Legacy of Empire by Gardner Thompson

Author:Gardner Thompson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Saqi

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To imagine, as our Arabophiles do, that they will voluntarily consent to the realisation of Zionism in return for the moral and material conveniences which the Jewish colonist brings with him is a childish notion.

The Arab race, he said, is not ‘a corrupt mob … willing to give up their fatherland for a good railway system’.

In the same year, Jabotinsky founded Betar, a right-wing nationalist youth group that resembled those being founded in Europe at this time. There followed in 1925 the formation of his separate political party, the Revisionists. Under its auspices the Irgun militia came into being, breaking from Haganah in 1931 after the 1929 disturbances. But Jabotinsky’s impact was far greater and longer-lasting than this. His views confronted the then-dominant Labour Zionism, by stressing the necessity of the use of force. In the words of Avi Shlaim, ‘Labour Zionists wanted to proceed toward statehood by immigration and settlement and accorded a lower priority to the building up of a military capability.’ By contrast, ‘Jabotinsky never wavered in his conviction that Jewish military power was the key factor in the struggle for a state.’14 And in due course, others in the movement came around to his point of view.

By the end of 1923, there was no mistaking the militancy of the movement to which the British imperial government was wedded.

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