Yossi Schwartz ISL (RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine) 19.09.2026
Today, anyone who says that the Israelis are settlers’ colonialists will be considered by the Zionists, and especially the Zionist right, as traitors or Anti Semite. One can imagine what Netanyahu, who believes that he is the successor of Ze’ev Jabotinsky, will say about the following passage:
“Please try to find at least one example, that colonization was done with the consent of the natives. There is no such example. The natives, cultured and uncultured, have always stubbornly fought the colonizers, cultured and uncultured. However, the way the settler acted did not affect the attitude of the natives towards him. The funerals of Cortés and Pissarro, or, let’s say, our ancestors in the days of Joshua Cannon, behaved like bandits. But the ‘immigrant fathers’, the first true pioneers in North America, were the best of the human race, of a high moral stand, who did not want to harm not only the Indians but not even the fly. They believed in good faith that there was plenty of room in the American steppe for both whites and Indians. But the natives fought ruthlessly against both the bad settlers and the good settlers. Nor was the question of whether there was a large vacant land in that country. In 1921 there were 340,000 Indians in the United States; but even in good times there were no more than 750,000 Indians living in the entire vast expanse from Labrador in the north to the Rio Grande River in the south. There was no man in the world at that time with such a rich imagination who could seriously foresee the danger of real “trampling” posed to the natives by the foreigners who had just arrived. The natives fought not because they were consciously and consciously afraid of being trampled upon, but simply because the natives could never agree to colonization everywhere and at any time”.
…”All talk of financial aid is in fact either childish self-deception or unscrupulous frivolity. As for the provision of political aid to the alert nationalism: to speak of it seriously is to speak of it wholly unscrupulous. Arab nationalism aspires to what Italian nationalism aspired to, let’s say, until 1 S70: unification and national independence. In simple terms, this means the expulsion of England from Mesopotamia and Egypt, and the expulsion of France from Syria, and afterwards perhaps also from Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco. Our assistance, even indirect, in this direction would be both suicide and treason. We rely on the English Mandate; the Balfour Declaration was also signed by France in its entirety. [9] We cannot participate in a political conspiracy aimed at expelling England from the Suez Canal and the Persian Gulf, and eliminating France altogether as a colonial power”
The irony is that this passage was written by Ze’ev Jabotinsky who did not need the lie that the Zionists are the natives of Palestine. Nor that it is possible to buy the Palestinians. He wrote it in the Iron Wall article. [i]
Endnotes:
[i]
https://db.begincenter.org.il/article/%D7%A2%D7%9C-%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A8-%D7%94%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%96%D7%9C-%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%97%D7%A0%D7%95-%D7%95%D7%94%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%99%D7%9D