Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism are not the same thing. Unfortunately, there is considerable overlap because many anti-Semites are also anti-Zionists. (Tho I imagine there are some anti-Semites who are Zionists as it gives a place for the Jews to be forced to go so they don't have to mix with them.)
Howard Jacobson
And the question has to be asked whether a Jewish state, however magnanimous and conciliatory, will ever be accepted in the Middle East.
The problem is, while the modern State of Israel is indeed in many ways a model country, it can't escape that without the ethnic cleansing carried out in 1947-9, even within the 1967 borders, Israel wouldn't be a Jewish state today. That indisputable fact is why getting those who were cleansed and their descendants is not going to be easily accepted by the Arabs, especially when Israel continues the policy of cleansing known as "settlements". Such a lovely word that implies that the land was barren and unused until it was settled, when the truth is anything but.
