*Zionism* (Hebrew <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language>:
צִיּוֹנוּת, IPA: [t͡sijo̞ˈnut]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_Hebrew>, translit.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Hebrew> *Tziyonut*, after *Zion
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zion>*) is a nationalist
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalist> and political movement of Jews
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews> andJewish culture
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_culture> that supports the
re-establishment of a Jewish homeland
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_homeland> in the territory defined as
the historic Land of Israel <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_Israel>
(roughly
corresponding to Palestine
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_(region)>, Canaan
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaan> or the Holy Land
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Land>).[1]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMotyl2001604.-1>[2]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism#cite_note-2>[3]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism#cite_note-3>[4]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism#cite_note-4> Zionism emerged in the
late 19th century in central and eastern Europe as a national revival
movement, called Hovevei Tziyon <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hovevei_Zion>.
Soon after this most leaders of the movement associated the main goal with
creating the desired state in Palestine, then an area controlled by the Ottoman
Empire <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire>.[5]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism#cite_note-RCohen-5>[6]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism#cite_note-JGelvin-6>[7]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism#cite_note-7>
The primary goals of Zionism until 1948, were the re-establishment of
Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel ("Eretz Israel
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eretz_Israel>" in Hebrew
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew>), ingathering of the exiles
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gathering_of_Israel>, and liberation of Jews
from the antisemitic <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism>
discrimination
and persecution <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Jews>that
occurred in their diaspora <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_diaspora>.
Since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Zionism continues
primarily to advocate on behalf of Israel and address threats to its
continued existence and security.
A religious variety of Zionism supports Jews upholding their Jewish
identity defined as adherence to religious Judaism, opposes the
assimilation of Jews into other societies, and has advocated the return
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliyah> of Jews to Israel
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel> as a means for Jews to be a majority
nation in their own state.[1]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMotyl2001604.-1> In
a less common usage, the term may also refer to non-political,cultural
Zionism <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Zionism>, founded and
represented most prominently by Ahad Ha'am
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahad_Ha%27am>. Another less common meaning
is the political support for the State of Israel by non-Jews.
Advocates of Zionism view it as a national liberation movement
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_movement> for the repatriation of
a persecuted people residing as minorities in a variety of nations, to the
homeland to which they had a historical connection.[8]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism#cite_note-Volume13-8>[9]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism#cite_note-RanA-9>[10]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism#cite_note-ZiBri-10> Critics of
Zionism <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Zionism> view it as a
colonialist <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonialism>,[11]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism#cite_note-CHARCOL-11> racist
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Israel#Zionism>[12]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism#cite_note-CHARRAS-12> and
exceptionalist <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exceptionalism>[13]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism#cite_note-13> ideology that led
advocates to violence
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionist_political_violence> during Mandatory
Palestine <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine>, followed by
the forced exodus of Palestinians
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Palestinian_exodus>, and the subsequent
denial of their human rights.[14]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism#cite_note-14>[15]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism#cite_note-CurthoysGanguly2007-15>[16]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism#cite_note-K.C4.ABf.C5.ABrkiy.C4.81n2009-16>
[17] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism#cite_note-SchamSalem2005-17>
On Sunday, October 18, 2015 at 1:51:24 PM UTC-5, Travis wrote:
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> *The following is excerpted from an article by Bassam Tawil, a scholar
> based in the Middle East. It was originally published at the Gatestone
> Institute here: The Real Threat to Europe
> <http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5228/islamist-threat-europe>.*
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> The late Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, predicted that Islam
> would conquer Europe without even firing a shot. To understand and explain
> the fate awaiting Europe, it is necessary to listen seriously to what the
> upper echelons of Islam say to each about their own intentions — in Arabic.
> These messages are quite different from those on Western television. What
> they say to one another is that *the mission of Islam*
> <http://www.inquiryintoislam.com/2010/08/islams-prime-directive.html> is
> to lead the whole world and eradicate all other religions, as they have
> been made irrelevant by the Qur'an.
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> Their doctrine appears openly and without reservation in books and on
> websites. It is spread in local languages in mosques by the imams in their
> communities throughout Europe. These communities operate according to an
> ancient Islamic code: They command immigration; then the forming of
> *enclaves*
> <http://www.inquiryintoislam.com/2015/01/occupation-without-tanks-or-soldiers.html>
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> in the host country, then the eventual violent takeover of the host.
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> Once this process is complete, all the Islamic communities will unite to
> form the Islamic Caliphate. It will have no borders and no other identity.
> Then there will be Peace. This, they say, was the state of affairs under
> Muhammad and this will be the state of affairs in the future.
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> It is markedly apparent to us, however, that the world refuses to listen
> to what the Islamists are saying. Anyone who dares to issue a warning is
> called, among other names, an alarmist or a racist.
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> On the rare occasion when an expert does warn of the coming danger, the
> global media turn him into an object of scorn and derision. There seems to
> be less than no wish even to look at Islamist ideology. Al Jazeera, run by
> the Emir of Qatar to promote radical Islam, has instructed its American
> division *not to use the words*
> <http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/397320/internal-emails-show-al-jazeera-english-banning-use-terms-terrorist-militant-islamist>
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> "terrorist," "militant," "extremist," "jihad" and "Islamist." Does anyone
> seriously think they are doing that to promote transparency?
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> Throughout history, society has disregarded — and often even persecuted —
> any messenger who says things it does not like, such as Giordano Bruno,
> burned at the stake in 1600 for wounding the world's narcissism by
> proposing that stars were other suns that could have other planets.
> Recently, global terrorism expert Steven Emerson, who made the 1994
> documentary "*Terrorists Amongst Us: Jihad in America*
> <http://www.citizenwarrior.com/2007/07/terrorists-among-us.html>," about
> the dangers the U.S. would face from radical Islam, has been vilified and
> ridiculed for an exaggerated *comment about Birmingham*
> <http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5190/no-go-zones-displacement>. His
> apology may have reflected an error about the facts, but his central
> message was right. It did not negate his warning about the future danger
> these Muslim enclaves will present to Europe. Paris is not the only city
> with areas *off-limits*
> <http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5128/france-no-go-zones> to police.
> Every tourist who goes to Marseilles, Köln, Berlin and Frankfurt is warned
> by local inhabitants about places to be bypassed.
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> The same is true of Stephen Coughlin, who was a Major in a Military
> Intelligence unit of the U.S. Army. Asked, as a lawyer, to prepare a report
> on *Islamic sharia law*
> <http://www.inquiryintoislam.com/2015/02/sharia-law.html>, he delivered,
> in July 2007, the most meticulous, painstaking, thoroughly-documented
> report: "*To Our Great Detriment": Ignoring What Extremists Say about
> Jihad*
> <http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/coughlin-thesis__final__8_aug_07-w-appendices.pdf>."
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> He was promptly fired. He had apparently come up with the "wrong" answer.
> The U.S. Army, it seems, had expected to hear that sharia law was not much
> different from the Magna Carta.
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> Commentators in Europe all had opinions about the terrorist attacks at the
> Charlie Hebdo office and the kosher supermarket in Paris. They
> reverentially discussed the motivation of the terrorists, the anti-Muslim
> atmosphere in Europe and concern over additional global jihad attacks, but
> showed distressingly little understanding of *the meaning of jihad*
> <http://www.citizenwarrior.com/2007/10/what-does-jihad-mean.html>.
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> *Read the rest of the article here: The Real Threat to Europe
> <http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5228/islamist-threat-europe>.*
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