If you’ve read Jabotinsky, I assume you’ve also read the far better known Theodor Herzl, whose Old New Land envisions a multicultural Zionist nation of peaceful coexistence between Jews, Arabs and other peoples.
Zionism does not require violence. That’s like saying that liberalism requires violence because of the writings of the French revolution.
Herzl himself certainly did. Zionism is Settler Colonialism, Setter Colonialism is always violent. The difficulty in creating a democratic Jewish state in an area inhabited by people who are not Jewish, is that enough needs to be ‘Transferred’ so that the demographic majority is Jewish. Ben-Gurion explicitly rejected Secular Bi-national state solutions in favor of partition.
Zionism’s aims in Palestine, its deeply-held conviction
that the Land of Israel belonged exclusively to the Jewish
people as a whole, and the idea of Palestine’s “civilizational
barrenness" or “emptiness” against the background of Euro
pean imperialist ideologies all converged in the logical conclusion that the native population should make way for the
newcomers. The idea that the Palestinian Arabs must find
a place for themselves elsewhere was articulated early on.
indeed, the founder of the movement, Theodor Herzl, provided an early reference to transfer even before he formally
outlined his theory of Zionist rebirth in his Judenstat. An
1895 entry in his diary provides in embryonic form many of
the elements that were to be demonstrated repeatedly in
the Zionist quest for solutions to the “Arab problem ”-the
idea of dealing with state governments over the heads of
the indigenous population, Jewish acquisition of property
that would be inalienable, “Hebrew Land" and “Hebrew Labor,” and the removal of the native population.
If you’ve read Jabotinsky, I assume you’ve also read the far better known Theodor Herzl, whose Old New Land envisions a multicultural Zionist nation of peaceful coexistence between Jews, Arabs and other peoples.
Zionism does not require violence. That’s like saying that liberalism requires violence because of the writings of the French revolution.
Herzl himself certainly did. Zionism is Settler Colonialism, Setter Colonialism is always violent. The difficulty in creating a democratic Jewish state in an area inhabited by people who are not Jewish, is that enough needs to be ‘Transferred’ so that the demographic majority is Jewish. Ben-Gurion explicitly rejected Secular Bi-national state solutions in favor of partition.
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Transfer Committee and the JNF led to Forced Displacement of 100,000 Palestinians throughout the mandate.