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Israel/Palestine

oberliner

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9. Zionism is definitely not a "right-wing concept"

Reply to nauthiz (Reply #4)

Fri Dec 28, 2012, 12:47 PM

Dec 2012

The majority of early Zionists were left-wing Socialists.

And I did not use the term "lunatic left" - it was just used by the author of the Ha'aretz article.

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The success of Naftali Bennett is the failure of the Israeli center-left [View all] oberliner Dec 2012 OP

It's the demographics, just like here in the USA. bemildred Dec 2012 #1

Demographics are destiny. In the US, it means a more liberal country. geek tragedy Dec 2012 #2

"In Israel, it means a rightwing religious/nationalist country." R. Daneel Olivaw Dec 2012 #3

You can thank the U.S. for that nauthiz Dec 2012 #5

There's always more money to prop up the status quo (corrupt regime or bad democracy) instead of R. Daneel Olivaw Dec 2012 #7

Ironically, it once would have been possible to have two secular, modern geek tragedy Dec 2012 #6

Perhaps. They could also have had several low scale wars as India and Pakistan had. R. Daneel Olivaw Dec 2012 #8

Amen nauthiz Dec 2012 #10

Well first off you already derided yourself nauthiz Dec 2012 #4

Zionism is definitely not a "right-wing concept" oberliner Dec 2012 #9

True that in it's birth Zionism was a Leftist/socialist concept azurnoir Dec 2012 #11

The success of Naftali Bennet along with Moshe Feiglin seems more a azurnoir Dec 2012 #12