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Zionist Leaders (Chaim Weizmann (Synthetic Zionism: Lobby Great Powers…
Zionist Leaders
Chaim Weizmann
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1907: suggested synthetic Zionism in 8th Zionist congress uniting the Pratical and Political zionists
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Herzl
Journalist that eported on Dreyfus Affair which was a French political scandal between 1894 and 1906
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French Jewish Army Captain, Alfred Dreyfus, wrongly accused of treason for leaking military secrets to Germans - actually Ferdinand Walsin-Esterhazy
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Thought Palestinian arabs as part of a larger arab state and therefore already had plenty of homeland - Jews had none
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1896: wrote "Der Judenstaat" saying Jews not religious group but homeless nation - large readership and taken seriously
1897: First Zionist congress in Switzerland: aim to obtain jewish homeland in Palestine secured by public law putting Zionism on the political agenda
1902: Novel "Old-Newland" suggesting arabs would gain economically from Jewish Homeland - closing off dialogue with Palestinian arabs
Ze'ev Jabotinsky
Anti Semitism bad in Eastern Europe (Russia) + massacres of Jews there caused him to mistrust Great Powers especially Russia
Thought negotiating with Great Powers pointless because they were untrustworthy and Zionists would be waiting forever for their approval
Historical Israel included Transjordan so wanted Jewish Settlement there with the River Jordan being its centre (explains Israeli expansion post 1947)
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