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* Many have claimed that our work here is expensive, that with the money spent in the Land of Israel, it would be possible to help all the unfortunate Jews in the world. But is there any value in everything that is done in the Diaspora? We must concentrate all our strength and means on building Israel, because here is our only refuge, from here we will not move.

** In “[https://benyehuda.org/read/10802 Who is the fearless and the tender-hearted?].”

* Our movement is the movement of redemption—and its time span is two thousand years, from the day our Temple was destroyed and the people were exiled from their land

* Our movement is the movement of redemption—and its time span is two thousand years, from the day our Temple was destroyed and the people were exiled from their land.

** In “[https://benyehuda.org/read/10787 The Idea of Redemption in its Time].”

* This is the ideology that has emerged recently regarding the ‘dispossession’ of Arabs from their land. Here, our enemies have created, with full knowledge that this is a false accusation, a claim that could strike us in the wider world. Even in our camp, good Zionists arose who, out of a hypertrophy of justice and fairness, began to doubt the righteousness of our actions toward the Arabs.

* What exactly is ‘dispossession’? If someone is sitting on their land, living their own life, with their material situation stable and secure, and one clear day they are expelled from their workplace and collapse, with no other source of income to support themselves – that is dispossession.

* One nation (Arabs) has everything, and not only here, but also in Syria, in Egypt, in Iraq, on the Arabian Peninsula and in the Arab states of North Africa. And on the other hand, there is a nation standing on a high spiritual and cultural level, which in all the countries of the world is struggling between life and death, and behold, it comes and argues that a place must also be found for it in its historic land, and for this, it is prepared to pay in blood, sweat, and labor, and for every patch of land acquired by it, on which a poor and isolated Bedouin previously sat, it pays with its best money compensation such as he never dared to dream of—is '''this''' to be called dispossession?"

* One nation (Arabs) has everything, and not only here, but also in Syria, in Egypt, in Iraq, on the Arabian Peninsula and in the Arab states of North Africa. And on the other hand, there is a nation standing on a high spiritual and cultural level, which in all the countries of the world is struggling between life and death, and behold, it comes and argues that a place must also be found for it in its historic land, and for this, it is prepared to pay in blood, sweat, and labor, and for every patch of land acquired by it, on which a poor and isolated Bedouin previously sat, it pays with its best money compensation such as he never dared to dream of—is '''this''' to be called dispossession?

** In “[https://benyehuda.org/read/10781 During The Days of Settlement in Exile and in the Land].”

* The Zionist aspiration includes not only the return to the Land of Israel, but also the return to the soil.

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 * Many have claimed that our work here is expensive, that with the money spent in the Land of Israel, it would be possible to help all the unfortunate Jews in the world. But is there any value in everything that is done in the Diaspora? We must concentrate all our strength and means on building Israel, because here is our only refuge, from here we will not move.
 ** In “[https://benyehuda.org/read/10802 Who is the fearless and the tender-hearted?].”
-* Our movement is the movement of redemption—and its time span is two thousand years, from the day our Temple was destroyed and the people were exiled from their land
+* Our movement is the movement of redemption—and its time span is two thousand years, from the day our Temple was destroyed and the people were exiled from their land.
 ** In “[https://benyehuda.org/read/10787 The Idea of Redemption in its Time].”
 * This is the ideology that has emerged recently regarding the ‘dispossession’ of Arabs from their land. Here, our enemies have created, with full knowledge that this is a false accusation, a claim that could strike us in the wider world. Even in our camp, good Zionists arose who, out of a hypertrophy of justice and fairness, began to doubt the righteousness of our actions toward the Arabs.
 * What exactly is ‘dispossession’? If someone is sitting on their land, living their own life, with their material situation stable and secure, and one clear day they are expelled from their workplace and collapse, with no other source of income to support themselves – that is dispossession.
-* One nation (Arabs) has everything, and not only here, but also in Syria, in Egypt, in Iraq, on the Arabian Peninsula and in the Arab states of North Africa. And on the other hand, there is a nation standing on a high spiritual and cultural level, which in all the countries of the world is struggling between life and death, and behold, it comes and argues that a place must also be found for it in its historic land, and for this, it is prepared to pay in blood, sweat, and labor, and for every patch of land acquired by it, on which a poor and isolated Bedouin previously sat, it pays with its best money compensation such as he never dared to dream of—is '''this''' to be called dispossession?"
+* One nation (Arabs) has everything, and not only here, but also in Syria, in Egypt, in Iraq, on the Arabian Peninsula and in the Arab states of North Africa. And on the other hand, there is a nation standing on a high spiritual and cultural level, which in all the countries of the world is struggling between life and death, and behold, it comes and argues that a place must also be found for it in its historic land, and for this, it is prepared to pay in blood, sweat, and labor, and for every patch of land acquired by it, on which a poor and isolated Bedouin previously sat, it pays with its best money compensation such as he never dared to dream of—is '''this''' to be called dispossession?
 ** In “[https://benyehuda.org/read/10781 During The Days of Settlement in Exile and in the Land].”
 * The Zionist aspiration includes not only the return to the Land of Israel, but also the return to the soil.