Summary
Writer quoted by Said in Chapter Two for the judgment that Zionist indifference to the Palestinian natives was an indifference linked to European supremacy, and that what connected Jewish aspirations to the conceptual orbit of imperialism was the detail that Palestine was inhabited by another people.
Details
- Rodinson, quoted by Said: had the ancestral homeland been occupied by a well-established industrialised nation with a powerful national consciousness, displacing its German, French or English inhabitants would have been in the forefront of even the most ignorant Zionists’ consciousness (The Question of Palestine, PDF p.103 / printed p.82).
- Rodinson, quoted by Said, on the aspirations of Jewish shopkeepers, peddlers, craftsmen and intellectuals in Russia and elsewhere being connected to imperialism by the one small detail that Palestine was inhabited by another people (The Question of Palestine, PDF p.103 / printed p.82).