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*If we wish that the name Israel be not extinguished, then we are in duty bound to create something which may serve as a center for our entire people, like the heart in an organism, from which the blood will stream into all the arteries of the national body and fill it with life.
*If we wish that the name Israel be not extinguished, then we are in duty bound to create something which may serve as a center for our entire people, like the heart in an organism, from which the blood will stream into all the arteries of the national body and fill it with life.
** [[Eliezer Ben-Yehuda]] in “[https://benyehuda.org/read/257 A Burning Question]”
** [[Eliezer Ben-Yehuda]] in “[https://benyehuda.org/read/257 A Burning Question].


* One people, one land, one language!
* One people, one land, one language!
** Revivor of the Hebrew language, [[Eliezer Ben-Yehuda]], quoted in Ḥemda Ben Yehuda, ''New Palestine'', Dec. 1950.
** Revivor of the Hebrew language, [[Eliezer Ben-Yehuda]], quoted in Ḥemda Ben Yehuda, ''New Palestine'', Dec. 1950.
* The Hebrew nation will either exist on its land with its language, or degenerate without a land and without a language.
** [[Menaḥem Ussishkin]] in “[https://benyehuda.org/read/10784 On The Revival of The Language].”
*In the building of our ancient land, we will redeem our people, who has given and continues to give their share to human culture.
** [[Menaḥem Ussishkin]] in “[https://benyehuda.org/read/10854 The Yishuv and The War].”
* 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 to a Burning Sword]”


*Itoism says, “Zion is where the Jew lives as a Jew.”
*Itoism says, “Zion is where the Jew lives as a Jew.”