Jeffrey Sachs
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3,686 appearances
21 recordings
10 series
first heard Oct 2024
last heard 4d ago
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They are a people.
And in the ideology of Europe of the late 19th century, a people needs a state.
And so, yeah.
The idea was there should be a Jewish state.
That was the name of the founder of Jewish Zionism, Theodor Herzl's first book, The Jewish State.
Well, that all makes sense to me.
But he asked, so where?
And one option was, oh, maybe what is today's Uganda?
Yep.
It wasn't the Holy Land.
It wasn't some religious compulsion or a return to this promised land.
In part, and ironically, again, very weird twists, the rabbis had said that
1,500 years earlier, don't go back to the Holy Land.
Live where you are, stay peaceful.
Someday a Messiah will come and there will be again the Holy Land for us.
But in the meantime, stay calm, live where you are, behave and obey God's laws.
That was the idea of the Jewish religion, of the rabbinic Jewish religion.
So the variant on display now that this is our land, God promised to us, we need to redeem it, God will protect us, is a new variant that came recently.
in the 20th century with the actual founding of the state of israel it was not the original zionist movement which was almost completely secular it had a couple of rabbis which
had some modest influence, and then it especially came after the 1967 war and the conquest of the Palestinian territories then and the occupation of them and the beginning of the settler movements.
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