This is how the world works

@Northwest: I agree

@Northwest: So, if there is not Zionist lobby, how do you explain the enormous influence in American politics for decades? Or the mere fact that the state of Israel was created?

@Cierzo: The objective of the Zionist movement, was to secure a homeland for the Jewish people. In the late 19th century, and up until about the 1930s, the focus was on buying land. During the Nazi era, WWII, and shortly after WWII, focus shifted to survival and refugee resettlement. Post 1948, the focus shifted to populating Israel.

Palestine was owned by the Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans awarded the bulk of Palestine to some Lebanese Christian families, who were loyal tax collectors for the Ottomans (Lebanon did not exist as a political entity at the time). They in turn sold it to the Zionists, who started settling Jewish families. No big conspiracy here, only simply injustice and greed.

During the Nazi era, and under the British mandate, it was about circumventing British immigration authorities, and smuggling as many European refugees as possible.

Today, in the US, AIPAC, which is not really a Zionist movement, but a lobbyist organization, that works on behalf of the state of Israel. AIPAC has been largely successful, across party lines, through PR, marketing and the creation of alliances with the American moral majority. The latter is essentially the US Evangelicals, who want to fulfill the prophecy of John, AKA, the Apocalypse and Armageddon. So, it's more about Christians here, than Jews, and why AIPAC seems to have so much influence.

The only candidate who refused to bend over to AIPAC is Bernie Sanders, and I respect him for that. Hillary Clinton adopted the Bernie platform on Israeli/Palestinian issues.

I don't need to remind you, that as far as a good chunk of the world is concerned, Palestinians are animals, and suicide bombers, who murder children and drink their blood. This would further explain why we're more sympathetic toward Israel.

At one point in my life, I was conditioned to think about them in those terms, but then I started thinking for myself, and outside my box.

@LoneKnight: Not an accurate pic. They should be watering the tree, not cutting it.

@ladycae: I was not smart, the proof is that he fooled me. I just hope he does not cause irreparable damage.

you and all the rest of us. he has no self control, has no idea what he is doing and is destroying 50 years of american progress.

@Cierzo: he had us all fooled bro. But who was the lesser evil though, Trump or Clinton?. Since Trump has shown his true colours and played his cards with a true poker face. You just don't know what's real in the world anymore.

@Whiteflowerintheocean: Nice people, aren't they? 😄

@Cierzo: Just bloody peachy lot aren't they.