Asher Ginsberg (1856 - 1927), the
founder of Cultural Zionism
"a bitter foe of Herzl and the mentor of
Weizmann."
"The Jewish people, are destined to rule over Palestine and manage all its affairs in its own way, without regard to the consent or non-consent of its present inhabitants. For this rebuilding, it might be understood is only the renewal of the ancient rights of the Jews, which overrides the rights of the present inhabitants, who have wrongly established their national home and on a land not their own."
Ginsberg, Asher [Ahad Ha-'Am], Ten
Essays on Zionism and Judaism. trans.
from Hebrew
by
Leon Simon. London: Routledge. 1922. As
quoted in the Catholic Herald, 17th
July 1936
"My land" is somehow strange. The indigenous people of West Bank, or Samaria as it wasn called earlier, are Samaritans who converted to Islam several hundred years ago. More or less voluntarily.
ReplyAnd today come Asians (or Mongols or whatever they are) from Russia and displace people, whose ancestors had been Jews from their land.
This is odd. Like if Chinese Muslims would invade Saudia Arabia and reclaim their sacred sites.