The question makes you uncomfortable, you evade by bringing up 'nation' and 'nationalism', neither of which appear in the post to which you are responding, neither of which have anything to do with whether you would sell for a few shillings your homeland, your livelihood, the graves of your ancestors, everything you had ever known .... you understood the question, of course
'But as far as I can tell the idea that they where losing their country, or anything like a country wasn't prevailent at the time.'
Then you have not reviewed the statements of early zionists who knew very well that the indigenous knew, and soon would react to the fact, that there was a movement to take their land .... Israel Zangwill, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Ahad Ha'am, there are three for search terms ... some quotes out of Weizmann i think, a sir something Montagu in the colonial office [not a zionist he, in fact anti-zionist, but a jew] ... there are others, can't recall ... Balfour, he wrote to somebody privately and said the indigenous won't like this, but screw them ... sure enough they didn't like it, by 1920 there were riots beginning, there is no question that they knew by that point zionists were out to take their native land
... almost typed 'country' there ... surely you will not make evasive semantic quibble with 'native land'?
Would you sell your native land?
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