The Hebrew Reconquista of Palestine: From the 1947 United Nations Partition Resolution to the First ...

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" The Hebrew Reconquista of Palestine: From the 1947 United Nations Partition Resolution to the First Zionist Congress of 1897 "
W. Khalidi

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	818896
Doc. No	:	LA97752
Call No	:	‭10.1525/jps.2010.xxxix.1.24‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	W. Khalidi
Title & Author	:	The Hebrew Reconquista of Palestine: From the 1947 United Nations Partition Resolution to the First Zionist Congress of 1897 [Article]\ W. Khalidi
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of Palestine Studies
Date	:	2009
Volume/ Issue Number	:	39/1
Page No	:	24-42
Abstract	:	Challenging the widely accepted premise that the 1948 war was a war of Jewish self-defense, the author demonstrates that the 1947 United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) partition resolution was fundamentally a green light for the Yishuv's fully mobilized paramilitary organizations (supported by the resources of the World Zionist Organization) to effect the long-planned establishment of a Jewish state by force of arms. He further argues that as a national movement, Zionism was inherently conquest-oriented from the moment of its birth in Basel in 1897 and that it most closely resembles—in the alchemy of its religious and secular motivation and its insatiable land hunger, irredentism, and indifference to the fate of the "natives"—the Iberian Reconquista of the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries.
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1525/jps.2010.xxxix.1.24‬