Antun Sa'adeh's forecast of the
seriousness and fatefulness of the Zionist threat to our national existence
preceded the establishment of the Jewish State. In the early twenties of this
century, he observed that all branches and associations of Zionism throughout
the world worked for the same aim: to capture Palestine and evict its
inhabitants. He wrote:
Despite that the Zionist
movement is not rotating around a natural axis, yet, this movement has been able
to make significant progress. Its actions are proceeding according to an
accurate, systematic plan. If no other systematic, counter plan stands in its
face, it will eventually succeed.
Sa'adeh then warned “... we are in a
situation wherein one of two basic consequences is incumbent: Life or death;
whatever the outcome, we are the ones to answer for the consequence.” Sa’adeh’s
answer was to institute a movement possessing a systematic counter-plan to
Zionism. In 1932, he established this movement, calling it: The Syrian Social
Nationalist Party.