Fascism in Zion: Often Zeev Jabotinsky empathized with the Palestinian peoples attachment to their country. He stated in 1923: They look upon Palestine with the same instinctive love and true favor the Aztecs looked upon Mexico or any Sioux looked upon his prairie. Palestine will remain for the Palestinians not a borderland, but their birthplace, the center and basis of their own national existence. (Righteous Victims, p. 36) In a similar vein, he also wrote in 1923: The Arabs loved their country as much as the Jews did. Instinctively, they understood Zionist aspirations very well, and their decision to resist them was only natural ..... There was not misunderstanding between Jew and Arab, but a natural conflict. .... No Agreement was possible with the Palestinian Arab; they would accept Zionism only when they found themselves up against an iron wall, when they realize they had no alternative but to accept Jewish settlement. (America And The Founding Of Israel, p. 90) These quotes should prove to the average Israeli or Zionist that Jabotinsky viewed Zionism as cruel, and also perhaps a necessary evil as well since he empathized more with plight and the injustice that came upon Europes Jews. Similarly, David Ben-Gurion stated more than once of his readiness to sup with the devil (Shabtai Teveth, p. xiii, Preface) to increase Jewish immigration to Palestine, specially when the sword was hanging over Europes Jews after the Nazis rise to power in Germany in 1933. The road map for the Israeli leaders policies towards the Palestinian people was clearly stated by Zeev Jabotinsky in an article published in Haaretz newspaper in 1923: .... Settlement can thus develop under the protection of a force that is not dependent on the local population, behind an IRON WALL which they will be powerless to break down. ....a voluntary agreement is just not possible. As long as the Arabs preserve a gleam of hope that they will succeed in getting rid of us, nothing in the world can cause them to relinquish this hope, precisely because they are not a rubble but a living people. And a living people will be ready to yield on such fateful issues only when they give up all hope of getting rid of the Alien Settlers. Only then will extremist groups with their slogan No, never lose their influence, and only then their influence be transferred to more moderate groups. And only then will the moderates offer suggestions for compromise. Then only will they begin bargaining with us on practical matters, such as guarantees against push them out, and equality of civil, and national rights. (Iron Wall, p. 14) palestineremembered/Acre/Famous-Zionist-Quotes/Story640.html
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