Today, President Obama on a visit to Israel has laid a wreath at the grave of Herzl, paying him honor in doing so. But the State of Israel is quite different from what Herzl had in mind. A comment on the site, Mondoweiss by Palestinian Ramzi Jaber, puts this in a listing as follows...
Obama must keep the following 12 facts in mind:
1- Palestinians are the gererous party who are willing to share our land with Israel
2- Herzl dreamed up Zionism to solve a non-Palestinian problem: Jews not being welcome in Europe
3- Zionism imposed a state over land that did not belong to Jews
4- Contrary to what Herzl dreamed up, the region is not better off because of Israel
5- Contrary to what Herzl dreamed up, Israel is not a secular democracy
6- Contrary to what Herzl dreamed up, Israel is not the only democracy in the Middle East.
7- Contrary to what Herzl dreamed up, Israel is NOT the vanguard of a westernized Middle East (but a throwback to 19th century Europe - CB)
8- Contrary to what Herzl dreamed up, Israel is not the solution to the Jewish problem
9- Contrary to what Herzl dreamed up, Israel has created Palestinian homelessness
10- Contrary to what Herzl dreamed up, emerging popular Middle Eastern governments are not Israel’s allies
11- Contrary to what Herzl dreamed up, Israel is no longer the oppressed but rather the only superpower (plus nukes) in the ME
12- Contrary to what Herzl dreamed up, Israel never moved beyond 1800s mentality
