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To begin, let’s quote Max Nordau, a co-founder of Zionism. You can find these in his work [https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/24186/pg24186-images.html ''ZIONISM''].
To begin, let’s quote Max Nordau, a co-founder of Zionism. You can find these in his work [https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/24186/pg24186-images.html ''ZIONISM''].


{{blockquote|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.
{{blockquote|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.}}
*What gives the Zionists the courage to begin this labor of Hercules is the conviction that they are doing a necessary and useful work, a work of '''love and civilization''', a work of justice and wisdom. They desire to '''save eight to ten millions of their kindred from intolerable suffering.''' They desire to free the nations among whom they now vegetate from a presence which is considered disagreeable. They wish to deprive Anti-Semitism—which everywhere lowers public morals and develops the very worst instincts—of its victim. They wish to '''make unquestionable producers''' out of the Jews at present reproached with being parasites. They desire to '''fertilize''' with their sweat and till with their hands a country (land) that is to-day '''a desert''', until it is again the flowering garden it has once been.
 
{{blockquote|What gives the Zionists the courage to begin this labor of Hercules is the conviction that they are doing a necessary and useful work, a work of '''love and civilization''', a work of justice and wisdom. They desire to '''save eight to ten millions of their kindred from intolerable suffering.''' They desire to free the nations among whom they now vegetate from a presence which is considered disagreeable. They wish to deprive Anti-Semitism—which everywhere lowers public morals and develops the very worst instincts—of its victim. They wish to '''make unquestionable producers''' out of the Jews at present reproached with being parasites. They desire to '''fertilize''' with their sweat and till with their hands a country (land) that is to-day '''a desert''', until it is again the flowering garden it has once been.}}

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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.

To begin, let’s quote Max Nordau, a co-founder of Zionism. You can find these in his work ZIONISM.

  • 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.
  • What gives the Zionists the courage to begin this labor of Hercules is the conviction that they are doing a necessary and useful work, a work of love and civilization, a work of justice and wisdom. They desire to save eight to ten millions of their kindred from intolerable suffering. They desire to free the nations among whom they now vegetate from a presence which is considered disagreeable. They wish to deprive Anti-Semitism—which everywhere lowers public morals and develops the very worst instincts—of its victim. They wish to make unquestionable producers out of the Jews at present reproached with being parasites. They desire to fertilize with their sweat and till with their hands a country (land) that is to-day a desert, until it is again the flowering garden it has once been.
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