] HE u i K S rr< )\ OK PAI.KSTISK says "seem ed to have anticipated the shape of things to com e" as indeed it did. This was an "O utline of Program for the Jewish Resettlem ent o f Palestine in Accordance with the Aspirations o f the Zionist M ovem ent"; it appeared in early 1917, and it is worth quoting from: The Suzerain Government [that is, any government, Allied or otherwise, in command of the territory! s^a" sanction a formation of a Jewish company for the colonization of Palestine by Jews. The said Company shall be under the direct protection of the Suzerain Government |that is. whatever went on in Palestine should be legitimized not by the natives but by some outside force). The objects of the Company shall be: a) to support and foster the existing Jewish settlement in Palestine in every possible way; h) to aid, support and encourage Jews from other countries who are desirous of and suitable for settling in Palestine by organizing immigration, by providing information, and by every other form of material and moral assistance. The powers of the Company shall be such as will enable it to develop the country in every way, agricultural, cultural, commercial and industrial, and shall include full powers of land purchase and development, and especially facilities for the acquisition of the Crown lands, building rights for roads, railway harbors, power to establish shipping companies for the transport of goods and passengers to and from Palestine, and for every other power found necessary for the opening of the country.1* Underlying this extraordinary passage is a vision o f a matrix of organizations whose functioning duplicates that o f an army. For it is an army that "op en s” a country to settlem ent, that organizes settlements in foreign territory, that aids and d evel­ ops "in every possible w ay” such matters as immigration, shipping, and supply, that above all turns mere citizens into "suitable" disciplined agents whose job it is to be on the land and to invest it with their structures, organization, and institutions."1Just as an army assimilates ordinary citizens to its purposes— by dressing them in uniforms, by exercising them in tactics and maneuvers, by disciplining everyone to its