Re: It is openly stated in books written by the founders of Zionism that the means by which they planned to establish a state was by instigating anti-Semitism, and undermining the security of the Jews in all the lands of the world, until they would be forced to flee to their state.
You're overshooting again... Stretching your logic a tiny bit would lead us to posit that Hitler's real, if secret, dream was not the creation of a "Thousand-year IIIrd Reich" but the setting-up of Israel! You overlook the fact that the Germans didn't invent "anti-Semitism" in the 1920s... Anti-Semitism was merely the latest metastasis of a much older prejudice, namely, anti-Judaism. Clue:
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So my point is that I don't fancy the conspiracy theory whereby the Zionists fomented WWI, knowing in advance that Germany would lose it, that the Versailles Treaty would further upset the Weimar regime, all of which leading to the rise of the Nazis and their successful takeover in 1933.... Of course, the most cynical of the Zionists welcomed Europe's escalating anti-Semitism to the extent that it fitted well into their immigration scheme. We should also keep in mind the Zeitgeist of the time: in the late 19th century, the nation-state was deemed the be-all and end-all of every people. Germany and Italy were only the last newcomers to the merry club of nation-states since their complete unification in 1870-71. So, the reasoning went, if the French, the Germans, the Italians, the Belgians, etc., can all enjoy their own nations, why not the Jews? A purely theoretical interrogation so long as the Ottoman Empire remained strong enough to prevent putting it into practice... Hence the Zionists had to bide their time until the Sick Man of Europe was too weak to keep fighting.
The fact that the whole Zionist enterprise came down to robbing native Arabs from their land wasn't considered an evil at the time: half the world had already been colonized by European settlers --if French Pieds Noirs could lord it over Algeria, why couldn't the Jews in Palestine?
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