Nationalism

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Historically, Nationalists have been supported by those who see the world as divided by cultures as opposed to divisions in political systems, regional values, or realpolitik alliances.

The primary issue for Italian nationalists was that Italy was controlled by numerous different sovereign entities that would not cede power or territories without war. Some territories needed to be conquered from city-states and others would need to be taken from powerful empires, like the Austrian Habsburgs. As a result, different Italian statelets and generals would need to enter into accords in order to unify the country.

By emphasizing the positive unity of the African diaspora, it encouraged some to believe that the true path to African American empowerment was the establishment of all black nation. This was known as black nationalism, and called for the complete segregation of blacks from other races.

Anti-Semitism is a hatred, revulsion, or denigration of Jewish people and a belief that those people are somehow (by dint of their genetics) more violent, conniving, mischievous, and dastardly than other people. In some cases, like the Nazis or Extremist Muslims, they are considered a "sub-human" race, on par with monkeys. Almost all Anti-Semites are not Jews for the simple reason that no person would willingly consider himself a putrid thing.

Anti-Zionism is a rejection of Zionism. Zionism is merely Jewish Nationalism, the belief that Jews have a right to have their own country where they can determine their own future. Zionists can be both Jews and non-Jews and Anti-Zionists can be both Jews and non-Jews, because the question of whether the Jews have a right to a state is a political question. Since the Jews were able to create such a country, Israel, Anti-Zionism is usually seen as Anti-Israel sentiment.

It is important to note that there are those who wish to argue that Anti-Semitism does not apply exclusively to Jews (since there are non-Jewish Semites), but the term Anti-Semite has never been used to describe anything but Jew-hatred. Additionally, people like to claim that Zionism is a code word for an international cabal of evil Jews trying to control the world. Aside from the fact that such a cabal does not exist, such a thing would fall under Anti-Semitism, not Zionism or Anti-Zionism since this cabal would not be concerned with Jewish Nationalism.

Definition
First, we should have an accurate understanding of what Zionism is. Zionism is the belief that Jews should have political self-sovereignty and is the patriotic sentiment behind the Establishment of the State of Israel. It is worth noting that many Anti-Semites claim that Zionism is a code word for some unclear international cabal of evil Jews trying to control the world (or actively doing so). Such a cabal does not exist and insinuations without evidence or with evidence that has proven to be a hoax that it does exist are Anti-Semitic. Aside from this, since such a cabal would not be concerned with Jewish Nationalism, it, therefore, could not be Zionism.

Others argue that Zionism exclusively refers to the current Israeli Right-Wing or Ultra-Nationalists who argue for Israeli annexation of the West Bank and possible expansion outside of territories currently controlled by Israel. Such people are more properly termed Greater Israel Zionism or Right-Wing Zionism. This is contrasted with Left-Wing Zionism, of which Yitzhak Rabin was a major leader and advocate.

Discussion
Equipped with a definition that is actually useful for what Zionism is, we can have a discussion.

Zionism is a nationalist movement, so if wanting a homeland to be free to self-govern is an evil thing, as several post-nationalists believe, then so is Zionism. However, such a person who holds this view should also condemn the modern states of Turkey, Greece, Italy, Germany, Pakistan, Algeria, Armenia, and numerous other nation-states that were built on such ideals. A unique condemnation of Zionism on the question of nationalism is a mask for modern Anti-Semitism. However, in each of these cases, the creation of a national homeland provided a place where the people could determine their own national cultures, identities, languages, foods, and ideals free from the influence of neighboring countries which had conquered or colonized them or expressed strong intentions of doing the same. It allowed them to be free from persecution. A person who believes that every group of people, especially ones as maligned through history as the Jews, deserve the right to govern their own affairs and be responsible for their own defense, must hold that Zionism is part of genuinely good historic of nation-building and global development.

Some people see Zionism as wicked because the Jews took a land where they did not have a significant presence for many years. However, Jews lived in the Land of Israel from at least 1100 B.C.E. until the Roman destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E. Almost all Jews were exiled to other countries, known to Jews as the Diaspora. For centuries, Jews prayed for a return to Zion. In the nineteenth century, the Zionist movement, led by Theodor Herzl and Chaim Weizmann, encouraged Jews to turn the dream into reality, and lobbied the international community to understand that a "Jewish national home" was the only solution to Anti-Semitism and the "Jewish problem." The Return of the Jews to Israel would be no different than if the Native American Tribes or the Aboriginal Australians demanded some of the land stolen from them by White Settlers. They were evicted from their home and are demanding a correction to this historical injustice.

Some believe Zionism is evil because of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. What these people neglect to see is that the conflict has nothing to do with Zionism per se and has much more to do with Arab Muslim beliefs about their own right to discriminate from a position of apartheid. Most early Zionists, even Right-Wing Zionists like Jabotinsky actively wanted to integrate Arabs into a Binational Jewish and Arab State. However, it was the Palestinian Arabs (using the term retroactively) who were led by Nazi-Sympathizer and collaborator on the Armenian Genocide Haj Amin al-Husseini who decided that a Judenrein Arab World was desirable. He was responsible for instigating the Nebi Musa Riots of 1920, the Hebron Massacre of 1929, and the Palestinian Civil War of 1937-1939. It was him and his supporters who made it clear that freedom and equality for Jews could only occur in a Jewish State where Arabs would not be able to violently threaten Jewish lives. The Jews were successful in protecting themselves and their children from the violence of the Palestinians and have prevented large-scale persecution (compare this to the promises of the Arabs in 1947 and 1948 that Palestine would be ethnically cleansed of all Jews). This is another benefit which Zionism has conferred.

Zionism has also resulted in a democratic, Western-aligned country in the Middle East. No other movement for self-determination in the Middle East, other than maybe Turkey or Cyprus can boast the same. The provision of human rights in Israel far outstrips any other Middle Eastern country on almost every metric.

However, it is very questionable whether Right-Wing Zionism, which has a more expansionist view, is good since it agitates and provokes more conflict with the Palestinians than may be necessary.

Nationalism is pride in your nation. Colonial nationalism is pride in the colony a nation controls. It means great pride in the colony you live in.

In the Chinese civil war, the communists had a superior strategy of guerrilla warfare, ability to win the hearts of and extract resources (as well as intelligence) from the people in the countryside and better discipline in the party. The nationalists over-spread their forces, concentrated on holding important cities (to which they were later surrounded, their weapons being taken by the communists and troops being assimilated to the Red Army). The nationalists had weapons and equipment from the US, but they failed to use them effectively; the communists had equipment taken from the defeated Japanese in the north (as well as the nationalists). The nationalists mis-administered areas under their control, alienating most of the population, resulting in corruption and having huge inflation.

Zionists only want one thing: to be a free people in their own land (Israel). Zionism is the belief that the Jews have a right to a state in the historic homeland of the Jewish people. It is no different than German nationalism (which holds that Germans have a right to a state in the historic homeland of the German peoples) or Turkish nationalism (which holds that Turks have a right to a state in the historic lands of the Turkish people).

The Zionists were the ones who led the creation of the State of Israel. Without them, there would be no Jewish State. It was their idea and their actions that brought the state into existence and sustained it throughout the years.

Bosnian Serbs wanted Bosnia to be free of Austria-Hungary, and liberate Serbs from Austro-Hungarian occupation. So, they attempted to assasinate the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Archduke Franz Fernindad and his wife, Sophia. First, they tried to hit their car, but the grenade was deflected. Then, later that day, Gavrilo Princip suceeded in shooting and killing both of them.

The Austro-Hungarian government became furious and their rage forced them to make an irrational decision based on the few facts they've recieved. They immediately blamed all of Serbia for the dealth of the beloved couple.

(We just studied this in history class. It's fresh in my mind, because I've written two essays on the subject. Don't worry, most of my data comes straight from the text)

The assassins were members of the Black Hand, a terrorist organization based in Serbia and tolerated by the Serbian government. It received money from the Serbian secret service.

Sun Yat-sen, or Sun Chung-san (Sun Zhongshan)

He led the people against the Qing Dynasty and became the president of the new Republic of China

A zionist is a member of the Jewish movement that arose in the late 19th century in response to growing anti-Semitism and sought to reestablish a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

Modern Zionism is concerned with the support and development of the state of Israel.

The Zionist leadership was ardently secularist with one or two critical exceptions. These leaders included Theodor Herzl (who developed the concept of Modern Jewish Nationalism or Zionism), Eliezer ben Yehuda (who developed the Modern Hebrew Language), Ze'ev Jabotinsky (Jewish Advocate to the British and Leader of the Palmach), Menachem Begin (Leader of the Irgun and future Israeli Prime Minister), and the Halutzim in general (the Jewish pioneers who arrived in the British Mandate of Palestine in the 1920s and 1930s). On the religious side, there was primarily Rabbi Avraham Kook (First Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel and founder of Religious Zionism) who was treading a new theological doctrine to back up Zionism with Jewish religious values.

For many centuries, Ireland was a conquered province of England and the Irish felt themselves treated as second class in their own country. After the Potato Famine, to which most English were indifferent, Irish hate for the English became stronger.

After the Berlin Wall came down in Nov 1989, the East German government collapsed as well and the German reunification began in earnest. Gorbachev of the Soviet Union, had made it clear to the East German leadership, that they were on their own and could expect no help from the Soviet Union. The Russians had enough problems at home by that time-including shortages of just about everything and an economy that was about on the verge of collapse! Erich Honnecker, the East German Leader, had been in power for over 25 years, and was an ardent, Stalinist and out of touch with the German people. Gorbachev never did like him. As a result, the Soviet stood idly by while both German states reunified and the Soviet military withdrew from East Germany peacefully in 1990-91.

The United States won against the British in the War of 1812 so they were full of national pride. The British were at war with the French at the same time.

He was communist and that is why the USA did not support him.

Austrians are generally afraid of another Third Reich, so nationalism is cut down as soon as it starts to appear. However, in the last parliamentary elections, two right-wing parties got (in total) over 30% and this caused much media attention, also internationally. This can mainly be seen as a failure of the last government, not as a rise in Nationalism.

Nationalism was the most important cause of ww1 this is because the war was made to show which country was the best.

''Austria was afraid of it's empire breaking up, Which would lead it to losing it's power''

Therefore, it is clear that nationalism was the most important cause of ww1 as the countries wouldn't of gone to war if they did not want to show that they were the best.

Nationalism is more important than imperialism (Next paragraph) because none of this would've occurred if nationalism wasn't there.