{"id":22754,"date":"2026-07-28T18:13:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T18:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22754"},"modified":"2026-07-28T18:13:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T18:13:48","slug":"modern-zionism-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22754","title":{"rendered":"Modern Zionism, Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nice bit of Israeli history, although&#8230;Zionism ended in 1948. Once Zionism was achieved and the state of Israel was formed, we just have the policies of Israel and the ideologies of its citizens, not something special called Zionism. It doesn&#8217;t make sense to have a word that means the ideology to form a particular state for a particular people when that state has already been formed. Other countries don&#8217;t have a special term that means people think that that country should continue to exist, neither should Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Modern Zionism, Explained\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aKELq9Jdc0k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice bit of Israeli history, although&#8230;Zionism ended in 1948. Once Zionism was achieved and the state of Israel was formed, we just have the policies of Israel and the ideologies of its citizens, not something special called Zionism. It doesn&#8217;t make sense to have a word that means the ideology to form a particular state for a particular people when that state has already been formed. Other countries don&#8217;t have a special term that means people think that that country should continue to exist, neither should Israel.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aKELq9Jdc0k<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[770,194,1585,391,1021],"class_list":["post-22754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-history","tag-israel","tag-jews","tag-middle-east","tag-nationalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22755,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22754\/revisions\/22755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}