Reply #267: Your definition is incomplete

[Karmakaze]

Zionism is not just the support of the creation of the state of Israel - it is also the support of that state being solely Jewish in nature. That my friend is bigotry. That would be like the US being solely for whites, or South Africa being solely for blacks. Liberals have fought for DECADES against such bigotry, but suddenly in Israel we are supposed to support the opposite?

"It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization, or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands."
-- Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of militants from the extreme right-wing Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, November 15, 1998.

You consider THAT to be a liberal cause? Israel as a nation state is fatally flawed and should be removed, and a new nation that does not hold bigotry as its foundation should be formed in its place.