THE Q l KM LON OF l>AI.K.STt\K preached the necessity o f Jewish energy, will, anil organization for reclaiming, ' ‘redeem ing" the land. His language was shot through with the rhetoric o f voluntarism, with an ideology of will and new blood that appropriated for Zionism a great deal o f the language (and later the policies) o f European colonial­ ists attempting to deal with native backwardness. ‘ ‘New blood had to be brought into the country; a new spirit of enterprise had to be introduced." The Jews were to be the importers of colonies and colonists whose role was not simply to take over a territory but also to he schools for a Jewish national self­ revival. Thus if in Palestine "there were great possibilities," the question became how to do something about the fact that "th e will was lacking. How was that to be awakened? How was a cumulative process to be set in m otion?" According to W eizmann, the Zionists were saved from ultimate discourage­ ment only because o f ‘ ‘our feeling that a great source of energy was waiting to be tapped— the national impulse o f a people held in tem porary check by a misguided interpretation of historic m eth od ,"2’ The "m eth od " referred to was the Zionist tendency hitherto to rely on great foreign benefactors like the Rothschilds and “ neglect" the developm ent o f self-sustaining colonial institutions on the land itself. T o do this, it was necessary to visualize and then to implement a scheme for creating a network o f realities— a language, a grid o f colonies, a series o f organizations— for converting Palestine from its present state of ‘‘neglect" into a Jewish state. This network would not so much attack the existing "realities" as ignore them, grow' alongside them, and then finally blot them out. as a forest o f large trees blots out a small patch o f weeds. A main ideological necessity for such a program was acquiring legitimacy for it, giving it an archeology and a teleology that com pletely surrounded and, in a sense, outdated the native culture that was still firmly planted in Palestine. O ne o f the reasons Wei?.mann modified the concep­ tion o f the Balfour Declaration from its favoring the establish­ ment o f a Jewish National Home to favoring a ‘‘reestablish­ m ent" was precisely to enclose the territory with the oldest and furthest reaching o f possible “ realities," T he colonization of