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Title: | Pal Nationalism is False , Fabricated and Incited | |||
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| Name: | Joseph E . post 1 | | |||
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| City: | Givatayim | State: | Israel | | |
| for political opposition to Zionism . There is a list of over 50 eminent people from more than 20 countries who appear in the gallery of non-Jewish Zionists. representing the political, intellectual elite of many nations, whom throughout the entire 19th century, were among enthusiastic proponents in support of the return of the Jews to the Holy Land , Even in faraway China, Wang, Minister of Foreign Affairs, declared "the Nationalist government is in full sympathy with the Jewish people in their desire to establish a country for themselves." In 1906, Farid Kassab, a famous Syrian author, expressed the view uniformly held by the Arabs: "The Jews of the Orient are at home. This land is their only fatherland. They don`t know any other." All the leading sheiks of Ottoman Administration, expressed pleasure at the advent of the Jews, for they considered that with them had come `barakat` - blessing, since the rain came in due season. Under Ottoman rule the arab population was mostly given over to lawlessness and banditry, and of which 85% of the men and 93% of the women were illiterate, while the remainder were Muslim landlords - a parasitic upper-class known as effendis. The ideas of democracy and nationalism were utterly alien to them: From where did they learn of these essentially Western concepts ? as well as the jargon of European anti-Semitism, which they expressed so succinctly? Between 1917-20 , the Brit Military Mandate Administration opposed the Mandate for Palestine , The Brit Military aim was to promote a federation of Arab states, to include the Hejaz, Syria, Iraq and Palestine, which was to lie, as Egypt had lain, in the political and economic sphere of Britain. Their attitude towards the Jews was contemptuous and hostile. Despite the Jewish majority in Jerusalem, two-thirds of the Army-appointed Jerusalem Corporation were Arab and only one-third Jewish. Regarded the Jewish Settlements as "Russian pale bolchevik settlements" and instructed the arabs youths in the tenets of the western concept of nationalism inexistant at that time in the pan arab tribal world , (Palestine: The Original Sin by Meir Abelson). |
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