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Originally Posted by microbet
Would you answer the question? I'm asking what you believe and how you personally understand the word "Zionism".
I am personally completely uninterested in the concept of Zionism. It means nothing to me. AFAICT to most people it just means whatever reinforces their pre-existing belief structure, and has no "true" meaning in this regard.
If you want to call yourself a Zionist as you personally understand the term, then by all means do so. If some racist Islamist wants to use it as a euphemistic pejorative to mask their power level, then they can do so. But I am not falling for it, and if you listen long enough most of the time they'll take the mask off themselves anyways.
Human history is one long chain of bad things happening to large groups of people. And the 20th century was especially bad in this regard. I dont regard Israel as any particularly villainous nation, or the Palestinian project as some particularly righteous cause that should be made a priority.
The Palestinian people are one of many refugee situations the world could be helping resolve. The Palestinian political project of the last 80 years works against ameliorating the situation, is absurd, and should not be humored at all by serious people.