Dear Zionist

David Ben Gurion with members of Jewish Zionist Youth Movement in Tallin in Estonia, 1933

I don’t know which sort of Zionist you are. If you sincerely believe everything you say in defense of Israel, you have my sympathy— you’ve been duped by Iraeli hasbara, a Hebrew word for propaganda, just as I was duped when I was a young believer in the Zionist cause.

But if you lie because, like all fanatics, you believe the ends justify the means, you only have my pity— you can’t see that anything you build on lies is doomed to fail.