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Zionism: Beginnings
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Zionism is in reference to Mount Zion. Zion is from the Hebrew word for Height. The place in Jerusalem now called Mt Zion was named that by Byzantine Pilgrims in the Middle Ages who basically just make a mistake. But it’s still called Mt. Zion anyway.
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ZionismExplained is an educational website designed to explain Zionism's goals, methods, and effects. It is designed for those with little knowledge of Zionism. Hopefully, every user will read the opening article on Zionism and then the two articles linked in the "Overview" section. After that either reading down the sections in the order laid out or hopping around as you wish should work fine. Note the main part of the website is divided into two sections: Zionism in America and Zionism in Palestine .
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It's hard to write about Zionism. First, it's a belief system that is so deeply entrenched among many Jews that everyone has a clear and fixed idea about what it is. As a result, it is almost impossible for it develop and change as the need arises.
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Needing an enemy means that Zionism has had to make its negotiating partner into a terrorist. It means that, for its own preservation, Zionism has had to devise a need to ignore its partner/enemy or expel him or assassinate him. It means that Zionism has had to reject any conciliatory effort by the Palestinians and portray them as "never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity" to make peace. This includes in particular rejecting that most conciliatory gesture, the PLO's decision in 1988 to recognize Israel's existence, relinquish Palestinian claims to the three-quarters of Palestine lying inside Israel's pre-1967 borders, and even recognize Israel's "right" to exist there.
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