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Translated from Spanish
False. The early Zionist leaders always regarded the Palestinians as the original inhabitants of the territory.
In 1923, Zeev Jabotinsky (founder of Revisionist Zionism, now embodied in Israel’s Likud party) said: “Palestine will remain for the Palestinians not a borderland, but their birthplace and the center of their own national existence.” Earlier, in 1921, the German Zionist leader Georg Landauer warned the Twelfth Zionist Congress that total war with the Arabs was inevitable unless the Zionists made urgent efforts to reach a friendly agreement with the Palestinians. Jabotinsky replied by ironically asking whether, during the colonization of America or Australia, anyone had bothered to beg the natives for permission to colonize those lands.
P.S.: You can read all of this in “Founders & Sons,” the great book by Amos Elon, undoubtedly one of the best Israeli journalists to have ever lived.
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ד״ר ×˘×™× ×Ş וילף Dr. Einat Wilf
Translated from Hebrew
Let's talk about the idea that the Arabs in Israel are a minority. There's a tendency to view the Arab citizens of Israel along the armistice lines as a minority and then to draw bizarre comparisons to Jews in Europe or Blacks in the U.S., and from there to talk about racism
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