Oh good, we are back to videos.[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk8Q9Kmkm3M]A Gobbledygook Epidemic - YouTube[/ame]ZIONISM is a major theme of the books most people call
THE OLD TESTAMENT jews call it TANACH
The theme gets introduced in the first book called GENESIS.
A person named AVRAM-----gets the idea that his hometown
is no damned good and its social system stinks. He is some
sort of big shot in his home country and is married to a cute
little shot------and has a retinue. He goes to a place
called BEERSHEVA----in a land called CANAAN----which is
a kind of ----tribe here, village there kind of land----
independent little groups-----and he and his retinue
consistute one such little group.
He and later his sons build a kind of SPHERE OF
INFLUENCE in the land CANAAN -----a they get some fame
eventually over a few hundred years growing into a
"KINGDOM" On the way----they develope a THEOLOGY
that involves their history and notable events in
various parts of the land which makes them more and
more attached to that land.. and a literarture and
a body of poetry----all tied up in an attachment to that
land which comes to be called ZION. Attachment to
then land where the language and the theology and
the notable events unfolded is called ZIONISM
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNNhG0zDtA8&feature=player_embedded]Peace in the Middle East - YouTube[/ame]