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- Morocco and French colonialism
- Zionists wanted to deny the partition plan (Liam O’Mara)
- Lied about it in propaganda
- A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion: Segev, Tom, Watzman, Haim: 9780374112646: Amazon.com: Books
- Birth of P. > Righteous Victims (Benny wrote it for layman audience) (Liam O’Mara)
- Biltmore Committee 42’
- Liam: Fracture with Yakud
- ben-Gurian seized control to create ethnostate
- Liam: Fracture with Yakud
- British gov thought from 1920s P. society was getting harmed
- Two White Papers 1929
- First was shelved
- Both same response
- 100,000s of Jew immigrants showing up is the incitement for the 48 war.
- Zionist principles to be colonizers
- Kibbutzism , Zionist principles policies
- P. didn’t do anything to the immigrating Jewish population
- Israel wouldn’t exist if there wasn’t the Herzl immigration from 1880-1910
- Massive increases
- Already had plans before WWI
- Zionists already had plans to take over before WWI
- If Ottoman Empire didn’t collapse, Zionists would still of created Israel
- Israel would of still existed with more time, Ottoman Empire & P. wouldnt be able to stop it
- No one owned land in Ottoman Empire before 1858; private property rights in 1858
- Ottoman records that Zionists were buying P. land to disenfranchise P. and take over
- No countries were really controlling migration before WWI
- Speculators from Damacus and Instabul would con local farmers and take their land
- Didn’t understand property rights
- Most of the country was owned by Palestinians before the conflict
- Ottoman attempts to restrict land sales could not have prevented creation of Israel
- Israel was better organized, better lead, better armed
- Zionists were lying 1937 and 1947 about partition
- Letters and diaries
- Ben-Gurion and Weiszmann
- Settler colonization is aggression by definition, by international law standards
- Deadwood in the Dekotas
- P. wanted a P. state that had Jews in it, not a Jewish state
- Turned down idea of Jewish state in partition plan of course
- Regardless if P. accepted partition plan, Zionists would of invaded anyways
- ‘territorial maximalist’ Ben-Gurion until before 1967 war
- Ben Gurion tried several times for Cabinet to approve straight up invasion and did that by signing up for alliance with Britain and France in the Suez Crisis with understanding they would be able to seize more land
- Started going into Sinai committing massacres in Gaza strip
- Goal in 1950s was to get the rest of it, prevented from West Bank Gaza had to negotiate
- Counter-arguments
- 1937 partition quote from Ben-Gurion for 1947 partition plan