It's not the same as, Would you sell your land, because this land was being 'bought' by an entity whose charter dictated that it never be sold back to indigenous ... an entity that by 1918 or so [can't recall the year exactly] was promoting a boycott of indigenous labour, in an effort to starve them out
The history is complex, yes, it is also fair to say that it started out complex, and got a whole lot simpler - early on the zionists arriving tended to treat indigenous more fairly than later ones, many a kibbutz had an indigenous village beside it, the two communities would trade with each other, work for/with each other, and generally get along, there were many cases of genuine inter-tribal friendship and cooperation ... this was not true in all cases, but in most to more or less degree
In 1917 this all changed, with Balfour's letter to Rothschild being taken by some zionists to mean the brits were handing over the lands of the indigenous to them ... some zionists, not all, but they included Weizmann who was recognised leader ... well from there, the extremists came out, the massive inflows of european inmigration began, and the situation has gone downhill ever since
... got to go, much later .... complex sure, full of detail, still when you stand back and look at it overall it is simple and plain - zionists crossed the sea and took the land of natives ... and it's 'country' in the sense of 'region demarcated by specific conditions', not 'countryside' which to my knowledge designates sort of paisaje, 'landscape' ... what MacDonald meant by the term, was the land between Jordan and the Med, for millennia designated 'Palestine', with fluctuating northern and southern limits .... here is some reading on the overall situation, many chapter links at bottom of page - cactus48.com
.... anyway, later, cheers |
