Washington Times Interview With Pamela Geller On Zionism

From Atlas Shrugs:

“Zionism is only a controversial issue because its opponents have made it so,” states Pamela Geller, one of America’s most outspoken Jewish political pundits. “The Jews have a historical claim to the land of Israel. Contrary to myth, they began returning long before the Holocaust, bought the land fair and square, and were determined to live in peace with their neighbors. The Arab leaders called on the Arabs to leave the area in 1948, thinking they would return in peace when Israel was annihilated. They were wrong.  

“After centuries of persecution, subjugation and oppression, the intenrational mandate of the White Paper and San Remo a Jewish homeland is an absolute right, a human right.  

“[According to the Council on Foreign Relations,] (t)he San Remo Resolution ‘agreement between post-World War I allied powers (Britain, France, Italy, Japan) was adopted on April 25, 1920 during the San Remo Conference. The Mandate for Palestine was based on this resolution; it incorporated the 1917 Balfour Declaration and the Covenant of the League of Nation’s Article 22. Britain was charged with establishing a ‘national home for the Jewish people.’’  

“Nonetheless, antisemites and their useful idiots viciously fight this still, almost a hundred years later. There are scores of Muslim countries - scores. Why is that sanctioned, but not one tiny Jewish state?”

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