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What was Hans, Herzl’s son, the homeless Prince, thinking when he
wrote the following lines? Was he thinking that the “Jewish State” was
no more than an edifice, a front? Was he thinking how absurd it would be
to imprison the universal world spirit in another Ghetto – but on a
grander scale: the Jewish State?
This is what Hans wrote:
“My father was a great man, whom I loved… But I’ve come to see that
he made a great historical error in his attempt to rebuild the Jewish
State…. My father did not realize the true mission of the Jewish people,
which has proven that the living and fertilizing spirit does not need
territorial boundaries, and that a people can live and exist even when
fortifications and borders have disappeared. I would ask them not to
attempt to add to the decadent civilizations but to remember their true
identity and work for the cultural reconstruction of their homeland –
and this homeland is the entire world.” (Hans Herzl to Marcel
Steinberger in
Princes Without A Home (1929).
“Withered branches” refers to Theodor Herzl’s “The Jewish State,” in which he wrote, “Branches
of the Jewish people may perish. Its tree will live.” Herzl’s
“branches” reminds me of Chaim Weizmann, one of the key founders of
Zionism, who when asked before WWII:
“Can
you bring six million Jews to Palestine?” I replied, “No.” … From the
depths of the tragedy I want to save … young people [for Palestine] “The
old ones will pass. They will bear their fate or they will not. They
are dust, economic and moral dust in a cruel world … Only the branch of
the young shall survive. They have to accept it.” (Chaim Weizmann
reporting to the Zionist Congress in 1937 on his testimony before the
Peel Commission in London). (See Moral Dust)
Earlier, I examined the life of Theodor Herzl
for whom Zionism was purely a political movement. Whereas Theodor
Herzl’s struggle, was political, his son’s struggle was social and
ethical Contrary to the brilliant atheistic minds of modern times, Hans
believed that ethics proved God. His interest transcended Zionism and
Judaism. If God was universal, he reasoned, then He must be God for all
mankind, a universal God. For this reason, Hans did not believe in a
historical Messiah. What was important was not the historical but the
ethical. The
ethical teachings of Christ could, then become, Hans said, the basis
for the creation of a World-Church, which would subsume Christianity and
Judaism. For Hans, the ethical teachings of Jesus were in complete
harmony with Judaism.
"Federal agencies, including the National Security Agency, the F.B.I. and the Department of Homeland Security,
monitor suspected terror sites on the Internet and sometimes track
users. Private groups like Ms. Katz's Search for International Terrorist
Entities Institute and The Middle East Media Research Institute
are also keeping track of the ever-changing content of these sites. Ms.
Katz's institute, which relies on government contracts and corporate
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the most controversial of the cyberspace monitors. While some experts
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vigilante. Several Islamic groups and charities, for example, sued for
defamation after she claimed they were terrorist fronts, even though
they were not charged with a crime," the
New York Times reported September 23, 2004
