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How Did It Start?
Avnery, Uri
http://original.antiwar.com/avnery/2017/02/17/how-did-it-start/Date Written: 2017-02-18 Publisher: Antiwar.com Year Published: 2017 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX20365 Every serious debate about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict raises the question: "When did it start?" Each side has its own date, proving that the other side started it. Abstract: - Excerpt: I have my own theory about when and how the conflict started. In 1904 Theodor Herzl, the founding father of the Zionist movement, died. Herzl did not like Palestine very much, and started his ideological quest with the idea of founding a Jewish state in Patagonia, an Argentine territory which had recently been "pacified". Herzl did not like the Turks or the Arabs, but events convinced him that the Jews would go nowhere but Palestine. In his book "Der Judenstaat", the Bible of Zionism, he declared that the Jews would serve in Palestine as an outpost of Western civilization against the barbarians of Asia – i.e. the Arabs. One can argue that it was here that the conflict really started – right at the beginning of the Zionist idea. But I have in mind an even more precise moment. Subject Headings |