The appeal of Revisionist Zionism had grown…

The appeal of Revisionist Zionism had grown between 1924 and 1930 because of an influx of Polish immigrants and the escalating conflict with the Arabs.

Between 1924 and 1931, approximately sixty-two thousand Jews, of whom nearly half are from Poland, have arrived in Palestine from Central Europe.

The Fourth Aliyah, as it is called, differs from previous waves of Jewish immigration.

Unlike the Bolshevik-minded immigrants of the Second Aliyah, the new Polish immigrants are primarily petty merchants and minor industrialists with their own capital to invest.

Not attracted to the Labor Party's collective settlements, they have migrated to the cities where they have established the first semblance of an industrialized urban Jewish economy in Palestine.

Within five years, the Jewish populations of Jerusalem and ...