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Spot quiz: whats the difference between "the Zionist regime" and "Israel"?

• ori_b 14y ago
  since "Zionist" is defined as the movement that believes Israel should exist, you can perform the substitution, and come up with "Wipe the regime that believes Israel should exist" off the map. I don't think there really is a distinction.
  • seclorum 14y ago
    Nice try, but Zionism refers to the movement which believes that Israel should be a purely Jewish state - i.e. if you are not a Jew, you don't belong in Israel, or at least: you have a lesser status than Jews. Its nice for your argument to conflate Israel with Zionism - and after all, 80% of the population of Israel do this too - but its not nice for the few million non-Jews living in Apartheid conditions as a result of this movement. And that is the point of Irans official position.
• Terretta 14y ago
  > Spot quiz: whats the difference between "the Zionist regime" and "Israel"? I realize you're trying to make the point that the quote was "wipe the Zionist regime" off the map, not "wipe Israel off the map". Unfortunately, for this particular context of your spot quiz, the two terms are by definition linked: > "Zionism is a form of nationalism ... that supports a Jewish nation state in territory defined as the Land of Israel." Your pop quiz is trying to make a difference between the head of the snake and the body of the snake. Either way, the idea is to get rid of the snake.