Ber Borochov

“ The generalization that can be drawn from this is that territorialism which offers its supporters a vacuum, without having any specific country for which it can fight, can only exist in its purity for cold-spirited theoreticians–armchair politicians; but from the time that territorialism enters the broad field of life, into the arena of political argument and polemical literature, it finds only an object against which it can fight, and reaches the absurd–the hatred of Zion. ”

“ However territorialism cannot retain its lofty, theoretical, abstract principle, because the Zionists of Zion remain true to the belief that the national advantage of the Land of Israel, as an object of special endearment, doesn’t allow us to give up Eretz Israel as long as there is hope of acquiring it on the basis of our needs. And here, the territorialists, after removing themselves from the purity of dogma, after removing themselves from free choice, are compelled to move on step further and negate the Land of Israel. ”

“ The dynamic cause for the Jewish national movement is the real suffering of the masses of the people which is rooted in inescapable alienation. But the ideal goal of the movement is nursed by the spiritual content of the Jewish nation. ”