Judaism And Zionism Are Not The Same Thing

NKUSA.org

3-19-3

We would like to take a few minutes of your time to prevent you from making a terrible mistake that may have disastrous results for many.

 

You have always without a doubt heard and read much about the political crises in the Middle East in which the State of Israel plays a central role. This is, in fact, an ongoing series of crises with potential to bring the greatest misfortune on the entire world. Tragically many believe that Zionism and Judaism are identical. Thus they conclude that the entire Jewish people is responsible for the actions of the Zionist government and the world crises which emanates from it. This is a Grave Error!

 

The truth is that the http://www.nkusa.org/AboutUs/Zionism/judaism_v_zionism.cfm>Jewish faith and Zionism are two very different philosophies. They are as opposite as day and night. The Jewish people have existed for thousands of years. In their two thousand years of Divinely decreed exile no Jew ever sought to end this exile and establish independent political sovereignty anywhere. The people's sole purpose was the study and fulfillment of the Divine commandments of the Torah.

 

The Zionist movement created the Israeli state. The latter is a persuasion less than one hundred years old. Its essential goal was and is to change the nature of the Jewish people from that of a religious entity to a political movement. From Zionism's inception the spiritual leaders of the Jewish people stood in staunch opposition to it.

 

To this day Torah Jewry remains forever loyal to its faith. Zionists want the world to believe that they are the representatives of the entire Jewish people. This is false! The Jewish people never chose them as their leaders.

 

The Zionists have deceived many well meaning Jewish people via terror, trickery and false propaganda. They have at their disposal the use of a nearly universally subservient media. Whoever attempts to criticize them puts his livelihood and, at times, his very life in danger.

 

However, despite the media blackout and easy resort to terror the simple truth remains unrefuted and irrefutable: ACCORDING TO THE JEWISH FAITH AND TORAH LAW THE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE FORBIDDEN TO HAVE THEIR OWN STATE WHILE AWAITING THE MESSIANIC ERA!

 

The Creator gave us the Holy Land thousands of years ago. Yet, when we sinned, He took it away and sent us into exile. Since that time our task is to wait for Him to send the Messiah. At that time, the Creator alone, without any human being lifting a hand or saying a word, will bring us together and take us out of exile. He will likewise establish universal peace among all mankind and all will serve Him in good will.

 

Some religious Jews, confused by Zionist propaganda quote Biblical verses that state that G-d gave the children of Israel the Holy Land. They overlook, unfortunately, those verses which say that He took it away due to our sins. They further ignore those prophecies which explicitly describe the last exile's conclusion as a Divine, not a human process.

 

The Creator has commanded every Jew to follow the ways of peace and to be loyal to the country where he lives.

 

Torah true Jewry waits patiently for the Messianic redemption. They have nothing to do with any kind of pseudo "Jewish State" and its aggressions against other peoples. They have a deep sympathy for the plight of the Palestinians who have suffered the most from Zionism's false teachings and barbaric actions. The Zionist state is not a Jewish state. The Zionists alone are the only ones responsible for their actions. Authentic Jewry has and will continue to oppose the very existence of this blasphemous state.

 

May all mankind witness the true redemption.

 

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...of Zionist Butchers trying to hide behind their Jewishness to excuse their crimes.

...of people who refuse to acknowledge the possibility of Jewish Zionists who oppose the occupation and the brutal repression of the Palestinian people.

The interpretation given above is certainly one (fundamentalist) way of looking at things, but even from within the religion it is debateable. After all, God used the Babylonians to send us into exile, why not use the UN to bring us out of it? Furthermore, who says the prophecy of return to our ancient homeland has to be fulfilled all at once, and not gradually?

Judaism has its roots in an ethnic, national identity that shared one faith. To limit one's view of Judaism to a "race" or a "religion" is a baseless oversimplification that obscures more than it reveals.

That said, Judaism absolutely forbids the brutal tactics used by the Israeli government to oppress the Palestinian people. But Zionism is not the same as the tactics that have been adopted in its name, any more than we are actually bombing Iraq for the sake of Democracy. Zionism is just the desire for an autonomous, Jewish homeland.

Shalom, Salaam, Peace

...but I so get tired of people playing the Anti-Semite Card to excuse, and I will correct, the crimes of SOME Zionists. I also get tired of the Holocaust Card - no one of Jewish Ancestry was untouched by it, but one evil does not justify another.

However, and I do not mean to offend but, read Herzl's Diaries. He envisioned the "need" to displace the Arab population from their lands.

"The truth is cruel, but it can be love, and it makes free those who have loved it."

- George Santayana

Shalom

thank god everybody here isn't racist huh? Nice fuckin progressive site that bags on religions as a whole instead of seeing the bigger financial picture. Kids are dying as you speak, and Sadam is on T.V. calling Bush a criminal. This could've been avoided. If we just started seeing the child in each one of us, this never would have to happen again. Nurture, don't torture.

...I have, almost said always, usually been careful to nuance my rants so as NOT to include all Jews. I know it is a touchy subject and by being blunt I may sometimes offend, but in the end I hate no one, not even the Zionists whose ACTIONS I despise.

Shalom