Yes, I know Kipling's expression - if you don't subscribe to the White Man's Burden, why do you support the creation of Israel which employed that very colonialistic practice, and after expelling and terrorizing 700,000 Palestinians, went on to ignore the existence of Arabs who remained and "de-arabized" the Arab Jews that came in.
""A voluntary reconciliation with the Arabs is out of the question either now or in the future. If you wish to colonize a land in which people are already living, you must provide a garrison for the land, or find some rich man or benefactor who will provide a garrison on your behalf. Orelse-or else, give up your colonization, for without an armed force which will render physically impossible any attempt to destroy or prevent this colonization, colonization is impossible, not difficult, not dangerous, but IMPOSSIBLE!... Zionism is a colonization adventure and therefore it stands or falls by the question of armed force. It is important... to speak Hebrew, but, unfortunately, it is even more important to be able to shoot- or else I am through with playing at colonizing."
Vladimir Jabotinsky, founder of Revisionist Zionism (precursor of Likud),
The Iron Wall, 1923.
Yes, I know Kipling's expression - if you don't subscribe to the White Man's Burden, why do you support the creation of Israel which employed that very colonialistic practice, and after expelling and terrorizing 700,000 Palestinians, went on to ignore the existence of Arabs who remained and "de-arabized" the Arab Jews that came in.
""A voluntary reconciliation with the Arabs is out of the question either now or in the future. If you wish to colonize a land in which people are already living, you must provide a garrison for the land, or find some rich man or benefactor who will provide a garrison on your behalf. Orelse-or else, give up your colonization, for without an armed force which will render physically impossible any attempt to destroy or prevent this colonization, colonization is impossible, not difficult, not dangerous, but IMPOSSIBLE!... Zionism is a colonization adventure and therefore it stands or falls by the question of armed force. It is important... to speak Hebrew, but, unfortunately, it is even more important to be able to shoot- or else I am through with playing at colonizing."
Vladimir Jabotinsky, founder of Revisionist Zionism (precursor of Likud),
The Iron Wall, 1923.
from Cactus48.com "Zionist Quotes"
http://www.cactus48.com/Israel%20History%20X.pdf