The solution to the problem of the Jews, according to Jabotinsky, the Zionist Revisionist, was to bring about a fundamental and comprehensive change in the living conditions of the Jews. This change consists in the creation of a special plot of land and the grouping of Jewish minorities scattered in the Diaspora. That is, the solution is a regional solution.
After that, it extracted recognition from the international community, especially from great Powers, for this spot. This spot was supposed to meet a condition that would not be met elsewhere, namely “a force of attraction for the Jews.” This force of attraction has not been found anywhere except Palestine. It was the choice in terms of “religious bond”.
Because Jabotinsky did not grow up in a Jewish family with a religious Jewish tradition, he did not have any religious bond with Palestine, but he chose it because he wanted to exploit this “religious” pull power, without which the gathering of Jews into one place would not be their home. Palestine was also chosen because there is a good demographic base for Jews in Palestine that is not available anywhere else.
Jabotinsky said, “In the Land of Israel, we have thirty settlements, a bank with branches and privately owned land,” and continues, “It is easier thanks to the presence of this land to obtain the approval of international bodies to give custody of Palestine than any other piece of land.”
Hence, the problem of the Jews was the center and core of Jabotinsky’s ideological vision, as saving the Jews from the diaspora and persecution was the basis, even if it was at the expense of the authentic (Palestinian) people, who would be doomed to death or exile and at best would turn into a minority on their land. Here we find him saying, “We insist on the point of view: we give to those who have nothing, and we take from those who have more than necessary,” Jabotinsky believes that the Jews’ demand for sovereignty over the land of Palestine is more fair than the demand of the Arabs and their right to their land.
In doing so, he acknowledged the existence of Palestinian nationalism and therefore believed that the conflict could not be resolved through political settlements because the Palestinians would not accept it. Therefore, this conflict will be resolved “by force”. This conflict, which Jabotinsky was selective in choosing its terminology in order to win the support of world opinion, did not describe it as the Palestinian-Zionist conflict, but rather as the Arab conflict and the “poor” Jewish people who are looking for a spot to protect them from death.
The Arab said and did not say the Palestinian so that the world would feel that these Jews would be their conflict with all the Arab peoples. At the same time, Jabotinsky stuck to the idea of the unity of historic Palestine, east and west, despite Sykes-Picot, which divided Palestine into two states, east and west of the river.
Throughout his life, he has been committed to a so-called homeland called the “Land of Israel”, and he believes that by doing so he will establish a homeland for the Jews through which he will help expand the borders of Europe, of which he is proud to belong to his culture and disgusted with the culture of the East, which he has long described as a backward East, and that the occupation of it by the Jews will revive it culturally and bring it out of the depths of backwardness. Hence, he does not believe that the occupation of the land of Palestine, where the Jews do not own an inch, is unjust, but liberation, because the demands of the Zionist movement, which seeks change, are reconstruction and development. The superiority of a Western culture over an Eastern culture necessitates the former to live and the latter to disappear and die.
In the short history of this Jewish statelet, there have been Jewish political figures and culture who considered themselves loyal heirs to Jabotinsky’s ideological ideas and political orientations, from Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Shamir, Ariel Sharon to Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu’s Likud party is known to carry Jabotinsky’s political ideas and work to achieve them.
A few days before the Al-Aqsa flood, Netanyahu presented a map of the occupying power at the UN General Assembly in his speech. He did not do so but inherited the map of the godfather Jabotinsky calling for the expansion of this state.
Benjamin Netanyahu stated on January 19. 2024 in a new escalation of his positions towards Gaza that he “will not allow the establishment of a Palestinian state as long as he is in office” and this is Jabotinsky’s doctrine.
Netanyahu’s government has adopted the same view that Jabotinsky had of the Mizrahi in terms of backwards and animals, and the Jewish Defense Minister Galant said at the beginning of the war on Gaza, “We are fighting human animals and we will act accordingly.”
History repeats itself with its events and its persons with a difference of names and years. But Gaza remains the thorn in their throats, and the blood of its martyrs will remain the curse that pursues all those who were behind its effervescence, which will not stop until after it drowns the unjust state and throws it back towards wandering and paths of loss. Europe, to which Jabotinsky and his heirs boast of belonging, will throw worn shoes into their faces and cram them into ghettos as if they were sick animals, pouring fuel on them in operations under the name of poured fuel.