Jack Ross has studied Zionist history and now joins the argument between Saif Ammous and Ralph Seliger:
The analogy by Saif may have been a bit wacky, but the very existence
of the Yishuv betrays the wrongness of Seliger's argument: that these
"refugees" needed their own governing political entity, and that it
claimed in theory to be a governing body of Jews outside Palestine.
What the Jewish Agency did do on behalf of the Yishuv was engage in
duplicity about what they were really in favor of, so they could appeal
to those Jews who rejected Zionism
as an ideology. Is Seliger really claiming with a straight face that
before Biltmore conference in '42 (when Zionists endorse a Jewish state in Palestine) Weizman, Ben Gurion, et al were in favor of
binationalism?
