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=====Emergence of Zionism=====

The political extremist and nationalist movement of Zionism, which calls itself Jewish yet betrays the teachings of the Torah inherently, was founded in the 19th century. The return to Zion of the Achaemenid era was the namesake of the ideology. Its founding was a response to the Jewish Question: the question of what the answer was regarding Jewish "emancipation", which led to massive debate about how to end religious persecution for Jews and subsequently other religious minorities. Across Europe, many intellectuals, rabbis, Jews and non-Jews were engaged in this question. Karl Marx wrote about the Jewish Question in the mid-19th century, arriving at the conclusion that, in order for Jews to assimilate successfully, the state must become secular and Jews must not act in the fashion of their stereotypes (which by this point were widespread and more accurately described the Christian states of Europe than the Jewish laborer), but return to the spiritual and pious ways of Orthodoxy from the decadency of Revisionist Judaism. 

Moses Mendelssohn founded Revisionist Judaism in Germany during the 18th century, when the Jewish Question was first gaining significance in European intellectual circles. This subversion of Judaism completely rejected core tenants of the Torah, such as keeping of the Sabbath, keeping kosher, and the spiritualization of the Jewish nation. The lattermost pillar of Judaism refers to the exile of Jews after the destruction of Solomon's temple; God thereafter forbade Jews from returning without their Messiah; he forbade their also from asserting political or military sovereignty in the form of a state, especially in the holy land. Orthodox Judaism rejects violent aggression, and this was the reason the Persian and other Arab nations took the Jews in-- they didn't see Jews as a threat, having read and studied the Torah as Muhammad did-- and gave them protections on such bases.

According to Orthodox and other anti-Zionist Jews, the Jewish State's later foundation was a rejection of their covenant to God, viz. a rejection of the spiritualization of the Jewish nation (read: people) by those who became Revisionist Jews like Mendelssohn. These Revisionist Jews reject the notion that their people can assimilate with others, that they must wait as their God commanded them to wait for the Messiah before they can (peacefully) return to the holy lands. Such rejection of traditional Jewish thought and the fundamentals of the religion cause Orthodox Jews to both protest Israel (both its actions and its existence as a state), as well as to uphold values of peace and piety in their support of Palestinian resistance since the British occupation.