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Not Stealing Palestine, But Purchasing Israel

(National Review) Daniel Pipes - Since the early Zionists lacked military power, their efforts to build a presence in the Holy Land stand out as astonishingly mild. Acquiring property dunam by dunam, farm by farm, house by house, lay at the heart of the Zionist enterprise. They also focused on the rehabilitation of what was barren and considered unusable. They not only made the desert bloom, but drained swamps, cleared water channels, reclaimed wasteland, forested bare hills, cleared rocks, and removed salt from the soil. This history contradicts the Palestinian account that "Zionist gangs stole Palestine and expelled its people." Israelis should hold their heads high and point out that the building of their country was based on the least violent and most civilized movement of any people in history.
2011-06-22 00:00:00
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