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.
2006-07-14 23:34:47
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answered by sshazzam 6
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In my view there is the TRUE ZIONISM and the FALSE ZIONISM.
True Zionists include great men like Abraham, David and Joshua, who wanted a place to establish the development of a just and merciful society that is monotheistic in nature, that could eventually influence other nations into accepting the Grand System of Monotheism, which teaches you that everything and everyone is created by a SINGLE CREATOR!! In this truth there is an opportunity for permanent peace. It was necessary for human beings to establish, test and prepare for this peaceful world and a place was needed to do this in real life, thus ultimtely Israel was created so that PEACE may be established in the World by the Lord Almighty.
False Zionism is forgetting the core purpose of why Israel was created in the first place and make Zionism into a form of nationalism for the Jewish people, regardless of their position on G-d, Torah, Moses, or Abraham. Anyone, even those who did not believe in the Torah or Moses could ironically immigrate to the "Jewish Homeland", when Moses himself was not allowed to enter Israel for disobedience (hitting the tree at Horeb, instead of speaking to it, if my memory serves me right). If one does not accept the Torah or the collective Jewish history, how can one claim a place on the land which is only recorded in the Torah, if one does not believe in the Torah itself.
False Zionism is like nationalism which became the basis of the "freedom" for various created nations (many created very artificially for superficial purposes, such as the Arab nations that were created by the British and given freedoms at different times for various religious, ideological and political purposes of dividing and ruling).
This Israel is thus a created nation under false Zionism. I understand this Israel will go and it will be replaced by another by the Messiah or Moshiach of the Jewish people after a three and half year gap. The Dome of the Rock is supposed to be destroyed in the coming struggle in which Muslims will commit excesses beyond what is allowed in the Quran.
By 2020 the World will be at peace again, if the scheme of things goes as planned, with the Moshiach/Mahdi/Messiah in command of the affairs of the World.
2006-07-15 06:54:54
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answered by NQV 4
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Zionism is racist idiology hiding behide religious belifes
zionism has no relationship with judaism or any other religion
and if not why was (Theodor Herzl) and many other zionist
leaders atheists?
Zionist is destructive idology,when the west get rid of guilt comlex
twards jews it will realize that Israel repeats the holocaust to arabs
2006-07-15 06:53:15
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answered by mohamed.kapci 3
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a zionist is one who believes in ZIONISM. this movement is the source of conflict in the middle east. I never heard about any killing or problems from Arab or Muslim people to Jews before Zionism and occupation of PALESTINE . I know that Jews has lived in the arab and muslim countries as citizens ,and they were expelled together with arabmuslims from "andalus=Spain" , then the stayed in the arab countries untill the first half of 20th century .
from history and the Holy Quran we know that : When Moses crossed the sea from Egypt towards Palestine , He ordered Jews to enter and conquer Palestine , but they refused and said
" there are a strong people ,and we will not obey you , go you and your God and fight them . we will not go only if they go out of it ..."
Those were the ancesstors of arabs ..i.e the Kaanites,the inhabitants of Palestine before the Jews.
The Jews at that time were on the right way of God but after that they distorted the Bible, and we had Christianity then the non-distorted Islam . SO PALESTINE IS FOR THOSE WHO LIVED IN IT BEFORE ZIONISM ..I.E . ARABS MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIAN WITH THE JEWS OF PALESTINE !!!
2006-07-15 07:11:59
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answered by mustafa63gar 2
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A Zionist is a zipper that has been accidentally put on a pair of "501" button jeans.
2006-07-15 06:38:29
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answered by yahoooo reject 3
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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.
Since the founding of the State of Israel, the term Zionism is generally considered to mean support for Israel. However, a variety of different, and sometimes competing, ideologies that support Israel fit under the general category of Zionism, such as Religious Zionism, Revisionist Zionism, and Labor Zionism. Thus, the term is also sometimes used to refer specifically to the programs of these ideologies, such as efforts to encourage Jewish emigration to Israel. The term Zionism is also sometimes used retroactively to describe the millennia-old Biblical connection between the Jewish people and the Land of Israel, which existed long before the birth of the modern Zionist movement. In some cases, the label "Zionist" is also used improperly as a euphemism for Jews in general by those wishing to whitewash anti-Semitism (as in the Polish anti-Zionist campaign).
Support for the Zionist movement was not initially a mainstream position in the world Jewish community, and it was actively opposed by many Jewish organizations. While traditional Jewish belief held that Eretz Yisrael (the Land of Israel) was given to the ancient Israelites by God, and that therefore the right of the Jews to that land was permanent and inalienable, most Orthodox groups held that the Messiah must appear before Israel could return to Jewish control, and Reform Judaism (prior to the Holocaust) explicitly rejected Zionism. Still, return to the Land of Israel had remained a recurring theme among generations of diaspora Jews, particularly in Passover and Yom Kippur prayers which traditionally concluded with, "Next year in Jerusalem", and the thrice-daily Amidah (Standing prayer). [3]
Aliyah, or emigration to Israel, has always been considered by Judaism to be a praiseworthy and mandatory act for Jews according to halakha. Aliyah is included in most versions of the 613 commandments, although not in the widely used version of Maimonides. Maimonides' other writings, however, indicate that he considered return to the Land of Israel a matter of extreme importance for Jews. [4]
From the Middle Ages and onwards a number of prominent Jews (e.g. Nahmanides) and groups (including the students of the Vilna Gaon, and Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk and 300 of his followers) emigrated to Israel.
Many Jewish religious leaders were opposed to Zionism before the 1930s. The secular, socialist language used by many pioneer Zionists was contrary to the outlook of most religious Jewish communities, and many religious organisations opposed it, both on the grounds that it was a secular movement, and on the grounds that any attempt to re-establish Jewish rule in Israel by human agency was blasphemous, since (in their view) only the Messiah could accomplish this. There was, however, a small but vocal group of religious Jews that began to develop the concept of Religious Zionism in the 1920s and 1930s under such leaders as Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (the Chief Rabbi of Palestine) and his son Zevi Judah, and gained substantial following during the latter half of the 20th century. Only the desperate circumstances of the 1930s and 1940s converted most (though not all) of these communities to Zionism.
I personally have no strong feelings about Zionism.
2006-07-15 06:38:41
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answered by Anonymous
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Zionism is a movement formerly for re-establishing, now for supporting the Jewish National State of Israel.
2006-07-15 06:40:37
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answered by Walt. 5
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Any person who follows the doctrines advocated by Zionism, is a Zionist.
For further details, please refer to :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionist
2006-07-15 06:39:00
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answered by Anonymous
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See the link below.
2006-07-15 06:36:48
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answered by cybrog 4
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they HAAAAATTTTTTEEE muslims. Not all jews are zionists btw.
2006-07-15 06:34:55
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answered by 3ajeeba_q8 2
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