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 Zionism - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
A precursor to the Zionist movement of the later 1800s occurred with the 1820 attempt by journalist, playwright and American-born diplomat Mordecai Manuel Noah to establish a Jewish homeland on Grand Island, New York, (north of Buffalo, New York, USA).
Chaim Weizmann, who became the leader of the Zionist movement after Herzl's death in 1904, was a professor at a British university, and used his extensive contacts to lobby the British government for a statement in support of Zionist aspirations.
The attitude of the Zionist leaders towards the Arab population of Palestine in the lead-up to the 1948 conflict is one of the most hotly debated issues in Zionist history.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Zionism   (7406 words)

  
 Revisionist Zionism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Revisionist Zionists claimed this entire territory as part of the Jewish state.
In 1925, Jabotinsky formed the Revisionist Zionist Alliance, in the World Zionist Congress to advocate his views, which included increased cooperation with Britain on transforming the entire Mandate for Palestine on both sides of the Jordan River into a sovereign Jewish state, loyal to the British Empire.
By the late 1930s, Revisionist Zionism was divided into three distinct ideological streams: the "Centrists", the Irgun, and the "Messianists".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Revisionist_Zionism   (2558 words)

  
 The Iron Wall - Avi Shlaim - Penguin UK
It is not true, however, to say that the Zionists were unaware of the existence of an Arab population in Palestine or of the possibility that this population would be antagonistic to the Zionist enterprise.
The Zionist movement was divided in its response to the partition plan, not least because of the small size of the Jewish state and doubts regarding its viability.
Zionist leaders assumed that at the end of the war there would be millions of Jewish refugees in Europe whose plight would strengthen the case for a large Jewish state in Palestine.
www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780140288704,00.html   (9363 words)

  
 Friends of Al-Aqsa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Zionists often point to the alliance between the Mufti of Jerusalem and Hitler, yet 'ignore' that Revisionist Zionists approached Italy and Germany as 'partners' to expel the British, p.
As with Apartheid, Nazism and 'Greater Serbianism', ethnic cleansing was a central Zionist policy - 'The notion of population transfer is deeply rooted in Zionist ideology, a logical outgrowth of the principle of segregation between Jews and Arabs', p.
Segev exposes the lie that Palestine was an empty desert made green by Zionist colonisation: 'Most of the land purchased by the Jews was in the expensive and fertile regions of the coastal plain, the eastern Galilee, and the valleys' p.
www.aqsa.org.uk /page_detail.aspx?id=89   (1854 words)

  
 Fenced in: Sharon's master plan
The basic assumption of the Revisionist school was that the Jewish people have an incontestable historical and moral right over the entire ancestral land and this right will be self-implemented.
In the Labor Zionist view, the amount of territory under Jewish control was flexible and always subject to a complex combination of the ability to hold it and political, social demographic considerations.
This pragmatic and sophisticated approach toward the colonization of Palestine was one of the principle causes of the incredible success of the Zionist project, which from the start seemed to be against all the odds.
fromoccupiedpalestine.org /node.php?id=1362   (1861 words)

  
 Zionism and the Creation of Israel - Definition and Brief History
Zionist ideas evolved over time and were influenced by circumstances as well as by social and cultural movements popular in Europe at different times, including socialism, nationalism and colonialism, and assumed different "flavors" depending on the country of origin of the thinkers and prevalent contemporary intellectual currents.
The Revisionists rejoined the Zionist movement, but were still called "dissidents" and did not merge their underground armies, the Irgun and the Lehi (also called the "Stern Gang") into the Hagannah defense organization of the mainstream Zionists.
Zionist leaders met in the Biltmore Hotel in New York, and declared their support for a Jewish Commonwealth and renewed immigration, in open defiance of the British mandatory authorities.
www.mideastweb.org /zionism.htm   (11082 words)

  
 WHY THE HOLOCAUST IS IMPORTANT TO PALESTINIANS, ARABS, AND MUSLIMS
The revisionist historians used hard sciences like physics and chemistry in proving that the so-called gas chambers were not used to exterminate Jews systematically.
In fact, the Zionists have succeeded in presenting themselves to Western public opinion as a people who were so victimized in the ‘Holocaust’, they practically acquired a free license from the West to do anything to anybody at anytime with impunity.
By accepting the claims of the Zionists about the ‘Holocaust’, we would be effectively setting the stage for: i) accepting the rape of Palestine and the legitimacy of the Jewish invasion of Palestine, by accepting the Zionist narrative on how the Jews ‘had to’ come to Palestine.
www.freearabvoice.org /whyTheHolocaustIsImportantToArabs.htm   (3611 words)

  
 Israeli Refusers Offer Hope to One Palestinian
Revisionist Zionists felt it was their turn in history to oppress, murder, rob and express unbelievable disdain for the Other-us Palestinians.
I ask you, the Jewish people of Israel and you, their Zionist supporters in America, to do to us as you have asked the rest of the world to do to you.
If Zionists demand compensation for the rights, land and money lost in the Holocaust, I want reparation for rights, land and money lost in our Catastrophe, which started in 1948, continued in 1967 and still goes on.
www.hanitzotz.com /challenge/71/samah.html   (1629 words)

  
 Robert Lindsay: What Is Zionism?
It all stems from the Zionist principle that all of Israel, the West Bank, Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights is Jewish land and that the local Arabs are "squatting" on Jewish land and live there only at the whim of the Zionist owners.
Vladimir Jabotinsky, the founder of the Revisionist Zionist movement.
In a recent interview, a leader of the Zionist Organization of America, a very powerful, very militant Jewish Zionist group in the US, noted with a twinkle in his eye that all of Jordan was actually part of Israel and implied that Israel should conquer it at some future time.
robertlindsay.blogspot.com /2006/08/what-is-zionism.html   (3778 words)

  
 The Jews of Harbin
Until 1921, Zionists of Harbin were affiliated with the Russian and Siberian Zionist organization and participated in their conferences.
To further the activities of the Zionist movement a branch of the Maccabi Jewish youth movement was established in 1921 and it functioned until 1925.
Mordechai was a lifelong activist in the Revisionist Movement, later Herut, serving as a member of Knesset (1955-1961), and heading the Settlement Department of the Herut Movement, through which he founded various villages and towns all over Israel.
www.bh.org.il /Communities/Archive/Harbin.asp   (3011 words)

  
 Zionism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Early Zionist groups such as Hibbat Zion were active in the 1880s in the Eastern Europe where emancipation had not occurred to the extent it did in Western Europe (or at all).
Capitulations of the Ottoman Empire allowed the British place missions in the region and to institute charitable projects such as hospitals, settlement colonies and exploratory surveys and by the end of the 19th century, British interest in the Middle East increased because it was considered essential to guard the route to India.
Within Zionist literature, the Arab presence was largely ignored, as in the famous slogan "A land without a people for a people without a land." This slogan is often attributed to Israel Zangwill, but its original form, "A country without a nation for a nation without a country," was penned by Lord Shaftesbury.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zionists   (8681 words)

  
 Grant Schuyler's essay "Israel, Part Two"
But during the period in which Zionists came to Palestine before 1948, several important Jewish factions were already determined, not to live under the British Mandate, but to forge a Jewish state in Palestine.
Ze'ev Vladimir Jabotinsky (who died in 1940), and his followers the Revisionist Zionists wanted the whole of David's and Solomon's kingdom; that is, all of the British Mandate on both sides of the Jordan, up into Southern Lebanon and perhaps into Sinai, including Jerusalem.
And I think in the Zionists' minds (especially in the Revisionist Zionists' minds) was the idea that they had to seize the advantage and establish the possession of as much strategic Jewish territory at once as they possibly could.
home.ca.inter.net /~grantsky/israel2.html   (4894 words)

  
 The Iron Wall
This is the question of our relations with the Arabs." This question, he added, "has not been forgotten, but rather has remained completely hidden from the Zionists, and in its true form has found almost no mention in the literature of our movement." Epstein's anxiety was brushed aside by the majority of his Zionist contemporaries.
Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880-1940) was an ardent Jewish nationalist, the founder of Revisionist Zionism, and the spiritual father of the Israeli right.
The first article is entitled "On the Iron War (We and the Arabs)." It begins on a personal note in which Jabotinsky engagingly described his emotional attitude to the Arabs as one of "polite indifference." But he went on to reject, as totally unacceptable, any thought of removing the Arabs from Palestine.
partners.nytimes.com /books/first/s/shlaim-wall.html   (5639 words)

  
 World Zionist Congress Elections   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
NYC (JTA) - The battle for religious rights in Israel has triggered a historic shift in the power balance in the World Zionist Organization, the entity which gave birth to modern Zionism 100 years ago.
Using religious pluralism as its rallying cry, the Reform movement's Zionist arm captured 47.7 percent of the vote in the elections for the 33rd Zionist Congress, which is slated for Jerusalem in December.
The Conservative movement's Zionist branch also doubled its numbers in the world Jewish parliament, claiming 26 percent of the US vote.
www.kinderhookconnection.com /judaica/wzovote.htm   (152 words)

  
 Everything you wanted to know about the Likud   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
that the Revisionist Zionists believed that the Jewish State should cover all of malchut yisrael, or the biblical kingdom of Israel.
Revisionist Zionism declared that military training for the (Jewish) youth of Palestine was a necessity for establishing a state of their own
the Zionist Organization, and therefore a representation of the Revisionist movement was needed.
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 HiddenMysteries Conspiracy Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The message is that the early Labor Zionists were monsters and their descendants, the Oslo "peacemakers," are no less monstrous.
These Jews refuse to realize that their enemy is terrified by the revival of Torah Judaism taking place in these territories and will do whatever needs to be done to wipe the revival out and return the country to the Sabbataian values envisioned by the founders of Israel.
Opposing the Sabbataian Zionists during the period of the Holocaust were, what were then known as, the Revisionist Zionists.
www.hiddenmysteries.org /conspiracy/history/yemenite.html   (1937 words)

  
 Jewish Post of New York Online - News - WORLD ZIONIST CONGRESS ELECTION UNDERWAY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The American Zionist Movement (AZM) announced that 149,400 American Jews, registered to vote in the 1997 Zionist election, are receiving ballots mailed out recently.
The American Zionist Movement's delegation of 145 will be the largest one representing a Diaspora community and will be democratically elected by all U.S. Zionists who are registered to vote.
Avraham Burg, Chairman of the World Zionist Organization (WZO), congratulated the American Zionist Movement on the preparations for the elections, saying, "I am committed to upholding the WZO Constitution and the democratic process.
www.jewishpost.com /jp0307/jpn0307a.htm   (477 words)

  
 Africa and Near East/Afrique et Moyen Orient Canadian Journal of History - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The occupation of lands commensurate to Eretz Israel helped empower the Revisionist Zionists and added weight to their ideological prescriptions of settling the West Bank and Gaza.
Jones and Murphy assert that the security boost gained by 1967 war untied the coalition of interests once shared by Labor and Revisionist Zionists, and this precipitated a struggle between secular Israeli democrats and religious Israeli Jews.
For instance, whereas the continued military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza appeared to run counter to the democratic principles of Labor Zionism, it served to reinforce the ideological underpinnings and appeal of the Revisionist Zionists to the poorer sections of Israeli society.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3686/is_200408/ai_n9443855   (848 words)

  
 OPINIONS AND COMPLAINTS by Paul Gottfried   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Revisionist Zionists based and trained their forces in Italy, in preparation for a conquest of Palestine.
They continued to extol Mussolini as late as 1936, after he had begun to move into the Nazi German orbit, and hailed his invasion of Ethiopia as a harbinger of their impending conquest of the Arabs.
Note that Zionist attraction to Fascist Italy came in the early and mid-thirties, before Mussolini had begun to court Hitler.
www.chroniclesmagazine.org /News/Gottfried/NewsPG082603.html   (974 words)

  
 Imperial Israel: The Nile-to-Euphrates Calumny - article by Daniel Pipes
Vladimir Jabotinsky, the founder of Revisionist Zionism, was quoted in 1935 stating "We want a Jewish empire."[12] Moshe Dayan's visit to the Golan Heights soon after its capture by Israeli troops in 1967 has become the stuff of legends.
Labor Zionists thought this less important than other objectives (such as establishing a sovereign Jewish state) but Revisionist Zionists made it their first priority.
He expected a Zionist invasion of his kingdom, as he confided to a retired British diplomat in October 1937: "the Jews contemplate as their final aim not only the seizure of all Palestine but the land south of it as far as Medina.
www.danielpipes.org /article/247   (5417 words)

  
 Menachem Begin - MSN Encarta
The son of an Orthodox Jew who supported Zionism (the movement for the settlement of Jewish people in Palestine), Begin became involved in Zionist youth organizations at an early age.
At age 16, Begin joined Betar, the youth movement associated with Revisionist Zionists, who advocated more forceful action to establish a Jewish homeland than did mainstream Zionists.
Begin received a law degree from the University of Warsaw, in Poland, in 1935.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761568800/Menachem_Begin.html   (1007 words)

  
 David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies: Welcome
One is Benzion Netanyahu, who during the 1940s served as executive director of the U.S. wing of the Revisionist Zionists.
In an editorial in the New York-based Revisionist journal Zionews in 1944, Netanyahu sharply challenged Jewish leaders: “They cannot claim, with a clear conscience, to have done everything within their power to save those condemned people,” he wrote.
Gelb has a unique perspective, because during the 1940s, when he was active with the U.S. Labor Zionists, he was also a rabbinical student in New York under Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, the most prominent Jewish leader of that era.
www.wymaninstitute.org /articles/2005-04-response.php   (1114 words)

  
 H-Net Review: Paul Radensky on Lone Wolf: A Biography of Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky
Although some of his actions, such as his opposition to a class-based Zionist politics, or his establishment of the military-oriented Betar youth movement, earned him the opprobrium of his fellow Zionists, Jabotinsky nevertheless was one of the most important Zionist thinkers in the pre-state period.
Jabotinsky's demands that the Zionist establishment publicly protest Samuel's behavior and that of other British officials were rejected by Chaim Weizmann, then head of the Zionist Executive.
For example, the smear campaign that was launched against the Revisionists following the murder of Chaim Arlosoroff demonstrated the fear the Labor movement had for their opponents.
www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=20846869665381   (933 words)

  
 Commentary Magazine - Why Should Jews Survive? by Michael Goldberg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
...But Revisionist Zionists, followers of Zev Jabotinsky, are no better: their belief that no non-Jew can be trusted to defend Jews is "racist...
...Political Zionists, followers of Theodor Herzl, err by wanting Jews to lead "normal" lives and be a people like any other, which to Goldberg means to stop being Jews...
...As for religious Zionists, they are people who "defend the use of terrorism and other acts of retribution against innocent Arabs" in order to expel them from the land of Israel...
www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V101I3P70-1.htm   (1195 words)

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