Land is the core of colonies case, except Palestine! For land here is the whole case. As the Zionist colonization differs from the normal colonization as the former is settler, evacuative and substitutive – its ultimate interest is looting land from its legal owners. It is not like other forms of colonization that come with soldiers and only go back to their original countries under the pressure of natives’ resistance, and that is all!
Zionism was aware, since it was established about 125 years ago, of this obvious fact. So, it proceeded to planning and to creating financial, social and political institutions in order to seize the most possible area of Palestine land; for without it, the Zionism couldn’t establish its “national homeland”.
In the course of this planning, and this creating, Keren Hayesod was established, the fund that undertook the mission of providing money to seize the lands if Palestine and building colonies on them in any way and in all ages; from the Ottoman era to its successor (the British occupation) 1918-1948.
About Keren Hayesod and its plans and performance, Professor Elham Shamaly has devoted her MA thesis, and here it is in the form of a book. For that, Shamaly went on research, assiduously, in Zionist and English references without neglecting the reliable of the Arab references.