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What Is Zionism?
Look at these statements and guess who made them:
The Jews are a non-people, a non-nation – non-men, indeed.
Jews have taken on a number of antisocial characteristics.
Jewish life is a dog’s life that evokes disgust.
Jews are like filthy dogs, inhuman dogs.
The Nazis? The Ku Klux Klan? David Duke?
No. Those statements were made by early Zionists and Maskilim. The second one was said by Herzl. That’s why they created Zionism. They were unhappy with the traditional Jewish “nation” (and its despised state among the nations) so they strove to get rid of it and replace it with a new one. A real one. One that would be “normal” – like the Goyishe nations.
Their goal was to re-define the very meaning of a Jew and the Jewish nation.
Rav Avigdor Miller ZTL describes it as follows:
What Haman and Titus could not do, the Israelis are attempting. The first could only attempt to destroy the physical existence of Israel, but the State of Israel is attempting to counterfeit the term Jew and to erase all boundaries between Jew and non-Jew (Sing You Righteous, p. 20).
The way they sought to accomplish this was through rewriting national history, including creating new national heroes, allies and enemies, politics, aspirations, culture, even a new language, and re-educating the masses, especially the youth who they tried very hard to separate, culturally and psychologically, from their parents. They would leverage thousands of years of Jewish history and religion, and exploit them to give an illusion of historical momentum to their newly created nationality. And, of course, they would also use plain force of arms to make sure that the New Hebrew replaced the old religious Jew (as in the case of the children of Tehran). They learned these tried-and-true methods from other people who used them or variations thereof, including the Bolsheviks /Communists.