Zionists in a Sentence
  • Even as a temporary measure, the choice of an extra-Palestinian site for the Jewish state was bitterly opposed by many Zionists; others (with whom Herzl appears to have sympathized) thought that as Palestine was, at all events momentarily, inaccessible, it was expedient to form a settlement elsewhere.
  • Secular Zionists relied more on the argument that Palestine alone could solve the problem of Jewish dispersion and virulent anti-Semitism.
  • The small number of Palestinian Arabs who were not uprooted by the Zionists in 1948 are at present refugees in their own homeland.
  • But Angola was rejected by the Zionists as a home for Jews.