A Short Survey of the Palestine Problem (ص 13)
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- A Short Survey of the Palestine Problem (ص 13)
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and aims of British imperialism realised with the approach
of World War I, that the British Empire was the only force
ready to actually back the Zionist dream. Thus, the Zion-
ist movement gave up its hopeless attempts to co-operate
with the Ottoman Empire and Germany, and turned to
Britain with constant assurances that the Jews in Pales-
tine would form an inseparable part of the British Empire.
{n 1914, i.e., three years before the Balfour Declaration,
Weizmann wrote to the editor of the Manchester Guardian:
« We can reasonably say that should Palestine fall within
the British sphere of influence, and should Britain encou-
rage a Jewish settlement there, as a British dependency,
we could have in twenty to thirty years a million Jews
out there perhaps more; they would form a very effective
guard for the Suez Canal. »
II This peculiar imeprialist force, Zionism, has had,
since its inception, racist and exploitative inclinations
both ideologically and in practice. These inclinations
have taken definite shape in the Zionist State of Israel.
A. Zionism, from the start, was based on the idea
of the illegal appropriation of the whole of Palestine, and
the expulsion of its indigenous population, It was not
created for the sake of finding a secure place for the per-
secuted Jews, nor for finding a Jewish grouping in Pales-
tine, nor even for the purpose of establishing a Jewish
state on part of the land of Palestine, Zionism, which was
regarded by some as an answer to the waves of Jewish
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