Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Rightists Award Student Who Persecuted 'Left-Wing' Teacher [View all]Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)First off, I'm not referring to the teacher, but rather the student and the dolts who rewarded her the First Annual Student Asshole Achievement Award. I'm using "Liberal Zionism" mockingly because, so far as I have been able to tell, liberal Zionism is absolutely identical to right-wing Zionism.
I've admitted in the past this could just be a failing of my perception. I'm not a Zionist. I'm not "in the club" so to speak, and i've never been part of the club. What I see, liberal or right-wing, is a political ideology centered around the assertion that one ethnic group has absolute right, through divine authority and superior firepower, to do as it wishes to another group, in an effort to destroy them and take their territory and property. To my admittedly untrained eye, then, the difference between the two differing philosophies is one of rhetoric rather than principle - one screams "Kill 'em all!" and the other says "Kill as many as we need to!"
It rather reminds me of how protestantism works in the United States. you can have two churches across the street from each other, and they're preaching the same thing, on the same day, from the same book, but as the congregations walk out and see each other they think "those people are completely wrong about everything!" Both can be Baptist churches, the congregations could all be relatives, and they will still insist there are deep and unbridgeable differences between them... which only they can see. To an outsider, it's two congregations who believe all the same things, say the same damn things, act the same way, and are just insisting there's a huge difference in an effort to rationalize there being two churches across the street from each other.
So, maybe you can help me out, since so far as I can tell, you're not shackled hand and foot to this anchor of racist nationalism. What is the damn difference.