> is reading....History of Palestine, A Methodical Study of The Palestinian Struggle look at chapter THREE : Zionism, Movement and Thought Zionists form the opposite side of the conflict we are studying here; they are the adversaries of the Palestinians who dispute with them the right to exist in this land. Zionism is the ideology that motivated the Jews of the world to settle in Palestine, creating the whole problem and establishing the Zionist state Israel through the efforts of its main body, the World Zionist Organization (WZO). Zionism, as defined by Zionists, is a political ideology that calls for the return of the Jewish people to their homeland to which they have historical and religious rights, i.e. the land of Palestine. It is a movement that depends and utilizes many concepts from Judaism, but that does not necessarily make it equal to Judaism. Zionism emerged as the main response for the Jewish Question that faced the Jewish People around the world, especially in Europe. It considered that the only solution to the problem of the Jewish people is to have their own home and state, just like any nation in the world. In other words to find a land without people for a people without land as the Zionist rhetoric says, and this land is obviously Palestine. To achieve their goal, the Zionists formed an international organization (World Zionist Organization WZO- est. 1897) that took the burden to create this homeland and transfer the Jewish people to it. At some point, however, and for strategic and political reasons, the organization needed some alternative guise; hence, the Jewish Agency was established in 1929 as a wider body representing all Jews, not only Zionist Jews. But it was under the control of the World Zionist Organization, and both organizations were more or less the same body for most of the time. Their administration, being interconnected, makes it rather difficult to understand their individual structures. Throughout the years, many trends emerged within Zionism, that, to some extent, reflected some trends in Judaism itself. Since Judaism and Zionism are not synonymous, not all the Jews of the world support Zionism, though most do. Here, it is also important to note a distinctive feature of the Palestinian-Zionist conflict, namely that both parties do not just dispute over rights, but over facts as well. With such dispute over facts, there is little room for developing intelligent argumentation, because facts are verifiable empirically only. For example, for a long time, especially during the 1930s- 1960s, the Zionist propaganda in the U.S. convinced most of the Americans that the Zionists have been migrating to a land without people, thus the famous slogan was A land without people for people without land. However, United Nations sources say that there are now 3,521,130 Palestinian refugees around the world, leave alone another 1.5 million refugees not registered with the UNRWA (Palestinian sources estimate that there are 9,545,000 million Palestinians around the world in 2002). Indeed, American Zionists insist on this fact, although those inside Palestine admit that there was a people in this land before they came, to whom they, however, accept no moral responsibility because they left willingly! Likewise, the American Zionist Organization published a booklet named Deir Yassin: History of a Lie in which it ridiculously denied the well- known massacre of Deir Yassin in which the Israeli forces killed all the inhabitants of the village on the 9th and 10th of April 1948. In other words, a form of consistent fabrication of historical facts is practiced by this body to validate the religiously based Zionist claims. https://archive.org/details/HistoryOfPalestine_201302
Posted on: Sat, 03 May 2014 17:04:25 +0000
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