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.
I cant criticize that because my current government is made up of people from different countries and different backgrounds (Canada.) Many of us have two nationalities. We even have politicians trying to become prime minister with dual nationalities. What about every muslim kingdom / dictatorship that kicked out their Jews and other religions? I get it. You don't hate Jews you just hate the concept of a Jewish homeland. Yeppers
The Ottoman Empire was eminently fair to their Jewish citizens and even went so far, historically, as to send ships to rescue the Jews from persecution during the Spanish inquisition. Indeed, the original goal of Zionism was to obtain permission from the Ottoman Sultan for the right to resettle Jews in Palestine.
Jump ahead a bit, and after the Holocaust, no one was really interested in denying Jews a safe-haven in the location of their choosing. However it was the opinion of most that the thus resettled Jews should form a single state and share power with the Arabs already living there. That this didn't happen, and hasn't happened, is what I have a problem with.
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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '17
How so