It’s true the anti-Semitic card is a rubbishy defence. I used it to just make people think a bit.
I think we should be clear that Zionism is a fascist political movement that wants one thing: all Palestinians out (Muslim Christian no matter).
This is ridiculous. My jaw literally dropped when I hear “Zionism is a fascist political movement”. Let alone the Palestinian debate. The PLO and PA don’t take kindly to Christians or Jews: their numbers have been dwindling steadily ever since the establishment of Israel. That leaves over Muslims, who, succinctly, want to “drive the sons and brothers of apes and pigs [Jews] in to the sea”, as expressed by the words of the leaders of virtually every Islamic movement and state in the Middle East. The Israelis aren’t terrorists; the Palestinians are.
I think this entire situation is illuminated quite nicely by the recent event of Israel trading 1,047 Palestinian prisoners for 1 (that’s ONE) Israeli soldier. That’s a “no man left behind” ethic. The Palestinian ethic seems to me, “we’ll strap a bomb on you, man, woman, or child, or girl-child, tell you to walk, and we’ll keep the detonator and use it ourselves in case you decide to turn back, to make sure you’re unable to”.
Israel filled up so quickly not because of a Jewish conspiracy, but because of every government of Islamic nations expelling the Jews under pain of death; most were not allowed to take their property, as is, and in some countries, the Jews were forced to leave and then stopped by the military. The newly-established Israel, in concert with sympathetic governments, then staged military operations - peaceful ones - to get their co-religionists to safety, such as “Operation Magic Carpet”. As soon as Israel was formed, the Jews weren’t welcome anywhere else: a land where a people can live free of oppression and fear is the right of every person and people, and Islamic lands don’t provide that for Jews, or for Christians.
Look at the number of Jewish and Christian inhabitants then and now in every Islamic land (modern Turkey is secular): look at the “Arab Spring” (which is quick turning in to an Islamist Winter, and also illustrates my point about the popular support that “traditional” Islam has) that toppled autocratic governments, and put even more autocratic governments - that are now even more intolerant and Islamist - in their place. The Jews have a right to Israel - a homeland of peace, prosperity, and freedom - as does every other people.
Israel was a wasteland for 1700 years. It was a backwater and wasteland even of the Ottomans. It was as backwards as the rest of the surrounding countries. Once the modern State of Israel was formed, it performed so amazingly, it advanced so quickly, and came up to speed with the rest of the world with such proficiency, it truly is amazing, almost beyond belief. For every Nobel Prize awarded - look, there’s an Israeli! or at least a Jew! and if there’s not an Israeli awarded the prize, there is surely one close by. In 50 years, Israel went from part of the most backwards, forgotten, waste of a land in to the second-greatest economy, in terms of science, achievement, development, and technological advancement in the world, next to America. Of course, Japan is excellent too - but Japan hasn’t been oppressed for every day of its existence, with every leader in the region trying to get the Bomb to wipe them out and push them in to the Pacific.
Israel is an amazing story of oppression to freedom, poverty to riches, death to life, failure to success - no thanks to the rest of the Islamic Middle East, which attempts to thwart, if not destroy, them at every turn.
To non-Zionists: just think, even if you’re not a Zionist for religious reasons (like many Jews and Dispensationalist Protestants), would you rather have Israel ruled by Jews, or an Islamic hegemony across the entire Middle East, that has no greater desire than to wipe out or subjugate, or, as a last choice, convert, every single Jew, Christian, Hindu and Buddhist alive? I’d rather have the Jews there - displaying amazing bravery, almost bordering on
chutzpah, thinking they can stick around and succeed - and then actually do it! - if for no other reason than to provide a bulwark against the rising tide of Islamism, and a check to it. From a level lower even than the Muslim world to competitive with the best the West has to offer. The Israelis, even the West Bank Settlers, live every day with the fear of a cowardly Palestinian Islamic terrorist attack. I can do nothing but admire them, and support the cause of Zionism.
Maybe fascist for the movement is a little unfair as with many its a spectrum, but ots not far off being right wing and nationalistic. Since the Zionist movement sought in the late nineteenth century to create an overwhelmingly, if not homogeneously, Jewish state in Palestine (no more than 15%). Once the Zionist movement gained a foothold in Palestine through Great Britain’s issuance of the Balfour Declaration, the main obstacle to realizing its goal was the indigenous Arab population. For, on the eve of Zionist colonization, Palestine was overwhelmingly not Jewish but Muslim and Christian Arab! Since these Arabs wouldn’t aquies then two choices ensued exportation or an apartheid regime.