The Right Way to a Jewish State: From ‘Colonization Regime' to Sovereign State

In Part Two Jabotinsky's brand of Revisionism was compared with that of the revolutionary-messianic stream. The first, as we will remember, regarded the ‘State’ as a necessary vehicle for the free and unimpeded expression of the nation's needs and aspirations. The second saw the ‘State’ as a culmination of the ‘national spirit’ and the fulfilment of the meta-historic destiny of the people of Israel. For this reason the messianic stream spoke of Malchut, a ‘Kingdom’, rather than a ‘State’. The following chapter will describe the process which led Revisionism to consider a sovereign state as a focal and immediate Zionist objective, and how it intended to achieve this objective — the establishment of a Jewish state.