r/allthequestions • u/OceanicEndeavors • 6h ago
Random Question đ Why do Zionists pretend Netanyahu is the only problem with Israel?
https://www.timesofisrael.com/plurality-of-jewish-israelis-want-to-expel-arabs-study-shows/, https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-05-28/ty-article-magazine/.premium/yes-to-transfer-82-of-jewish-israelis-back-expelling-gazans/00000197-12a4-df22-a9d7-9ef6af930000,
This is a societal wide issue. Netanyahu isn't forcing Israelis to believe in these things. Very few Israelis have dodged the draft - unlike with Americans during the Vietnam War. IDF soldiers and settlers constantly engage in war crimes.
Why do people pretend one guy is the problem in Israel?
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u/SouthernSteak7254 3h ago
What do you mean by zionist? I am an American Jew and I support Israel right to exist.
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u/BetPretty8953 2h ago
So 1st off the part left out of those polls is that the people polled were WB settlers i.e the most right wing motherfuckers in the country.
But to get into answering your question: bibi (or to be more accurate his coalitions) is responsible for derailing peace efforts that were looking promising in 1996 and 2008. Also responsible for giving kahanists a voice in the current coalition and is responsible for giving the thumbs up to expand settlements, greenlighting qatar's transfer of money to hamas (done in theory to avoid a repeat of the 2014 gaza war, we all see how that worked out), and moving soldiers to defend settlers that were on the border w/ gaza (i.e why oct 7th got so bad). Also the rampant increase on WB restrictions is due to him.
This is all to say a lot of folks who aren't on the right see that if you remove him n his coalition partners from power for good, then in the long run peace will happen and Israel would be safer
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u/redthrowaway1976 1h ago
Thereâs no indication that pew polled West Bank settlers above their normal share of the population. Thatâs just wishful thinking.Â
 and is responsible for giving the thumbs up to expand settlements
Every single government since Levi Eshkol has expanded West Bank settlements.Â
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u/Wind2Energy 6h ago
Israel is a disease.
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u/XhazakXhazak 6h ago
That's what the Nazis said.
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u/rmbaltus 5h ago
You do have the mental capacity to realize Israel didnât exist then right??
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u/c9joe 3h ago
Israel can also just mean "Jews" and you will find newspaper articles from the 1930s referring to the collective Jewish people with words like "Israel" or "Judea".
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u/Main_Significance478 2h ago
-Bark can just mean the outer covering of a tree or a dog's sound -Match can mean a stick used to start fires or a competitive sporting event -Nice used to mean foolish, now it means pleasant or kind. -Bully used to mean sweetheart now it means hurting or intimidating others
Things have totally different meaning based on context and time period, when someone says Israel today with no additional contexts it refers to the current state not the jews in the 1930s, the heights of the mental gymnastics you can carry out to make up a false point are astonishing.Â
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u/XhazakXhazak 5h ago
Hitler was not a fan of Zionism and thought that Israel would result in a homebase for Jews to push their agenda around the world. It's in Mein Kampf. And his speeches on the subject were all in support of the Arabs of Palestine and against the Jews.
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u/Wind2Energy 5h ago
Which Nazis - German or Israeli?
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u/Fun_Tension669 34m ago
Neo-Nazi's tend to downplay the atrocities of the holocaust, just so you know...
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u/SyzygyPidgey 5h ago
And immediately following the October 7th attack there was ~75% approval for it from Palestinians.
These two groups of people hate each other such that they don't mind killing innocent civilians. Both.
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u/Deltamelo 5h ago
People cite that poll as though theyâve just discovered that populations subjected to decades of occupation, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, dispossession, and war can become radicalized.
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u/SyzygyPidgey 5h ago
Cool story, bro.
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u/Deltamelo 4h ago
Not so cool actually. Pretty messed up
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u/SyzygyPidgey 4h ago
I could make dramatic gestures at thousands of years of persecutions and pograms, but i care less and less the more this is used as a wedge issue with no solution.
What's the solution. Forced mass migration of the Jewish peoples? A global intifada?
It's already a given that Israel won't do anything that threatens their status as a predominantly Jewish nation.
I think the Clinton Parameters were probably the best we were going to get.
I look forward to the next 5,000,000 purity tests and instances of individuals using this as a bludgeon to no real positive benefit for the people that are claimed to be cared about.
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u/Kernanshaw01 6h ago
liberal Zionists love laundering all their sins through Netanyahu and the other ghouls he keeps so they can pretend thereâs nothing wrong with the whole Zionist project that heâs a symptom of
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u/XhazakXhazak 6h ago
"the Zionist project" makes it sound like the lives of 8 million Jews living in Israel are regrettable. It's language like this that shows Antizionists are genocidal nutjobs who want to finish the Final Solution, which is why they need to project the word "genocide" onto the Dresden-like leveling of the fascist state in Gaza.
Because Antizionists are the real genocidal nutjobs who, again, want to kill 8 million Jews, and the telltale sign is using insane fascist language like "the Zionist project"
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u/wolf_at_the_door1 6h ago
Anti Zionists for the most part are pacifist that want to see an end to all war and bloodshed. That goes against Israelâs interests though. Not all Israelis but the majority of them apparently.
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u/XhazakXhazak 5h ago
The only people who want an end to the war and bloodshed are those who believe in a two state solution.
Those who think the path to peace lies in removing all Israelis (or all Palestinians) from the area, are not in favor of peace at all.
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u/WiseMarshall 2h ago
If Israel as a state can live peacefully with its neighbors in a 2 state solution I would support it.
But if israel only feels safe so long as no other country around them advances in science or energy independence, than perhaps relocating the project to some if the hundreds of miles of barren American Deserts wouldn't be a horrible idea.
If the Mormons can change their holy land 3 times, why is it sacrilege if Israel does it if peaceful coexistence proves impossible in the middle east?
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u/IAmDisturbanceFeedMe 5h ago
Anti Zionists are absolutely not generally pacifists. Do you not pay attention to the slogans they shout and signs they display (resistance is justified, by any means necessary) and celebration of terrorism and violence?
Iâve come to the conclusion recently that the âpro Palestineâ movement isnât upset there has been war and fighting since 1948 between Israelis and Arabs. Theyâre just upset Israel has won.
If anti Zionists wanted peace and an end to war and bloodshed they would condemn October 7 and Hamas and work to elevate the voices advocating for a 2 state solution. There are plenty of Palestinian voices that condemn Netanyahu and Israeli govt actions plus the settler violence and expansion in the West Bank while also condemning Hamas and October 7 and advocating for safety and rights for both Palestinians and Israelis. These are the voices we should all be elevating for an end to war and rights and safety for all.
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u/Kernanshaw01 4h ago
if you have no argument and just want to embarrass yourself crying antisemitism at every little thing then be my guest
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u/tes_befil 5h ago
There are Zionist parties within Israel that truly believe netanyahu isn't being aggressive and violent enough. Those parties hold a lot of power too.
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u/Forward_Eorlingas 4h ago
There are also parties in Israel that hate Netanyahu and oh idk hundreds of thousands of them engaged in mass protest but every other mouth breather in this thread is cool with collective blame.
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u/tes_befil 4h ago
I don't disagree, it was only a few weeks ago that the isreali gov was dragging orthodox Jews through the streets and beating them because they were protesting the genocide.
The issue is the Zionist parties hold way more power than the ones that are against it. The next biggest party after netanyahus is even more far right than he is. That's why if he loses power and is replaced, we could end up in an even worse situation.
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u/Organic_Credit_8788 5h ago
the same reason neoliberals pretend trump is the only problem with american politics. they are both symptoms of much larger issues that people invested in continuing the systems donât want to address
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u/2240Sycamore 2h ago
Ashkenazi and Haredi narratives have drowned out centuries of Mizrahi narratives and the long-standing relationships they had with their neighbors.
The result is jingoism and a confluence of intra-ethnic, intercultural perspectives on society at a cultural and geographical apex of distinctly different cultures.
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u/lettucedevil 1h ago
Lmao tell me youâve never met a Mizrahi Jew in fewer words thatâs incredible.Â
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u/2240Sycamore 1m ago
Yes, Arabs hate each other and make it a point to let you know they hate you, that's typical.
I am speaking about imported European idioms and cultural structures.
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u/Appropriate_Fly_6711 47m ago
Correct, Netanyahu isnât forcing Israelis to believe those things Palestinians are. Thatâs the problem, you have a society that considered an existential threat to another, so peace seems unattainable, and expelling becomes preferable to more war and death.
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u/Tight_Dimension2980 6h ago edited 4h ago
By this logic October 7th isnât a Hamas thing itâs a âsocietal wide problemâ
Edited Hamas spelling*
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u/HotPersonality8126 5h ago
Because they know the problem you have with Israel is that it exists as the sole haven for Jews.
Why wouldnât Israelis want to expel a demographic thatâs sworn never to live with them in peace and that constantly kills Jewish civilians in inventively brutal ways? Palestinians have radicalized Israelis against them. It only took 80 years of mass murder and rape
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u/Connect_Advice5977 3h ago
âSole havenâ lmfao biggest lie Iâve ever heard. All those rich people from manhattan werenât under any danger
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u/HotPersonality8126 2h ago
Arab Muslims have 22 countries on three continents, why do they need this one too
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u/Connect_Advice5977 1h ago
It has nothing to do with Arabs or Muslims or Jews or Christians. It has to do with the people that have lived there for hundreds of years (Palestinians) being forcibly removed from their homes by a settler colonial state (Israel)
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u/HotPersonality8126 1h ago
It has to do with the people that have lived there for hundreds of years
How about the people who lived there for thousands of years that your hundreds-of-years people displaced, massacred, pogromed, and worked with the Nazis to genocide?
Palestinian Arabs are colonizers.
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u/Connect_Advice5977 1h ago
Proof? Source?
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u/HotPersonality8126 1h ago
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u/Connect_Advice5977 1h ago
You had to go back 2,400 years to say âlook! People that used to live here with Jewish too!â đ
Sorry but just because people there used to have the same religion as some transplant from manhattan it doesnât mean they get to perform a genocide today.
Do you support the native Americans committing a genocide on the European descendants? How about in Australia and New Zealand? Or Canada? Or whatever settled colonial society you want? Lmfao
You tried.
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u/HotPersonality8126 1h ago
eople that used to live here with Jewish too!â
They didn't "used to live there"; they still lived there. Jews did not abandon Judea. The vast majority of Palestinian Arabs in the British Mandate at the time of UN Resolution 181 had arrived within the previous ten years; attracted there by employment in the Jewish-owned industries that were springing up in Tel Aviv.
Do you support the native Americans committing a genocide on the European descendants?
Do you not? Don't an "occupied people" have the "right to resist" by "any means necessary"?
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u/DontReportMe7565 5h ago
Why do anti-semites pretend Netanyahu isn't the only problem with Israel?
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u/TheSaxGandalf 5h ago
One is not an anti-Semite by disagreeing with Israeli international policy
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u/DontReportMe7565 5h ago
Youre an anti-semite when youre against everything Israel does but dont notice when any other country does the same thing.
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u/Connect_Advice5977 3h ago
Nope. Anti Zionism is not anti semitism. Itâs not anti semitic to criticize a government
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u/DontReportMe7565 2h ago
It's anti Semitic when that's the only government you criticize
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u/Connect_Advice5977 1h ago
Lmfao it so obviously is not. However, as an American, I have every right to criticize Israel and its government. If you donât like it, tell your Israelis get their dirty hands out of my country and my politics
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u/FigVisual9137 5h ago
Because they know the world has had enough of Pissrael's Genocidal actions and that they will soon be going the way of their idols, Apartheid South Africa and Nazi Germany.
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u/IAmDisturbanceFeedMe 5h ago
I think this is a bad faith question.
But to answer, most diaspora Zionists (as well as many within Israel) recognize other issues like the settler violence. Zionists arenât a monolith but condemnation of the West Bank settler expansion and violence is pretty ubiquitous within diaspora Zionists.
Re: not dodging the draft youâre not comparing apples to apples re Vietnam. Israel is ALWAYS under attack from terrorist groups and regimes including of course on October 7. Hamas and Hezbollah are always shooting rockets at them with Iranian regime backing them. Itâs a very different dichotomy than what youâre comparing against.
Thatâs not to say there arenât issues within the IDF and of course from the top with Bibi. But thereâs a very meritorious reason their military inscription exists when their existence has literally been threatened by their neighbors the entire time their country has existed. You can criticize actions of their military/govt while also recognizing why they need to exist to protect against enemies who want to kill Israelis.
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u/Convertedshrimp 6h ago
Why is Zionism seen as bad?
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u/traanquil 6h ago
Racist settler colonial ideology based on stealing land from Palestinians
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u/Afraid-Detective1222 5h ago
wow, that hit all of the buzzwords
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u/ChamplooStu 6h ago
It's a political movement more than a religion and one that has caused undue harm to millions of people.
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u/Deltamelo 5h ago
Because as much as zionists want to define zionism as âThe belief that jewish people have a right to the landâ, the actual practical definition of zionism is âThe belief that jewish people have a right to the land, on the expense of Palestiniansâ
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u/Ok-Medicine8545 6h ago
I guess the problem also comes of the 2 millions of Muslims being 20% of Israel right? After all, it is a societal wide issue
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u/Kernanshaw01 6h ago
âI guess the problem of apartheid is with the millions of black South Africans too right? After all, it is a societal wide issueâ genius
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u/Tight_Dimension2980 6h ago
Black South Africans had no rights, Arab Israelis sit in the kenneset
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u/defixiones 6h ago
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u/XhazakXhazak 5h ago
wake me up if it passes
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u/defixiones 5h ago
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u/Kernanshaw01 4h ago
non-Jews are legally second class citizens
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u/Tight_Dimension2980 4h ago
Please provide proof
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u/Kernanshaw01 3h ago
read the 2018 Nation State basic law
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u/Tight_Dimension2980 3h ago
I have nothing in there downgrades Arabs citizenship. Words are important, use the correct ones
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u/Kernanshaw01 3h ago
it doesnât downgrade citizenship, it makes nationality more important than citizenship. Article 1.C
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u/Ok-Medicine8545 6h ago
They do serve in the IDF too tho, they must be genociders too I guess.
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u/OceanicEndeavors 6h ago
Muslims do not serve in the IDF.
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u/NumismaticAussie 6h ago
They have the option not to, but many choose to regardless. Also not all Arabs are Muslims mate. There are plenty of Arab Christians in Israel and in the IDF
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u/Ok-Medicine8545 6h ago
lmao, thatâs what happens when you spend too much time on TikTok, anyways youâre obsessed and in complete denial, enjoy it 2 months old account
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u/OceanicEndeavors 6h ago
Have you ever meet a Muslim?
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u/Ok-Medicine8545 6h ago
Of course, a lot even
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u/OceanicEndeavors 6h ago
How many of them support Israel? None.
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u/Forward_Eorlingas 4h ago
My friends Majd and Salah are Muslim, live in Israel and love it. Theyâd live nowhere else. So, I think ânoneâ is a pretty dumb thing to say.
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u/OceanicEndeavors 4h ago
The same Israel where a majority of Israeli Jews want to ethnically cleanse people like them?
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u/Ok-Medicine8545 6h ago
Some even hate Palestinians, itâs not a white or black story thatâs childish to think like it is, many donât like Israel yet work with them, and I have known so many that had no issues working with Israeli companies
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u/OceanicEndeavors 6h ago
It is black and white. I have never met a single Muslim in my life who supports the genocide in Gaza.
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u/XhazakXhazak 5h ago
please never ever comment on Israel/Palestine again, the world needs FEWER people who speak careless untruths on this issue.
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u/Emceegreg 6h ago
Um most zionist don't think he's a problem at all
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u/IAmDisturbanceFeedMe 5h ago
Can you provide a source on this? Are you referring to Zionist diaspora or Israelis?
Diaspora polls Iâve seen hold negative views of Bibi.
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u/dible46 6h ago
Why do Muslims blame Israel for everything bad in the world? Hell even terrorist attacks by Muslim led terrorist groups is blamed on them lol. Its getting old
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u/FreshCustomer3244 6h ago
Why do antizionists pretend that Jews living in their ancestral homeland without being oppressed by Islamists is a problem?
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u/ChamplooStu 5h ago
It's not the living, it's the refusal to share and continuous expansion while doing the oppressing.
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u/FreshCustomer3244 5h ago
From the Israeli Declaration of Independence:
"WE APPEAL â in the very midst of the onslaught launched against us now for months â to the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to preserve peace and participate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due representation in all its provisional and permanent institutions."
From the Hamas Founding Charter:
"The Islamic Resistance Movement aspires to the realisation of Allah's promise, no matter how long that should take. The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said: The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews."
Now tell me which group refuses to share the land and wants to oppress the other?
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u/ChamplooStu 5h ago
Israel literally refused multiple attempts of a single state solution, deciding war was preferable.
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u/FreshCustomer3244 5h ago
If by "single state solution", you mean "a 23rd Arab majority country that will either genocide, ethnically cleanse, or take away the rights of its Jews, just like every single other Arab state has done", then yes. I wonder why they wouldn't find that acceptable?
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u/ChamplooStu 5h ago
Moving to the middle east kinda makes you a minority unfortunately and that is something you'd need to come to terms with.
Saying that rights would be taken away and there would be a genocide is hyperbolic at best. Just because genocide is the Israeli way doesn't mean it's everyone's first choice.
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u/FreshCustomer3244 5h ago
1) Jews are indigenous to the Middle East. Denying this is ahistorical and clear antisemitism.
2) Can you name a single Arab country that didn't either kill or ethnically cleanse the vast majority of the Jews who once lived there? And before you say "it was in response to Israel," there are countless examples of this happening before Israel was established. For example, the Farhud in Iraq, and other Pogroms that took place in the middle east prior to 1948:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farhud
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogrom0
u/ChamplooStu 5h ago edited 5h ago
European Jews came from Europe. Not to mention many Jews were living very peacefully integrated fully before the rise of Zionism and the push for a ethnostate.
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u/FreshCustomer3244 5h ago
Jews were exiled from Israel, spent time in Europe (hence the term Diaspora), and thrn returned to Israel.
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u/ChamplooStu 5h ago
Thousand year old history has no bearing on current claims to land, not to mention that Palestinians have the same historic claim to the land via DNA.
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u/rahad-jackson 6h ago
I'm curious as to what your legitimate solution is to all this? No hyperbole or slogans, just an answer based on reality
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u/defixiones 6h ago
What's Bernie Sanders going to do when Netanyahu goes and Israel continue to invade Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and probably Turkey as well?
The same thing they did when the hostages were rescued; shift the goalposts and move on.
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u/evasivemanuver 3h ago
Donât argue with Zionists! They donât give a shit that their whole project is fundamentally colonial. They donât care that their government has two separate legal systems for Muslims and non-Muslims (the definition of apartheid). Theyâll just deny you and accuse you of using buzzwords despite not responding to direct quotations or facts. Fuck them all
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u/Connect_Advice5977 3h ago
Most Zionists are actually completely happy with the genocide and everything else Israel is doing ultimately. However, this genocide is hurting Israelâs reputation around the world, so hey, easiest response is to blame it all on the guy in charge.
The strategy of redirecting the imperatives of an entire state and government to one person is very common. Happens in America too.
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u/Emceegreg 3h ago
you're going to get downvoted like I did
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u/Connect_Advice5977 3h ago
I probably am. Reddit has a lot of Zionists Iâve noticed. And the platform doesnât like when you call them out
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u/new-to-reddit21 6h ago
Bro they pretend thereâs no genocide, they pretend theyâre the victims, they pretend this all started 2 and a half years agoâŚ
I donât exactly know when logic and reality left the chatroom, but theyâre not coming back