Zainteresowanych problemem - to jest początkami państwa Izrael - odsyłam do podlinkowanego materiału i zachęcam do jego wnikliwego przestudiowania. Tekst jest krótki, treściwy, komunikatywny, warsztatowo doskonały. Rzadko się zdarza tak dobrze opracowany materiał prezentujący in nuce tak bardzo skomplikowane zagadnienie. Z tekstu granitowo przejrzyście wynika, ze kreowanie Izraela przez Żydów było przedsięwzięciem kolonialnym, brutalnym, cynicznym, do bólu rasistowskim.
Jednym z mitów/sloganów promowanych przez syjonistyczna propagandę było hasło o "ziemi bez ludzi (Palestyna) dla ludzi bez ziemi (Żydzi)". W każdym calu kłamliwe, gdyż Palestyna była zamieszała i kultywowana ( kwitnące rolnictwo) przez Palestyńczyków. Hasło jak wyżej było propagandowym wytrychem dla naiwnych i ignorantów. Sami Żydzi doskonale o tym wiedzieli. Chaim Weizmann jeden z wielkich guru syjonizmu w 19198 roku - tak się na temat rzekomej "ziemi bez ludzi" wypowiedział w gronie zaufanych: "Palestyńczycy są jak skały Judei, są jak przeszkody do usunięcia na trudnej do przejścia ścieżce". O żydowskich metodach usuwania "palestyńskich skał" już było trochę wątków i najpewniej jeszcze trochę będzie.

"From the very beginning, political Zionism implied the "transfer" of the indigenous population to other countries. In their early efforts to gain support from Western nations, Zionist leaders proclaimed that Palestine was "a land without a people for a people without a land." In reality, they knew that the first part of that slogan was a lie. The Palestinian people were like "the rocks of Judea, obstacles to be cleared on a difficult path," as Chaim Weizmann, a prominent Zionist figure and future first president of Israel, put it in 1918.2
This dismissive attitude towards the pre-existing civilization in Palestine perhaps explains the early Zionist optimism surrounding the "Arab question." Theodore Herzl, the founding father of political Zionism, believed that the Palestinians could be uprooted with non-violent methods. In 1895, he wrote that "we shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it any employment in our own country." The property owners, on the other hand, could easily be tricked into giving up their lands according to Herzl. "Let the owners of immovable property believe that they are cheating us, selling us something far more than they are worth. But we are not going to sell them anything back."3
The free market turned out not to be a very good ally, however. Only 5.8% of Palestinian land was under Jewish ownership by December 1947, more than half a century after Herzl's remarks. Realizing that Jewish immigration, establishing kibbutzes and buying property was not enough, Zionist leaders soon turned to political and military means".

"Political help was secured first. During the First World War, a great-power patron was found in Britain, which pledged to put its weight behind "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" in the so-called Balfour Declaration of 1917. When the British secured a League of Nations mandate over Palestine in 1922, words were followed by deeds. During the Mandate period, the British allowed for the creation of a Jewish Agency to function as a semi-governmental body while denying similar advantages to the Palestinians. As such, the Palestinians had to bear the brunt of two colonial movements simultaneously: a settler-colonialist movement in Palestine, aided and abetted by the world's foremost colonial power in London.""The more extreme branches of the Zionist movement, such as the "Revisionists" led by Ze'ev Jabotinsky, were the first to resort to military means. As far back as 1925, Jabotinsky wrote that "Zionism is a colonizing venture and, therefore, it stands or falls on the question of armed forces."5 Since he was open about an "Iron wall of bayonets" that needed to separate Jews and Arabs, there was little confusion about the purpose of the paramilitary militias that Jabotinsky endorsed. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Irgun and the Stern Gang launched a terror campaign against Palestinian civilians (and British officials towards the end of the Mandate period) that left hundreds of casualties.Lest these extreme forms of intimidation be seen as evidence that the need for ethnic cleansing was solely a right-wing policy aim, it was actually accomplished under the leadership of the dominant "Labor" branch of the Zionist movement. With the help of sympathetic British officers, the Jewish Agency was allowed to expand its military arm, the Haganah, during the Great Palestinian Revolt of 1936-1939. Meanwhile, the mainstream Zionist leadership, too, was gravitating towards a military solution to the "Arab Question." Ben-Gurion, for instance, told his compatriots of the Jewish Agency in June 1938-ten years before the 'wipe out' comment-that "I am for compulsory transfer; I do not see anything immoral in it."

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