A Short Survey of the Palestine Problem (ص 16)

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A Short Survey of the Palestine Problem (ص 16)

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racism. The fact that the Jews resented assimilation in
other nationalities was not the result of unrealistic nation-
alist aspirations, but was the basis for expressing that
superior tendency. Zionism, in order to serve its interests,
converted the classical religious idea of a «chosen people»
into a completely different meaning, best expressed by
Ahad Ha’am when he wrote : « The nation of Israel as a
supernacion — the modern version of the chosen people
— can in this way be expanded into a true system. » The
Jewish people are looking for « some firm resting place...
in order that it may have the opportunity once more of
developing its genius... and of fulfilling its mission as a
Supernation. »
III <A. By the outbreak of World War I the Zionist
colonisation of Palestine had met with only modest suc-
cess in over thirty years of action, Zionists were still
infinitesimal minority of about 1% of the Jews of the
world. Their activities had aroused the fear and opposi-
tion of other Jews, who sought the solution of the «Jewish
problem» in assimilation in Western Europe and the Uni-
ted States of America, not in self-segregation in Palestine.
Zionist colonisation proceeded very slowley. After thirty
years of immigration to Palestine, Jews were still under
8% of the total population of the country, in possession
of no more than 23% of the land. Zionism had also failed
to obtain political endorsement from the Ottoman author-
ities controlling Palestine, or from any European power.
It seemed that Zionism was reaching a dead end.
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A Short Survey of the Palestine Problem

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