Guest,guest-"Just because something has been around..." You have an in-apt analogy here. 'anti-Semite (tic)' has an agreed upon definition, so that one can be speaking to others about the same thing. "The Protocols" are a salacious, slanderous fiction perpetrated during Czarist times, and given wide circulation in the USA by industrialist Henry Ford in the 1920s and '30s. That book is only 'true' to a Jew-hater!!!

Now I have read postings that Herzl used the term 'Zionist project' in his early works, and I have read here that he did not use that term. Whether he did or not does not much matter, because the context in which he would have used it (had he used it) would have been much different from the perjorative way that term is now used.

A few questions to ponder:

1) Why, of all the countries that were established in the Middle East by the League of Nations or the United Nations...Saudi Arabia,
(Trans)Jordan, Syria, Iraq, etc,...only Israel has to justify its existance?

2) Why do not Jews remaining in Arab countries not have participatory rights, nor the ability to freely emigrate from those countries?

3) Why, during the 20 years that Jordan controlled the so-called West Bank and Jerusalem, was there no great clamor for a Palestinean State there?

4) Why, during the the 20 years that Jordan controlled Jerusalem, were Jews forbidden from visiting and worshipping at Holy sites there?

5) Why did the government of Jordan kill thousands of Palestineans and expell the Palestinean leadership during what came to be known as "Black September"? And why was there no great world outcry against it?

Your answers to these questions, as you think about them, should be most instructive to yourselves.