re: #468 tommysilver

re: #423 Aceofwhat?

Nice try but both Zionism and Hamas are political movements and not ideologies. Jewish West Bank settlers do not use Zionism to justify their right to land outside the 1949 borders and the Hamas charter does not call for the killing of Jews (it calls for their subjugation under Islamic rule). Politics can change, in fact by necessity politics involves compromise (there is no politics in a dictatorship other than the politics of avoiding execution). By contrast, ideologies generally do not change by compromise, if they change it is out of necessity or simply the dying off of older generations who hold them.

Zionism is a basic tenet of Judaism. hamas is a terrorist group.