Discussion on Zionism and Palestine

Zionism

Zionism

Zionism

Zionism

Zionism

A political movement, an ideology, or an

ethnonationalist vision based on supremacy.

To understand it, we go back to 1897, the birth

of Zionism. Before Israel existed, a group of European Jews

gathered to develop a vision that would change history.

Zionism is a movement that started a hun- around 150

years ago. That's just really recently, relatively recently.

And it's a movement of people who were totally

estranged from the Jewish religion.

They weren't practicing the religion as a whole.

The founder of Zionists, his name was Theodor Herzl, from Vienna,

Austria. He don't believe in God. He don't believe in nothing.

That Judaism is completely a religious movement,

have nothing to do with any nationality, with any

materialistic thing.

Zionism was different. It was a political and nationalist

movement that used historical Jewish narratives and biblical

mythologies, as well as antisemitism, to justify

colonization and create a Jewish state in Palestine at any

cost.

They realized in order to get a lot of massive

support from the world, evangelistic Christians,

Jews who don't know

the Torah, don't know the laws, uh, or don't practice the laws.

So they knew they'll go to Palestine and they'll be able to tell everybody,

"Oh,

this is the God-given land to the Jewish people." They s- uh,

automatically started breaching and transgressing the laws of the

Torah, not to kill and not to steal, not to oppress a people

because they, their, their co- They wanted to make their national home in

a

land that was inhabited by the Palestinian people.

From the start, Zionism necessitated killing, stealing,

and

depressing, actions that go against core Jewish teachings.

They declared themselves a Jewish state, and, and if anybody stood up against them,

they said, "Because you hate the Jews, and you're an antisemite."

When the ideology was put into action beginning in the late

19th century,

Palestinians were killed and violently displaced,

and Jewish settlers

seized their land and replaced them.

There was no coexistence, only ethnic cleansing and control.

The Zionist movement and Israeli government being nothing but

a settler colonial imperialist system

that is trying to replace us with, uh, Jewish

immigrants from outside,

to kick us out of our country, to conduct ethnic

cleansing.

In Zionism, total victory means no Palestinians and no

resistance to colonization, land theft, Jewish supremacy,

and total cultural erasure.

What is total victory?

I- in the, within the realm of, in the framework of Zionism,

total victory is ethnic cleansing.

It's the completion of the genocide, the genocidal process that began in

1948, which can deliver them an ethno

religiously

pure state, free from these indigenous contaminants.

It starts early in classrooms. History rewritten,

symbols saluted, indoctrination over education.

And then when you get to high school, you start

literally, uh, learning, um, how to be a soldier already

with the age of 16. Once you finish high school,

you're supposed

to quite immediately, as soon as possible, with 18, go to the army.

It's obligatory. I don't even remember using the words

Palestinians in school.

Uh, Arabs was there, and they're always some kind

of a, in a context of being our enemies.

Where I would say that the word closely to

Palestinians, we have the word, so in the Bible it says

Plishtim. So these were also our enemies.

And then I think the connection that I would make as a

kid w- when I started hearing the word

Palestinians, I

connected it,

the connotation was to these Plishtim from the Bible who were our

enemies. So you learn specifically about the

heritage of Judaism,

but it's all Zionism actually.

Um, that's another thing as an adult that I had to relearn Judaism

when I came out of Israel.

Today in Palestine's Gaza, the Zionist ideology is manifesting

its most natural state, one of extreme lawless brutality.

Palestinians are being murdered, starved, and stripped of every basic

right.

They have declared a full closure over the

closure. No food, no water, no, uh, no

electricity, no fuel. With a determination

to punish the Palestinian people, to target the Palestinian people,

this might lead

to creating the conditions of, of, of life that would

be destruct, physical and biological destruction for

Palestinians.

On each gurney was three to five kids, uh, almost

exclusively kids. Uh, 90% of our new admissions were

kids. Um, and there'd be 15, 20

kids coming in at the end of, of every bombing.

Uh, a third were dead by the time they got to

us.

I'm so sorry.

Um, a third would die in front of us.

Um,

and a third we'd take to the operating room.

I'm so sorry.

And most of them would die.

No kid gets shot twice by mistake by a

sniper.

Mm-hmm.

It doesn't happen by mistake. They were deliberately targeted,

and that's,

that's not beyond a war crime. That's targeted assassinations, and it

helped me formulate my opinion of what, what's really occurring in, in,

in Gaza.

How is this genocidal system flourishing?

Billions in US aids year after year.

I think there's not only an effort within the military and our government

institutions, but it's an effort by the media,

by our executive

branch, legislative branch. I mean, uh, even

local state governments. I think every

institution at this point is, has a level of corruption

that keeps us censored to the truth and reality of

what's actually happening. Fox News, CNN, even, you know,

MSNBC, all of these news organizations have been

censoring the truth.

Netanyahu hasn't been condemned

by the American government. The American government hasn't sanctioned

Netanyahu. In fact, they have doubled down.

One telephone call can stop all wars.

Israel cannot thrive without American

taxpayer paid for bombs.

That's all it would take.

Meanwhile, 1.25 million Palestinians face

catastrophic

hunger in Gaza. Aid remains blocked. Families are starving.

This dictatorship, they really have no limits, and if

they could, they would starve all the Palestinians to

death.

And actually, what they tried to do for 20 months,

they destroyed all the

aid system. They destroyed the water sewage system.

They destroyed all the capacity of the Palestinian people to remain

alive in that region.

Over in Palestine's occupied West Bank, apartheid defines daily

life.

I don't have any rights.

In the contrary of the Israeli settlers who live close to my

house illegally, they have more rights than me in

my own neighborhood. They are under the Israeli civilian law with

full

civilian rights and political rights.

And we, the Palestinians, who are living, you know,

in the, in our land,

we don't have any, any rights.

Basic rights we don't have. We don't have enough water,

enough electricity.

But Palestinians refuse to leave.

Staying is resisting, resistance against a system that

silences and suppresses an entire people.

Palestinians are staying and remaining because for us it's about

that remaining in the land is a kind of resistance, and

we call it all the time, existence is resistance.

We mobilize to stop the genocide. We mobilize to defeat Zionism, to

defeat imperialism, to create a better society for every human

being and every being on this planet. It's our task to do so.

The Zionists, ignoring everything about the Jewish

belief.

In the Jewish belief, the state of Israel will come to an end,

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