Discussion on Zionism and Palestinian Rights

Zionism,

the idea of building a state of Jewish farmers on Arab land in the Middle East

is a

stupid idea to begin with. I've always thought so.

My mother wanted to go and be a Zionist at one point.

I tried to talk her out of it. It's been a thing in my family.

Um, I think it's a bad idea. I think it's a messianic idea.

I think it's a superstitious idea.

I've always thought it's a silly, messianic, superstitious,

nationalist idea, and

it's a waste of Judaism.

And it guaranteed a quarrel with the Arabs because it meant we're gonna take away

from you what's most precious, your land.

Fourth generation of Palestinians brought up either in exile, in dispossession, or

under occupation and humiliation. But it should be a matter of principle

if the...

if Jews born in Brooklyn have a right to a state in Palestine, then Palestinians

born in Jerusalem have a right to a state in Palestine.

Anyone who doesn't agree with that principle, I think, is suspect.

I think most people do.

But why, in that case, should we have the one and not the other?