[Marxism] Jonathan Cook - Israel's dead end

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In 1895,  Theodor Herzl, Zionism's chief prophet, confided in his diary that 
he did not  favour sharing Palestine with the natives. Better, he wrote, to 
"try to spirit  the penniless [Palestinian] population across the border by 
denying it any  employment in our own country... Both the process of 
expropriation 
and the  removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and  
circumspectly." 
He was  proposing a programme of Palestinian emigration enforced through a 
policy of  strict separation between Jewish immigrants and the indigenous 
population. In  simple terms, he hoped that, once Zionist organisations had 
bought 
up large  areas of Palestine and owned the main sectors of the economy, 
Palestinians could  be made to leave by denying them rights to work the land or 
labour in the  Jewish-run economy. His vision was one of transfer, or ethnic 
cleansing, through  ethnic separation. 
Herzl was  suggesting that two possible Zionist solutions to the problem of a 
Palestinian  majority living in Palestine -- separation and transfer -- were 
not necessarily  alternatives but rather could be mutually reinforcing. Not 
only that: he  believed, if they were used together, the process of ethnic 
cleansing could be  made to appear voluntary, the choice of the victims. It may 
be 
that this was  both his most enduring legacy and his major innovation to 
settler  colonialism. 
In recent  years, with the Palestinian population under Israeli rule about to 
reach parity  with the Jewish population, the threat of a Palestinian 
majority has loomed  large again for the Zionists. Not surprisingly, debates 
about 
which of these two  Zionist solutions to pursue, separation or transfer, have  
resurfaced. 
Today these  solutions are ostensibly promoted by two ideological camps 
loosely associated  with Israel's centre-left (Labour and Kadima) and right 
(Likud 
and Yisrael  Beiteinu). The modern political arguments between them turn on 
differing visions  of the nature of a Jewish state originally put forward by 
Labour and Revisionist  Zionists. 
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_http://www.jkcook.net/Latest.htm_ (http://www.jkcook.net/Latest.htm) 



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