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Zionism
From: Israel, A Beachhead in the Middle East
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Chapter Two focuses on the roots of political Zionism. Since its creation by Theodor Herzl, Zionism has envisaged a return to an imagined glorious past. The distinguishing feature of political Zionism—what set it apart from the territorial Zionism of gradual infiltration of European Jews into Palestine—was the program it set for itself of enlisting one or more Great Powers to grant nationalist Jews political supremacy over some territory, preferably the Levantine territory that the natives knew as south Syria on which a Jewish state had once existed. From its inception Herzl and his followers recognized that the Zionist project needed at least one imperialist power of Europe cooperation’s to launch a successful mission which would yield benefits for both parties.
