Summary
Zionist writer who, in Said’s account, formulated toward the end of the nineteenth century the slogan of a land without people, for a people without land.
Details
- Said presents the slogan as informed, almost to the letter, by the thinking of Alphonse de Lamartine’s Résumé politique: cancelling the resident Arabs of Palestine by the wish that the land be empty for a more deserving power (The Question of Palestine, PDF p.30 / printed p.9).