by armed occupation, wars, and gunboat diplomacy, were not available to the Zionists.
The only road open was to pertrolling Palestine that the creation of a jewisa state wowd Delores davantage. So began the negotiations of the Zionist movement with the great DOWLES.
As one imperialist power blossomed forth, so the tonist movement would orientate towards it; with the emergence of a new power in the area, so the movement re-oriented.
Herzl's deputy, Max Nordau once proclaimed: Our aspirations point to Palestine as a compass points to the north. theretore we must orientatc ourselves towards those powers (Germany and turkey wact whose ihfuence Palestine happens to be*. Or returning against to Herzl himself: If His Majesty the Sultan were to give us Palestine could regulate Turkey's finances neutral sate, we would remain in constant touch with all of Europe, which would guarantee our existence.
Thus the Zionists sought to gather gaining ground Jews.
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fional and Zionist for which the Entente stands.
undertake to As A maintain control project. pickings from the disintegrating Ottoman empire. But the decline of Ortoman power, and the possibility of exploiting inter-imperialist conflict of the First World War, demanded that they turn toward Britain. Seeking to utilise the the British government issued the infamous Balfour declaration - a promise to favour the creation of a the Jewish Prior to this the Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann had written to the ..in submitting our resolution we entrusted our nadestiny to the Foreign Office and the Imperial War Cabinet in the hope that the problem would be considered in the light of imperialist interests and the principles the decline of the British empire and its proven inability after the Arab Revolt of 1936-39 to in Palestine, Zionists sought US support for their The outcome of the reliance of the Zionists on imperialism for the creation and maintenance of the Israeli state was the ardently pro-imperialist policies of the Israch state from the time of the Korean war onwards.
The Establishment of Israel We have shown that the Zionist movement saw its task as colonising Palestine for 'civilisation' — read imperialism. However, would misguided to equate this colonisation with what happened for example in South Africa. The white colonists there were the frontier fighters of laissez-faire capitalism. They sought to exploit the local resources and population for immediate benetit.
Today we see the economic apartheid in South Africa - blacks forming the backbone of the manual working class whilst the whites fill the skilled and managerial levels.
The outlook of the Zionists was very different from this. The specific teature of distinguishes it from all other modern settler colonisation movements is that it wanted not simply the resources of establishme national own classe Arabs not to socially and politically).
It is important not to forget the complicity of the Arab ruling classes downers, the Al-Husseinis, Auni Abdul Hadi, and others all sold land to Zionists, who remembered, had regulations forbidding its re-sale to Arab On the Hashemite kings Zionism. In 1922 King Faisal signed an agreement with cluding endorsemen Balfour stating: All necessary measures shall be taken to encourage, and stimulate immigration into Palestine on a large scale.
Finally, in 1948. Ben Gurion and Adbullah, King of Jordan, agreed to divide Palestine between themselves.
It is well kown what the result of Zionist colonisation there were 580,000 MESSINC land Arabs lost 40-50 percent of their land. Perhaps the clearest reflection of Zionist ideals is the infamous •Law of Return', promulgated in July 1950.
right to come and settle in Israel. The law of nationality years later confered Israeli nationality on any settier.
However, wno nad nica ine ngang ronowag organised massacres like that of Deir Yassin were to foreigners; naturalisation would be granted only after the applicant had sworn an oath of allegiance to the new state and the application had to be approved by the Minister of the Interior The Israeli nationality revealing of cornerstone of Zionist ideology deriving the false Zionism with Judaism. The Zionists believe that world Jewry constitute a nation which was scattered thousands of years ago be but which basis. This preposterous notion can at best only make the concept of a nation or nationality meaningless How can lews trom countries, with completely different economic SOCIE political histories single unit! And if they did constitute a nation, why is it that today, 34 years after the foundation of the Zionist state, the overwhelming majority of Jews consciously emigrate to Israel ardently many of them defend the which policies of the Israeli state.
of a world population of about 16 million Jews reside today in Isract. Palestine (which were not tice of Zionis; tion of th arent?
cated LATELALIC kould create its malisei including land a working cla: The Arabs in every ere therefore be exploited but totally replaced Consequently the central slogans of the of its Arab inhabit ideology and soci Zionist colonisation process were: the core 'Conquest How Land', Jewish Labour", early Zio and "Buy Jewish"
In short, Israel was early Zio to be exclusively Jewish in situation il istence of i every respect (economically, Max Nordat mand, first rec istence of an must Jewish Agency, colonisation political level the commented in collaborated calier he had notation Weizmann, Indeclaration and an article this country In 1948 was.
Arab refugees; confiscations This states that every Jew has the passed nearly two the Palestinian Arabs be treated as law is fundamental equation of during "the Diaspora", still retains its common different and ситита. be considered chose matter how It is estimated that 3%½ million out mes at ideolog. i can has in of Arabs from discrimination 202178 aspect of life, and does not even officially recognise the existence of "Palestinians"
The rationaisation of the colonisation of Palestine at the expense hts has created an which is racist to Over, it would be wrong to simplistically project this OILE the List movement. In fact, the ists were oblivious to the Palestine and even the exArab inhabitants. When Herzl's second in comed details on the exArao popumnon Palestine, he came shocked to Herlz, exclaiming: "I never realised this — we are committing an injustice This original naivete quickly gave way to the pragmatic policies of the the head of whose department, R Weitz, 1967 that years made the following his diary: *Between ourselves it must be clear that there is no room for both peoples together in We shall not achieve our goal of being an independent peo ple with the Arabs in this small country. The only solution is a Palestine at least Western Palestine (west of the Jordan River) without Arabs... And there is no other way than to transfer the Arabs from here to the neighbouring countries, to transfer all of them: Not one village, not one tribe, should be left.. Only after this transfer will the country be able to absorb the millions of our own brethren. There is no other way out.
Later speaking in the aftermath of the Six Day War (1967), he made this .... the War of Independence (1948) broke out to ou great fortune. In this war, a two fol miracle occurred: territorial victory and the flight of the Arabs. In the Six Day War, there was one miracle: a tremendous territorial victory. But the general popuation of the liberated territories remained "stuck' in their places, and this may destroy the very foundation of our state.
Land-holding in Palestine, 1948 Socialist Challenge 2 October 1982 page 7
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