ZIONISM FROM THE STANDPOINT OF ITS VICTIMS N9 societies would occur, and the Arabs would remain, if they did not flee, only as docile, subservient objects. And everything that did stay to challenge Israel was viewed not as something there, but as a sign o f som ething outside Israel and Zionism bent on its destruction— from the outside. Here Zionism literally took over the typology em ployed by European culture of a fearsome Orient confronting the O ccident, except that Zionism, as an avant-garde, redemptive Occidental m ove­ m ent, confronted the Orient in the Orient. T o look at what “ fulfilled" Zionism had to say about the Arabs generally, and Palestinians in particular, is to see something like the follow ­ ing, extracted from an article printed in Ma'ariv, O ctober 7, 1955. Its author was a Dr. A . Carlebach, who was a distin­ guished citizen and not a crude dem agogue. His argument is that Islam opposes Zionism , although he does find room in his argument for the Palestinians. These Arab Islamic countries do not suffer from poverty, or disease, or illiteracy, or exploitation; they only suffer from the worst of all plagues: Islam. Wherever Islamic psychology rules, there is the inevitable rule of despotism and criminal aggression. The danger lies in Islamic psychology, which cannot integrate itself into the world of efficiency and prog­ ress, that lives in a world of illusion, perturbed by attacks of inferiority complexes and megalomania, lost in dreams of the holy sword. The danger stems from the totalitarian conception of the world, the passion for murder deeply rooted in their blood, from the lack of logic, the easily inflamed brains, the boasting, and above all: the blasphemous disregard for all that is sacred to the civilized world , . . their reactions— to anything— have nothing to do with good sense. They are all emotional, unbalanced, instantaneous, senseless. It is always the lunatic that speaks from their throat. You can talk "business” with everyone, and even with the devil. But not with Allah, , . . This is what every grain in this country shouts. There were many great cultures here, and invaders of all kinds. All of them— even the Crusaders— left signs of culture and blossoming. But on the path of Islam, even the trees have died. [This dovetails perfectly with Weizmann's