Iron Wall (essay)

[1] Jabotinsky wrote the essay after British Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill prohibited Zionist settlement on the east bank of the Jordan River.

[4] However, they disagreed with the notion that the Zionist effort was a positive and just force, with Jabotinsky elaborating that for that very reason, resistance from those that attempt to stop it should be disregarded.

[5] In July 2023, Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu stated, "One hundred years after the 'iron wall' was stamped in Jabotinsky's writings we are continuing to successfully implement these principles".

[1] In Avi Shlaim's 2000 work, "The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World", he gives a brief overview of the background and history of Jabotinsky.

[1] Shlaim's analysis of The Iron Wall finds that Jabotinsky's followers considered the ideas put forth in the essay to be the basis for Revisionist Zionism.