Dr. Einat Wilf on Zionism - Full Interview

[eitan]

always great to see and hear Dr. Einat Wilf !

[tudormiller]

She's a goddess. Shalom ✡️🕎 Watching from London UK 🇬🇧

[robertleffel]

22:00 There is a big difference between understanding the reasons for Arabs rejection of Jewish claim and respecting them. It's like saying we need to "respect" the reasons for slavery, discrimination, subjugation, Jim Crow etc.

[robertleffel]

I'm not sure I agree with Einat that it's a tall order to ask the Arabs (Palestinian and other) to accept that the Jews have the right to be there as well. Perhaps it was a strange idea to most of them at the beginning, but now after 100 years of conflict in which they failed to defeat zionism, it's time to accept that Israel is not a temporary aberration, but it's there to stay and is not going anywhere, and that it is there by right and not just might. So no, it's not a tall order, certainly not anymore.

Is it a tall order to ask the native Americans to accept that the descendants of European settlers have the right to be there? And those settlers couldn't even claim they "came home" or claim any historical connection to pre-Colombian America.

[cleanwaternasenyiuganda]

Arabs have 22 countries in which to realize their National aspirations. I do not believe that Israel needs to take that responsibility upon itself. I think that Israel needs to offer a pathway to citizenship to every individual who was born there that includes speaking or learning Hebrew, a background check if necessary, and military service.

[zip]

Einat, Hamlet: "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Indeed, the complex human genome is far beyond the comprehension of mankind and unimaginable in the cesspool of ancient religious dogmas. All the religions in human history -- Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Judaism, Christianity, Islam et al -- were founded upon and exploited the boundless ignorance of the illiterate masses for the benefit of the few. Christianity, Judaism, Zionism and Islam continue that exploitation and enslavement of same ignorant fools to this day.

[Gabriel-dypm]

It is simply not true that people who have a sense of "self", identities or ethnicities, have any "right" to become sovereign, or "nation states".
People who found a nation, have a right to have any sense of personal identity they like, but they have no right to transfer such an identity on a state, and they need to adjust their concept of nation in order to define it in a way that is inclusive of all its citizens.
Therefore, a nation may not be connected to a single "ethnicity", and even less to a religion.
Would you accept that the USA defined itself as a the country of "Saxon White North Americans"?
There is actually no concept of "equality" at the root of Zionism. Since no other nation has any "right" to define itself in the ethnic-religious terms and exclusivist terms such those that define Jewish identity. Nations ("peoples") actually should define themselves in ways that are inclusive of multiple ethnicities, religions, identities and open to change through time, and most states are so. And there are many "peoples" that claim some disctinctive identity, that don't have any sovereign state.

[gulamchoudhruy]

Don't u understand doctor, the Jewish people are not allowed to live in the promise land because of God, he has prohibited you to live there