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We are used to thinking of the Arabs as primitive men of the desert, as a donkey-like nation that neither sees nor understands what is going around it. But this is a GREAT ERROR.

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What is national freedom if not a people’s inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history?
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Ability Cultivate Freedom History National Path People
Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind.
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Alone Force Historical Life Mould Reveal Social Truth
This Moses, I say, this man of old time, whose existence and character you are trying to elucidate, matters to nobody but scholars like you.
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Character Elucidate Existence Man Matter Old Time Trying
The right place for the League of Nations is not Geneva or the Hague, Ascher Ginsberg has dreamed of a Temple on Mount Zion where the representatives of all nations should dedicate a Temple of Eternal Peace.
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Country Dedicate Dreamed Earth League Nation Place Temple
More than Israel has kept the Sabbath, the Sabbath has kept Israel.
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Kept More People Religion
Only when all peoples of the earth shall go to THIS temple as pilgrims is eternal peace to become a fact.
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Erath Eternal Fact Peace People Pilgrim Shall Temple
If this be the Messiah, then I do not wish to see his coming
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Coming Country Judaism Wish
The Arab, like all sons of Sham, has sharp and crafty mind . . . Should time come when life of our people in Palestine imposes to a smaller or greater extent on the natives, they WILL NOT easily step aside.
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Country Crafty Easily Mind Native People Son
We can’t ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation.
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Ahead Great Ignore Mankind Need Preparation Significant War
We are used to thinking of the Arabs as primitive men of the desert, as a donkey-like nation that neither sees nor understands what is going around it. But this is a GREAT ERROR.
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Country Desert Donkey Error Greater Man Son Thinking
More than the Jews have kept Shabbat, Shabbat has kept the Jews.
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Jew Kept More People
[But if things continue the way they are] …the society that I envision, if my dream is not just a false notion, this society will have to begin to create itself in the midst of fuss, noisiness and panic, and will have to face the prospects of both internal and external war.
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Dream Envision False Nation Panic Society Thing War
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
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Ability Conceit Less More

We are used to thinking of the Arabs as primitive men of the desert, as a donkey-like nation that neither sees nor understands what is going around it. But this is a GREAT ERROR.

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We are used to thinking of the Arabs as primitive men of the desert, as a donkey-like nation that neither sees nor understands what is going around it. But this is a GREAT ERROR.

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