Why do the Arabs the Jews Answer: they take us to be foreigners, invaders that took an Arab country and turned it into a Jewish state. And they are right about it. From their point of view we did it. We didn't come here to contribute or for a contribution to the Arab countries. We came here to establish our State here because we feel that this is our homeland' Moshe Dayan to American businessmen, January 18 1969 We should not allow even invocations of Auschwitz to blackmail uS into supporting the wrong cause. am speaking as a Marxist of Jewish origin, whose next-of-kin perished in Auschwitz and whose relatives live in Israel. To justify or condone Israel's wars against the Arabs is to render Israel a very bad service indeed and to harm its own long term interest Isaac Deutscher, June 20, 1967. 'Our aim is to destroy this Zionist State a racist settler-colonialist state, not to destroy its people Our aim is for all Palestinians to be able to return to their homeland and live under a democratic, Palestinian state, not to push any people out who are prepared to as Palestinians under such a state' - Abu Ammar, al-fatha spokesman, to Evergreen Review. Jewish state in Palestine. Anti-semitism is a European problem - but it is the Arabs who have been made to suffer for it.
In the 1930s Britain refused to allow Jewish immigration, and the United States strictly controlled it; many Jews went to Israel. The problem of the unwanted Jews was displaced on to the Arabs. The result was the Zionist state Israel, made possible by the expulsion in various ways of the inhabitants of Palestine during the 1947-48 war. Of the 700,000 Arabs in the area before the war, only 167,000 remained.
Zionism IS therefore form of colonialism: one that is based, not on the exploitation of the local inhabitants (South Africa), but on a more brutal form of colonialism, on the physical expulsion of the native population. The ideas and practice of Moshe Dayan accept this analysis and make no attempt to justify it: they merely state it as a "Tact and challenge anyone to reject it.
The Palestinian rotting for twenty years in refugee camps, have now begun to reject Zionism. They have started to challenge the state of Israel both through military attack and through civilian resistance In the occupied territories.
It is the duty of all European revolutionaries to give their full support to this struggle by the Palestinian people. Zionism aimed to create a Jewish state at the expense of the Arabs. To be anti-Zionist is to refuse to accept this