Albert Einstein
You don’t have to be Einstein to understand the opportunity forgone, since the inception of Zionism, for all the people of Palestine to live together in peace – and the dangerous historical mistake that is the Jewish State of Israel.
“I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state. Apart from practical consideration, my awareness of the essential nature of Judaism resists the idea of a Jewish state with borders, an army, and a measure of temporal power no matter how modest. I am afraid of the inner damage Judaism will sustain — especially from the development of a narrow nationalism within our own ranks, against which we have already had to fight strongly, even without a Jewish state.”
- Albert Einstein, in Ideas and Opinions, Crown Publishers, New York, 1954, p. 190
