Why should all Jews be expected to think the same?
Where is the contradiction?
Heavens, no! If that is what you learnt then you have been deliberately and maliciously misinformed. You don't have to take my word on that. Just go to Rome and see Trajan's column, erected by him to tell the story of the conquest of Judea, a monument which has stood for over 1,900 years.
The population density of Palestine a hundred years ago was very low. Up until Independence Jews purchased their land from Arabs eager to sell it; there was no other way to obtain it. Much of the land was vacant; other plots were occupied by Arab tenant-farmers, some of whom migrated when their tenancies expired without renewal, others of whom stayed on to assist the Jews build their new farms and communities - without these the Zionist project would likely have died (80%+ of the first wave from Europe succumbed to disease or depression).
It is more helpful to think of Jews as a people expelled from their homeland for whom Judaism is their national religion - albeit a religion whose practice is not enforced upon Jewish descendants. Zionism does indeed have religious roots as we Jews often express, in our liturgy, the desire to return to the land of our forefathers and Jerusalem in particular; however the modern movement was initiated by
Theodor Herzl, along the lines I outlined previously.
I am aware of the fascination many Pakistanis have for Israel and Zionism. I know it's difficult for you to grasp the ideology. The question in Pakistani minds seems to be why Zionism has worked so well compared to Pakistan. Both Zia (the only non-Israeli Muslim general to command Israeli forces) and some of the founders of Bangladesh thought hard about this.
Misinformation by people who have a self-interest in propagating lies doesn't help. That's why you need books like the one above, to immerse you into a different way of thinking entirely. You'll learn how external facts, ideology, and personal experience combine to produce action. You won't be a slave to the phony aphorisms ("Zionism = Racism, Solomon2 has come here to lie") of people like Arsenal6 any more.
The idea of reading Zionist's books shouldn't shock you. Menachem Begin's
The Revolt, describing his armed opposition to the occupying British, is widely read by the Palestinian Arabs. I suppose they see it as some sort of model for terrorists. (Begin calls himself one, but the Begin's Irgun didn't target civilians.) The Irgun was small and quickly suppressed by Ben-Gurion when they tried to assert themselves against the Haganah. Begin finished his days as a parliamentarian, not a dictator. However, I understand Begin does a pretty good job of dispelling the idea that Israel is nothing more than an expression of Western colonialism.
What do these things about Zionists and their efforts to re-establish Jews in their homeland have to do with Pakistan?
Nothing at all. The whole thing about Zionists being out to get Pakistan is an ugly libel that gullible Pakistanis appear in a flock to gobble up and that's what the author, Latif, is lampooning.
