Quotation from Aharon David Gordon “Our country ...has remained desolate, poorer than other civilized countries and empty” — 1920
Zionist ideologue, taking up the colonialist discourse on the "Terra Nullius" to conquer.
Author :
- Gordon, Aharon David (1856-1922) ( 3 quotations )
- Superiority / Jewish difference ( 36 quotations )
- Land without people... ( 22 quotations )
" Our country, which had been a land of milk and honey, and at any rate carries the potential for high culture, has remained desolate, poorer than other civilized countries and empty—this is sort of confirmation of our right to the land, a sort of hint that the country has been awaiting us. "
A.D. Gordon, Avodatenu me-ata
[Our Tasks Ahead, 1920] Ha-uma veha-avoda
[Nation and labor], Jerusalem, The Jewish Agency, 1952, 244.
Quoted in Jewish Topographies
, Ashgate, 2008.
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