Rashid Khalidi

I'm paraphrasing from his letter to Herzl, which he sent via the French chief rabbi, whom he apparently knew. And he said, for the sake of God, leave Palestine alone. Talking, in other words, about all the problems that we've seen. Meaning what? Don't come. Oriental Jewish communities, Mizrahi communities for the Palestinians and for the Zionist project.

I'm paraphrasing from his letter to Herzl, which he sent via the French chief rabbi, whom he apparently knew. And he said, for the sake of God, leave Palestine alone. Talking, in other words, about all the problems that we've seen. Meaning what? Don't come. Oriental Jewish communities, Mizrahi communities for the Palestinians and for the Zionist project.

He said, you know, it's a fine idea in principle, but doing it here is going to cause these problems. In other words, he didn't deny the idea that the Jews are a people, have a connection to the Holy Land, have a right if they want to be a national group suffering from persecution.

He said, you know, it's a fine idea in principle, but doing it here is going to cause these problems. In other words, he didn't deny the idea that the Jews are a people, have a connection to the Holy Land, have a right if they want to be a national group suffering from persecution.

He said, you know, it's a fine idea in principle, but doing it here is going to cause these problems. In other words, he didn't deny the idea that the Jews are a people, have a connection to the Holy Land, have a right if they want to be a national group suffering from persecution.

Well, what he was saying is don't do it here because we are here.

Well, what he was saying is don't do it here because we are here.

Well, what he was saying is don't do it here because we are here.

Yeah, a salvation at the expense of an indigenous population, which understood from very early on that it would be supplanted. I mean, he was saying that, and Palestinians were saying it before World War I in their papers.

Yeah, a salvation at the expense of an indigenous population, which understood from very early on that it would be supplanted. I mean, he was saying that, and Palestinians were saying it before World War I in their papers.

Yeah, a salvation at the expense of an indigenous population, which understood from very early on that it would be supplanted. I mean, he was saying that, and Palestinians were saying it before World War I in their papers.

Well, I mean, first of all, Zionism is many things. I argue in my work that Zionism is among many other things. It's a national movement. It starts as a national movement. It has no original necessary intention of developing into a settler colonial project. It's intended as a refuge for persecuted Jews.

Well, I mean, first of all, Zionism is many things. I argue in my work that Zionism is among many other things. It's a national movement. It starts as a national movement. It has no original necessary intention of developing into a settler colonial project. It's intended as a refuge for persecuted Jews.

Well, I mean, first of all, Zionism is many things. I argue in my work that Zionism is among many other things. It's a national movement. It starts as a national movement. It has no original necessary intention of developing into a settler colonial project. It's intended as a refuge for persecuted Jews.

And it's based, as it develops, on an undeniable, incontrovertible connection between Judaism and the Jewish people and the Holy Land. So it's all of those things, of course. But as it developed, it understood that, first of all, these people saw themselves as Europeans. Yes, we are Jews. Yes, we are persecuted in Europe.

And it's based, as it develops, on an undeniable, incontrovertible connection between Judaism and the Jewish people and the Holy Land. So it's all of those things, of course. But as it developed, it understood that, first of all, these people saw themselves as Europeans. Yes, we are Jews. Yes, we are persecuted in Europe.

And it's based, as it develops, on an undeniable, incontrovertible connection between Judaism and the Jewish people and the Holy Land. So it's all of those things, of course. But as it developed, it understood that, first of all, these people saw themselves as Europeans. Yes, we are Jews. Yes, we are persecuted in Europe.

But we are going to go elsewhere as Europeans, and we can only do that with the support of a great power. So Herzl spends his life trying to petition the Kaiser, trying to petition the Tsar of Russia, trying to petition the French Third Republic. And Weizmann, Chaim Weizmann, hits, you know, gold.

But we are going to go elsewhere as Europeans, and we can only do that with the support of a great power. So Herzl spends his life trying to petition the Kaiser, trying to petition the Tsar of Russia, trying to petition the French Third Republic. And Weizmann, Chaim Weizmann, hits, you know, gold.

But we are going to go elsewhere as Europeans, and we can only do that with the support of a great power. So Herzl spends his life trying to petition the Kaiser, trying to petition the Tsar of Russia, trying to petition the French Third Republic. And Weizmann, Chaim Weizmann, hits, you know, gold.