You should have added the many Jews who were kicked out of Arab countries after the creation of Israel. Many of them had nowhere else to go but Israel.
"Zionism represents the idea that victimhood is not a moral aspiration, but a status to avoid."
In a word, survival. The right to exist & the ability to defend it.
From my (non-Jewish) British & English perspective, I see Zionism as what most Westerners would call patriotism. The need for a homeland & the right to defend it.
Victims may be sanctified, but they attract bullies. Rather a full plate & a fat belly than the pious fasting of starvation.
Zionism for Jews goes much further than “patriotism” it is a redemptive ideology that allow us to master our own destiny instead being subjected to other people’s design.
You should have added the many Jews who were kicked out of Arab countries after the creation of Israel. Many of them had nowhere else to go but Israel.
"Zionism represents the idea that victimhood is not a moral aspiration, but a status to avoid."
In a word, survival. The right to exist & the ability to defend it.
From my (non-Jewish) British & English perspective, I see Zionism as what most Westerners would call patriotism. The need for a homeland & the right to defend it.
Victims may be sanctified, but they attract bullies. Rather a full plate & a fat belly than the pious fasting of starvation.
Zionism for Jews goes much further than “patriotism” it is a redemptive ideology that allow us to master our own destiny instead being subjected to other people’s design.
Thank you for that. I did not mean to trivialise what I do not understand, & hope I did not give that impression.