ZIONISM: RABBI PEREIRA MENDES GIVES THE GAME AWAY
The North American Review, 1895
Rabbi Henry Pereira Mendes was a close associate of Theodore Herzl, leader of Zionism; in fact he was Herzl’s lieutenant in the New World, as is made clear in his entry in Encyclopedia Judaica s.v. Mendes. The rabbi, in a lengthy article entitled ‘The Solution of War’, written for the North American Review of 1895, gave an outline of Zionism for the benefit of a mostly gentile readership. Perhaps because he was writing for the most educated and ‘liberal’ of gentiles, the rabbi was just a little too candid about the long-term ambitions of the Zionists. He makes it clear that the establishment of the state of Israel would not mean the gradual running down of all the many Jewish colonies in the Diaspora; far from it. He outlines what would amount to a world government under the control of the Jews. Naturally, he cloaks the whole project in a spurious idealism: Jews are entitled to a special place in the world because of their superior moral standards and their unparalleled suffering, etc., etc. Among other things, he wants to see the disarming of the nations, the setting up of a global police force, and the creation of an international court in Jerusalem to settle any disputes between nations. Aha, you may say, he acknowledges the rights of other nations! Well, not really, because in all the other nations effective leadership will pass to their Jewish communities.
The article opens with the words “The solution of war is Palestine.” This will seem ironic, given that the creation of Israel out of Palestine begins to look more and more like the cause of possibly the biggest war of all time. After a long preamble on the destructiveness and costliness of war, the rabbi warms to his theme:

PALESTINE THE SOLUTION OF WAR
“It is true that arbitration is the only becoming solution of the problem how to abolish war. But there must be some established arbitrative power to which disputing nations can appeal.
1. It must be above suspicion.
2. It must be removed from any chance of being biased by any possible political considerations.
3. It must have a moral, and if need be, a physical force behind it to enforce its decisions.
There is but one arbitrative power which can fulfil all these requirements, and we offer it because it comes from that book which has already given mankind so many practical ideals – the Bible.
But it involves the restoration of Palestine to the Hebrew nation. The mere suggestion of this opens a vista of practical results of tremendous importance, if we will only pause to glance at them.”
He lists these alleged advantages, some of which are breathtaking:
(c) The erection of the Hebrew nation by the powers into a neutral state, its boundaries prescribed by the Bible limitation (Gen. xv.18-21; Deut. xi.24), so that it could not possibly have any territorial ambition beyond them, nor could it ever be exposed to political intrigue for its own aggrandisement.
(d) The opening up of a vast commerce, for which the Hebrews are peculiarly qualified by commercial genius, and for which they are prepared by their commercial establishments in all countries, which would be maintained and continued. …..
What if a nation should refuse to abide by the law going forth from Zion? It is a very remote contingency. The very treaty erecting Palestine into a neutral state, and clothing its court of international arbitration with its functions, would provide for just such a contingency. The moral force of the educated public opinion would speedily bring a recalcitrant nation to its senses. How could it withstand a threatened ostracism, or a combination of physical force or other penalties? But the time will come, it must come, when nations “will not learn war any more” and when humanity’s watchwords at last will be Right and Reason instead of Might and Treason.
Before our eyes rises a picture of the nations restoring the Hebrews “as an offering,” as the prophet phrases it (Isa. lxvi.20): shall we say as “an amendment offering” for the injustice of lead-footed centuries? We dream of that martyr-nation of history, “despised and rejected,” as that very prophet foretold, “wounded through others’ transgressions, bruised through others’ iniquities,” at last rightly, justly, lovingly dealt with!”
The North American Review, CLXI. No. 465 (1895) 161-169.

Note well that last sentence with its characteristic self-pity. The world can easily tolerate any number of religious cranks obsessed with their own sinfulness, but an army of cranks obsessed with their own innocence and everyone else’s sin, that’s a different matter altogether; that’s really scary. Putting aside all the usual tear-jerking, the rabbi’s plan would in practice be nothing less than a global empire for the Jews. The date of this article is just a little earlier than the first rumoured existence of The Protocols, to which it bears a faint resemblance. The two have in common an emphasis on “consummation”, on “arbitration”, and the expression “our watchword”. There is also the idea that if any nation objected to rule by the Jews then a coalition of other nations would be mobilised against the insubordinates.
Bear in mind that Israel occupies a strong central position in the Old World land mass. If the planned Greater Israel is to dominate the World, something will have to be done to shrink the other big countries: Russia, China, United States. One obvious way to achieve this would be to get them fighting each other.

Regarding Rome as a target the Zohar has this to say:

“all the nations shall combine together against the daughter of Jacob in order to drive her from the world” ….. “all the kings of the world will assemble in the great city of Rome, and the Holy One will shower on them fire and hail and meteoric stones” ….. “The children of Ishmael [ie the Arabs] will at the same time rouse all the peoples of the world to come up to war against Jerusalem.” (Zohar 1:119a).