That is precisely what Herzl meant. The calculus was inescapable. The Zionist ideal could be realized only through the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine, and the only way the population of such a state could have a Jewish majority was to remove its non-Jewish inhabitants. The argument was made more succinctly by the true architect of the Jewish state, David Ben-Gurion. “The Arabs will have to go,” Ben-Gurion wrote to his son in 1937. The Zionists, it seems, had learned a constructive lesson from European nationalism: unity is always effected by means of brutality.
