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The dreams and the visions of the israeli founding fathers, these were very very ambitious dreams. they were world reformers. they wanted to create a new and improved kind of humanity, or at least, a new and improved jewish society, a new and improved jewish individual human being here. the whole zionist project was based on a whole spectrum of different and even conflicting dreams and visions.

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Amos Oz

The dreams and the visions of the israeli founding fathers, these were very very ambitious dreams. they were world reformers. they wanted to create a new and improved kind of humanity, or at least, a new and improved jewish society, a new and improved jewish individual human being here. the whole zionist project was based on a whole spectrum of different and even conflicting dreams and visions.

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I strongly believe that a small jewish clique which has contempt for the mass of jewish people worked with non-jews to create the first world war, the russian revolution, and the second world war. this jewish/non-jewish elite used the first world war to secure the balfour declaration and the principle of the jewish state of israel.

There is no perfect strategic decision. one always has to pay a price. one always has to balance conflicting objectives, conflicting opinions, and conflicting priorities. the best strategic decision is only an approximation - and a risk.

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