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Not so young anymore.'s avatar

Zionism isn’t a dirty word. It’s simply believing that Israel has a right to exist. You’re disgusting

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Frank's avatar

Zionism is the BELIEF that one is entitled to have a state based on one ersatz religion. We in the US have a Constitution that proclaims the right to religious freedom. You support the Constitution or the Zionists. Take your choice.

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Frank's avatar

Wrong. Zionism, like Fascism is based on the belief that your national “genes” are better than anyone else’s. This is white superiority. Ergo fascism.

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Al Green's avatar

You state "Zionism isn’t a dirty word. It’s simply believing that Israel has a right to exist."

Wrongo: Zionism is the belief that an Israeli quasi-ethno-state should exist. Whereas in fact ethno-nationalism is always a negative. Israel is an autocracy, not a democracy. Second class citizenship for undesirables has been codified in law as well as in practice for the past few years in Israel.

Israel SHOULD exist... as an actual democracy without preferential treatment for one people or another.

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Not so young anymore.'s avatar

Well Hamas really let us know how well’s binational state would work. Not that this surprised me. Sorry but Jews do get their own state. Do you object to tne existence of Pakistan? Korea? Japan? Or only when Jews are involved is your precious conscience stirred?

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Al Green's avatar

Unlike you I exhibit moral consistency, so ethno-nationalism is wrong regardless of who engages in it. End of story, really. You have no counter-argument to that.

As regards Hamas, the founders of Hamas were funded by Israel in an attempt to destabilize Palestinian governance, so if you have such a problem with Hamas, look to your beloved Israeli government. But that aside, how did you get from the denizens of an impoverished open air prison attacking Israel to "Well Hamas let us know how a binational state would work with this action"? Stop keeping people in a huge concentration camp for starters, and see how that works.

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