The Big Picture

If you cannot see Zionism and Fundamentalist Christianity is exactly the same as radical Islamists, then you are only seeing part of the picture, and will never understand the dynamics of what is really going on. Zionism is NOT Judaism, just like radical Islamists do not represent Islam. Jews don't kill, steal and brutalize other people to take by force that which they cannot
provide for themselves, Zionists do. The same is true that Muslims do not gun down innocent women and children, Jihadists do. A radical perversion of Biblical, Talmudic or Koranic thought, combined with a dogmatic intolerant view of their own superiority and righteousness. If you want to understand, you need to see the big picture. You cannot begin to understand radical Islamic movements without knowing the history of the world in which it was bred. Just like you cannot understand Zionism unless you understand the world in which it was bred. Indeed Zionism makes no sense at all, unless you understand the people and motivations behind the movement, it's relation to current and historic events and the evolution of its ideology to present day.

To say that modern Zionism and the pogroms of Europe, the anti-Semitic sentiment in Europe at the end of the 19th century, the holocaust are not related is flawed intellectually. To see a radcial Islamic movement form and trying to understand it without looking at the persecution and oppression of Muslims in the middle east at the hands of Perverted Arab governments, Israel and the west, the "Muslim Holocaust" in Bosnia and Kosovo is equally ignorant. The fundamentals of Zionism, like the fundamentals of Radical Islamic thought are twisted perversions of the meaning of current events.

Zionism born of Jewish oppression and mistreatment, Holocaust in Europe drives terrorists to create war in Palestine which issues in the birth of Israel a so called Jewish State (does not end the war however). Muslims oppressed, creates Jihadist movements, war in Afghanstan with Russia, holocaust in Bosnia, Kosovo and continuing oppression in Palestine drives terrorists to... well you know the story.

Radical Islam formed in an environment that held nobody would come to the aid of Muslims in dire need. And that only through strict dominance of Muslims "lands" could the Muslim be free to worship and live with respect and dignity. If this sounds familiar to Jews it should, because the Zionist movement began and was propelled by the same rationale.

Examples abound in recent history where that concept is reinforced for Muslims, and held true over and over, so these radical and violent 'solutions' can seem tolerable, even welcomed, and the justification for the hopelessly depressed, forlorned and forsaken becomes rooted in GOD, the only one with the power to make the impossible happen (that you will always be accepted and safe) . And it is simple to understand how that message is received when talking with a Palestinian, an oppressed minority in Saudi Arabia, a Jew fleeing the holocaust in Europe or a Muslim in Bosnia or Kosovo. The natural solution to that assumption is simple , if no one cares, and justice does not exist, the solution lies in a "mono culture" state, where "one people" can live in "safety" and peace from the "other people" and of course this "utopia" has one drawback, it comes with total strict control as prescribed by the leaders in these movements (the well known "US" as in "Us And Them", also known as "Your either with us or against us", or in Liberal circles, it reciprocal statement "If you not part of the solution, your part of the problem"). This is the same mono culture utopian state that Christian fundamentalists ascribe when they proclaim that the United States of America is a "Christian nation".

The roots of Zionism are exactly the same, when you look past the meaningless dates and he said she said of history you find the same social and cultural dynamic that drives these extremist ideologies. Zionisms roots are in the so called "Jewish Problem" as first "described" by Theodor Herzl in the 1890's.

"The Jewish problem", the premised on the "fact" that the Jews, as an ethnic minority, would never fully be accepted by their host nations and almost always be blamed for the troubles of those nations. Enter God, stage left, the only one with the power to make the impossible happen, It was God who had foretold, through His prophets, that the Jews would never be accepted in the nations of their exile and would suffer much persecution as a result.


Sound familiar?
The Muslim Problem, The Christian Problem, The Jewish Problem, the same problem, intolerance, dogmatic theology, hate and mistrust. And if these "problems" have their roots in intolerance, dogmatic theology, hate and mistrust then solution to these 'problems' is...
well I'll leave that to you to figure out.


Michael Trachtenberg
MTMIND