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Herzel believed that anti-Semitism was an “incurable gentile pathology.” Zionism was developed as an ideology determined to lead its people out of “perpetual enemy territory.” The Jews, he posited, should have a nation-state of their own. “Herzel himself would have been ready to contemplate any territory for this purpose, but most Zionists felt that Palestine was the only possible one. Palestine was the land of their ancestors; the idea of the return to Zion, of …

…terms that satisfy either one nation or another. While being good and just may be the ultimate goals of Israel as a state, in order to attain such lofty goals they need first to set a ground for them to rest upon. Until then, the Sub-goal and present state necessary to obtain the higher order goal is that of a strong and victorious Jewish state that remains alive long enough to achieve its future goals.