Farming was obviously very important to Zionists for a variety of reasons and also dredged up a weird prejudiced stereotype. I’m interested in doing more work following up on the claim that Palestine’s land and soil was barren and neglected. The Palestinian article doesn’t go into much detail about the farms’ statuses, but Jewish authors and Zionist writers laude the success of Jewish agriculture.

I noticed this article on Rafah, and considering the imminent invasion into Rafah, I thought it would be a good choice. So, we’re jumping to the early 1900s!

The point of this week’s post is that Zionists were not particularly picky about where they would establish their ‘Jewish homeland,’ and that the British’s plans frequently shifted based on their whims. What the Zionists truly valued was a colonial backer more than a specific geographical location.

Here is an article from Al-Bashir, a Lebanese Christian newspaper, about the Israelite colony “Zikhron Ya’akov,” published on September 8, 1886