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==Quotes==
==Quotes==


*Palestine is the holiest of all countries
*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.
**Mishnah, quoted in ''The Jewish Encyclopedia'', “[https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11867-palestine-holiness-of Holiness of Palestine].”
**Rabbi Ulla in Talmud: ''Gittin'', 57a:13. Quoted in ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/14368/pg14368-images.html Hebraic Literature]''.


*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.
*Better to lodge in the wilderness of the land of Israel than dwell in the palaces outside of it.
**[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/samuel-mohilever Samuel Mohilever], letter to S. Reinach. 1896. Quoted in  J. Mark. ''Gdoilim fun undzer Dor''. New York, 1927, 245.
**''Midrash Rabbah'', [https://www.sefaria.org/Bereshit_Rabbah.39?ven=english|The_Sefaria_Midrash_Rabbah,_2022&lang=bi 39:8]. Quoted in ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/14368/pg14368-images.html Hebraic Literature].''


*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.
*Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, O My people; and I will bring you into the Land of Israel... And I will put My spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I will place you in your own land.
**[https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/philosophy-and-religion/judaism-biographies/abba-hillel-silver Abba Hillel Silver], ''Vision and Victory'', 1949.
**Bible, Ezekiel [https://www.sefaria.org/Ezekiel.37.13?lang=he&with=all&lang2=en 37:13-15].


*He who traverses so much as four ells in the land of Israel is sure of everlasting life.
*The Holy One, Blessed be He, gave Israel three precious gifts... These gifts are: Torah, Eretz Israel, and the World-to-Come.
**Talmud, Kethuboth [https://www.sefaria.org/Ketubot.111a.20?lang=en&with=all&lang2=en&p3=Isaiah.42.5&lang3=en 111a:20]. Quoted in ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/14368/pg14368-images.html Hebraic Literature]''.
**[https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13723-simeon-ben-yohai Rabbi Shim‘on ben Yoḥai], Talmud: ''Berakhot'' [https://www.sefaria.org/Berakhot.5a.20?lang=en&with=all&lang2=en 5a:20].


*There are ten degrees of holiness, and the land of Israel is holy above all other lands.
* As long as in our heart of hearts
**''Mishnah Kelim'', [https://www.sefaria.org/Mishnah_Kelim.1.6?lang=bi 1:6]. Quoted in ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/14368/pg14368-images.html Hebraic Literature]''
::There throbs a Jewish soul,


*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.
:And in the Orient, in Zion,
**Rabbi Ulla in Talmud: ''Gittin'', 57a:13. Quoted in ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/14368/pg14368-images.html Hebraic Literature]''.
::We envision our goal,


*Better to lodge in the wilderness of the land of Israel than dwell in the palaces outside of it.
:Our cherished hope is not yet lost,
**''Midrash Rabbah'', [https://www.sefaria.org/Bereshit_Rabbah.39?ven=english|The_Sefaria_Midrash_Rabbah,_2022&lang=bi 39:8]. Quoted in ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/14368/pg14368-images.html Hebraic Literature]''
::The ancient hope not damped—


*He who walks but an hour in the land of Israel, and then dies within it may feel assured that he is a son of the world to come
:To regain our fatherland,
**[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/johanan-ben-nappaha Rabbi Yoḥanan] in ''Midrash Mishle'' [https://www.sefaria.org/Midrash_Mishlei.17.1?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en 17:1].
::Where David once encamped.
:* [[Imber]], ''[[Hatikva]]'', 1876.


*There are ten portions of courage in the world, nine in Judah and one in the rest of the world. There are ten portions of beauty in the world, nine in Jerusalem and one in the rest of the world. There are ten portions of wisdom in the world, nine in the Land of Israel and one in the rest of the world.
*Each land has some unique property, but the Land of Israel is endowed with all of these, lacking none.
**[https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11344-nathan Rabbi Natan] ''Midrash Rabbah Esther'', [https://www.sefaria.org/Esther_Rabbah.1.17?ven=english|The_Sefaria_Midrash_Rabbah,_2022&lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en 1:17].
**[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Shimon-bar-Yochai Simeon bar Yoḥai]. ''Sifre'', #37, to ''Deut''. 11.10.


*When the Jewish people will have redeemed the Land of Israel, the Land of Israel will redeem the Jewish people.
*The [[Zionism|idea]] [Zionism] in itself is only natural, beautiful and just. Who can contest the rights of the Jews on Palestine? My God, historically it is your country!
**[[Menaḥem Ussishkin]] in ''Eretz Israel'', 1932, p. 4.
**[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/yussef-diya-uddin-al-khalidi Yousef al-Khalidi], Mayor of Jerusalem early 1900s, Quoted in ''Defining Neighbors: Religion, Race, and the Early Zionist-Arab Encounter'', p. 51.


*The air of the Land of Israel makes one wise.
*Palestine is no more of this workaday world. It is sacred poetry and tradition—it is dreamland.
**[https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/zeeira Rabbi Zeira]. Talmud: ''Baba Bathra'', 158b.
**[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Twain Mark Twain], [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3176/3176-h/3176-h.htm ''The Innocents Abroad''].


*Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, O My people; and I will bring you into the Land of Israel... And I will put My spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I will place you in your own land.
=== Quotes By Zionists And Their Supporters ===
**Bible, Ezekiel [https://www.sefaria.org/Ezekiel.37.13?lang=he&with=all&lang2=en 37:13-15].


*The Holy One, Blessed be He, gave Israel three precious gifts... These gifts are: Torah, Eretz Israel, and the World-to-Come.
* 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.
**[https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13723-simeon-ben-yohai Rabbi Shim‘on ben Yoḥai], Talmud: ''Berakhot'' [https://www.sefaria.org/Berakhot.5a.20?lang=en&with=all&lang2=en 5a:20].
**[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/samuel-mohilever Samuel Mohilever], letter to S. Reinach. 1896. Quoted in  J. Mark. ''Gdoilim fun undzer Dor''. New York, 1927, 245.
* The Zionist aspiration includes not only the return to the Land of Israel, but also the return to the soil.
** [[Menaḥem Ussishkin]] in “[https://benyehuda.org/read/10790 Between Shiny Gold and a Burning Sword].”
* 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.
**[https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/philosophy-and-religion/judaism-biographies/abba-hillel-silver Abba Hillel Silver], ''Vision and Victory'', 1949.
* When the Jewish people will have redeemed the Land of Israel, the Land of Israel will redeem the Jewish people.
**[[Menaḥem Ussishkin]] in ''Eretz Israel'', 1932, p. 4.


*Upon you, upon the youth, will it depend whether Palestine is to be come the center of mankind or a Jewish Albania, the salvation of nations or the toy of the Powers. Zion will not arise in the physical world if you do not prepare for it in your souls.
*Upon you, upon the youth, will it depend whether Palestine is to be come the center of mankind or a Jewish Albania, the salvation of nations or the toy of the Powers. Zion will not arise in the physical world if you do not prepare for it in your souls.
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*We come to Zion only by way of Zion.
*We come to Zion only by way of Zion.
**[[zionism-israel:/bio/Martin_Buber.htm|Martin Buber]], ''Zion als Ziel und Aujgabe'', 1936.
**[[zionism-israel:/bio/Martin_Buber.htm|Martin Buber]], ''Zion als Ziel und Aujgabe'', 1936.
*The God of might, who conquered Canaan with storm, How they have bound Him with tefillin straps!
**[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saul-Gutmanovich-Tchernichowsky Shaul Tchernichovsky], “LeNokah Pesel Apollo,” 1911. Kol Shire, i. 205.
*Women will bear daily. ... Trees will yield fruit daily... Eretz Israel will bring forth ready cakes and woolen robes.
**Gamaliel II. Talmud: ''Sabbath'', [https://www.sefaria.org/Shabbat.30b.10?lang=bi 30b].


*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.
*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.
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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]], Dr. Pinsker & His Pamphlet, 1892.
**[[Aḥad Ha‘am]], Dr. Pinsker & His Pamphlet, 1892.
* As long as in our heart of hearts
::There throbs a Jewish soul,
:And in the Orient, in Zion,
::We envision our goal,
:Our cherished hope is not yet lost,
::The ancient hope not damped—
:To regain our fatherland,
::Where David once encamped.
:* [[Imber]], ''[[Hatikva]]'', 1876.
*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.
*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.
**Midrash ''Tanhuma, Kidushin'' [https://www.sefaria.org/Midrash_Tanchuma%2C_Kedoshim.10.1?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en 10:1].


*History is no longer enough for the Jews—history, the heroic fatherland of time. They are yearning for a small, simple home on earth. More young Jews are returning to Palestine. This is a return to self, to one’s own roots, to growth.
*History is no longer enough for the Jews—history, the heroic fatherland of time. They are yearning for a small, simple home on earth. More young Jews are returning to Palestine. This is a return to self, to one’s own roots, to growth.
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*We will return to Zion as we went forth, bringing back the faith we carried away with us.
*We will return to Zion as we went forth, bringing back the faith we carried away with us.
**[https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11573-noah-mordecai-manuel Mordecai Manuel Noah], 1824. Quoted in  J. H. Hertz. ''A Book of Jewish Thoughts'', 123.
**[https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11573-noah-mordecai-manuel Mordecai Manuel Noah], 1824. Quoted in  J. H. Hertz. ''A Book of Jewish Thoughts'', 123.
*Gentiles outside of Palestine are not to be condemned as idolaters, for they only follow their fathers' practices.
**[https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/8719-johanan-b-nappaha-ha-nappah Johanan b. Nappaḥa]. Talmud: ''Hullin'', 13b.


*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.
*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.
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**[https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/wedgwood-josiah-clement-first-barondeg Josiah] Wedgewood to Zionist Agency. Parliamentary Debate, June 9, 1942.
**[https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/wedgwood-josiah-clement-first-barondeg Josiah] Wedgewood to Zionist Agency. Parliamentary Debate, June 9, 1942.


*If before I die there are half a million Jews in Palestine, I shall be content because I shall know that this "saving remnant" will survive. They, not the millions in the Diaspora, are what really matter.
*If before I die there are half a million Jews in Palestine, I shall be content because I shall know that this “saving remnant” will survive. They, not the millions in the Diaspora, are what really matter.
**[[Ḥaim Weizmann]], to McDonald, 1933, quoted in McDonald, ''My Mission'', 251.
**[[Ḥaim Weizmann]], to McDonald, 1933, quoted in McDonald, ''My Mission'', 251.


*It was the Jewish genius that bestowed its radiance upon Palestine.
*It was the Jewish genius that bestowed its radiance upon Palestine.
**[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alfred-North-Whitehead Alfred North Whitehead]. ''Atlantic Monthly'', March 1939, “[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1939/03/an-appeal-to-sanity/653592/ An Appeal to Sanity]
**[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alfred-North-Whitehead Alfred North Whitehead]. ''Atlantic Monthly'', March 1939, “[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1939/03/an-appeal-to-sanity/653592/ An Appeal to Sanity].”
 
*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]. ''Sifre'', #37, to ''Deut''. 11.10.


*The [[Zionism|idea]] [Zionism] in itself is only natural, beautiful and just. Who can contest the rights of the Jews on Palestine? My God, historically it is your country!
=== Holiness, Greatness and Uniqueness of Palestine ===
**[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/yussef-diya-uddin-al-khalidi Yousef al-Khalidi], Mayor of Jerusalem early 1900s, Quoted in ''Defining Neighbors: Religion, Race, and the Early Zionist-Arab Encounter'', p. 51.


*To be buried in Palestine is like being buried under the altar.
* To be buried in Palestine is like being buried under the altar.
**[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anan-ben-David Rabbi ‘Anan ben David], ''Ketubot'' [https://www.sefaria.org/Ketubot.111a.9?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en 111a:9]. Translated in ''The Jewish Encyclopedia'', “[https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11867-palestine-holiness-of Holiness of Palestine].”
**[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anan-ben-David Rabbi ‘Anan ben David], ''Ketubot'' [https://www.sefaria.org/Ketubot.111a.9?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en 111a:9]. Translated in ''The Jewish Encyclopedia'', “[https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11867-palestine-holiness-of Holiness of Palestine].”
 
* Palestine is the holiest of all countries
*Palestine is no more of this workaday world. It is sacred poetry and tradition—it is dreamland.
**Mishnah, quoted in ''The Jewish Encyclopedia'', “[https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11867-palestine-holiness-of Holiness of Palestine].”
**[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Twain Mark Twain], [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3176/3176-h/3176-h.htm ''The Innocents Abroad''].
* He who traverses so much as four ells in the land of Israel is sure of everlasting life.
 
**Talmud, Kethuboth [https://www.sefaria.org/Ketubot.111a.20?lang=en&with=all&lang2=en&p3=Isaiah.42.5&lang3=en 111a:20]. Quoted in ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/14368/pg14368-images.html Hebraic Literature]''.
* The Zionist aspiration includes not only the return to the Land of Israel, but also the return to the soil.
* There are ten degrees of holiness, and Palestine is holy above all other lands.
** [[Menaḥem Ussishkin]] in “[https://benyehuda.org/read/10790 Between Shiny Gold and a Burning Sword].”
**''Mishnah Kelim'', [https://www.sefaria.org/Mishnah_Kelim.1.6?lang=bi 1:6].
* He who walks but an hour in the land of Israel, and then dies within it may feel assured that he is a son of the world to come
**[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/johanan-ben-nappaha Rabbi Yoḥanan] in ''Midrash Mishle'' [https://www.sefaria.org/Midrash_Mishlei.17.1?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en 17:1].
* There are ten portions of courage in the world, nine in Judah and one in the rest of the world. There are ten portions of beauty in the world, nine in Jerusalem and one in the rest of the world. There are ten portions of wisdom in the world, nine in the Land of Israel and one in the rest of the world.
**[https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11344-nathan Rabbi Natan] ''Midrash Rabbah Esther'', [https://www.sefaria.org/Esther_Rabbah.1.17?ven=english|The_Sefaria_Midrash_Rabbah,_2022&lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en 1:17].
* The air of the Land of Israel makes one wise.
**[https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/zeeira Rabbi Zeira]. Talmud: ''Baba Bathra'', 158b.
* Women will bear daily. ... Trees will yield fruit daily... Eretz Israel will bring forth ready cakes and woolen robes.
**Gamaliel II. Talmud: ''Sabbath'', [https://www.sefaria.org/Shabbat.30b.10?lang=bi 30b].
* 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.
**Midrash ''Tanhuma, Kidushin'' [https://www.sefaria.org/Midrash_Tanchuma%2C_Kedoshim.10.1?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en 10:1].
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