cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/34201505
Ritchie Torres is threading a needle after emphatic defense of Israel for most of the war.
from Politico
08/04/2025 05:55 AM EDT[It’s disgusting how feeble and late this is, but it is an indication of how popular sentiment continues to shift against Israel. 👍 ]
In recent days, a majority of Democratic senators voted for a resolution to bar the sale of assault rifles to Israeli police, a marked change in the party since the start of the military conflict. Their unprecedented rebuke comes as polling shows slipping support for Israel among Democratic voters, signaling the prolonged war has potentially caused permanent damage to the country’s relationship with the Democratic Party.
He insisted his long-held defense of Israel still stands. “I feel it’s possible to be an unapologetic Zionist while at the same time recognizing there’s a crisis in Gaza and recognizing the war has poorly defined strategic objectives,” he said.
That’s literally impossible…
Being a Zionist means you support the illegal settling of Palestine, with the eventual goal of absorbing all of Palestine’s land and none of it’s native population.
Zionism[a] is an ethnocultural nationalist[b] movement that emerged in late 19th-century Europe to establish and support a Jewish homeland through the colonization of Palestine,[2] a region corresponding to the Land of Israel in Judaism[3] and central to Jewish history. Zionists wanted to create a Jewish state in Palestine with as much land, as many Jews, and as few Palestinian Arabs as possible.[4]
Zionism initially emerged in Central and Eastern Europe as a secular nationalist movement in the late 19th century, in reaction to newer waves of antisemitism and in response to the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment.[5][6] The arrival of Zionist settlers to Palestine during this period is widely seen as the start of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The Zionist claim to Palestine was based on the notion that the Jews’ historical right to the land outweighed that of the Arabs.
with the eventual goal of absorbing all of Palestine’s land and none of it’s native population.
You can be a Zionist without supporting this, it’s called the two state solution (delusion).
I’ve yet to meet a Zionist who actually supports a two state solution; one where Palestine is given full sovereignty, the hundreds of thousands of illegal settlers are forcefully expelled in a massive military operation that would require the global community to contribute soldiers to, and the organs of the Israeli government that deliberately expanded those settlements with the deliberate intention of preventing a two state solution are forcibly dismantled and prosecuted by the international community. Because that’s what a two state solution actually entails.
When Zionists say they want a two state solution, they mean a bantustan.
