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* feel free to continue reading the article on Quora!, Zionists/ hasbara are reporting the posts and the account there. some of the posts got deleted. so the owners of the account decided to post there and on this sub. here's the link PS Lounge - Quora ,*
The Zionist movement has always worked hard to justify why it was more deserving of Palestine than the natives living there. At the beginning, this took the form of appealing to Europeβs colonial expansionism, arguing that the Zionist movement could bring this backward land into the modern era. They also argued that this new Zionist state would serve as a bulwark for Europe against the barbaric east. This logic animated much of their early endeavors, such as founding a colonial trust and establishing a colonization department.
With time, and especially after the two world wars, the idea of colonialism began to fall out of the realm of the acceptable. Even traditionally colonial powers such as France and Britain sought to camouflage their endeavors under different designations such as βmandatesβ and βprotectoratesβ. This, too, caught up to Israel and the Zionist movement, which had until then relied on projecting an image of European civilization in a deeply uncivilized area. As Yitzhak Gruenbaum, a member of the World Zionist Organization executive once argued:
>βWe, the Jews, are twentieth-century people of Europe*, whereas the Arab population is still at the developmental level of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.β* and, as βpeople of Europe, we wish to create a European economy here. We believe that the Mandate government must conduct its affairs based on the point of view that Palestine is a European country like England or its dominions.β
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>A remedy to this was to begin to coopt some aspects of the natives as their own, especially regarding cuisine and some symbolic markers. Suddenly, Falafel and Hummus and other local foods become βIsraeliβ staples, when most of the Zionist settlers had never even heard of it before arriving in Palestine. This would later develop to include other cult
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