The Zionism Deception

Peloni:  Here is the 10th installment of Joseph Shellim’s 12 Deceptions, an excerpt from his important work, “Philistine-To-Palestine”.  We are posting one Deception each week, and  links to the previous installments can be found at the bottom.

Joseph Shellim

Based on the premise a quest to return to one’s homeland from a position of exile is a legitimate  existential premise, one can align the most revered figure Moses with such a designation as Zionist.  The return to the Promised Land from an Egyptian exile of the Israelites under Moses is its equally  aligning measure. 

Zion, (also called as Sion, Tzion or Mount Moriah / ????? ?? ?iyyôn Hebrew) is a synonym for Jerusalem, the  Temple Mount and the nation of Israel. Zion is a prominently embedded term in the Hebrew  Scriptures, affirming its ancient religious origins and significance, as well its Hebrew name and  ownership: 

• Jerusalem appears in the Hebrew Bible 669 times and Zion 154 times, or 823 times in all. • The Christian Bible mentions Jerusalem 154 times and Zion 7 times. 
• Jerusalem and Zion do not appear in the Islamic Scriptures. 

Mount Zion is the high hill on which David built a citadel; it forms part of a hill top purchased from  the Jebusites, one of the ancient Canaanite groups. It is on the southeast side of Jerusalem and became  the holiest site for the Jews as the seat of the first and second Temples. Aside from scriptural  narratives, there is no lacking historically of the Zion usage throughout 3,000 years of the Jews’ history. No people make up such things; there are no perceivable positive benefits of it. 

The term Zion was used by Herzl in like manner as David Ben-Gurion chose the name Israel; both are  inherent theological and historical emblems of the Jews for 3,000 years. The allocation of Zionism  being promoted as an occupation of another peoples’ land is a deception; it is usually made without its  connection of Zion being the Jews’ 3,000-year symbol, not a new political enterprise; no such party  exists. 

Theologically, Zionism represents a covenant made to Abraham on Mount Moriah (Heb/ Gen. 22:2),  just as Israel, the name change that was bestowed on the Patriarch Jacob, represents the covenant made  to him at Bethel (Gen 28:10). Thereby, Zion or Zionism equates with Israel or Israelism; the rejection  of the former is the same as of the latter. Zion represented the cry of the Jews when Babylon invaded  and exiled the Jews in the 6th Century BCE; and thereafter during times of crises when dislodged from  their homeland: 

• “By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered T’zion.” (Psalm  137:1) 

King David aligned Salem to Zion and Jerusalem (‘In Salem also is set His tabernacle and His  dwelling-place in Zion’.Ps.76:3); as does the First Century historian Flavius Josephus. Thus the term  Zionism is based on a pre-dating 3,000-year biblical emblem from the Hebrew Scriptures and a  legitimate historical quest of returning to one’s own land from an exiled position. Zionism is fully  unrelated to a host of foreboding charges that have been allocated to it; namely, anti-Zionism seeks to  make the return to one’s homeland as a criminal premise and a crime against humanity, rather than its  existential application of a people. 

Anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitism. 
Theodore Herzl’s pursuit of Zionism, namely the re-establishment and return of Israel, was thereby not  an un-natural or un-historical premise; it emerged after the French Dreyfus affair when the people  chanted ‘Death to the Jews’.

Zionism was focused upon in the 20th Century when charges of the Jews illegally occupying Israel  began to flourish again with the Brotherhood Charter that promoted ‘Death to the Jews’. The  Brotherhood, of which Mahmood Abbas is a member, is based on false historical charges that include  the denial of the Jerusalem Temple and the usurping of the name Palestinian that was applied  exclusively to the Jews and land of Judea. Thus was the ancient symbol of Zionism focused upon in the  20th Century and presented as one of illegally occupying Arab land; the reverse applies. 

Anti-Zionism is a Genocide Premise. 
That Anti-Zionism can be viewed as a genocide summation is based on the persecution and mass  murder of Jews in exiled lands, while barring their return to the land they were exiled from. There  appears no alternative understanding from what was seen in Europe and Arabia; those who professed  and committed annihilation of the Jews in their exiled lands are also those who deny the victim’s right  to live in their own land that the Jews were forcibly displaced from. Such is also why Israel has been  subjected to name changes of her historical emblems and lands, also an ancient mode of genocide. 

The underlying factor of its aspiration is that Anti-Zionists do not accept Israel occupying Israel, and  have made Jewish Palestine derived from Judea as non-Jewish Palestinian relating to the Arabs. A  growing worldly multitude is emerging anew that is not in concert with their leaders and  representatives that support such claims; it is especially seen with Christians who are alarmed when the  land that Jesus was born in is made as West Bank, and the Baha’i and the Lebanese Phoenicians who  are demeaned as un-believers. 

The term Zionism, derivative from Zion, was coined by Nathan Birnbaum in 1890. Zionism became  the chosen name of a movement founded by Theodore Herzl in 1896 a natural selection of Israel’s  symbolism; it embodied the 2,000-year quest of the return of the Jews back to their historical land from  which they were displaced by the Roman Empire. Supporters of this movement are called Zionists. 

Both the early American Presidents and Britain used the names Zion and Israel as the name of this land  when they documented the Jews’ connection with Israel. Thus anti-Zionism underlies a theological  Caliphate doctrine that denies Israel’s right to exist by using this name as a political device. 

When Arabs Welcomed the Zionists. 
In 1919, prior to the Brotherhood’s enactment and the discovery of oil, the Emir Feisal (Son of Hussein  Bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca), made this welcoming of the Zionist movement, the Zionists and its ‘national  ideals’ usage by the Emir: 

• “I want to take this opportunity of my first contact with American Zionists to tell you what I have  often been able to say to Dr. Weizmann in Arabia and Europe. We feel that the Arabs and Jews are  cousins in having suffered similar oppressions at the hands of powers stronger than themselves, and by  a happy coincidence have been able to take the first step towards the attainment of their national ideals  together. Our deputation here in Paris is fully acquainted with the proposals submitted yesterday by the  Zionist Organization to the Peace Conference, and we regard them as moderate and proper. We will do  our best, in so far as we are concerned, to help them through: we will wish the Jews a heartiest welcome home.” – (Letter from Emir Feisal (Son of Hussein Bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca | Great grandson  of the prophet Muhammad) to Felix Frankfurter, associate of Dr. Chaim Weizmann. Feisal-Frankfurter  Correspondence; March 1919.) 

The UN Equates Zionism with Racism. 
The UN Resolution said an ancient Hebrew religious symbol used by Jews is racism; thereby the UN  subscribed to anti-Semitism, itself one of the most overt forms of racism. Zion can be compared with Jerusalem and Israel; or the prayer chants all religious groups perform. The negative allocation of the  term Zionism is thus a later development when the premise of the Islamic Brother emerged, one that  was aligned with the Nazi Party via Hajj Amin el-Husseini, and a new Palestinian people that emerged  in the mid-20th Century; it was followed by equating Zionism with racism which was ratified by the  UN. Judging from the widespread anti-Zionist revolution throughout the Arab world, it appears the UN  decision was a corruption to please those members while knowing this was a false and detrimental  premise. Many respected figureheads and states clarified their responses: 

• “The United States does not acknowledge, it will not abide by, it will never acquiesce in this  infamous act.” – (Daniel Moynihan, U.S. Senator, in response to UN “Zionism is Racism” Resolution,  1975) 
• “Zionism springs from an even deeper motive than Jewish suffering. It is rooted in a Jewish Spiritual  tradition whose maintenance and development are for Jews the basis of their continued existence as a  community” – Albert Einstein, Nobel Prize Laureate; Manchester Guardian, 1929) 
• “When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You’re talking Anti-Semitism.” – Martin King.  (Lipset, 1968). 
• “There is no difference whatever between anti-Semitism and the denial of Israel’s statehood.” – (Abba  Eban, Israeli Ambassador; New York Times, 1975). 
• “We must stand with all our might to protect Israel’s right to exist, its territorial integrity and the right  to use whatever sea lanes it needs. Israel is one of the great outposts of democracy and a marvelous example of what can be done, how desert land can be transformed into an oasis.” – (Martin King;  Annual convention of Rabbinical Assembly, 1968) 
• “Mr. Balfour, if you were offered Paris instead of London, would you take it? Jerusalem was our own  when London was a marsh.” – Chaim Weizmann, President of Israel (Quoted in 1915; Commentary  Magazine 2009). 
• “Send a message to the Jews scattered around the world that Christians are not oblivious of their  faith, are not unmindful of the service they rendered to the great religions of the world and most of all  to Christianity and that we desire to give them that opportunity of developing, in peace and tranquility,  those great gifts which hitherto they have been compelled to bring to the fruition in countries that know  not their language and belong not to their race.” (Lord Balfour; House of Lords in 1922). 

The UN itself committed racism against the state of Israel and the Jews by its infamous Resolution  3379, adopted November 1975. It aligned with the Arab premise as a negation of Israel’s right to exist.  Such is aligned with Hamas and the PLO Charter that rejects a state for the Jews and any other of a  different faith. The UN Resolution was defeated and rescinded with assistance from America in 1991.  The premise reappears in variant other anti-Israel modes of Resolutions issued by the UN. 

Quote by Ardent Zionist Martin Luther King; 1965: 

• “How could there be anti-Semitism among negroes when our Jewish friends have demonstrated their  commitment to the principle of tolerance and brotherhood, not only in the form of sizable contributions  but in many other tangible ways and often at great personal sacrifice. Can we ever express our  appreciation to the rabbis who chose to give moral witness with us in Saint Augustine during our  recent protest against segregation in that unhappy city? Need I remind anyone of the awful beatings  suffered by Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld of Cleveland when he joined the civil rights workers there in  Hattieburg, Mississippi? And who can ever forget the sacrifice of two Jewish lives, Andrew Goodman  and Michael Schwerner, in the swamps of Mississippi? It would be impossible to record the  contributions the Jewish people have made towards the negro’s struggle for freedom – it was so great” –

(Read by Pastor Linden Allen, President of Total Life Ministries; “Black-Jewish Alliance” presented  by Laurie Cordoza-Moore; WND] 

Rosa Parks. 
In 1975, Rosa Parks and a host of African American civil rights advocates signed an open letter in a  bold statement of support for Israel: 

• “Zionism is not racism, but the legitimate expression of the Jewish people’s self determination. From  our 400-year experience with slavery, segregation and discrimination we know that Zionism is not  racism. Together with other Americans, we enthusiastically join in reaffirming the right of Israel to  exist as a sovereign state…” 

Rosa Parks, Civil Rights Advocate.

Here are links to previous installments of the 12 Deceptions:

Deception 1: The Name Deception

Deception 2: The Balfour Deception

Deception 3: The White Paper Deception

Deception 4: The Jordan Deception

Deception 5: The ‘West-Bank’ Deception

Deception 6: The Time Immemorial Deception

Deception 7: The Refugee Deception

Deception 8: The Arafat Deception

Deception 9: The “Palestinian-Jesus” Deception.

Episode 11: The Herodotus Deception.
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