The troll who blogs under the name "Real Real Zionist" a misnomer if ever there was one posts with a picture of Mahatma Ghandi. This goes a long way way to explaining this troll's hatred for Israel and the Jews for after all these are some of things Ghandi said about the Jews' legal historical and moral claim to self determination in their own homeland (a long time before "settlements being obstacles to peace" and the creation of the "Palestinians" - a term with which Ghandi would not have been familiar obviously since it had not been thought up yet):
"My sympathy does not blind me to the requirements of justice. The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and in the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after their return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?".
His views never changed even after the Holocaust and the slaughter of the Jews in the countries of their birth and where they earned their livelihoods.
For again he reiterated:
"Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs... Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home."
Ghandi was then (like Mandela is now) no friend of the Jewish people's legitimate aspirations to self determination and was virulently anti-Zionist; posting pictures of him on this website while claiming to be a Zionist is an anathema.
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