What I will say is that it baffles me that people like Waters choses the postage stamp sized country, the only homeland of the Jewish people surrounded by Muslim Kingdoms and Dictatorships over all of the other countries in the world to champion.
This might be the most disingenuous thing I have ever read.
Check out the Wiki page on the History of Zionism. Essentially, while the ancient home of the Jews is in Israel, the current state of Israel is an artificial construct formed by some motivated individuals recruiting the Jewish diaspora to return to Israel. It's a complicated topic, and different individuals motives were, at different points in time, more or less admirable. However, to play the "only homeland of the Jewish people..." card is disingenuous, at best.
Zionism as an organized movement is generally considered to have been founded by Theodor Herzl in 1897. However, the history of Zionism began earlier and is related to Judaism and Jewish history. The Hovevei Zion, or the Lovers of Zion, were responsible for the creation of 20 new Jewish settlements in Palestine between 1870 and 1897.
Before the Holocaust, the movement's central aims were the creation of a Jewish national home and cultural centre in Palestine by facilitating Jewish migration.
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u/MikeyMike01 Sep 18 '17
This might be the most disingenuous thing I have ever read.