Today - bookclub - All the pretty horses...
And talked about last Thursday's Jewish Heritage Festival in Davis where I did not see any Israeli flags nor colors associated with Israel or Judaism. I personally was there only a short time so I cannot say if there were any visible signs this was a Jewish event except perhaps for some music and some foods.
I just checked Wikipedia for corrections I am trying to introduce to the article: Torah. ALSO I checked the page Zionism -- looking for some history and found some stuff in the first paragraph that was disturbing and not politically correct and in fact slanted and not really correct or to the main point of what is Zionism. More, perhaps, later!
THE QUESTION ABOUT ZIONISM: Is the term Zionism no longer THE term to use? Should another term be found to describe the defense of The State of Israel? A fact: Israel is under constant attack from outside its borders! There seem to be few terrorist attacks coming from within Israel. Most recently Gaza was not ruled by Israel and when it received resources those resources were significantly, if not wholly, used to make war and terrorism. In other words - the sovereign state of Gaza attacked, almost constantly for the 20 years since internal control was turned over to residents, the State of Israel. Really - for 20 years - there has been a de facto State of Gaza and that state has been waging war against the State of Israel. I and perhaps others will always wonder what would have happened if instead of Gaza using resources for war they had built up an economy in peaceful way? Could Israel have lowered its blocking potential and probable and REAL shipments of hostile agressive armaments and other supplies?
There are people who are not Zionists who support the State of Israel. What might we call them? IF/when we call them Jews we invite the blurring of the lines between anti-Israel and anti-semitism.
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