The Anglo-American Committee delegates understood Zionism to be the “inevitable giving way of a backward people before a more modern and practical one.” But more, they saw in it a formative episode in their own history—the “conquest of Indians.” Zionists and their allies agreed. Jabotinsky believed the Arab race possessed “the same instinctive jealous love of Palestine, as the old Aztecs felt for ancient Mexico, and the Sioux for their rolling Prairies.”
