ABSTRACT
Previously we reviewed the Revisionist programme for a Colonization Regime in Eretz Israel, as a necessary precondition for the establishment of the sovereign Jewish state. This programme which, despite its ideological preferences, was mainly of a pragmatic and purposive nature, formed the central plank of the Revisionist programme. In theory it offered a practical programme for the implementation of a large-scale centralized Jewish colonization effort. However, in the Revisionist ideology and Weltanschauung the Colonization Regime merely played a subordinate role. It was too pragmatic and empirical, in addition to which it premised the building of the foundations of the Jewish state on massive mandatory — i.e. British — involvement, rather than regarding this scheme as an independent expression of the Jewish national will. It goes without saying that at least during the 1920s even those espousing radical views found it impossible to ignore the need for direct and indirect British assistance in the Jewish colonization of the country, but at the same time they could not possibly be expected to turn this need into a precondition, let alone an essential requirement.
