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Roots in 'Revisionist Zionism'
"Each people will struggle against colonizers until the last
spark of hope that they can avoid the dangers of conquest
and colonization is extinguished. The Palestinians will struggle
in this way until there is hardly a spark of hope."
"We cannot give any compensation for Palestine, neither
to the Palestinians nor to other Arabs. Therefore, a voluntary
agreement is inconceivable. All colonization, even the most
restricted, must continue in defiance of the will of the native
population. Therefore, it can continue and develop only under the
shield of force which comprises an Iron Wall through which the local
population can never break through. This is our Arab policy.
To formulate it any other way would be hypocrisy."
spark of hope that they can avoid the dangers of conquest
and colonization is extinguished. The Palestinians will struggle
in this way until there is hardly a spark of hope."
"We cannot give any compensation for Palestine, neither
to the Palestinians nor to other Arabs. Therefore, a voluntary
agreement is inconceivable. All colonization, even the most
restricted, must continue in defiance of the will of the native
population. Therefore, it can continue and develop only under the
shield of force which comprises an Iron Wall through which the local
population can never break through. This is our Arab policy.
To formulate it any other way would be hypocrisy."
Mid-East Realities - MER - www.MiddleEast.Org - 23 July 2004:
When Ariel Sharon became Prime Minister of Israel, the picture on the wall was not that of Theodore Herzl, the secular and worldly European Jewish journalist whose book The Jewish State launched the movement to create a modern-day nation-state tied to historical Judaism. Rather the picture on the wall was that of Vladimir Jabotinsky, the Jewish militant who was for many years the arch-nemesis of the Zionist establishment led by David Ben-Gurion and the Labor Party.
Jabotinsky was in fact declared a fascist by his opponents for espousing what today can be easily recognized as a kind of racist 'ethnic-cleansing' philosophy. He was so controversial that the leaders of Israel refused to even let him be buried in the Jewish State until the late 1970s after the first victory of his followers when Manachem Begin became Prime Minister.
In 1923, a generation after Herzl wrote The Jewish State, Jabotinsky wrote The Iron Wall. The roots of what has become Israeli Apartheid and now the widely-condemned nearly 500 kilometer long "Wall" are in this approach to the Palestinians long known as "Revisionism Zionism" and long the underlying philosophy of those who today rule Israel and attempt to speak for American Jewry. This telling excerpt from Jabotinsky's The Iron Wall:
