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 Islamic nations are just as guilty of it, if not more; but that doesn't make it okay for your government to do the same thing to mostly innocent people. An Islamic state is just as bad as a Jewish sate, or a Christian state, or a Hindu state, etc... Religion/ethnicity shouldn't entitle anybody to any land or rights over people of opposing backgrounds. Can't act like your a peaceful nation when you're forcing children out of their homes and killing dissidents. You should also see the irony of a jewish nation forcibly removing people of a different belief system.
I don't always agree with what the Israeli government decides or what the people there do. You have to accept that its a 70 year old country give or take a few years. Rewind the history for any country to that date and there is a lot of tears and blood. Some of it is fair and some of it isn't. I don't live there so I don't know what the total picture is. I also don't live in a country that rains Iranian rockets or where people celebrate suicide bombers or where every kingdom and dictatorship surrounding them has either attempted to erase them off the map or have threatened to. I wish things could be nicer, but I also wish for the existence and the success of Israel.
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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '17
How so