Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Rightists Award Student Who Persecuted 'Left-Wing' Teacher [View all]Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)You even make your arguments through flipbook animations. How peculiar.
I think you should learn about political philosophy in general, David. How they grow, develop, change, alter, and are expressed differently through different politicians and circumstances.
Take my example of Lincoln. he he;d a particular set of beliefs - namely that blacks were inferior to whites, and that the races should be separate - yet after the abolition of slavery he oversaw the first actualized attempts at integration of the races in the US. He didn't abandon his own beliefs (I don't think, we'll probably never know) but he did take a different tack from them when actually performing his role as leader of the nation.
Rabin was a war criminal piece of shit. He was a nasty little racist asshole. And yet he was able to set aside some of the ideas he was lugging around with him - that Jews had a right to take from Arabs, to kill Arabs, to pillage them and humiliate them - that is found in the core expressions of Zionism - not because he abandoned those ideas (maybe he did - again we'll never know) but because he recognized following those ideas was causing bad shit to happen. As a result he was depicted as a Nazi and finally murdered by more ideologically pure Zionists - as Israeli points out, it's not likely Amir was a "lone nut."
Maybe Rabin could have ushered in a new "flavor" of Zionism. Maybe had he not been gunned down, you and I wouldn't be having these little sessions where i attempt to educate a mossy block.