See The Guardian where Geoffrey Wheatcroft revises the history of Israel’s Revisionist Zionism to lend moral legitimacy to Palestinian terror. He also suggests that Israel strayed from the moderation of Revisionist leader Zev Jabotinsky (pictured), who died in 1940. Read Wheatcroft bearing in mind these points:
* Wheatcroft’s emphasis on Jabotinsky ignores the fact that the Zionist mainstream rejected Revisionism. The Labor Party and David Ben-Gurion, who opposed Revisionist Zionism, had more clout during the pre-state years and went on to govern the country for more than a quarter-century. Menachem Begin, who inherited Jabotinsky’s role as Revisionist leader, didn’t come out of the woods till 1977.
* Wheatcroft also ignores the fact that Jewish dreams of any Greater Israel are just dreams. Far from following the Revisionist agenda, Begin withdrew from the Sinai, while Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert oversaw Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. Unfortunately, Palestinian rejectionists insist on making a reality of their maximalist dream: a state of Palestine from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
* Palestinian terror today can’t be compared to Jewish resistance against the British. The Jews have ancient claims on the land of Israel. The British have none, making them occupiers in every sense of the word.
* Wheatcroft also ignores Arab terror against Jews during the pre-state years, as well as the Arab world’s rejection of the 1948 UN partition plan.
What would Jabotinsky say?
