Volume 43, Number 20 · December 19, 1996
Israel and the End of Zionism
By Amos Elon
In the seclusion of a cardiac clinic outside Vienna, a few months before he died there in 1904, Theodor Herzl, the father of secular Jewish nationalism, set down his thoughts on the Zionist movement he had founded in 1896. It would undoubtedly triumph, he thought. In fifty years' time, at the very latest, there would be a Jewish state. In an ironic aside, he added, 'Don't commit any follies while I'm dead.'
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