Do the Arabs in those countries have their own flags, their own navy, army? You don’t seem to get it that the European Jews did not want any other place in the world except for Palestine because they consider Palestine to be where their ancestors used to live – and that is why DNA becomes very important to show the world that the ancestors of the European Jews never lived anywhere in the Middle East.
January 4, 1900 Vienna
We would rally on Cyprus and one day go over to Eretz Israel and take it by force, as it was taken from us long ago. But I slept on this all-too-lurid idea, and the night brought me the decision that at this moment the wisest thing was to say nothing.
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