran, and talking with an Iranian Jewish Rabbi
