This is such a great topic . This is a comment on a post of someone who's a zealous anti-Zionist . It went on so long I decided to make it a blog . Now I believe its going to be a series . Such a stark distinction between good and evil on this one . In fact it's the distinction in itself . All of wickedness is a departure from Zionism . So what is Zionism ?
It's basically believing the story of Abraham in the Bible . The Old Testament , the Torah , they're the same for our purposes . In that story God gives a certain portion of land to Abraham and a certain branch of his descendants . If you believe that , you're a Zionist . If you don't believe it , you're not .
If it is true than a certain family , now race has an eternal claim to the promised land. Regardless whether you think the right people are there or claim to be Jews but not , whatever , you're still a Zionist if you believe that was a legitimate land claim . If it was then the deed was forever ( the life of planet earth and then there will be a Jerusalem on the new earth ). Forever . Like the "stars of the heavens" .
“And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.” - Genesis 15:5
Now a nation called Israel has an eternal claim to the biblical promised land . Zionism . Once you realize you are a Zionist of course you support that "promised land" being set aside , declared holy . Who gets to live there and govern the area may be another debate . Smarter historians than us have looked at this , but regardless of blood, the legitimate government of Israel is the one who decides . That government was a compromise between God and Moses. We will never get any more authentic than what we got for inhabitants . Do you know the story of Solomon and the baby there was a dispute who the real mom was ? It's those who love it enough to go there and say they are Jews . God made it where any counterfeit Jews would probably deserve the break , there's not masses flocking there . Most if they were not Jewish and loved that heritage would not be there investing their lives in it , raising their kids there . The
If you don't believe the Bible you're no Zionist, you think Jews were thieves clear back to Abraham, if he really existed , But the Jews have been claiming it for about 4000 years now . By secular reasoning , secular history it's theirs anyway .It don't get much more secular than King Cyrus who proclaimed the God of Israel That's about the beginning of secular history , about a thousand years after the Jews began journalizing history in the Torah .When King Cyrus commissioned the second Temple the Jews had been in it , Israel had existed a thousand years plus .
It would be absurd to question whether Cyrus existed or not . There are volumes in secular history about him . It gets us to today when all the secular proof needed is being unearthed by archaeologists. What Cyrus recognized as Israel . Zion . If you believe this history , your just about a Zionist .
The word Zion has a different history , it didn't come along until David bought a site for the first Temple. At first Zion was that hill , then the city that grew up there .. But if you believe in the legitimacy of the hill , then the entire promised land goes right along with it , same book .
"Zionist" is a lot newer but if your going to put an ist on supporters of Zion , the ist'er would be an Old Testament believer . because secular history picks up the ball right about there. There was a thousand years of document proof and archeological evidence in place when Cyrus made the call and secular history awakened .
I don't know where a person would begin an anti Zionism argument . Maybe if one only believe what the saw with their own eyes in their lifetime . Few educated would be so backwards . You have tossed King Cyrus , The Greeks came and went . Israel stayed through their empire. The Babylonians hated them made them slaves and took them away . The Persians put them back though . The Romans recognized them for a long time , up to about 30 AD . Now it's been about 2000 years since then . It's been so well documented what the Romans did there it's tough to deny , but if you do,
"Pick it up in the 1940's the allies won the war and owned the entire middle east . The UN declared Israel about the same time the rest of those countries over there were given their territory . If any of them are legitimate , why would Israel not be ? If you believe your eye's , look at a map . It don't need your blessing to survive , but it would be nice .
So even from a secular point of view Israel belongs right there and if you believe God has anything to do with it or not ever it's still seems impossible to make a reasonable argument against Zionism . Personally I think the other people we gave nations to when the middle east was divided up into countries again after the march of empires have disappointed and Israel has over-achieved . I would take all of it back and make it Israel. We wanted to give the Muslim nations a chance to develop , they were humans too after all ... Big mistake . We should have made all of it Israel . So I'm a Zionist times 1000 .
But if you just believe the story of Abraham and believe Israel should exist and govern the promised land . You are a Zionist . That's what it means . The girl I commented to thought it just mean Nazi or Satanist or something , don't go through life so ignorant, OMG she had links to stuff that backed her up . The Bible's still the best but secular history came along right on time . The left just tries to make everyone think it's a bad word like "white ", "man", "nation" or something . None of those are bad and Zion is holy . Zionist is just a person who believess that much .