⚫️ labor Zionism: didn’t want to do what elite did in South Africa, they wanted to work their own land instead of taking advantage of locals
⚫️ 1917: Only 8k of 300k in Britain were Zionists
⚫️ 1912: Arab literacy in Palestine 2%
⚫️ Weizmann industrial fermentation of acetone saved the British in WWI so they could make ammunition
⚫️ Weizmann worked to influence the British to not make peace with the Ottoman Empire
⚫️ British were lying to everyone to get allies, skyes might be most truthful?
⚫️ revival of modern Hebrew
⚫️ after Hietlz died, Zionism moderated
⚫️ Ben-gurion: nationalist socialist
⚫️ Zionists were an array of different types of socialists
Ep.3
⚫️ Fizel mArab leader meeting with Weizman saying Jews could immigrate, signed, (ep 3: 11mins)
⚫️ Arabs used honor system not contracts
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⚫️ Left wing zionists vs revisionist Zionists Zabatinsky
⚫️ Idea that Zionists during early 20s are secretly sneakingly trying to take all of Israel
⚫️ huge disagreements between Zionists but common purpose
⚫️ Zionists acting cocky, Miniacmu shishkin example
⚫️ Zionists = organized revolutionary movement against unorganized Arabs
⚫️ Stories about the diff between how Ben-Gurion meeting and how the Arabs had a meeting with British Prime Minister
⚫️How British politicians only could talk to the Zionists in Britain to understand the conflict as not many knew what was happening in a far away land