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Actually it never fails to surprise how much of nazi ideology zionism has adopted.

Hitler: "aryan master race" vs subhumans, "lebensraum" (living space) for the master race, and ethnic cleansing/genocide for the subhumans.

Zionists: "jewish master race" vs subhumans, "god-given" right to living space, and ethnic cleansing for the subhumans.

We should never forget that zionism has it roots in the same atheistic, racist colonialism of eastern europe as both nazism and stalinism. Here are honest american jews to whom we should be listening to rather than zionists.

The Zionist Attack on Jewish Values

http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/03/22/the-zion...

Even before the Balfour Declaration was announced the danger to Judaism inherent in the Zionist state orientated ideology was sensed and critiqued by insightful Jewish individuals. They would describe their anxiety in varied ways, sometimes using political, or moral, or religious argument. All of them, however, could draw on a tradition of Jewish tolerance and humanitarianism...

.... A negative transformation of Jewish values is further encouraged by the Zionist emphasis on the idea of covenant as a source of those values. As applied to Israel, the primary interpretation of covenant involves God, the land and the creation of a tribal state. That is, following divine instruction, Jews are given the land of Israel and possess it as an exclusive Jewish community. Most of today’s Jewish rituals, holidays, liturgy, and religious education have served to reinforce this position. Within the context of this defining relationship of the Jewish “nation” and God as it now acts itself out in contemporary history, those principles of the Talmud (for instance peace and tolerance) that tend to the universal are necessarily trumped, or subject to reinterpretation, by the particularism of state building and its foundational religio-tribal ideology. ...

...The continuing disagreement as to what constitutes the real values of the community has, in effect, split Judaism into majority and minority parties. The majority element, which controls the religion’s institutional manifestations, openly identifies itself and its ethics with the expansionist, brutalizing policies of the Israeli tribal state. They have given themselves and their religion over to the Zionist dream of a Jewish state. What they have inherited, however, is the very worst aspects of nationalism that comes when nationhood is pursued not in a pluralistic spirit, but in a tribal one: chauvinism, aggressiveness, and xenophobia.

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