> On May 29, 2026, at 08:14, Dennis Brasky via groups.io > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Herzl, the father of political Zionism, openly described the future Jewish > state as “a portion of the rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of > civilization as opposed to barbarism.” He actively sought charters from > colonial powers to establish a Jewish colony in Palestine. This was never > about coexistence with the indigenous population. It was about conquest and > replacement.
Shlomo Sand in his book, The Invention of the Jewish People, cited work by founders of the Zionist state who believed that the Palestinian fellahin were likely descendants of the ancient population of Jewish farmers. "What happened to the population of Judea if it did not undergo exile? I have been accused of claiming that the Palestinians of today are its direct descendants. This is certainly not an idea that I came up with; in my book I cited the declarations of prominent Zionist leaders, including David Ben-Gurion, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi and Israel Belkind, who all believed that the “fellahs” they encountered in the early days of colonization were descended from the ancient Jewish people, and that the two populations had to be reunited. They knew perfectly well that there was no exile in the first century CE, and they logically concluded that the great mass of the Jews had converted to Islam with the arrival of Arab forces in the early seventh century. David Ben-Gurion later went on to express a totally different position, when he helped to draft the Declaration of Independence of the state of Israel, without ever explaining this reversal." Sand, Shlomo. The Invention of the Jewish People (p. 318). (Function). Kindle Edition. Mark -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#41888): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/41888 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/119548491/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
