I don't want to make this long and this venue does not want or desire sources, you can do that on your own. I'll get the dates approximate and might misspell a name or two. Get over it, just try to understand the overall point of it.

Theodor Herzl, a journalist in the 1890's was a Jewish person living in France. He was all for assimilation, until the Dreyfus conspiracy that basically framed two high ranking French Jewish officers for selling secrets to the Germans and dragging them through the mud, (literally) and totally humiliating them in a public square. He decided then and there that if the Jew was to survive with dignity they would need their own homeland. Zionism was born. I do have some compassion for his idea and I being a comparable ignorant man cannot with irrefutable proof prove him wrong.

So today, in Israel if you are Jewish civil laws apply to you, if you are not, then military law applies to you. If you are Jewish caught in a protest, you go home at night, if you are not Jewish, well, anything can happen, usually quite nasty. For me, this is a foreign land and their struggles are not something I fully understand. I can't, I am not there.


Here, is what totally fucks me up, why do we in the western world demand assimilation on all our fronts and yet let Israel, not only defy that principle, but gets us to help them to do so? Are they so fragile like an endangered species, we must make special dispensation for them? Is that what the Jewish person wants?


I think of Theodor Herzl and how he fanned the flames of pride for his Jewish heritage and  there are some good reasons for that, but would he really want the rest of the world to look away when the Jewish state does what he himself felt disgusted with? 

Herzl was an intellect and lived in a time where new ideologies  were busting at the seams. Were his conclusions based in revenge and fear or pragmatism and a deep understanding of the human condition? I do not know, but somehow considering how successful his original idea has become as we wallow in his dismissed idea, the latter wins the case.