Contrast: "We recognize our Jews as separate from those godless, bloodsucking Zionists.” - Ayatollah Khomeini, May 10, 1979:
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If you read enough about your obsession which I'm sure you have, you would know that in Iran, "Zionist" is used to refer to a very specific group of Israel's people, mostly very fanatic, who are also denounced by many Jews as well.
Zionists are people who talk like this:
"The Palestinians" would be crushed like grasshoppers ... heads smashed against the boulders and walls." " Isreali Prime Minister (at the time) in a speech to Jewish settlers New York Times April 1, 1988
"When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle." Raphael Eitan, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defence Forces, New York Times, 14 April 1983.
Ben Gurion also warned in 1948 : "We must do everything to insure they ( the Palestinians) never do return." Assuring his fellow Zionists that Palestinians will never come back to their homes. "The old will die and the young will forget."
"We have to kill all the Palestinians unless they are resigned to live here as slaves." Chairman Heilbrun of the Committee for the Re-election of General Shlomo Lahat, the mayor of Tel Aviv, October 1983.
"It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism,colonialization or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands." Yoram Bar Porath, Yediot Aahronot, of 14 July 1972.
"One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail." -- Rabbi Yaacov Perrin, Feb. 27, 1994 [Source: N.Y. Times, Feb. 28, 1994, p. 1]
Isn't these quotes a sign of religious racism? I'd doubt that all the Jews who live in Israel believe in these kinds of BS. But unfortunately most of the people who control Israel do. So of course there is a big difference between our Jews and those who talk like above
