User:Toussaint/why anti-Zionists enrage me

They come from the realm of pathological counter-elites, authoritarians, progressivists and anarchopacifists. They don't care about long term, deep-grounded concerns which may arise from their advocacies against certain individuals or certain groups of individuals. So when they target Jewish individuals and Jewish organizations for vilification and belligerent action, they highlight the hypocrisies of their own forebears. When Germans and other Europeans rant against Jewish individuals and organizations, they adamantly ignore their own ethnonationalities' excesses and outrages against their own minorities, including the Jewish minorities of those countries.

Now that the Jewish people are seeking to create their own homeland, one which embraces both the ethnicity, the religion and cultural artifacts practiced within the realm of the Jewish people, Judeophobia has found its most potent face: Israel. Non-Jewish anti-Zionists can hardly lay claim to moral ascendancy, and their arguments are usually circumstantial, highly anecdotal and ignorant of history.

My argument for Zionism and Judaism is not out of respect for any particular Jewish claims of moral authority or righteousness. I don't believe in the righteousness of whole religions, religious communities or ethnic communities (or the mystic justifications thereof), given the historical association of religion and strong ideology with belligerent, authoritarian tendencies. I don't believe that religion should be associated with the state, and in any other case, I would vociferously advocate against such actions which would logically conclude with the tying of the state's destiny with religious institutions.

I do believe, however, that the Jewish religion needs to be therapeutically defused of the pent-up frustrations and rage which were generated by two millennia of outside persecution and violence, and that the only way to accomplish this is through Jewish settlement of the land of the religion's forebears. While anti-Zionists demand for the destruction of the state and displacement of its Jewish inhabitants as soon as such actions can be belligerently enabled, the healing of the Jewish people's need for majoritarian rule - rule by those of the same religious and cultural affinity - can only come about through at least 200 years of entrenchment and nativization.

For example, it took the American nationality over 100 years after independence to settle clear across the continent, and another 100 years to resolve some of its most outstanding ethnic controversies (such as the disenfranchisement of African and Native Americans, among others). Thus, since Israel declared itself independent in 1948, it will take until at least 2048 before one can finally say that the Jewish ethnic majority in the country has been nativized to the region, and until 2067 (100 years after the Six-Day War) to finally resolve the core religious unfulfillment: that of the Temple Mount. Only after 2067 can answers to the questions about the displaced Arabic-speaking peoples of the region be demanded.

It is unfortunate that such a frustratingly-long period must conclude before the Arab refugees can interface directly with the Israeli government. I say that the Christians (in Europe and elsewhere) should be blamed for having created such a crisis, a literal 100-year war, by way of having laid such fraudulent allegations against the Jewish minorities in their own countries in the past, and having incited religiously- and ethnically-motivated violence against the same.

In the meantime, I think that it is a good time to work on minoritizing and diversifying religious mosaics in other countries so that we will never have a repeat of the Christian treatment of the Jewish people and their religion for two millennia of European history.