Other formats

    Adobe Portable Document Format file (facsimile images)   TEI XML file   ePub eBook file  

Connect

    mail icontwitter iconBlogspot iconrss icon

Salient. Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 42 No. 7. April 9 1979

Zionism

Zionism

Between the world wars many Jews left Europe to enter the territory of mandate Palestine, whose borders, after 1922 roughly encompass modern day Israel.

This immigration, much illegal, was inspired by both growing anti semitism, especially throughout Nazi Germany and also the promise of a vacant homeland for "returning Jews". The local Arab population, who weren't meant to exist, opposed this immigration, for they began to perceive despite the lies, the real aims of political Zionism. Zionism is, in short, the political philosophy which advocates a separate nation state for Jews.

With the exposition and growth, this century, of Zionist philosophy, to both foster and Nourish from anti-Semitism, the palace tinian territory faced yet another threat.

Instead of merely having major powers trampling over it and carving it up between themselves, without reference to the local population, they now faced a colonialist settler migration intent on the creation of a separate slate. This by definition had to ultimately lead to the dispossesion of the local inhabitants, to provide both the material for existence, for the newcomers, and also the fulfillment of Zionist philosphical aims. With assassination of political opponents and widespread terrorism, the Zionists laid the foundations of their new state.

Zionist organisation, with well defined goals and its international nature, was superior to that of the local population. Not that it really needed of be, the major imperialist power, by the end of the Second World War, the USA, and the Zionists, had a concert of intention and interests and were able to have a recommendation for partition into Jewish and Arab states passed by the General Assembly of the United Nations. Once more the outside powers had decided the fate of the locals.

THE 'MIDDLE EAST PEACE TREATY' ONCE AGAIN, 'PEACE IN OUR TIME'