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Ever wondered what did Zionist intellectuals say about Zionism? There has been a trend of “exposing” Zionism with fake quotations, which can be easily debunked. Here, however, we will not debunk them. This is a list of quotes from Zionist intellectuals and thinkers, about Zionism. | Ever wondered what did Zionist intellectuals say about Zionism? There has been a trend of “exposing” Zionism with fake quotations, which can be easily debunked. Here, however, we will not debunk them. This is a list of quotes from Zionist intellectuals and thinkers, about Zionism. | ||
== Quotes == | |||
*Few,... both among the Gentiles and the Jews themselves, have a perfectly clear notion of the aims and ways of Zionism; the Gentiles, because they do not care sufficiently...; the Jews, because they are intentionally led astray by the enemies of Zionism, by lies and calumnies, or because even among the fervent Zionists there are not many who have probed the whole Zionist idea to the bottom, and are willing or able to present it in a clear and comprehensible fashion, without exaggeration and polemical heat. | *Few,... both among the Gentiles and the Jews themselves, have a perfectly clear notion of the aims and ways of Zionism; the Gentiles, because they do not care sufficiently...; the Jews, because they are intentionally led astray by the enemies of Zionism, by lies and calumnies, or because even among the fervent Zionists there are not many who have probed the whole Zionist idea to the bottom, and are willing or able to present it in a clear and comprehensible fashion, without exaggeration and polemical heat. | ||
*Zionism is a new word for a very old object, in so far as it merely expresses the yearning of the Jewish people for Zion. | *Zionism is a new word for a very old object, in so far as it merely expresses the yearning of the Jewish people for Zion. | ||
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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. | ||
**[ | ** In “[https://benyehuda.org/read/257 A Burning Question]” | ||
* One people, one land, one language! | * One people, one land, one language! | ||