Lena Bloch
2 min readOct 26, 2024

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The solution is to STOP pretending that it is a "conflict". Settler-colonialism is not a conflict like all imperial aggression and land grab is not really a conflict. Hitler did not have a conflict with USSR or Jews. South African population did not have a conflict with White colonizers. The reason why you are saying "conflict" is because apparently it is "Jews" who are the aggressors, and Jews can do no wrong, can only be victims, so it must be that Arabs don't let the Jews have they own tiny state, right?

Let's stop: 1) calling Zionism "Jews", 2) calling brutal settler-colonialism "conflict".

Theodor Herzl: “ Our first object is, as I said before, supremacy, assured to us by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements.” ("Das Judenstaat")

"We should prepare to go over to the offensive. Our aim is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, and Syria. The weak point is Lebanon, for the Moslem regime is artificial and easy for us to undermine. We shall establish a Christian state there, and then we will smash the Arab Legion, eliminate Trans-Jordan; Syria will fall to us. We then bomb and move on and take Port Said, Alexandria and Sinai.”

David Ben-Gurion May 1948, to the General Staff. From Ben-Gurion, a Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978.

Partition: “after the formation of a large army in the wake of the establishment of the state, we will abolish partition and expand to the whole of Palestine “

— Ben Gurion, p.22 “The Birth of Israel, 1987” Simha Flapan.

“The acceptance of partition does not commit us to renounce Transjordan. One does not demand from anybody to give up his vision. We shall accept a state in the boundaries fixed today — but the boundaries of Zionist aspirations are the concerns of the Jewish people and no external factor will be able to limit them.” P. 53, “The Birth of Israel, 1987” Simha Flapan

Ben-Gurion wrote in his diary on 12 July 1937: “the compulsory transfer of the Arabs from the valleys of the projected Jewish State…. We have to stick to this conclusion the same way we grabbed the Balfour Declaration, more than that, the same way we grabbed at Zionism itself.”

(Ben-Gurion, Zichronot [Memoirs], Vol. 4, p. 299)

"Zionist colonization ... must either be terminated, or carried out in defiance of the will of the native population."—Jabotinsky

"Zionism is a colonizing adventure and, therefore, it stands or falls on the question of armed forces."—Jabotinsky

"The Arab is culturally backward ... his instinctive patriotism ... cannot be bought, it can only be curbed by major force."—Jabotinsky

"There is no justice, no law, no God in heaven; only a single law which decides and supersedes all: [Jewish] settlement."—Jabotinsky

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Lena Bloch
Lena Bloch

Written by Lena Bloch

Background in psychology of learning, literature, philosophy, math.

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