The word 'Zionism' was coined by a Jew in the second half of the 19th century. The idea was formed by an Anglican clergyman named Rev. Keith in the first half of the 19th century: he said 'Palestine is a land without a people for a people without a land.' The Anglican clergy did not want Jews, whom they considered deicides, living in the UK, they wanted them all sent back to Palestine.
The Greeks transliterated the Hebrew word as Φιλιστιν, or Philistine. The Romans transliterated it as Palestine. The first Hebrew letter can be pronounced like the Greek Φ or the Roman P, and the vowels are not written in Hebrew. But in the 19th century, the Roman province of Palestine was a small part of the Ottoman vilayet of Syria. Then the Ottoman Empire somehow found themselves as part of the Central Powers in WWI, and lost, and all their Asian vilayets were chopped up and split between the French and the British, and the British got Palestine and Jordan, both formerly parts of Syria, and the French got Syria and Lebanon, both also once parts of Syria. And the British wrote the Balfour Declaration and the Mandate that Palestine was for British Jews. The UK would have liked to force all UK Jews to Palestine, and they got quite a few to go. Palestine went from almost all Palestinians to about 30% British Jews.
Russian Jews, about half of all Jews worldwide, were in the Pale, and suffered pogroms, so some of them wanted to go, but the British said Palestine was only for UK Jews. And anyway, the Russian Empire ended, and the USSR banned ethnic groupings and religion, so there were no Jews in the USSR, but anyone caught practicing the Jewish religion, or any other religion, would be punished. And no one was allowed to leave the USSR. Or the Warsaw Pact, for that matter (but a few managed to escape).
The Nazis wanted a Judenfrei Europe, but, again, the UK said that, while all Jews are a problem, European Jews were a European problem and the Royal Navy would prevent any from being shipped out of Europe. So the Nazis rounded up the Jews, put them in Concentration Camps, which were originally not so bad, a German confined in one in the early '30s wrote that he was there for a year or so and nothing bad happened. But, with WWII, the Axis was short of food, so they starved those in the Concentration Camps, and, as one starves, the immune system weakens and the inmates started getting bad infections and infecting the guards, so the Germans ordered anyone who could not work be killed and the body burned.
The best estimates are that the Germans murdered between 4.5 million to 6 million Jews.
There is, of course, one and only one war crime: losing the war. After they lost the war, any German who had anything to do with killing Jews was severely punished by the Allies.
The Germans also killed Slavs for lebensraum, and considered Slavs as terrible, a race to be exterminated, but, since this is an obvious fact in the West, the Western allies rewarded and honoured Germans who killed Slavs. Quite recently, Canada gave an elderly Nazi a standing ovation for his valuable contribution killing Slavs during WWII, fighting with Canada against the USSR.
But what to do with the survivors in the West European concentration camps? The US said, 'Send them all to Palestine,' and that was done. Well armed, they started killing Philistines, who were advised by the Arabs to flee Palestine until the Jews could be killed by the Arab armies. Only the Arab armies lost. The Philistines who fled Palestine was never allowed to return, and no one knows what to do with them. Most are still in refugee camps, not citizens of any state.
The Jews forced into Palestine want the whole state, but it's not quite Apartheid. The South Africans would not let anyone with a drop of Asian or African blood to become a citizen, but a European Jew was considered European, and was welcomed as a citizen. Israel made 2 million Palestinians legal to stay in Palestine, something South Africa under Apartheid would never have done. But the rest of the Palestinians, about 5.5 million, are illegal aliens.
Israel have said that the events of 7 October 2023 mean those 5.5 million must be removed, one way or the other. If some other country will take them, Israel will send them. If not, they must be killed. So far, Israel has only killed about 26,000 Philistines in Ghaza, but they have a strict limit of two trucks of food a day, so more than a million Philistines are in danger of death from starvation. Since the Ghaza have no guards inside the Ghaza (there are three batallions of Israeli soldiers outside the Ghaza, guarding that no Ghazan gets out) so if epidemics spread inside Ghaza, they should not infect the Jews outside the Ghaza. And no one seems to care, if no country will take them in, the rest of the world have no objection if Israel kill all the Philistines.
Of course, one question is, 'Why ship all the European and UK Jews to Palestine in the first place? Wasn't that wrong? Didn't Palestine belong to the Palestinians?'
And then, after the US sent all the Western European Jews to Palestine, many Muslim countries punished the Jews living there for something they had nothing to do with, so they fled to Israel since no other place would take them.And after the USSR collapsed, so did the economy, and many former USSR and Warsaw Pact Jews went to Israel.
But now, after more than 70 years, Morocco says they'll be glad to take back all the Jews they evicted in 1948. That's a start. Most of the European Jews in Israel have two passports, so they could leave. No one wants the Philistines, so why not let the Jews go back where they came from and let the Philistines stay in Palestine?
But the Israeli Jews have the full power of the US military behind them, and no one seems to care if they exterminate 5.5 million Philistines, and no one seems to want those 5.5 million Philistines, so it is looking like Israel will starve at least two million to death. And then they'll think about the best way to get rid of the remaining 3.5 million. And the world figures that's OK.
Or at least the world leaders all figure that's all for the best. The world has a lot of people protesting, saying what Israel is doing is wrong, saying their country should help the Palestinians, but their leaders know it's best to close their double-pane windows and drapes so they can't see or hear those protests.
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