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Isn't Zionism just the purpose of establishing the state of Israel? If you abolish Zionism, aren't you abolishing Israel?
originally posted by: Corruption Exposed
...for example, criticize Israel for stealing land from the West Bank and the Zionist Extremists will scream "You filthy Anti-Semite". They have been trained to do this, this is called Hasbara and is a major part of political Zionism.
originally posted by: loam
a reply to: Corruption Exposed
originally posted by: Corruption Exposed
...for example, criticize Israel for stealing land from the West Bank and the Zionist Extremists will scream "You filthy Anti-Semite". They have been trained to do this, this is called Hasbara and is a major part of political Zionism.
Comparing that against the Hamas children's shows I posted, you have a very wide sense of extremism.
ETA:
Re-posted for your convenience:
The original host of Tomorrow's Pioneers and Farfour, Hazim Al-Sha'arawi, stated that it was his idea that Farfour be killed by an Israeli interrogator, adding that the show “wanted to send a message through this character that would fit the reality of Palestinian life.”[6] El-Sharawi states, “A child sees his neighbors killed, or blown up on the beach, and how do I explain this to a child that already knows? The [Israeli] occupation is the reason; it creates the reality. I just organize the information for him.”[6] Al-Aqsa TV deputy manager stated, that the program in fact is simply "about Palestinian kids express[ing] their feeling[s] regarding what they witness -- if it's [the] occupation it's about that..."[7]
Translation controversy
Several commentators, such as CNN's Arabic department, have claimed that the transcript of the April 13 show (2007) provided by MEMRI contains numerous translation errors and undue emphases.[91] Brian Whitaker, the Middle East editor for the Guardian newspaper (UK), wrote in a blog for the newspaper that in the translation of the video, showing Farfour eliciting political comments from a young girl named Sanabel, the MEMRI transcript misrepresents the segment where he asks what she will do, by attributing a sentence said by Farfour, ("I'll shoot"), to the child while ignoring the child's actual reply ("I'm going to draw a picture")