good definition of paranoia

Hajo Meyer, Holocaust survivor and author, has no trouble using the word anti-Zionist. Interviewed by EI:

In 2005 [then Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon illustrated this by saying in the Knesset [the Israeli parliament], we know we cannot trust anyone, we only can trust ourselves. This is the shortest possible definition of somebody who suffers from clinical paranoia. One of the major annoyances in my life is that Israel by means of trickery calls itself a Jewish state, while in fact it is Zionist. It wants the maximum territory with a minimum number of Palestinians...They have no idea about the Holocaust. They use the Holocaust to implant paranoia in their children...
I can write up an endless list of similarities between Nazi Germany and Israel. The capturing of land and property, denying people access to educational opportunities and restricting access to earn a living to destroy their hope, all with the aim to chase people away from their land. And what I personally find more appalling then dirtying one's hands by killing people, is creating circumstances where people start to kill each other. Then the distinction between victims and perpetrators becomes faint. By sowing discord in a situation where there is no unity, by enlarging the gap between people -- like Israel is doing in Gaza.

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  1. Todd says:

    In order to separate Jews from Zionism, it would have to be demonstrated that the support for Israel within the Jewish community is low. I don't believe that has ever been the case. Even the "anti-Zionists" seem to have no problem involving the rest of us in "Jewish" issues. Does it really matter is the fifth column is Jewish or Zionist? What does it say about a community that supports a foreign regime that is comparable to Nazis?

  2. Ed says:

    "we know we cannot trust anyone, we only can trust ourselves" Fine. Then get off of American welfare. Why would you want to take charity from people you can't trust? Besides, what ever happened to post-Holocaust Jewish sovereignty, self-determination, independence, self-reliance? It's hard to make the case that Israel is legitimate, eternal, and integral to Jewish survival when it can't even stand on its own two feet.

  3. Colin_Murray says:

    Why would you want to take charity from people you can't trust? It's not charity when the people who are being taxed to pay for it don't know that their money is going to pay for creeping ethnic cleansing and colonization. It's theft.

  4. Malcolm XX says:

    Hey, we all know that when gentiles treat jews as at least fully equal and marry them etc, that's a "silent holocaust of the jews."

  5. Ishmail says:

    Charity, Ed? It's a bribe to not end the Palestinian problem in the same manner that the palestinians want to end their imaginary Jewish problem.

  6. Ed says:

    You're extorting money from Americans by holding the Palestinians hostage under threat of death? And you claim to be a priestly nation?

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