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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (162778)	5/21/2005 4:50:50 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

I think you're reading it as it pleases you, projecting into it. I saw nothing in it about throwing the Arabs out. In any case, wouldn't it be wisest to wait for the guidance of the coming Messiah? What if he smites all the Jews who jumped the gun? To me, it all sounds very racist and exclusionary. How you can claim it as just is beyond me. From previous article: " This was the most honest explanation of Zionism I got over the decade of my reporting on Israel and the West Bank. In his book, Original Sins: Reflections on the History of Zionism and Israel, Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi credits the fascist Zionist, Vladimir Jabotinsky, with "honesty and foresight" for the notion he expressed in 1923: "…the iron law of every colonizing movement …[is that] if you wish to colonize a land in which people are already living, you must provide a garrison on your behalf." Elsewhere Jabotinsky wrote, "Any native people . . . view their country as their national home, of which they will always be the complete masters. They will not voluntarily allow, not only a new master, but even a new partner. And so it is for the Arabs. Compromisers in our midst attempt to convince us that the Arabs are some kind of foosm, ho can be tricked by a softened formulation of our goals, or a tribe of money grubbers who will abandon their birthright to Palestine for cultural and economic gains. I flatly reject this assessment . . . They look upon Palestine with the same instinctive love and true fervour that any Aztec looked upon his Mexico or any Sioux looked upon his prairie . . . Colonlization itself has its own explanation, . . . and understood by every Jew and Arab with his wits about him. Colonization can have only one goal . . . . [It] must be terminated or carried out in defiance of the will of the native population." (pp. 99-100)"