11.04.2003
Zionist Revisionism
Individual Arabs may perhaps be bought off but this hardly means that all the Arabs in Eretz Israel are willing to sell a patriotism that not even Papuans will trade. Every indigenous people will resist alien settlers as long as they see any hope of ridding themselves of the danger of foreign settlement.
That is what the Arabs in Palestine are doing, and what they will persist in doing as long as there remains a solitary spark of hope that they will be able to prevent the transformation of “Palestine” into the “Land of Israel”.
...they are not a rabble but a nation, perhaps somewhat tattered, but still living. A living people makes such enormous concessions on such fateful questions only when there is no hope left. Only when not a single breach is visible in the iron wall, only then do extreme groups lose their sway, and influence transfers to moderate groups. Only then would these moderate groups come to us with proposals for mutual concessions. And only then will moderates offer suggestions for compromise on practical questions like a guarantee against expulsion, or equality and national autonomy.
--The Iron Wall by Vladimir Jabotinski, 1923
Ruthless.
The above quotation is taken from the work "The Iron Wall: Zionist Revisionism from Jabotinsky to Shamir" by Lenni Brenner (1984) which is available in its entirety here.
The ongoing construction of cement and iron wall that enforces a continued immoral apartheid, 86 years after the Balfour Declaration behooves one to read what Jabotinski knew to be true in 1923.
Please take the time to read the history offered. For the peoples of the US and Israel as well as the beleaguered, occupied Palestinians. Learn the reality, so justice will be served. It is not a "Left or Right" issue. It concerns truth and human decency...
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11/04/2003
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