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<small>Also see ''[[Quotes denying Palestine]]''.</small> | <small>Also see ''[[Quotes denying Palestine]]''.</small> | ||
==Quotes== | == Three Quotes: one Jewish, one Muslim one Christian == | ||
* As long as in our heart of hearts | * As long as in our heart of hearts | ||
::There throbs a Jewish soul, | ::There throbs a Jewish soul, | ||
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**[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Twain Mark Twain], [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3176/3176-h/3176-h.htm ''The Innocents Abroad'']. | **[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Twain Mark Twain], [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3176/3176-h/3176-h.htm ''The Innocents Abroad'']. | ||
== In Ancient Jewish Literature == | |||
* To be buried in Palestine is like being buried under the altar. | * To be buried in Palestine is like being buried under the altar. | ||
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*Each land has some unique property, but the Land of Israel is endowed with all of these, lacking none. | *Each land has some unique property, but the Land of Israel is endowed with all of these, lacking none. | ||
**[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Shimon-bar-Yochai Simeon bar Yoḥai]. [https://he.wikisource.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%A9%D7%AA_%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%94 ''Sifre'', #37, to ''Deut''. 11.10]. | **[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Shimon-bar-Yochai Simeon bar Yoḥai]. [https://he.wikisource.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%A9%D7%AA_%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%94 ''Sifre'', #37, to ''Deut''. 11.10]. | ||
== Quotes By Zionists And Their Supporters == | |||
* The generation of Jews we wish to raise in the Land of Israel will be not of the twelfth or of the twentieth century, but, on the one hand, of the thirtieth, and, on the other hand, of a much earlier age, earlier than your entire era, of the period of the Prophets and the Hasmoneans. | * The generation of Jews we wish to raise in the Land of Israel will be not of the twelfth or of the twentieth century, but, on the one hand, of the thirtieth, and, on the other hand, of a much earlier age, earlier than your entire era, of the period of the Prophets and the Hasmoneans. | ||
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*In Palestine we can and should found for ourselves a spiritual center of our nationality. | *In Palestine we can and should found for ourselves a spiritual center of our nationality. | ||
**[[Aḥad Ha‘am]], “[https://benyehuda.org/read/2913 Dr. Pinsker & His Pamphlet,]” 1892. | **[[Aḥad Ha‘am]], “[https://benyehuda.org/read/2913 Dr. Pinsker & His Pamphlet,]” 1892. | ||
*There is no greater service for the pious Jew to perform than to rebuild the ruins of the Holy Land | *There is no greater service for the pious Jew to perform than to rebuild the ruins of the Holy Land. | ||
**[[zionism-israel:bio/kalischer_biography.htm|Zvi Hirsch Kalischer]], ''Derishat Zion'', 1862. Quoted in Hess, ''Rome & Jerusalem'', 264. | **[[zionism-israel:bio/kalischer_biography.htm|Zvi Hirsch Kalischer]], ''Derishat Zion'', 1862. Quoted in Hess, ''Rome & Jerusalem'', 264. | ||