Morning thoughts on Zionism and the Hebrew Bible:
The European Zionists of the 19th century did not invent Zionism. They merely took the banner of Zion that the prophets had first raised and that the sages then passed down from generation to generation in all our prayers and in all our rituals and in all our memories, for three thousand years, and rallied to it Israelites throughout the land and around the globe. Today Zionism – a project first proclaimed by Isaiah – only has meaning because our ancestors across the ages prayed for it and paid for it.
Criticize the state all you want, it’s just one imperfect attempt at realizing a dream that will never die.