2007-01-22 05:46:56 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because they believe it's the restoration of the ancient Israel, their land promised by God. Wouldn't it make sense to name it Israel?
2007-01-22 05:51:33 · answer #1 · answered by Yishai 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Zion never was the name of Israel.
Zion is known as the City of David.
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2 Sam 5:6-7
And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land: which spake unto David, saying, Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither: thinking, David cannot come in hither.
7 Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David.
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1 Kings 8:1
Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
It is the nation of Israel which God said would be returned to the land. God always has the final say.
2007-01-22 06:07:55 · answer #2 · answered by Sirius 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Zion is the geologic region. A nation is a people not a place. Israel is the name that Jacob was called by God through His angel, Genesis 32:28. So his decendants became the people or nation of Isreal.
2007-01-22 05:53:41 · answer #3 · answered by Angel L 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because "Israel" was the ancient name of the land the contry of Israel currently occupies. In Genesis 32 it's recorded that Jacob's name was changed by God from Jacob to Israel (from the Hebrew word meaning "supplanter" to "struggled with God"). In fact, "Zion" was a proposed name for what became the country of Israel in 1948 but ultimately rejected -- and here we delve into my opinion -- because "Zion" refers to the future of Israel (e.g. "return to Zion"), and historically and geographically Zion refers to a mountain, Mount Zion, just outside of Jerusalem. When that return was finally achieved, the name "Zion" was superfluous for a geographic entity.
2007-01-22 05:56:43 · answer #4 · answered by ensign183 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Israel is the traditional name of the country. Zion is the name of the hill on which the Jewish Temple was built. (That hill is currently occupied by the Dome of the Rock and the al Aqsa mosque.) Calling it "Zionism" gives the movement a religious flavor.
2007-01-22 07:58:18 · answer #5 · answered by skepsis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It relies upon what you recommend by using "helping Israel". in case you purely meant that elementary Israeli human beings have a top to stay in peace and risk-free practices then i does no longer call you a zionist (and that i might trust you). yet once you meant you help the ultimate of Israel to proceed occupying Palestinian land (and the Golan Heights in Syria) regardless of the large suffering it has brought about to hundreds of thousands of human beings then that ought to certainly make you a zionist (and that i might very lots disagree with you).
2016-11-01 00:10:16 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was Israel, from the days of the Bible. It was the land of Israel that King David was king of. Israel was in exile, but, was back once again. So, the same name should be used.
2007-01-22 05:51:55 · answer #7 · answered by Shossi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is called zion in hebrew its tzion. the reason its called israel is because in hebrew its called eretz yisroel which means the land of israel (the land of the jews which are called israelites). but it still is zion.
2007-01-22 05:52:54 · answer #8 · answered by sks317 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess you should have been there when the Jewish Leaders founded the state and offered your wise opinion. I'm sure they would have listened.
2007-01-24 05:36:29 · answer #9 · answered by MaryBridget G 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was NOT----that is why.
2007-01-22 05:52:10 · answer #10 · answered by whynotaskdon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋