Israel weighs expelling UK officials from Gaza coordination center amid settlements row

I’m damn tired of ‘pro-Israel’ being used by both media and, especially, in social media as an insult or point of indignation. It creates the assumption that the opposite of ‘pro-Israel’ is no Israel, which is as ludicrous and unrealistic as saying ‘no’ France or ‘no’ Germany.

Earlier today I saw a negative reference to the ‘pro-Israel’ Jared Kushner. Jared has been funded in the billions of dollars by the Saudi Public Investment Fund. And Kushner’s financial ties to the United Arab Emirates center on hundreds of millions of dollars in sovereign wealth investments made to his private equity firm, Affinity Partners.

I don’t see where Jared’s being paid off by Israel anywhere. If Kushner is ‘pro-Israel,’ who in the hell needs enemies?

I’m also tired of ‘Zionist’ (or ‘zio’) being used as the new Jewish attack line and slur. I’m old and had heard them all…I’d thought so, anyway. I didn’t even realize ‘zio’ was the new ‘hebe’ until somebody called me that in comments to a blog I wrote on another site a few months back and second commenter said he was going to report him for that reference on my behalf.

But it is important to recognize that when Israel became an independent secular state, ‘Zionism’ became historically archaic as its original premise was the return to the Jewish people’s historic and ancient homeland of Israel. And we now have after so long away. Zionism’s original premise was also for a secular independent State of Israel which has since been sadly and violently compromised.

This is NOT near what was conceptualized as Zionism but is ‘biblical Zionism’ which is a violent mythology based on perceptions of the Old Testament also strongly supported and pursued by American Christian Zionists, to include Mike Huckabee, Trump’s Ambassador to Israel.

Modern Israel is not biblical Israel, which primarily covered the country of Israel and the Palestinian territories with parts extending into modern Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. But the Old Testament is neither an historical, demographic nor cartographic document. Though it has a smattering of authentic History throughout, it is so deeply interwoven with myth so as to have little – if any – modern application.

It is grossly inaccurate to presumptively identify any Jew who supports Israel as a ‘Zionist.’ It also represents a misunderstanding of the Timeline of History.

The more recent incarnation of ‘biblical Zionism’ violates the original secular Zionist thinkers and intellectuals but more accurately represents........

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