Reply #30: ...a Jew is necessarily not to be a true citizen of ones own homeland

[holdencaufield]

You make it sound like that is a innate Jewish belief when in fact is it something that is told to Jews over, and over by people in the homelands they've assimilated in.

For 2,000 years, Jews have made homes and assimilated in widespread places like Rome, Germany, Spain, Poland, Russia, France -- you name it, sometimes living successfully for centuries, only to be rounded up and booted out the first time it's politically expeditious to whomever is in power or looking to take power.

Zionism is the offspring of Antisemitism, not its moral equivalent. Zionism is... nothing more or nothing less... that the realization that, for Jews to be free of the endless cycle of expulsions (or worse) they have to have one place on this planet where they determine their own fates and not be dependent of the whims of a protectorate.