Given Arab opposition to them, did the Zionists support steps towards majority rule in Palestine?

Clearly, the last thing the Zionists really wanted was that all the inhabitants of Palestine should have an equal say in running the country...Chaim Weizmann had impressed on Churchill that representative government would have spelled the end of the Jewish National Home in Palestine...Churchill declared, ' The present form of government will continue for many years. Step by step we shall develop representative institutions leading to full self- government, but our children's children will have passed away before that is accomplished." David Hirst, "The Gun and the Olive Branch."

Denial of the Arabs' right to self- determination "Even if nobody lost their land, the Zionist program was unjust in principle because it denied majority political rights...Zionism, in principle, could not allow the natives to exercise their political rights because it would mean the end of the Zionist enterprise." Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, "Original Sins" Arab resistance to Pre-Israeli Zionism "In ... more.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.

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