Rabbi Hersh Lowenthal: The State of Israel has as much to do with Judaism as does New Zealand or Zimbabwe?
I'd like to see a citation to your claim that Zionists helped the Nazis. Other than that, I don't believe the State of Israel is the work of any god. I believe it was created by a bunch of Jewish terrorists with the backing of England, the UK and the UN. EDIT: Thanks for the cite. I will check them out!
What is a Zionist...?
Zionism is a political movement and ideology that supports a homeland for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel, where the Jewish nation originated over 3,200 years ago and where Jewish kingdoms and self-governing states have existed up to the 2nd century. While Zionism is based in part upon religious tradition linking the Jewish people to the Land of Israel, the modern movement was originally secular, beginning largely as a response to rampant antisemitism in Europe and many parts of the Muslim world during the 19th Century. After a number of advances and setbacks, and after the Holocaust had destroyed much of the existing Jewish society in Germany, the Zionist movement culminated in the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. -wikipedia In addition the first 2 Jewish synagogues ever sit in the land of Israel.
What are three ways that Zionism is related to nationalism?
It's a racist, colonialist, expansive ideology. It stands for Greater Israel. Which requires the breaking up of the existing Arab states into small states. The war on Syria is part of the process of Israeli territorial expansion. Israeli intelligence working hand in glove with the US, Turkey and NATO is directly supportive of the Al Qaeda terrorist mercenaries inside Syria.
How would you describe Zionism?
Zionism is an international political movement that originally supported the reestablishment of a homeland for the Jewish People in Palestine (Hebrew: Eretz Yisra'el, “the Land of Israel”), and continues primarily as support for the modern state of Israel. Although its origins are earlier, the movement was formally established by the Austro-Hungarian journalist Theodor Herzl in the late 19th century. The movement was eventually successful in establishing Israel in 1948, as the world's first and only modern Jewish State. Described as a "diaspora nationalism,"its proponents regard it as a national liberation movement whose aim is the self-determination of the Jewish people. While Zionism is based in part upon religious tradition linking the Jewish people to the Land of Israel, where the concept of Jewish nationhood is thought to have first evolved somewhere between 1200 BCE and the late Second Temple era (i.e. up to 70 CE), the modern movement was mainly secular, beginning largely as a response by European Jewry to antisemitism across Europe. It constituted a branch of the broader phenomenon of modern nationalism.At first one of several Jewish political movements offering alternative responses to the position of Jews in Europe, Zionism gradually gained more support, and after the Holocaust became the dominant Jewish political movement.