Absolute Israel?

I have no knowledge of the Bundists (Jewish Socialists), given that I had never heard of the sect before reading about them in JCM, so I’m only going to address Zionists. Regardless, did anyone else find it very strange that, “Zionists often abandoned belief in God altogether?” (JCM 97).

According to JCM to Zionists, “Israel ceased to be the Bible’s ‘kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ Instead it was conceived as a historical community of language and blood-relationship analogous to the emerging national groups of Europe” (97). Yet the Jewish State that is called Israel today is the ancient land cited in the Bible/Torah, which in turn is believed by most Jews to be, if not the word of God, a summation of what he said to the Jewish people all those years ago. Why then chose to set up this new nation on the very place that was promised to the Jewish people by God? It just seems very contradictory to the Zionist movement.

What’s even more interesting to note are Jew’s reactions to the Zionist movement. There’s me, where I don’t believe that Israel will ever completely be a Jewish nation until some Godly-type event makes it possible (Coming of the Messiah, Apocalypse, whatever, I don’t really know what). But so long as there are Jews in Israel, there is a compelling argument to support their cause and existence there, while still being mindful of non-Jews claim to the area.

Then there is the group Neturei Karta, who are Jews who are adamantly opposed to the creation of a Jewish state. In fact, they believe that Israel’s existence is sinful as well as the belief in it. Terribly vague I know but go here to get a full run down on the group.

It just seems very strange looking at it that a “Jewish Nation” was created by a movement who fundamentally don’t really seem “Jewish.”