A quiz on Israel and Zionism in general....

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This was posted in General Discussion, yet I was asked to go to the Israel/Palestine forum instead, so...here I am! I'm new to the Democratic Underground, so pardon me if this is far too broad/general, but take this as my introduction.

I am disgustingly pro-Palestine with no qualms about it. Remembering two years ago when I was a freshman in high school, my brother was doing some kind of report centering around this conflict. Everything he said that was "pro-Palestine," I simply dismissed as "untrue," and, later on, every news article that was sympathetic to the Palestinian cause I dismissed as "anti-Semitic." That is mere proof of the Israeli propaganda machine that has been cutting into everyone's heads for decades now.

I understand Israel has a right to exist. But I still ask myself, why does the United States and the U.N. support such a nation? Instead of berating it for its violations, why isn't action taken? If Israel HAD NOT killed Palestinians, HAD NOT become rich at the expense of the other population that lives in poverty, and HAD NOT acted with such arrogance, my opinion would be different. Instead, there remains the necessity to reform the state.

Back to the question...why does the United States take action? The only answer is that Israel remains a gate for Western imperialism. America sacrifices its moral principles for securement of power, refusing to act on the illegal settlements in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. And when Ariel Sharon pulls out of Gaza in order to annex the West Bank to build the "Greater Israel," he is called a "man of peace"!

Zionists have utilized anti-Semitism as a weapon for POLITICS, not SPIRITUALITY. They REFUSED to save Jews from Hitler's insanity because the destination of the deportees could not be agreed upon; Zionists wanted all Jews to be re-located to Palestine, but other nations and Germany refused. Thus, all funds for these Jewish-saving
programs were cut.

Now, unfairly, individuals start confusing the common Jew and the common Israeli with actions of an elite, pig government. What does the Israeli have to do with the actions of his government? Absolutely nothing. Yet because Palestinians can't appeal democratically for fair treatment, can't appeal democratically for funding, and can't do anything about their children being murdered and wives being raped and land being stolen, what other alternative is there but terrorism, as morally reprehensible as it is? One reading of Frantz Fanon's "Wretched of the Earth" will yield valuable information regarding the desperate mindset of colonized and exploited individuals such as the Palestinians.

So, in the footsteps of a "quiz" that has been created some years ago on Israel, I've made a similar one. See if your answers are the same as mine!


What is one of the major reasons for terrorism's existence in such concentration?

Arrogant Zionism.

What Jewish body refused to save millions in the Holocaust to
promote their own political interests?

Arrogant Zionists.

What current Head of State in Israel proclaimed that he would kill every Palestinian child, BURN THEM, if he could, and encouraged his soldiers to both kill and rape Arab women because "they are slaves to the Jews"?

Ariel Sharon.

What did Theodor Herzl, founder of Zionism, call "the best friend" of the Jews in terms of political, not spiritual, agenda?

Anti-Semitism.

What nation's policies killed approximately 200,000 Palestinian
civilians, 24% killed being under 18, 35% injured being under 18?

Israel's.

What nation carried out terrorism against America to promote their interests with an attack on an American ship in the 1960's and an American base in Egypt in the 1950's, the latter under the name of 'Operation Suzzanah'?

Israel.

Whose nation's first Prime Minster promised the world that no one
people in the area will dominate the other?

Israel's.

What class of political people said "one million Arabs are not worth a single Jewish fingernail"?

Zionists.

What current Israeli head of state is wanted in Belgium for war
crimes, particularly, the killing and injuring of 29,500 Lebanese and Palestinian civilians, 40% of which were women and children, mutilated and raped?

Ariel Sharon.

What former Israeli Prime Minister belonged to a terrorist
organization called "Lehi", that published his article titled "Terror," in which he advocated the use of terrorism and intimidation of any form for the furthering of Zionist agenda, terrorism against civilians, women and children alike?

Yitzhak Shamir

What current Israeli Prime Minister proclaimed that Israel should not fear America's policy towards his nation, because the Zionists run America and its foreign policy, and "the Americans know it"?

Ariel Sharon