A History of Jewish-Arab Conflict in the Context of the Zionist Project, 1880-1949

Random Musings and History: (A particular substacker) is correct that originally Zionism was a terrible proposition.

This is because even without the Holocaust, the best that the Jews could hope for in Palestine even with massive Jewish immigration was either partition or a binational state.

And since the Palestinian Arabs would accept neither, at least not without a fight, both of these solutions would have ultimately meant war, and one of them did.

The thing is the Jews never intended to accept either themselves. Zionism was for the most part a colonization project from the very start, and the Zionists were open in their goal that if they were going to colonize this place, it could not be done because it was full of Arabs.

They didn’t want a binational state. They never even thought about partition. They wanted the whole place from Day One. They stated (often clandestinely or when they thought no one else was listening) that they would have to throw out all the Arabs one way or anoth…