Summary
The name Sayegh reports Zionists give to the territory of their perennial aim: statehood in all of Palestine, completely emptied of its Arabs, with a minimum definition officially formulated in 1919 covering about double the area occupied by the settler-state at the time Sayegh wrote.
Details
- The perennial aim of Zionism was and still is statehood in all of Palestine, called by Zionists Eretz Israel, or the Land of Israel, completely emptied of its Arabs (Zionist Colonialism in Palestine, PDF p.15 / printed p.220).
- Its minimum definition, officially formulated in 1919, includes, in present geographical terminology, the Kingdom of Jordan on both sides of the River, the Gaza strip, Southern Lebanon, and Southern and south-western Syria, as well as the portions of Palestine then occupied by the Zionists (Zionist Colonialism in Palestine, PDF p.15 / printed p.220).
- Even that minimum falls short of the territory bounded, by the Biblical phrase, by the Nile and the Euphrates, claimed by Zionist extremists (Zionist Colonialism in Palestine, PDF p.15 / printed p.220).
- Occupation of all of so-called Eretz Israel is the third essential element of the Zionist programme and the only one still unrealised when Sayegh wrote, the unfinished business of Zionism (Zionist Colonialism in Palestine, PDF p.16 / printed p.221).
Related pages
Zionist Colonialism in Palestine, Territorial Expansion, Gaza, Transjordan, Zionism