Is Zionism evil? If not, please tell me how it's good for the World?

Question

I'm not talking about being Jewish. I'm talking about being a Zionist.
There is a big difference!

What is bad for MANKIND IS EVIL and is our greatest threat!!!!!!!!1

TELL ME HOW ITS GOOD FOR THE WORLD!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

Zionism is not religious, it is political. Uganda and Argentina were options for the Jewish homeland.

Jews congregated in Israel so as to no longer "upset" the rest of the International Community. See anonymous letter below:

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE WORLD

Dear World,

I understand that you are upset by us, here in Israel. Indeed, it appears that you are quite upset, even angry. (Outraged?)

Indeed, every few years you seem to become upset by us. Today, it is the “disproportionate bombing” in Lebanon, yesterday it was the "brutal repression of the Palestinians"; before that it was Lebanon; before that it was the bombing of the nuclear reactor in Baghdad and the Yom Kippur War and the Sinai campaign. It appears that Jews who triumph and who, therefore, live, upset you most extraordinarily.

Of course, dear world, long before there was an Israel, we - the Jewish people - upset you.

We upset a German people who elected Hitler and upset an Austrian people who cheered his entry into Vienna and we upset a whole slew of Slavic nations - Poles, Slovaks, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Russians, Hungarians and Romanians. And we go back a long, long way in the history of world upset.

We upset the Cossacks of Chmielnicki who massacred tens of thousands of us in 1648-49; we upset the Crusaders who, on their way to liberate the Holy Land, were so upset at Jews that they slaughtered untold numbers of us.

For centuries, we upset a Roman Catholic Church that did its best to define our relationship through inquisitions, and we upset the arch-enemy of the church, Martin Luther, who, in his call to burn the synagogues and the Jews within them, showed an admirable Christian ecumenical spirit.

And it is because we became so upset over upsetting you, dear world, that we decided to leave you - in a manner of speaking - and establish a Jewish state. The reasoning was that living in close contact with you, as resident-strangers in the various countries that comprise you, we upset you, irritate you and disturb you. What better notion, then, than to leave you (and thus love you) - and have you love us and so, we decided to come home - home to the same land we were driven out 1,900 years earlier by a Roman world that, apparently, we also upset.

Alas, dear world, it appears that you are hard to please.

Having left you and your pogroms and inquisitions and crusades and holocausts, having taken our leave of the general world to live alone in our own little state, we continue to upset you. You are upset that we repress the poor Palestinians. You are deeply angered over the fact that we do not give up the lands of 1967, which are clearly the obstacle to peace in the Middle East

Moscow is upset and Washington is upset. The "radical" Arabs are upset and the gentle Egyptian moderates are upset.

Well, dear world, consider the reaction of a normal Jew from Israel.

In 1920 and 1921 and 1929, there were no territories of 1967 to impede peace between Jews and Arabs. Indeed, there was no Jewish State to upset anybody Nevertheless, the same oppressed and repressed Palestinians slaughtered tens of Jews in Jerusalem, Jaffa, Safed and Hebron. Indeed, 67 Jews were slaughtered one day in Hebron in 1929.

Dear world, why did the Arabs - the Palestinians - massacre 67 Jews in one day in 1929? Could it have been their anger over Israeli aggression in 1967? And why were 510 Jewish men, women and children slaughtered in Arab riots between 1936-39? Was it because Arabs were upset over 1967?

And when you, dear world, proposed a UN Partition Plan in 1947 that would have created a "Palestinian State" alongside a tiny Israel and the Arabs cried "no" and went to war and killed 6,000 Jews - was that "upset" caused by the aggression of 1967? And, by the way, dear world, why did we not hear your cry of "upset" then?

The poor Palestinians who today kill Jews with explosives and firebombs and stones are part of the same people who ­ when they had all the territories they now demand be given to them for their state -attempted to drive the Jewish state into the sea. The same twisted faces, the same hate, the same cry of "itbach-al-yahud" (Massacre the Jew!) that we hear and see today, were seen and heard then. The same people, the same dream - destroy Israel. What they failed to do yesterday, they dream of today, but we should not "repress" them.

Dear world, you stood by during the holocaust and you stood by in 1948 as seven states launched a war that the Arab League proudly compared to the Mongol massacres.

You stood by in 1967 as Nasser, wildly cheered by wild mobs in every Arab capital in the world, vowed to drive the Jews into the sea. And you would stand by tomorrow if Israel were facing extinction.

And since we know that the Arabs-Palestinians dream daily of that extinction, we will do everything possible to remain alive in our own land. If that bothers you, dear world, well ­ think of how many times in the past you bothered us.

In any event, dear world, if you are bothered by us, here is one Jew in Israel who could not care less.

Answer 2

Zionism in itself is not an evil, it is merely the belief in and of a Jewish homeland and it has a long history before the creation of the State of Israel. What is "evil" is killing people..that goes for anyone. Thank you for creating a distinction between the two ideas of being Jewish v. being a Zionist, I think all too often people choose not to create this separation. And yet for some there is no separation.

Answer 3

No system or religion is evil. Only the people who claim to follow a system are evil. There are evil Christians, but that doesn't necessarily mean that Christianity is bad. The only two systems that are basically evil in and of themselves are the Muslims because the Koran is basically a book about hating anyone who does not follow the prophet's laws, and Zionism because they teach that anyone who doesn't agree with them is to be killed. Both are rather like the Nazis.

Answer 4

Zionism is not evil.
Neither is killing, or being selfish, or playing with puppies.
There is no good and there is no evil.
When are people going to understand this?
All judgements like that are based on the opinion of one person.

I think you're evil. Does that make you evil? No. It doesn't. It doesn't make you anything.

I also think that you and anyone else who asks this type of question are stupid and need to actually use rational thought a little more often.

Answer 5

Zionism is a belief that goes to the morals of King David(pbuh).They believe that one day they will inherit the land promised by GOD.The problem is, that promise was not for them.It was for the actual children that were led out or Egypt by Moses(pbuh)About 3,500 years ago.If you study Rastsfarianism(and this is a real religion.not a man with dredds who listen to ragae) they believe thier leader to be a direct decendant of King Soloman(pbuh) son of David(pbuh).His name is Ras(prince) Tafari Makonnen.Or you can call him Haile Selassie.If that prophecy is true, then it is for the Rastas and not the Zionists.And they are promised one day to return back to Africa in Ethiopa when the earth will be pure again one day.I don't know about the zionists.They were supposed to accept jesus and the prophet muhammad(pbuh).I nor does anybody else know what THE GOD truly has planned for them.Rastas truly represent the morals to that of zionism.But they are not zionists.They are Rastas.

Answer 6

No, Zionism is not evil. Things do not have to be good for the world at large to not be evil.

Answer 7

No more evil than the desire for self-preservation. What about Americanism, or any other country's policies of protection

Answer 8

a = ditto with what serf said.
b = what's better than that jews should have a place to live -- especially a place which they consider of the utmost importance.
c = since the league of nations democratically voted for the state of Israel (and Israel therefore is probably one of the few nations to have a truly legitimate claim to the territory they own), then wouldn't it be nice for all the jews to live together in their own country?

d = I suspect that you have an agenda.

Answer 9

So the only choices are
1) Evil
2) Good for the whole world

I hope you'll excuse me if I choose not to engage in the debate on your terms

Answer 10

Well, I can safely say it hasn't been good, for the world--especially Zionist Israel's neighbors.