“We deserve it.”
I’m reading a book on early christianity and it covered judaism at the time. A lot of stuff about how god promised them land was emphasized in the scholarly work from the 80s. It really hit me a different way thinking about how they’re acting in Gaza. It makes a lot of sense. Their silly religious beliefs center largely on how they lost their land and got it back around sixth or seventh century BCE, so of course they think they have every right to do whatever they want to the people they displaced.
End religion. The world would be a much better place.
While Zionism claims to base itself in Judaism it is really more about European antisemitism. Its history begins in the 1800s or so, not over a thousand years ago, among European Jews responding to antisemitism across Europe. Pogroms, apartheid, all kinds of violence. It is more about ethnicity and colonialism than religion.
Prominent christian zionism predates jewish zionism.
