The Zionist Mentality and Method

Whatever public pronouncements they might have made on the subject, the Zionist leaders, from the beginning right up to the present day, have had the intention of supplanting the non-Jewish resident population of Palestine, to be replaced with Jewish immigrants. In deliberations among themselves there has been little dissent from this goal; the differences have arisen only in how the goal should be accomplished. There has also been a serious disconnect between what they have said among themselves and what they have said for public consumption.

Those are the main conclusions that one reaches from Nur Mashalha’s 1992 book, Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of “Transfer” in Zionist Political Thought, 1882-1948, published by the Institute for Palestine Studies in Washington, DC. The ideal Jewish state as envisioned by Zionist leaders was one that was essentially cleansed of the longtime resident Muslims and Christians or anyone else who could not be defined as a Jew. Taking that view, they recognized that the hundreds of thousands of residents of Palestine, with their farms, towns, and cities represented a serious problem for them. Some interesting insight into Zionist thinking in general is provided by examination of the transfer ideas of Edward A. Norman (1990-1955), a Jewish millionaire living in New York City.

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