The Biblical Bases of Zionist Colonialism Author(s): H. S. Haddad Source: Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 3, No. 4 (Summer, 1974), pp. 97-113 Published by: University of California Press on behalf of the Institute for Palestine Studies Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2535451 Accessed: 01-08-2016 17:07 UTC Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://about.jstor.org/terms JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. University of California Press, Institute for Palestine Studies are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Journal of Palestine Studies This content downloaded from 96.91.243.195 on Mon, 01 Aug 2016 17:07:32 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms THE BIBLICAL BASES OF ZIONIST COLONIALISM H. S. HADDAD* 1. THEOPOLITICS OF ISRAEL The ideals, goals, strategy, and tactics of Jewish settlement in Palestine may agree in some respects with those of settler regimes elsewhere. But there is a basic difference. Unlike other settler regimes Israel claims to be a return. According to Zionists and Israelis the Jewish state is not an entirely new venture, but the restoration of a state that was temporarily disrupted. European colonialism and ethnic national liberation movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries no doubt stimulated feelings of nationalism among European Jews and led to the birth of organized politi- cal Zionism.