A Short Survey of the Palestine Problem (ص 14)

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A Short Survey of the Palestine Problem (ص 14)

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persecution, quickly corrected this misconception by stress-
ing that the aim behind Jewish immigration and Zionist
colonisation of Palestine was to turn it to a Jewish Nation-
al Home which would find its political expression in the
« One Jewish State ». This early general expression re-
garding the usurpation of Palestine and the establishment
of the state of Israel is clearly expressed in the early
writings of Zionist leaders, in the resolution adopted by
the first Zionist Congress, and in the rejection of all of-
fers regarding the settlement of the Jews outside Pales-
tine. It was best expressed by Weizmann in the Peace
Conference held in Paris in February 1919, when he de-
clared that the goal of Zionism was that Palestine
« would ultimately become as Jewish as England is
English.
B. Zionist philosophy has explicitly expressed a
racial theory. Zionism as an ideology is based on the
notion of the creation of a Jewish National Home. The
call for this home was propogated among a majority of
Jewish circles who conceived Judaism to be a faith and
not a national political union. They also believed that the
solution of the prevailing Jewish conditions lied in the
development of world liberal movements, in the success
of the call for equality, and in the assimilation of the
Jews in the nationalities of their respective countries.
In the absence of the basic assets which form a na-
tion, namely a common language, history and geography,
Zionism could not find except racism a basis to justify
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A Short Survey of the Palestine Problem

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