I did not imply that you were racist. The fact lies in that the core and the creation of the ideology of Zionism lays upon the following traits: Arrogance believing in the superiority of the Jews, Racism in it's treatment of "deviating" jews and egoistical in it's plans for robbing other lands with no thought given to the indigenous people of these places.
The bolded sounds like racism to me. I have never met someone who calls themselves a Zionist yet believes that to be remotely true. Even if you manage to scrape together some Theodore Herzl quote that has that flavour, it wouldn't prove that such a concept is fundamental to Zionism. It ISN'T. The only thing that Zionists have in common is that belief in the right for self-determination that I keep repeating. And the vast majority of modern Zionists do NOT believe in Jewish superiority.
I don't believe you are willingly attempting to turn Zionism into some kind of great evil, but far too many people misrepresent what Zionism is or simply use it as a short-form for whatever they feel to be wrong with the Israeli state. Zionism is not about taking the rights or the lands of other people, it is not about Jews having greater worth than anybody else. Sure, some idiots try to justify their heinous actions in its name, but the same is true of every political ideology in human history.
This is the facts. The Jews have no legitimate right to any land in the world. Therefore it is injustice in it's purest when they force their so called right to self-determination on an innocent people.
Firstly, how is that a "fact"? Secondly, does any other group have any legitimate right to any land in the world?
Zionism is self-determination for a land, sounds noble. But at the cost of another people. An indefensible and illegal thing.
Palestine/Israel is injustice in it's purest form.
It does not need to be at the cost of another people. Since the founding of Israel there has always been the potential for a state in which Palestinians have self-determination. Of course the history is extremely messy and all sides have grievances. But there is no reason why Jews and Arabs can't some day forgive each other and live peacefully side-by-side, and there is no reason why Zionism should be a barrier.
Who says the majority of displaced Palestinians want to live anywhere other than their homeland? Israel put them in the position they're in right now in the first place, and you're attempting to pass that blame onto other nations, when Israel is at full fault for them being displaced in the first place.
Firstly, we are mostly talking about the children and grandchildren of those who left or fled during the creation of Israel. They are the ONLY group of people who are afforded refugee status by heritage according to the UN. Nobody else. But regardless of what the UN thinks, how many generations have to pass before they no longer have a claim to the land? Somewhere between what the Palestinians have now, and the Jews had prior to 1948 (ignoring the very real continued Jewish presence in those lands over the last 2 millenia?)
Secondly, you are right, many Arabs were forcibly displaced in the mess that was the creation of Israel. But a very large percentage left voluntarily: they sold the land, it wasn't taken from them, or they left
because Arab countries told them they would be able to return as soon as Israel was crushed by their armies.So Israel doesn't have "full fault". And the hideous way that Arab countries often treat Palestinians cannot be blamed on Israel. Some, like Jordan, absorbed many of them and gave them rights. Others have not been so welcoming. They are living proof that the Arab leaders hate the Jews more than they care about the lives of Palestinians.
