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Zionism is silly - It started in about 1890...Half the Jews meeting in Austria wanted to wait for goodness to occur via a messiah..the other half were materialistic and wanted to gain security and a "homeland' by controling and having great wealth...

Ziomism was a response to a repressive environment. You and I would do the same given the conditions that Jews were dealing with at the time. Israel is a legitimate state with a very big challenge. It needs to recognize the reality that can make it great or destroy it. Israel is the key to Middle East relations and it has so far failed to come to grips with its biggest opportunity.

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Like you, I agree that Jews make excellent tenants bringing about a world of success (and inturn jealousy) everywhere they go.

:lol: Yes, they are "God's chosen people".

Talk about selective history.

Oh I forgot, those countries wanted to expel Jews because they were jealous. They must have been jealous of the ghettos. :lol: .

I wonder if the people in this thread who think that countries were made so much better by the Jews are in fact Jews themselves? :blink:

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So you agree?

Yes - easily...comes a time to find solutions and a time to leave the past behind. Yes National Socialism was a nightmare - Yes Zionism has become what they hate..if you hate something long enough you become that object..I do believe we have learned our lessons - extremism and reactionary attitudes and hate that clouds judgement must be put aside- If not..we are doomed..all of us. This is not a problem that is specific to one group - this is a human difficulty born in human frailty and the worst parts of our nature - Joy to the world buddy..let their be a new day and peace..let the dead bury the dead as a great Jew once said- Time to live again- one and all.

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:lol: Yes, they are "God's chosen people".

Talk about selective history.

Oh I forgot, those countries wanted to expel Jews because they were jealous. They must have been jealous of the ghettos. :lol: .

I wonder if the people in this thread who think that countries were made so much better by the Jews are in fact Jews themselves? :blink:

You really need to read past the first sentence of a post.

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You really need to read past the first sentence of a post.

Hey God does not choose any person or group over another..that would be like me sitting on a huge golden throne and looking down at a swamp and choosing and favouring one leopard frog or germ above another - besides..the contract or covenant between the Jews and God is null and void...to have a contract between God and the Jews must go both ways to be sound...Israel is secularized as are 90% of Jews - no contract - no covenant no deal - no choosen people - secularization is the great debaser and equalizer.

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Hey God does not choose any person or group over another..that would be like me sitting on a huge golden throne and looking down at a swamp and choosing and favouring one leopard frog or germ above another - besides..the contract or covenant between the Jews and God is null and void...to have a contract between God and the Jews must go both ways to be sound...Israel is secularized as are 90% of Jews - no contract - no covenant no deal - no choosen people - secularization is the great debaser and equalizer.

I'm not sure if I ever gave the impression that I disagree, but ok. Thanks for sharing that.

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I read your entire post. And I spent as much time in response as it deserved.

Say what you want about Israel, but there is statistical data showing a higher average IQ amongst Ashkenazi Jews, along with higher social demographics compared to other ethnic groups.

It's people like you who make it impossible to criticise Israel without being labelled anti-semitic. It's very frustrating to say the least when people like me bring up valid points yet we get lumped with the likes of you.

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Say what you want about Israel, but there is statistical data showing a higher average IQ amongst Ashkenazi Jews, along with higher social demographics compared to other ethnic groups.

That's exactly what Adolph Hitler said about the Germans compared to other "races", and he had all sorts of German scientists doing studies to prove it. Seems the Zionists and the Nazis have something else in common.

It's people like you who make it impossible to criticise Israel without being labelled anti-semitic. It's very frustrating to say the least when people like me bring up valid points yet we get lumped with the likes of you.

I'm not anti-semitic. Are all semites Jews? Are all Jews semites? Are all Zionists Jews? Are all Jews Zionists?

Seems you need to take an introductory course in set theory.

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However, that's where the similarity between our sentiments ends. Despite the jealousy, brutality and historical misfortune that has been bestowed upon your people, I cannot bring myself to agree with you that "your right to self-determination" should be granted...... on someone else's land.

The Jewish expulsion from different countries seems to be very close to your heart. Yet close to a million Palestinians were met with the same fate in the creation of the state of Israel.

Their right to self-determination doesn't seem to matter though....

I must extend my respect for the first part of your post.

On the merits though there is a tension. The same way that the Jews helped bring prosperity and industry to their host European and American countries, they turned what's now Israel into a garden spot from being a mixture of swamps and deserts. This required hired labor and the (now so-called) Palestinians were happy to oblige. Some of them fled, largely under the spur of their demagogic leaders. The Arabs that remained are now, aside from royalty, the most prosperous Arabs in the Middle East and certainly the freeest.

There is no real distinction between what the Jews did for Europe and America and what they did for the Middle East. Understood that way, the Jews in fact "got there first" (even if you discount Biblical-era history) and have the right to self-determination. By your logic, the Jews would never have the same right to self-determination given Czechs and Poles, because of their brutally forced dispersions, first from the Holy Land and later from sanctuary countries such as Moorish Spain.

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Oh I forgot, those countries wanted to expel Jews because they were jealous. They must have been jealous of the ghettos. :lol: . I wonder if the people in this thread who think that countries were made so much better by the Jews are in fact Jews themselves? :blink:
The following are true facts and verified statistics:

The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000, or 20% of the world population. They received the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature:

1957 - Albert Camus (I doubt that he even was a Moslem)

1988 - Najib Mahfooz.

Peace:

1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat

1994 - Yaser Arafat

Physics:

1990 - Elias James Corey

1999 - Ahmed Zewail

Medicine:

1960 - Peter Brian Medawar

1998 - Ferid Mourad

The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000 or about 0.02% of the world population.

They received the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature:

1910 - Paul Heyse

1927 - Henri Bergson

1958 - Boris Pasternak

1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon

1966 - Nelly Sachs

1976 - Saul Bellow

1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer

1981 - Elias Canetti

1987 - Joseph Brodsky

1991 - Nadine Gordimer World

Peace:

1911 - Alfred Fried

1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser

1968 - Rene Cassin

1973 - Henry Kissinger

1978 - Menachem Begin

1986 - Elie Wiesel

1994 - Shimon Peres

1994 - Yitzhak Rabin

Physics:

1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer

1906 - Henri Moissan

1910 - Otto Wallach

1915 - Richard Willstaetter

1918 - Fritz Haber

1943 - George Charles DE Hevesy

1961 - Melvin Calvin

1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz

1972 - William Howard Stein

1977 - Ilya Prigogine

1979 - Herbert Charle s Brown

1980 - Paul Berg

1980 - Walter Gilbert

1981 - Roald Hoffmann

1982 - Aaron Klug

1985 - Albert A Hauptman

1985 - Jerome Karle

1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach

1988 - Robert Huber

1989 - Sidney Altman

1992 - Rudolph Marcus

2000 - Alan J. Heeger

Economics:

1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson

1971 - Simon Kuznets

1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow

1975 - Leonid Kantorovich

1976 - Milton Friedman

1978 - Herbert A. Simon

1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein

1985 - Franco Modigliani

1987 - Robert M. Solow

1990 - Harry Markowitz

1990 - Merton Miller

1992 - Gary Becker

1993 - Robert Fogel

Medicine:

1908 - Elie Metchnikoff

1908 - Paul Erlich

1914 - Robert Barany

1922 - Otto Meyerhof

1930 - Karl Landsteiner

1931 - Otto Warburg

1936 - Otto Loewi

1944 - Joseph Erlanger

1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser

1945 - Ernst Boris Chain

1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller

1950 - Tadeus Reichstein

1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman

1953 - Hans Krebs

1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann

1958 - Joshua Lederberg

1959 - Arthur Kornberg

1964 - Konrad Bloch

1965 - Francois Jacob

1965 - Andre Lwoff

1967 - George Wald

1968 - Mars! hall W. Nirenberg

1969 - Salvador Luria

1970 - Julius Axelrod

1970 - Sir Bernard Katz

1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman

1975 - Howard Martin Temin

1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg

1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow

1978 - Daniel Nathans

1980 - Baruj Benacerraf

1984 - Cesar Milstein

1985 - Michael Stuart Brown

1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein

1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]

1988 - Gertrude Elion

1989 - Harold Varmus

1991 - Erwin Neher

1991 - Bert Sakmann

1993 - Richard J. Roberts

1993 - Phillip Sharp

1994 - Alfred Gilman

1995 - Edwrd B. Lewis

Physics:

1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson

1908 - Gabriel Lippmann

1921 - Albert Einstein

1922 - Niels Bohr

1925 - James Franck

1925 - Gustav Hertz

1943 - Gustav Stern

1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi

1952 - Felix Bloch

1954 - Max Born

1958 - Igor Tamm

1959 - Emilio Segre

1960 - Donald A. Glaser

1961 - Robert Hofstadter

1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau

1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman

1965 - Julian Schwinger

1969 - Murray Gell-Mann

1971 - Dennis Gabor

1973 - Brian David Josephson

1975 - Benjamin Mottleson

1976 - Burton Richter

1978 - Arno Allan Penzias

1978 - Peter L Kapitza

1979 - Stephen Weinberg

1979 - Sheldon Glashow

1988 - Leon Lederman

1988 - Melvin Schwartz

1988 - Jack Steinberger

1990 - Jerome Friedman

1995 - Martin Perl

The Jews are not demonstrating with their dead on the streets, yelling and chanting and asking for revenge, the Jews are not promoting brain washing the children in military training camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non Muslims.

The Jews don't hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics, the Jews don't traffic slaves, nor have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the Infidels.

The Jews don't have the economical strength of the Petroleum, nor the possibilities To force the world's media to see "their side" of the question.

Perhaps if the world's Muslims could invest more in normal education and less in blaming The Jews for all their problems, we could all live in a better world.

THINK ABOUT IT!

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Partially agreed. Like you, I agree that Jews make excellent tenants bringing about a world of success (and inturn jealousy) everywhere they go.

The naysayers would have us believe that Jews migrate to successful countries *in order* to prosper. I think that's putting the chicken before the egg... I firmly believe wherever Jews go *ends up* very prosperous as a result of your contributions to fields like science, humanities and technology. We've seen this time and time again from the Roman Empire to the expulsion of Jews in 20th century from different countries.

The ratio of Jewish under-achievers is statistically very low compared to other groups, and from my personal experiences, I also believe Jews are incredibly warm, family-oriented, hard-working and successful. Some of you may end up with a big head about it, but hey, I can't say it's not well deserved. :)

However, that's where the similarity between our sentiments ends. Despite the jealousy, brutality and historical misfortune that has been bestowed upon your people, (1) I cannot bring myself to agree with you that "your right to self-determination" should be granted...... on someone else's land.

(2) The Jewish expulsion from different countries seems to be very close to your heart. Yet close to a million Palestinians were met with the same fate in the creation of the state of Israel.

Their right to self-determination doesn't seem to matter though....

(1) The lands on which Israel was formed was owned and controlled by the British Government following WW-I (starting in 1918) and prior to that had been part of the Ottoman Empire for centuries. The British did not want to make good their promised to the Jews of Europe and turned the lands over to the United Nations. The UN created two nations; Israel and Palestine. Local Arabs refused to accept Palestine and vowed to destroy Israel. They are still trying 60 years later.

(2) Nowhere near a million Palestinians left Israel. Those who did leave, did so at the urging of neighboring nations who set out to destroy Israel in 1948 and told their countrymen to flee the immanent slaughter. Turned out they were wrong, Israel survived and most of the adults who fled Israel 60 years ago are now dead.

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The following are true facts and verified statistics:

Perhaps if the world's Muslims could invest more in normal education and less in blaming The Jews for all their problems, we could all live in a better world.

THINK ABOUT IT!

Is this turning into one of those "Muslims are bad...except for the one's who aren't" threads?

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Is this turning into one of those "Muslims are bad...except for the one's who aren't" threads?
Huh?

I was rebutting someone who was saying that there's little to envy about the Jews.

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Interesting -but - I don’t understand - why did Your mother’s family lose their farm ??

Were they evicted ?

When and why ??

My mother never talked about it much since she had no direct memory of this experience. But from what I gather, it had something to do with men with guns knocking on the door and saying you've got 48 hours to get out! It probably had nothing to do with any legal notice, but during the chaos of the time, most of the Germans living in that area left. Supposedly, they were guaranteed the right to stay if they adopted Polish citizenship and accepted Polish as their language, but few, if any Germans stayed behind.

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Ah. So you used Nobel Prizes won by Muslims as the benchmark to show that he should envy Jews.

Wouldn't work for me.

It does beg the question: instead of being filled with homicidal jealousy, why isn't the Muslim World achieving academic greatness instead of achieving their aims through belligerence and aggression?

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Say what you want about Israel, but there is statistical data showing a higher average IQ amongst Ashkenazi Jews, along with higher social demographics compared to other ethnic groups.

One recent study posited that the Ashkenazi advantage developed because of the persecution and restrictions in Europe. Primarily because Jews weren't allowed to own land in most European nations and therefore could not take up farming like the majority of people did a thousand years ago. So, they had to develop their intellectual resources and learn trades that were valued by the general population.

I think the academic achievements by Jews were downplayed because of the influence of many socialist intellectuals who had a default belief that everyone has equal abilities. Unfortunately, this reluctance left the anti-Jewish conspiracy theorists to claim that the reason for the disproportionate success of Jews in business was some secret conspiracy like the "Elders of Zion." It may have been rude, but it probably would have been better to say: "yeah, we have lots of doctors, lawyers and bankers because we're a little smarter than everyone else!'

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The following are true facts and verified statistics:

The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000, or 20% of the world population. They received the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature:

1957 - Albert Camus (I doubt that he even was a Moslem)

1988 - Najib Mahfooz.

Peace:

1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat

1994 - Yaser Arafat

Physics:

1990 - Elias James Corey

1999 - Ahmed Zewail

Medicine:

1960 - Peter Brian Medawar

1998 - Ferid Mourad

The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000 or about 0.02% of the world population.

They received the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature:

1910 - Paul Heyse

1927 - Henri Bergson

1958 - Boris Pasternak

1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon

1966 - Nelly Sachs

1976 - Saul Bellow

1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer

1981 - Elias Canetti

1987 - Joseph Brodsky

1991 - Nadine Gordimer World

Peace:

1911 - Alfred Fried

1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser

1968 - Rene Cassin

1973 - Henry Kissinger

1978 - Menachem Begin

1986 - Elie Wiesel

1994 - Shimon Peres

1994 - Yitzhak Rabin

Physics:

1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer

1906 - Henri Moissan

1910 - Otto Wallach

1915 - Richard Willstaetter

1918 - Fritz Haber

1943 - George Charles DE Hevesy

1961 - Melvin Calvin

1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz

1972 - William Howard Stein

1977 - Ilya Prigogine

1979 - Herbert Charle s Brown

1980 - Paul Berg

1980 - Walter Gilbert

1981 - Roald Hoffmann

1982 - Aaron Klug

1985 - Albert A Hauptman

1985 - Jerome Karle

1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach

1988 - Robert Huber

1989 - Sidney Altman

1992 - Rudolph Marcus

2000 - Alan J. Heeger

Economics:

1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson

1971 - Simon Kuznets

1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow

1975 - Leonid Kantorovich

1976 - Milton Friedman

1978 - Herbert A. Simon

1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein

1985 - Franco Modigliani

1987 - Robert M. Solow

1990 - Harry Markowitz

1990 - Merton Miller

1992 - Gary Becker

1993 - Robert Fogel

Medicine:

1908 - Elie Metchnikoff

1908 - Paul Erlich

1914 - Robert Barany

1922 - Otto Meyerhof

1930 - Karl Landsteiner

1931 - Otto Warburg

1936 - Otto Loewi

1944 - Joseph Erlanger

1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser

1945 - Ernst Boris Chain

1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller

1950 - Tadeus Reichstein

1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman

1953 - Hans Krebs

1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann

1958 - Joshua Lederberg

1959 - Arthur Kornberg

1964 - Konrad Bloch

1965 - Francois Jacob

1965 - Andre Lwoff

1967 - George Wald

1968 - Mars! hall W. Nirenberg

1969 - Salvador Luria

1970 - Julius Axelrod

1970 - Sir Bernard Katz

1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman

1975 - Howard Martin Temin

1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg

1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow

1978 - Daniel Nathans

1980 - Baruj Benacerraf

1984 - Cesar Milstein

1985 - Michael Stuart Brown

1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein

1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]

1988 - Gertrude Elion

1989 - Harold Varmus

1991 - Erwin Neher

1991 - Bert Sakmann

1993 - Richard J. Roberts

1993 - Phillip Sharp

1994 - Alfred Gilman

1995 - Edwrd B. Lewis

Physics:

1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson

1908 - Gabriel Lippmann

1921 - Albert Einstein

1922 - Niels Bohr

1925 - James Franck

1925 - Gustav Hertz

1943 - Gustav Stern

1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi

1952 - Felix Bloch

1954 - Max Born

1958 - Igor Tamm

1959 - Emilio Segre

1960 - Donald A. Glaser

1961 - Robert Hofstadter

1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau

1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman

1965 - Julian Schwinger

1969 - Murray Gell-Mann

1971 - Dennis Gabor

1973 - Brian David Josephson

1975 - Benjamin Mottleson

1976 - Burton Richter

1978 - Arno Allan Penzias

1978 - Peter L Kapitza

1979 - Stephen Weinberg

1979 - Sheldon Glashow

1988 - Leon Lederman

1988 - Melvin Schwartz

1988 - Jack Steinberger

1990 - Jerome Friedman

1995 - Martin Perl

The Jews are not demonstrating with their dead on the streets, yelling and chanting and asking for revenge, the Jews are not promoting brain washing the children in military training camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non Muslims.

The Jews don't hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics, the Jews don't traffic slaves, nor have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the Infidels.

The Jews don't have the economical strength of the Petroleum, nor the possibilities To force the world's media to see "their side" of the question.

Perhaps if the world's Muslims could invest more in normal education and less in blaming The Jews for all their problems, we could all live in a better world.

THINK ABOUT IT!

Wow! :P

Too bad I'm not Muslim, so I'm not sure what your point is?

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It may have been rude, but it probably would have been better to say: "yeah, we have lots of doctors, lawyers and bankers because we're a little smarter than everyone else!'

Of course you are, Jews are the master race don't you know? <_<

Christians forbid the charging of interest, or usury, so did Muslims. Jews did as well, but only to fellow Jews. That's why the Jews were bankers. And we all know about Jewish "legalism", and the following of the "law". That's why there's so many Jewish lawyers. You know what they say about lawyers?

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It does beg the question: instead of being filled with homicidal jealousy, why isn't the Muslim World achieving academic greatness instead of achieving their aims through belligerence and aggression?

No need to demonize. Muslims aren't filled with homicidal jealousy. Acedemic greatness will not achieve thier aims? Whose aims? What aims? Jordan's aims? Syria's aims? Egypt's aims? Indonesia's aims? Irans aims? Osama bin Laden's aims? Libya's? Iraq's? Turkey's? The Grand Mufti's? Sudan? Afghanistan? The Taliban?

Or maybe you mean the aims of Hamas or maybe Palestinians in general or maybe Hezbollah or maybe someone else.

To say they all have the same aim and that aim that they all have they are attempting to achieve through belligerence and aggression is

obviously not true.

So please define whose aim's you are talking about; what those aims are and how acedemic greatness will achieve them and then perhaps we can have a rational discussion on another thread instead of hijacking this one

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