Quotes about Palestine: Difference between revisions

*The inheritance of a deer, as the skin of a deer, unoccupied by the body of the animal, shrinks, so also the the land of the deer <small>([https://hebrew-academy.org.il/%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%A5-%D7%94%D7%A6%D7%91%D7%99/ alternative name for the land of Israel])</small>, unoccupied by its rightful owners, became contracted.

**Rabbi Ulla in Talmud: ''Gittin'', 57a:13. Quoted in ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/14368/pg14368-images.html Hebraic Literature]''.

*Better to lodge in the wilderness of the land of Israel than dwell in the palaces outside of it.

*It is hard to be a worker; it is a hundred times harder to be a Jewish worker; it is a thousand times harder to be a Jewish worker in Eretz Israel.

*Building a State means for us a return to the soil. We found hundreds of Arab villages. We didn’t take them away. ... We established hundreds of new Jewish villages on new soil. ... We didn’t merely buy the land, we recreated the land. We did that in rocky hills like Motza. ... In the swamps of Hedera hundreds of Jews died of malaria, and they refused to leave that place until it was made healthy. ... We did it on the sand dunes of Rishon le-Zion. With our toil, our sweat, and with our love and devotion, we are remaking the soil to enable us to settle there, not at the expense of anybody else.

*The real miracle of Palestine is the Jew who masters the labor of orchard and garden, field and vineyard, quarry and harbor, water and power, factory and craft, highway and byway. That sort of Jew the Diaspora never made.

*If Palestine is to be restored ... it must be by settling Jews on its soil. The condition to which the land has been reduced ... is such that restoration is only possible by a race that is prepared for sentimental reasons to make and endure sacrifices for that purpose.

*The heart of the people—that is the foundation on which the land will be regenerated.

*There is no greater service for the pious Jew to perform than to rebuild the ruins of the Holy Land

*Writers in Israel are as holy as the Land of Israel.

*Palestine is the center of the world, Jerusalem the center of Palestine, and the Temple the center of Jerusalem. ... In the Holy of Holies there was a stone, the foundation of the world.

*The beginning of the Redemption will come through natural causes by human effort and by the will of the governments to gather the scattered of Israel into the Holy Land.

*We will return to Zion as we went forth, bringing back the faith we carried away with us.

*Gentiles outside of Palestine are not to be condemned as idolaters, for they only follow their fathers' practices.

*Zion is greater than a piece of land in the Near East. Zion is greater than a Jewish commonwealth in this land. Zion is memory, admonition, promise. Zion is . . . the foundation stone of the messianic upbuilding of humanity. It is the unending task of the Jewish people.

*The very name Palestine stirs within us the most elevated sentiments. ... All find consolation in that land, some by its memories, others by its hopes.

*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.

*Perhaps it is the great world-historical task of the Jewish settlement in Palestine to effect a synthesis of Europeanism and Orientalism.

*From each Jewish heart an invisible path leads to the Land of Israel.

*The Land of Israel will be small but the people of Israel will make it great. ... Not in opulence but in eminence will their destiny be fulfilled, and the elixir of their pride will be distilled not out of dominion or far-flung borders, but out of the faithful and skillful building of the good society.

*When the Jewish people will have redeemed the Land of Israel, the Land of Israel will redeem the Jewish people.